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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

BITTER REMAINS-Diane Fanning

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The bestselling author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath…


On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive...



Two weeks later, detectives searching for the missing mother made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Oyster Creek near Richmond, Texas—the dismembered body parts of a young woman whom they were able to identify as Laura Ackerson.



Laura’s ex, Grant Hayes—the father of her two sons—and his wife, Amanda, the mother of his newborn daughter, both pointed the finger at each other as the one guilty of murdering Laura, cutting up her body, and then transporting and disposing of the remains.



This is the hauntingly true story of a devoted mother, a disturbed couple, and how these horrific events came to pass.. BITTER REMAINS-A Custody battle, A Gruesome Crime and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price-Diane Fanning

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Locked Tilted Baby-Eyes.

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You are now listening to True Murder,

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the most shocking killers in True Crime History,

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and the authors that have written about them.

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Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK,

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every week, another fascinating author,

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talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History,

0:30.5

True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

0:45.5

Good evening.

0:47.5

The best-selling author of Undercover of The Night

0:50.5

recounts Laura Ackerson's disappearance and murder in North Carolina.

0:55.5

The discovery of her remains in Texas and the aftermath.

0:59.5

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kingston, North Carolina

1:05.5

went to pick up her two toddler sons.

1:07.5

It would be the last time she was seen alive.

1:10.5

Two weeks later, detectives searching for the missing mother

1:13.5

made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Oyster Creek near Richmond, Texas.

1:18.5

The dismembered body parts of a young woman,

1:21.5

whom they were able to identify as lawyer, Ackerson.

1:24.5

Laura's ex, Grant Hayes, the father of her two sons and his wife, Amanda,

1:30.5

the mother of his newborn daughter, both pointed to finger at each other

1:34.5

as the one guilty of murdering Laura, cutting up her body

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