{"id":53984,"date":"2018-04-23T01:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T01:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=53984"},"modified":"2018-04-23T01:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T01:25:40","slug":"man-gets-life-prison-grisly-murder-dismembering-college-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=53984","title":{"rendered":"Man gets life in prison over grisly murder, dismembering of college student"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING, GRAPHIC DETAIL:<\/span><\/strong> A man has been sentenced to life in prison over the death of a college student whose brutally murdered body was found dumped in a park.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The dismembered body of Jacqueline Vandagriff, 24, was found dumped in a Grapevine park in Texas in September 2016.<\/p>\n

But this week it took a jury less than three hours to find Charles Dean Bryant, 31, guilty of her murder, rejecting a defence attorney\u2019s argument that her client panicked only after the woman died during consensual sex.<\/p>\n

The jurors briefly deliberated later Monday before returning the maximum penalty allowed by law in the murder of the 24-year-old Texas Woman\u2019s University student.<\/p>\n

Defence attorney Glynis McGinty argued that Vandagriff died accidentally during consensual sex with Bryant, saying a plastic tie was placed around Vandagriff\u2019s neck, causing asphyxiation.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors countered that there\u2019s no evidence the two had sex.<\/span><\/p>\n

McGinty said Bryant committed a crime by panicking and disposing of the woman\u2019s body in September 2016, but he did not commit murder.<\/p>\n

However, prosecutor Lucas Allan shut down those claims, saying Bryant deliberately killed her before calmly dismembering her body and cutting out her heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy cut out the heart? What does it have to do with disposing of a body? He cut her heart out,\u201d the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Allan as telling jurors Monday.<\/p>\n

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