Husband convicted of murdering estranged wife and having mistress help burn body

Dayan Banks murdered his estranged wife, Tamera Lynn Ellison Banks, and burned the body with the help of his mistress, Lauren Ann Jackson, authorities said. (Mug shot: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

Dayan Banks murdered his estranged wife, Tamera Lynn Ellison Banks, and burned the body with the help of his mistress, Lauren Ann Jackson, authorities said. (Mug shot: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

Jurors in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, convicted a husband on Monday of murdering his estranged wife, and with the help of his mistress, burning the body, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced on Wednesday.

They recommended that the defendant, Dayan Banks, 47, serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus seven years for a desecration charge.

Authorities said that Banks murdered his wife Tamera Lynn Ellison Banks, 43, on Nov. 15, 2021, the day before a scheduled hearing regarding the protective order she placed against him. The mistress, Lauren Ann Jackson, 35, is charged in federal court with desecration of a human corpse in Indian country.

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