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It Was A _Perfect Life_ Online Until She Was Found Dead_ The Twisted Case of April Holt _ True Crime · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: By the summer of twenty twenty three, mother of two
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  Speaker 1: and positivity coach, April Holt had a following of over
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand on TikTok. April built her quirky and
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  Speaker 1: optimistic online image around her happy home life. Her post
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  Speaker 1: told the story of overcoming adversity and manifesting great things.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, keep growing, y'all, keep manifesting and have a great.
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  Speaker 1: Hammerk In late July, April was found unresponsive in the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom of her home. She would die days later. While
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement was content to categorize the case as a
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  Speaker 1: tragedy of April's own choosing, the twenty nine year old's
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  Speaker 1: mother knew better. This is the story of a mother's
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  Speaker 1: unflinching fight for justice. Hi there, I'm Kevin, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Just Thought Lounge. Today's case takes us to the
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  Speaker 1: outskirts of Nashville, tennis See, where a young mother, entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: and influencer met a questionable end. Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 1: April Holt celebrated her twenty ninth birthday in early July
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The young entrepreneur from Antioch had already
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  Speaker 1: accomplished quite a bit in life. An independent lash technician,
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  Speaker 1: April had left her job and launched out on her own,
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  Speaker 1: building her own business and being her own boss.
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  Speaker 2: Happy twenty ninth birthday to me.
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  Speaker 3: I am blessed to experience another year of life.
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  Speaker 4: I have lived through ten thousand, five hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 4: five days.
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  Speaker 1: As April reflected on her greatest achievements, she was most
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  Speaker 1: grateful for family, particularly her two children, eleven year old
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  Speaker 1: old Serenity and her seven year old son Denzel. April
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  Speaker 1: was an engaged, loving mother. She shared the best of
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  Speaker 1: her family life with the world through her TikTok account.
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  Speaker 1: She focused on positivity videos, presenting a spiritual life and
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  Speaker 1: coaching her over two hundred thousand followers on the value
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  Speaker 1: of manifesting the life you want. Her videos were at
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  Speaker 1: times motivating.
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  Speaker 2: I just pray is saying good energy to anybody who's
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  Speaker 2: seen this, I hope you at an amazing day on purpose,
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  Speaker 2: be intentional and growth, just a little bit progress over perfection.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they were goofy. Over the years, a few of
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  Speaker 1: April's posts also became deeply honest and revealing. April's homeschooling
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  Speaker 1: as a child was a particularly sore point. She posted
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  Speaker 1: about what she described as her isolation from society. This
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  Speaker 1: was an experience she learned from and overcame in her
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  Speaker 1: teenage years. April and her husband, thirty three year old
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  Speaker 1: don Van Holt, lived the ups and downs of their
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  Speaker 1: marriage online. They shared their origin story friends that became
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  Speaker 1: best friends, that became lovers and eventually husband and wife
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  Speaker 1: and parents to daughter Serenity, whom April had when she
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  Speaker 1: was a teen, and their son Denzel.
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  Speaker 5: Nice question answer, right now, best friends that came first,
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  Speaker 5: We are a friend. But honestly, if we were friends.
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  Speaker 6: First, we weren't the last. That's been the base of
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  Speaker 6: the whole relationship foundation that we were friends. And so
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  Speaker 6: even through the bluishit weekend junk around and maintain that flush.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's the word to our several So.
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  Speaker 2: He really friend ever, the best, the best friend I
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  Speaker 2: could ever ask for, and I'm married.
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  Speaker 1: There were rough patches, including the period of separation that
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  Speaker 1: Donovan mentions. The couple had also faced financial hardship, bouts
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  Speaker 1: of depression, and serious health issues. Always positive, April framed
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  Speaker 1: their story as a journey of the pair overcoming adversity.
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  Speaker 1: morning of Friday, July twenty eighth, April spoke with her mother,
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  Speaker 1: Jamie on the phone. Briefly. They had plans to see
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  Speaker 1: the Barbie movie, but she couldn't make it that afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: They agreed to meet at their church the following day.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a few hours later that Jamie received
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  Speaker 1: a phone call, one that she would never forget. Donovan
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  Speaker 1: was on the other end. April had been rushed to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. He said their young son had found her
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom. She was in the shower, a plastic
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  Speaker 1: bag taped over her head. April wasn't breathing.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to go see the Barbie movie, she said.
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  Speaker 7: Donovan has to work. I can't go to the movie,
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  Speaker 7: but I'll meet you at church in Blast. This is
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  Speaker 7: the Blast classroom tomorrow. The phone rang and it was Donovan,
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  Speaker 7: and he said he was upset, kind of like a
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  Speaker 7: panic upset.
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  Speaker 8: He'said, we found April.
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  Speaker 7: She wasn't breathing, and so she's an ambulance on the
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  Speaker 7: way to hospital.
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  Speaker 1: At the hospital, Jamie recalled, Donovan continued to act strangely.
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  Speaker 1: He was not expressing the kind of distress and confusion
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  Speaker 1: one would expect from a distraught husband. She thought he
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  Speaker 1: allowed her to make all of the medical decisions regarding
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  Speaker 1: April's treatment as they fought to save her. Jamie recalled
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  Speaker 1: that Donovan held his head in his hands and he
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  Speaker 1: rocked back and forth. After three days of further emotional agony,
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  Speaker 1: on July thirty first, April had still not regained consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: She was declared dead from her injuries. In November, the
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  Speaker 1: autopsy report was released. The results were not what Jamie
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  Speaker 1: had expected. The medical examiner concluded that the cause of
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  Speaker 1: death was suffocation. The conclusion reached by the Metro Nashville
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  Speaker 1: Police was that there had been no foul play.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about how I'm gonna fake it till I'm
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  Speaker 2: make it.
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  Speaker 3: I put it on lash extensions because I had him
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  Speaker 3: into breakdown the other night and I plugged.
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  Speaker 8: All of my lashes off I think I can not
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  Speaker 8: have a video.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, if not, I I'm just putting for everything.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, let's get it to it.
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  Speaker 3: So lately, I have been going through just a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and I can definitely say that I'm in like a
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  Speaker 3: depressed state, like I'm just overwhelmed, and I know that
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  Speaker 3: like I'm manifesting more negative experience with all myself with
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  Speaker 3: how I've been. So I have to get out of
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  Speaker 3: this funk, so them to literally fake it till I
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  Speaker 3: make it. And I've done this before.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't This is the first time investigators informed Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Dickerson that her daughter's case would be closed, there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing further to investigate. Jamie rejected the decision outright. She
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  Speaker 1: told investigators that she would get continue and walked out
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  Speaker 1: on them.
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  Speaker 7: After they closed April's case, DA and everybody agreed to
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  Speaker 7: close it. I got up, marched out of that room,
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  Speaker 7: and I said, I'm not done. I'm going to keep investigating.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie knew her daughter well. She knew that both faith
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  Speaker 1: and resilience were qualities that April had in abundance. Jamie
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  Speaker 1: also believed that there was no way that April would
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  Speaker 1: have chosen to leave her children. Someone had taken her life,
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  Speaker 1: and Jamie believed that she knew exactly who that person was.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks prior to her death, April had filed for divorce.
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  Speaker 1: This was not the first time the marriage had been
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  Speaker 1: a rocky one. Indeed, the couple had originally sought a
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  Speaker 1: divorce years earlier, leading to a three year separation.
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  Speaker 10: Oh God, I saw the story is that we are
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  Speaker 10: getting divorced because for a lot of decisions. It's my
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  Speaker 10: best friend. I still love it to dive like, we
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  Speaker 10: still got a child together. We're still going to be
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  Speaker 10: hanging out most days of the week. But at the
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  Speaker 10: end of the day, we got ship to do. You
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  Speaker 10: feel she has a path to go. I got a
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  Speaker 10: path to go, but I passed to pay her live.
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  Speaker 2: We always going to.
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  Speaker 10: Be next to you too, And who's to say what's
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  Speaker 10: gonna happen in the future. All we know is right now,
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  Speaker 10: right now, it's the best I mean, real time, is
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  Speaker 10: the best decision for both of us.
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  Speaker 7: She needs for me to do what I need.
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  Speaker 2: To do so we can grow and heal and elevates
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  Speaker 2: know our feelings. This is not a messy divorce or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. We don't do that this is like
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  Speaker 2: I see like he said, this is my best friend
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: He has been before, the relationship, before the marriage, before
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  Speaker 3: the kid.
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  Speaker 7: So nothing.
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  Speaker 10: Look at her like I would never lose this forever
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  Speaker 10: for real.
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  Speaker 2: So we're good y'all real, like for real promise.
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  Speaker 1: April and Donovan separated, but never formally cut ties. They
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  Speaker 1: continued to present a happy front to their followers, and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps some of this was genuine, or perhaps they were
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  Speaker 1: in a deeply unhealthy cycle, because after an extended separation,
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  Speaker 1: the two decided to rekindle their romance and give it
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  Speaker 1: another go. In their videos, they prided themselves on their
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  Speaker 1: ability to forgive, to embrace open lines of communication, and
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  Speaker 1: to grow as individuals while together. The darkest moments of
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  Speaker 1: their relationship seemed never to reach April's TikTok account, but
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  Speaker 1: the arguments must have escalated. Unlike previous occasions. When she
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  Speaker 1: sought to separate in July twenty twenty three, April was
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  Speaker 1: not backing down. She told her mother that she was
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  Speaker 1: holding firm and leaving Donovan for good. Donovan must have
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  Speaker 1: been just as certain. Jamie learned later that he had
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  Speaker 1: pawned his wedding ring just a week before April died.
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  Speaker 11: Me am I the drama. I don't think I'm the drama.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I am am I the fella.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think I'm the villain.
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  Speaker 1: On July twenty eighth, the day that April was found
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  Speaker 1: unconscious in her shower, she and Donovan had been having
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  Speaker 1: an argument. The details of their disagreement remain unclear. That morning,
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  Speaker 1: Denzel heard his parents fighting, but he could not distinguish
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  Speaker 1: the words that were being exchanged. He later recounted to
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  Speaker 1: his grandmother what he recalled from that horrible day.
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  Speaker 4: On July twenty eighth, she woke up, drank her cap
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  Speaker 4: journaled as usual, enjoying her peaceful morning, hugged and kissed
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  Speaker 4: her seven year old son, Denzel, and her and her
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  Speaker 4: husband then went into the bathroom and began to argue
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  Speaker 4: and fight. My seven year old grandson put his ear
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  Speaker 4: to the door and heard his parents fighting, and he
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  Speaker 4: looked underneath to see both of their feet. He then
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  Speaker 4: listened some more, but he couldn't understand what they were saying,
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  Speaker 4: and so he then ran to his room. His dad
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  Speaker 4: shortly after came into his room, and he got him
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  Speaker 4: dressed and he fed him, and he then had him
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  Speaker 4: go check on his mom. He asked him to go
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  Speaker 4: check on his mom when one was then called. We
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  Speaker 4: got to the hospital and she had no brain function
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  Speaker 4: and no blood flow to her brain. We did not
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  Speaker 4: find out about the bag, which was not disclosed to
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  Speaker 4: us for over six hours. In that time, her husband
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  Speaker 4: had went back to the apartment two times, not knowing
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  Speaker 4: what was I don't know what he was doing there.
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  Speaker 4: On July thirty first of twenty twenty three, my daughter
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  Speaker 4: was pronounced dead and I want justice.
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  Speaker 1: What followed was a fight that Jamie would need to wage.
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  Speaker 1: To apply public pressure to get the attention of the
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  Speaker 1: Nashville Police as well as the DA's office. She began
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  Speaker 1: with seeking exposure. Jamie sought out local news stations, she
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  Speaker 1: reached out to area celebrities, and she posted about the
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  Speaker 1: case regularly on her social media. It was an uphill battle.
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  Speaker 1: After the investigation had been officially closed, it became difficult,
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  Speaker 1: if not impossible, to gain any traction in the media.
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  Speaker 1: Coverage of April's case on the mainstream outlets at that
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  Speaker 1: time completely ceased.
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  Speaker 7: A guys, I wanted to let you guys know something
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  Speaker 7: which I don't understand if I'm doing something wrong or
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  Speaker 7: how I reach out. But there has not been one
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  Speaker 7: news channel in the local Nashville area that has picked
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  Speaker 7: up April Hold's story my daughter, not one from day one.
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  Speaker 7: And it's been fourteen months, and I've reached out to
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  Speaker 7: Channel two, Channel four, Channel seven, Channel five, channel any
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  Speaker 7: channel out there, including I've reached out to many of
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  Speaker 7: the celebrities that are out here. Not one will even
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  Speaker 7: respond or take anything on, including I've reached out.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie did not only campaign online. She requested the full
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  Speaker 1: case file and began researching. By launching a formal complaint
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  Speaker 1: with the Community Review Board in Nashville, Jamie forced a
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  Speaker 1: full review of the handling of April's case. Eventually, the
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  Speaker 1: Metro Nashville Police Department launched a second investigation. Four months later,
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  Speaker 1: they returned with a forty seven page report. The reinvestigation
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  Speaker 1: did not prompt a change in the categorization of the
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  Speaker 1: case or the nature of April's death. However, what it
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  Speaker 1: did provide was a wealth of detail for Jamie to scrutinize.
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  Speaker 1: She combed through the report and related documentation over many hours.
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  Speaker 1: The days turned into weeks and months while Jamie worked
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  Speaker 1: through what was available and tried to make sense of
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  Speaker 1: the evidence she had to work with. Meanwhile, the grieving
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  Speaker 1: mother also aimed to provide a stable in support of
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  Speaker 1: home life for her grandchildren. She posted about taking Serenity
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  Speaker 1: and Denzel to grief counseling. She shared how their nightmares
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  Speaker 1: kept her and her husband up at all hours. Jamie
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  Speaker 1: also spoke openly about her own grief, even publishing a
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  Speaker 1: book about her bereavement process entitled Grieving through Grace and the.
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  Speaker 7: Proceeds that come from this book will also be publishing
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  Speaker 7: a children's book called Brief with Me and that will
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  Speaker 7: be the next one that will be in the series,
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  Speaker 7: and then Grieving through Grace the next chapter is the
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  Speaker 7: one that will follow this book.
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  Speaker 1: She also became an advocate against domestic violence. Many of
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  Speaker 1: her insights highlighted the complex dynamic at work in many relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Abuse does not always look the same or the way
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  Speaker 1: we expect it to. During this period, there was also
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  Speaker 1: the struggle to keep the children together. In the months
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  Speaker 1: following his wife's death, Donovan Holt relocated to Texas. Not surprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: he wished for his son to join him there, and.
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  Speaker 8: He didn't come with on that trip to go drop
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  Speaker 8: him off with his dad. She said she just couldn't
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  Speaker 8: do it. Who he was crying? Who he didn't want
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  Speaker 8: to go? He was, he was crying and saying he
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  Speaker 8: just he said, Grammy, I'll do anything I can to
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  Speaker 8: try to stay with you. I don't influence him in
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  Speaker 8: any way with his emotion. He's often told that I do,
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  Speaker 8: and I on that other side, but I would never
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  Speaker 8: do that.
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  Speaker 9: I want him to have an opinion of his own,
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  Speaker 9: and I want him to be happy, no matter where
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  Speaker 9: that is, whether that I just want him to be
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  Speaker 9: happy and have a fulfilling childhood and so and I
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  Speaker 9: want him to be with his sister.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie's relationship with her former son in law was growing tense.
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  Speaker 1: In April of twenty twenty four, Jamie ceased her posts
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  Speaker 1: detailing her concerns over April's case, announcing that she had
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  Speaker 1: been placed under a gag order. While her online advocacy
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  Speaker 1: took a necessary pause, Jamie's dedication to seeking justice for
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  Speaker 1: April nonetheless moved forward with full force. Initially, investigators had
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  Speaker 1: claimed that April showed no signs of trauma stemming from
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the incident that had caused her death. According to Jamie,
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  Speaker 1: there were visible signs on April at the hospital that
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  Speaker 1: suggested this was not true. April had noticeable bruises. The
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  Speaker 1: autopsy recorded marks on her neck, her thighs, and her ankles.
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  Speaker 1: She even had a gash on her inner thigh. The
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  Speaker 1: most significant piece of evidence in this report, which was
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  Speaker 1: overlooked by the initial investigation, could not be ignored. There
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  Speaker 1: was only one set of fingerprints on the bag taped
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  Speaker 1: to April's head, and there was only one set of
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  Speaker 1: fingerprints on that duct tape. Those fingerprints were not April's.
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  Speaker 1: They were a match to Donovan Holt. In September, Jamie
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  Speaker 1: confronted her former son in law directly with the information
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  Speaker 1: that she had uncovered. During this conversation, Donovan confessed, Now.
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  Speaker 7: I said, you can tell me the truth or I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to go meet with the cold case team.
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  Speaker 8: Next Thursday and have this reopened. I'm not shocked.
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  Speaker 7: I don't have that emotion because I've been literally doing
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  Speaker 7: this for a year knowing what happened.
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  Speaker 8: I already knew.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie went to the police with the confession, which she
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  Speaker 1: had recorded. In light of this development, April's autopsy was
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  Speaker 1: reviewed and its conclusion finally changed. The manner of death
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  Speaker 1: was formally recategorized to a homicide. On September twentieth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, the MNPD announced that Donovan Holt had been
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  Speaker 1: arrested in San Antonio after he confessed to killing his
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  Speaker 1: wife directly to detectives. Donovan was indicted by a grand
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  Speaker 1: jury for reckless homicide, evidence tampering, and false reporting.
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  Speaker 12: I also want to update you that there has been
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  Speaker 12: an arrest. The detective called me and did tell me
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  Speaker 12: that Donovan Holt has been arrested in the state of
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: Texas for the homicide of April Holt. He is being
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  Speaker 12: transported back to Tennessee, and so that is the update
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  Speaker 12: for now. We do have him in handcuffs and he
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  Speaker 12: is being transported back. So now we're just waiting for
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  Speaker 12: the next steps.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan was transported from Texas to Tennessee and held on
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  Speaker 1: a seventy five one thousand dollars bond pending an arraignment
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  Speaker 1: hearing scheduled for October twenty third. After speaking with the
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  Speaker 1: Nashville Colt case Unit, any ambiguity that remained in the
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  Speaker 1: case was resolved. The thirty three year old told police
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the same version of events that he had conceded to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: his former mother in law. He had angrily strangled his
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: wife in the heat of an argument. To conceal the crime,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: he had dragged her into the shower, positioned the bag
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: over her head, and taped it in place. Then he
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: left her to make lunch for their son. Only after
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Denzel had eaten, he asked him to check on his
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: mother and proceeded to call the ambulance. April's children are
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: with their grandmother, who has reported that they are doing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: as well as one could expect under the circumstances. Some
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: days are better than others. Jamie has thanked her supporters
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: on social media for supporting her and the family through
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: this horrific ordeal. Her fight, it seems, is not quite over.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Jamie is currently campaigning to have the murder charge against
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Donovan increased from reckless homicide to first degree murder.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: I am trying to get the charges increased. There's no
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: reason that they are as low as they are. There's
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: no reason that they shouldn't be a first degree instead
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: of reckless homicide. There shall also be child endangerment added
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: to these charges, and so that is my that's my
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: next uphill battle that I'm trying to fight. I should
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: have a new DA which will be my third one
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: now sometime next week that will be assigned to this case,
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: and so I will just be on them and making
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: sure that I can do everything that I can to
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: get these charges increased.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: That was the tragic story of April Lynnholt. Thank you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: once again for joining me, and a special thanks to
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Alicia Rockland and naw Man for joining the member's lounge.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm Kevin, this is just thought lounge, and I'll see
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: in the next one.
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: When the scene plays, tell me who the screen saves.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: I can hear the crimes repeat. Gotta take my time
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: because these crimes get deep, but these stories can't hide.
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: Let me find my seat, Kevin, go ahead and settle in.
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: Gotta be selective, doing all the research, keeping it objective,
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: always being effective. Can say he got a neck