Husband accused of strangling wife, burning her remains
A Katy-area man is behind bars,accused of strangling his wife, burning her body, putting her remains in a trash bag and throwing it into a dumpster.
Jay Hammersley, 44, confessed to the murder of 29-year-old Mara Vestal and gave investigators all the gory details.
“When you say disturbing, on a scaled of one to 10, it’s off the charts,” said Carvana Cloud with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. “This is a very horrific, very tragic, very personal homicide.”