JOANNA HAYES GUILTY IN TARGET DISGUISE MURDER

EVIL mother-in-law Joanna Hayes has been found guilty of the brutal execution slaying of her daughter-in-law in a Target parking lot. Oh, and her granddaughter was just feet away strapped safely into her mom's car. Joanna was sporting a wild disguise of a hat and moustache and bushy wig and make no mistake, she wanted her daughter-in-law dead. She was sentenced yesterday to life in prison in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
The psycho daytime murder in April 2009 was shocking for its brazenness. The victim was Heather
Strube, 25, a floral designer who died from a single pointblank gunshot wound to the head. Joanna denied killing her daughter-in-law and professed her undying love.

She told the court sobbing: I’m innocent of this. I’ve never harmed anyone for anything in my entire life. I love (Strube) just as much as anyone else.”
Sure. But Joanna also did not want Heather to get custody of her grandchild. Her own son Steven initially fingered his mom for the cops when he saw the surveillance video on TV. He later changed his mind.
Heather's mom Mary said:  “Our lives will never be the same. Every vacation, every holiday, every time I go to pick up the phone, she’s not there.”
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JOANNA HAYES DISGUISED AS A MAN WHEN SHE KILLED

A FLASH of recognition and then dark. A bizarre Georgia murder trial is showing just how far some people will go for their family. Cops in suburban Atlanta say Joanna Hayes went way over the line.
Heather Strube was engaged in a bitter custody with her estranged hubby Steven when a "man" in the parking lot of a Target store put a gun to the terrified mom's head and pulled the trigger.
Now, prosecutors say that "man" was Joanna Hayes in disguise and bent on bloodshed. This week, her son Steven testified against her and jurors heard a
recording of him asking her: "why did you do it?" Of course, now he says kindly old mom would never do such a thing.
The couple were battling over their 18-month-old son Carson in April 2009. They had agreed to switch the child in the parking lot of the store in Snellville. After he gave her the child, the killer struck.
DA Christa Kirk said: "This person pulls out a gun, places it on Heather's forehead, and shoots her. The defendant, she didn't like Heather. She didn't want Heather to have custody of Carson in the divorce."
And one witness said in the seconds before Heather was shot, it was clear she knew her killer.

"The woman recognized this person...surprised to run into them in the parking lot. They weren't expecting someone to be there, but kind of look at them with a little bit of shock," Kiersten Rom testified. "I heard a popping noise and then the woman that was standing by the car clutched her stomach and then collapsed to the ground."
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