Bitter Remains: A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price

This is the hauntingly true story of a devoted mother, a disturbed couple, and how these horrific events came to pass …

The
bestselling true crime 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 haunting true crime story of a devoted mother, a disturbed
couple, and how these horrific events came to pass…

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