Hayes and his wife, Amanda Perry Hayes, 39, were arrested Monday in Kinston, N.C., and each charged with murder, according to the Raleigh Police Department. They were booked into Wake County Jail on Monday.
Grant Hayes had purchased several ice chests to transport Ackerson's dismembered body, then put them in a U-Haul trailer. The couple towed it with a pickup truck more than 1,200 miles to Fort Bend County, where Perry Hayes' sister lives, Brady said.
neighborhood near Richmond, Grant Hayes ventured onto Oyster Creek on a small, 10-foot boat, spreading pieces of Ackerson's body into the water last week before driving back to North Carolina, Brady said. Although Perry Hayes was also charged with murder, Brady did not clarify her involvement in the case.
Perry Hayes' sister had noticed the ice chests on her property and started to move them when she was alerted by Raleigh detectives that the objects were evidence in an investigation, Brady said. She led officials on Saturday to Oyster Creek. She said Hayes and his wife had been there, Brady said.