H0RRIFYING: Alabama k!ller to be executed after r@ping and murd3ring girl, 5, sold by mom for $1,300
WARNING – DISTRESSING CONTENT: A mother reported her daughter missing, sending officers on a search to find the child, but a grim discovery led investigators to determine that the child’s own mother had put her in the hands of a rapist and murd3rer
An Alabama man is scheduled to be executed after he r@ped and murd3red a 5-year-old girl who was sold to him by her own mother.
Two weeks before Christmas in 2021, Jeremy Tremaine Williams, then 37, was arrested for the murd3r of Kamarie Holland. The girl’s mother, Kristy Siple, told police that she woke up in the morning and couldn’t find her daughter in her bed.
Every available police officer at the Columbus Police Department in Georgia joined in the search. However, the effort ended in tragedy after Kamarie’s brutalized and strangled body was found dumped outside of an abandoned home in Phenix City, Alabama.
In a disturbing twist, it was revealed that Kamarie’s own mother asked Williams to pay her $2,500 in exchange for r@ping her daughter, but they reduced the payment to $1,300 after some negotiations — Williams never paid Siple the reduced payment. Five years later, Williams will be executed by lethal injection on Thursday, Aug. 13.
Jane Edenfield, a sergeant at the Columbus Police Department’s property crimes unit who took part in the search for Kamarie, hopes the execution will bring a measure of closure. Siple is serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the human sex trafficking of her daughter, but Edenfield believes “she should probably be right there next to” [Williams]. “It’s just sickening,” the sergeant told USA Today.
‘A desperate search’
On Dec. 13, 2021, Williams took Kamarie from her home in Columbus City, Georgia, after agreeing to pay Siple to abuse the child, said police. It’s believed Siple wanted the money for drugs.
Authorities say Williams put Kamarie through hell, including forcing the child to smoke meth, filming himself r@ping her, strangling her, and continuing to sexually assault her after she was de@d. Police arrested Williams before they knew what had happened to Kamarie, but he refused to talk.
The entire department worked to find the child, hoping she was still alive. Edenfield and another property crime detective, Braden Dobbins, interviewed people who knew Williams.
One person made a chilling statement that stuck with them for years. If something happened to that little girl, she’s going to be at this house in Phenix City,” Edenfield recalled someone telling Dobbins. The home was owned by Williams’ family, but had been abandoned.
However, the house was in another jurisdiction and felt like a long shot, but Dobbins convinced Edenfield to follow the tip. “Braden looked at me, and he says, ‘Sarge, I tell ya, if you seen the look on this lady’s face,'” Edenfield said. “Everyone else was tied up. His heart felt it, and me knowing and trusting in him, the two of us said, ‘Let’s go.'”
With the hope that Kamarie was still alive, the duo raced to the home, but found the child dumped in an outdoor cellar. Her body was left against a wall in such a way that Edenfield initially believed she was a doll.
Edenfield said the image of Kamarie’s body will never leave her mind. “For a long time it just ate Braden and I up,” she said. “Could we have done more? Could we have gotten there sooner? The assistant district attorney told me that by the time we got to the house she had already passed but it’s still in your mind. You ‘What if?’ yourself to de@th.”
A de@th sentence
During his 2024 trial, Williams directed his attorneys to provide no defense for him, said Edenfield. When he was sentenced to de@th, the murd3rer ordered his legal team not to appeal.
Still, Williams has never expressed remorse for what he did or given an explanation for the crime, said Edenfield. “His words were that he was just sick, and that’s it,” she said “He didn’t elaborate.”
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Jurors found Williams guilty of murd3r, sodomy, sexual abuse of a child, production of obscene material involving a child, human trafficking, and abuse of a corpse. If the execution moves forward, he will be the first inmate executed in Alabama this year and the 22nd in the U.S.
