Kamarie Holland (November 23, 2016 – December 13, 2021) was a five-year-old American girl residing in Columbus, Georgia, who was reported missing after being last seen at her home on December 13, 2021. That same night, Holland was found dead in an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama. Police investigation later led to the arrest of Jeremy Tremaine Williams (August 1, 1984 – August 13, 2026), who had previously lived in the house. Holland's mother, Kristy Marie Siple, (born June 22, 1986) was also arrested as a suspect after her involvement in her daughter's death was discovered.
It was revealed through investigation and during the trial that on the night of December 12, 2021, the day before Holland was reported missing, Siple agreed to allow Williams to rape her daughter. Williams, who filmed the sexual acts, then killed the girl by strangulation after raping and sodomizing her. Williams was found guilty of capital murder and rape and other charges and sentenced to death in April 2024; Siple, who had originally been charged with capital murder, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in July 2024.
In 2025, Williams petitioned to waive his right to appeal and asked to be executed. The appellate courts upheld his death sentence and found him mentally competent to forgo his appeals and be executed. On August 13, 2026, Williams was executed by lethal injection.
Disappearance and murder On December 13, 2021, a young girl residing in Columbus, Georgia, was found murdered in Phenix City, Alabama, which lies directly adjacent to Columbus across the state border.
On the night before her death, the 5-year-old girl, Kamarie Holland, was brought out of her home in Georgia and taken to the abandoned house of its 37-year-old former owner, Jeremy Tremaine Williams. Before this, Holland's mother, Kristy Marie Siple (alias Christie Hoskins), who had a sexual relationship with Williams, agreed to Williams's request to rape Holland. Siple allegedly asked Williams to pay her $2,500 in exchange for raping her daughter, but they reduced the payment to $1,300 after some negotiations, although Williams never paid Siple the reduced payment of $1,300.
After Holland was taken into Williams' vacant house, Williams raped the girl and also engaged in sodomy and oral sex; he also personally filmed the sexual acts and forced the girl to consume methamphetamine. After doing so, Williams used a ligature to strangle Holland and, therefore, killed her by asphyxiation. Even after Holland died, Williams went on to commit further sexual assaults on her corpse and similarly filmed the necrophilic acts.
Meanwhile, on the morning after the murder, Holland was reported missing by her mother, who lied to the police that she had last seen Holland before she went to sleep about midnight and awoke to find her daughter gone and the front door open. An extensive search was conducted, and on that night itself, Holland's body was found inside the same house where Williams had raped, sodomized, and murdered her. The police were able to identify Williams as the prime suspect and arrested him for the murder shortly after.
Arrest and charges After his arrest, 37-year-old Jeremy Williams was charged with capital murder of a child under the age of 14 years. He subsequently faced additional charges of capital murder during a kidnapping and capital murder during a rape; the offense of capital murder carries either life without parole or the death penalty under Alabama state law. Russell County Chief Deputy District Attorney Rick Chancey also said the prosecution would seek the death penalty, once further investigations were conducted in this case. It was further revealed that Williams had formerly been charged in a child abuse case. He was first charged in 2009 and acquitted by a jury in 2012.
On December 28, 2021, Siple was arrested as an alleged co-offender in her daughter's death. On December 29, 2021, a day after her arrest, 35-year-old Kristy Siple was charged with one count each of sex trafficking, felony murder during a kidnapping, felony murder during rape, and felony murder during sodomy. Before the revelation of her involvement in the rape-murder of Holland, Siple took part in an interview, and under the pretense of a mournful and heartbroken mother, she tearfully claimed that Holland had been the essence of her life, and could not process what happened to her.
In March 2022, a Russell County grand jury formally indicted both Williams and Siple for their respective charges of murder and other offenses pertaining to the rape and murder of Holland. Williams was indicted on eight charges, including four counts of capital murder for kidnapping, rape, and sodomy and for killing someone under the age of 14 years, as well as sex trafficking (two counts), producing child pornography, and abuse of a corpse. Siple was indicted on three counts of felony murder and two counts of sex trafficking.
Williams was also a suspect behind the alleged killing of his one-month-old daughter, Naudia Trenice Williams. The killing reportedly took place in January 2005 in North Pole, Alaska. During the original investigations, the North Pole Police Department found blunt force injuries but later ruled the manner of death as "undetermined" due to insufficient evidence and Williams's refusal to attend polygraph tests and police interviews. After his arrest for Holland's murder, the investigations in Naudia's death reopened, and hence, Williams was charged with second-degree murder; a Fairbanks grand jury formally indicted Williams for killing Naudia in December 2022. In relation to the case, police investigators and prosecutors from Russell County traveled to Alaska in July 2022 to assist Alaska authorities in the investigation of Naudia's killing.
On October 26, 2022, Williams was once again arraigned in court on fresh sexual abuse charges, which consisted of rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse of a child under the age of six, after Williams was found to be involved in another sexual assault case that had occurred in an undisclosed year.
Before his trial was set to commence, Williams filed a motion in December 2022, seeking to be removed from suicide watch, which he had experienced for nearly 10 months after prison authorities deemed that his behavior was suicidal from the outset (including one instance wherein Williams had tried to hang himself with some cloth), and it thus prompted them to place him under a modified form of suicide watch. A Russell County judge rejected Williams's request.
Conviction of Kristy Siple On March 13, 2024, Kristy Siple pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and faced a potential sentence of up to 20 years in prison for the charges she admitted to. Before making her plea agreement, the prosecution decided to drop the murder charge against Siple, which allowed her to no longer face the death penalty for murdering her daughter.
On July 18, 2024, Siple was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Siple, whose sentence was backdated to the starting date of her pre-trial imprisonment, was also required to register as a sex offender after her future release. Siple was additionally told to pay $100 to the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission.
Trial of Jeremy Williams
Prior to his trial for murdering Kamarie Holland, on March 13, 2024, Jeremy Williams pleaded guilty to multiple counts of capital murder, rape, and other offenses preferred against him in his upcoming trial. However, under Alabama law, Williams had to undergo a jury trial to determine his guilt before his potential conviction. When asked by the judge why he had pleaded guilty despite knowing the possibility of a death sentence, Williams replied that he only wanted to "expedite the process."
On April 8, 2024, Williams officially stood trial before a Russell County jury. Prosecutors affiliated with the Russell County District Attorney's Office were seeking the death penalty against Williams, and jury selection began on that same day. On the first day of trial, the jury were presented with video evidence of Williams's self-recorded acts of sodomy and rape committed against Holland, and it was revealed in court that Williams had chosen to confess due to his wanting to "get right with God" before he was, potentially, executed.
Forensic pathologist David Rydzewski, MD, testified in court that the cause of Holland's death was asphyxia due to ligature strangulation and that there was trauma in the girl's genitals, proving that Holland had been raped and strangled to death. Dr. Rydzewski also testified that toxicological reports and blood tests found traces of methamphetamine and amphetamine inside the girl's body system, suggesting that Holland had been drugged before her death.
On April 12, 2024, after a trial lasting three days, the jury found Williams guilty of a total of four counts of capital murder: mainly one of murder of a child younger than 14 years old, one of murder in the course of rape, one of murder in the course of kidnapping, and one of murder in the course of first-degree sodomy. Williams was also convicted of one count each of sodomy, sexual abuse of a child less than 12, production of obscene material involving a child, human trafficking, conspiracy to commit human trafficking and abuse of a corpse. In response to the guilty verdict, Holland's father stated that the judgment was "well deserved," and he urged the court to impose the death penalty. In a statement to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Holland's father said, "Kamarie [Holland] was too precious for what happened to her."
On April 15, 2024, Russell County Circuit Court Judge David Johnson sentenced Williams to death on all four counts of capital murder. In addition, Williams was sentenced to life in prison for production of obscene material involving a child and human trafficking, 20 years' jail for conspiracy in human trafficking, and 10 years' jail for abuse of a corpse.
Prior to Williams's sentencing, the judge allowed the court to hear victim impact statements. Holland's father, who stated that Williams did not deserve to live, read aloud a letter from his elder daughter (Holland's sister) stating that her late younger sister was "sweet and caring." In another letter, Holland's grandmother lamented that her granddaughter would never have a prom, graduation, or wedding after her life was callously taken by Williams, whom Holland's grandmother condemned as an "immature, demonic, selfish, Godless person." Holland's first cousin also stated he had never met a child who smiled as much as Holland, and he reprimanded Williams for his conduct. Williams's ex-wife also took the stand to give a victim impact statement, condemning her ex-husband for being vile and evil enough to kill their one-month-old child and another family's daughter and constantly causing pain and suffering to defenseless people. A 23-year-old woman, who had been molested by Williams when she was four, also gave a victim impact statement, calling Williams a "monster."
Williams's incarceration After his 2024 sentencing, Williams was incarcerated on death row at the Holman Correctional Facility.
At the time of his sentencing, Williams became the 166th inmate newly added to Alabama's death row; the longest-serving death row inmate in Alabama was sentenced in January 1982.
On October 22, 2024, Jeremy Williams filed an appeal against his death sentence to the Russell County Circuit Court.
On May 15, 2025, a year after he was condemned to death row, Williams asked a Russell County Circuit Court judge to expedite his execution, expressing that he was willing to waive all his appeals and be executed as soon as possible. A hearing was set on May 23, 2025, to determine whether Williams was mentally competent to waive his appeals.