Overview
- Gregory Scott Hale, a self-described Satanist, met 36-year-old Lisa Marie Hyder at a Coffee County liquor store and took her to his home.
- After sexual activity, he killed her, dismembered the body, and admitted to eating part of it, according to the district attorney.
- The case broke when he asked a neighbor to borrow a digger to bury something, prompting the neighbor to call police.
- Officers found a burned torso by a fire pit with the head, hands, and feet removed, other parts in buckets, and a heart reportedly in a nearby yard.
- He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and is serving life in prison without parole, with current coverage drawing on court records and officials' statements.