The Murder of Kamarie Holland

On the night of December 12, 2021, Kristy Siple, Kamarie's mother, agreed to allow Jeremy Williams to sexually abuse her five-year-old daughter in exchange for $2,500. Williams told Siple he would return Kamarie to her afterward. He never did.

On the morning of December 13, 2021, Siple reported Kamarie missing from her Columbus, Georgia, home, telling police and local news outlets that she had woken to find the front door open and her daughter gone. That same night, Kamarie's body was found in an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama, a property where Williams had previously lived. Investigators reviewing phone records determined Williams and Siple had been in contact the night before Kamarie disappeared. Deputies located Williams later that day using cellphone tracking and took him into custody at a motel in Phenix City, where he was found with his uncle.

Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said at the time that there were signs Kamarie had been sexually abused and that her death appeared to be the result of asphyxiation. On Christmas Day 2021, Williams gave a five-hour recorded statement to investigators in which he confessed to taking, sexually assaulting, and strangling Kamarie, and to forcing her to inhale methamphetamine. He also confessed to sexually abusing at least two other children, both under the age of six, abuses that had not previously been reported and were later confirmed by those victims, and to killing his own one-month-old daughter years earlier in Alaska.

Siple was arrested weeks later and charged with murder during a kidnapping, murder during rape, murder during sodomy, and human trafficking. Williams had a prior arrest in 2009 for allegedly abusing a three-year-old boy in Russell County; he was acquitted of those charges at the time.