hayes is a musician, he's also laura ackerson's ex-boyfriend and father of her two young boys. kerson dropped her boys off with hayes and that very day police believe hayes and his new wife killed ackerson and then cut her body into pieces. they are then accused of packing those pieces into these coolers. stuffing them in a rented u haul trailer and driving more than 1,000 miles from north carolina to texas and dumping her remains in a murky creek southwest of houston. so these divers, they're equipped with sonar equipment. they found a head, a torso and a piece of leg in that creek. dna tests are a match for 22-year-old laura ackerson. grant and amanda hayes have been arrested in north carolina. both were in court just yesterday. i want you to watch the judge yesterday. the judge told amanda hayes, keep in mind, she gave birth to a baby daughter not too long ago. >> ms. hayes, you're charged with first degree murder. if convicted or if you plead guilty to that offense, the maximum punishment will be life without parole or the death penalty. and i'm going to go ahead and appoint

how important do you think it is police have found laura ackerson's car? >> extremely important. he biggest clues they could hope for so far. laura was reported last friday missing by her friends, i confirmed it with the police department. they say the raleigh police department are now the lead in this investigation. i did speak with a detective at the raleigh police department this morning and said, yes, they located her car yesterday morning at an apartment complex and starting to go through that. and close in the timeline over the last six days to figure out why she didn't meet her ex-husband, why she didn't pick up her children and where she's been since. >> let's talk about other things friends and family say and say there's no way laura would just leave. >> no way. >> what are the circumstances surrounding her disappearance? >> from what we learned, she was in town for meetings and other business she was handling, wanted to visit with her kids with the ex-husband at the time, supposed to meet at a gas station in the town of wilson. he claims he was waiting there for her a lo

that's the same day laura ackerson went missing.en in raleigh after dropping her kids off at their father's home. friends call the 27-year-old reliable, and they say she would never just take off without telling anyone where she was going. let's get the latest from investigative crime reporter michelle sagona. let's talk about the surveillance photo and the significance of the two photos. how do you read that? >> i think this is interesting. yesterday when i spoke with authorities, they were still trying to determine if, you know, she wanted to go missing or if someone made her go missing. so i think they're still sort of working out some kinks at this time, but it's interesting they did release these photos. they're not exactly saying where they are, but it does show her obviously standing. she looks good and dressed appropriately and she has bagged. she looks okay. that's a good sign. what they're doing right now is trying to close in that time line and figure out where she is. her friends and family say, look, laura would never l

authorities found laura ackerson's abandoned ford focus.ds and family say there is just no way she would just pick up and leave. the 27-year-old was last seen in raleigh after dropping her two children off at their dad's. what's the theory here? what do they think happened? >> reporter: they're just not sure at this point. the raleigh police, i spoke with them this morning, a detective there. he said look, we're at the beginning of this ourselves because the kingston police department initially had the case so they're starting to backtrack, figure out the information from the friend who did in fact report her missing last week. taking that friend's information, closing in that timeline, figuring out exactly where she was and also pulling surveillance from the area. her vehicle was found, a ford focus was found yesterday in an apartment complex. so there's got to be some other clues, some folks that have seen her. have to figure out the last moment she was seen and who saw that person and who saw her. >> i know at this point, they're looking