RICHMOND, Texas The search for the last remains of a North Carolina mother has been called off after divers found nothing Tuesday in the murky waters of Oyster Creek. Laura Ackerson was reported ...

The body parts were then placed in an ice chest and driven across several states and dumped into Oyster Creek, investigators said. Ackerson and her ex, Grant Ruffin Hayes, 32, were locked in a ...

A North Carolina woman was found guilty of tampering with evidence for trying to use acid and alligators in 2011 to dispose of a murder victim's body, according to a Tuesday release from the ...

"When that didn't work, they took a boat onto Oyster Creek and dumped Laura's body parts into the water with hopes that alligators would eat her remains."In North Carolina, Amanda Hayes was ...

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Authorities said the body of a man 40 to 60 years old was found just before 4 p.m. floating in the water off Oyster Point Marina. Police said the man, who was not identified, did not own a boat in ...