A choose on Monday dominated that the Virginia lady accused of killing former Netflix star Sara Burack in a June Hamptons hit-and-run stay jailed on $100,000 money bond after a grand jury indictment.
Amanda Kempton, 32, of Fairfax, Va., was indicted on one Class D felony rely of leaving the scene of an incident leading to dying, the Suffolk County district lawyer’s workplace introduced Monday. She was arraigned earlier than state Supreme Court docket Justice John Collins, who ordered her held on $100,000 money, $200,000 bond or $1 million partially secured bond whereas the case was pending.
“Leaving the scene of a fatal collision makes a tragic situation even worse,” Suffolk County District Lawyer Raymond Tierney mentioned in a press release. “Rather than rendering help to Ms. Burack, the defendant allegedly left her to die. This indictment is an important step toward justice for Sara and her loved ones.”
Burack, 40, was a well-liked luxurious actual property agent on Lengthy Island’s tony East Finish and had starred for a time on Netflix’s “Million Dollar Beach House.” She was strolling west on West Montauk Freeway in Hampton Bays at 2:26 a.m. on June 19 when Kempton allegedly struck her whereas driving a 2004 Toyota Highlander, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
At 2:45 a.m. a passing motorist discovered Burack mendacity unconscious on the shoulder. First responders rushed her to Stony Brook College Hospital with extreme accidents to her head, mind and liver, plus a damaged leg, all indicating she’d been hit by a automobile. She was placed on life assist however died at about 3 p.m. that day.
Detectives from the Southampton City Police Division who tracked the automobile down in Manorville discovered it had front-end injury and arrested Kempton on June 20. She pleaded not responsible and was launched on $200,000 bond, saying by her attorneys that she thought she had hit a visitors cone, not an individual. However proof undermined that model of occasions, Tierney mentioned Monday.
Burack had been toting a pink-wheeled suitcase that night time, and it “allegedly became lodged underneath Kempton’s vehicle,” his workplace mentioned. Kempton tried unsuccessfully to yank it out, then merely drove away dragging the bags beneath her automobile. When she received to her vacation spot, she tossed the suitcase and its contents into a neighborhood dumpster, Tierney mentioned.
The Fairfax, Va., marine biologist faces a possible jail time period of as much as seven years if convicted. Her subsequent scheduled court docket date is Nov. 20.
Initially Revealed: October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM EDT
