Jamie Dickerson
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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They planted seeds the whole time. So anybody that read that automatically thought, well, she was looking up suicide sites when she wasn't that she was on drugs and alcohol, which she wasn't. And you're just like, they kept making, they painted a picture of her that was so wrong. And it wasn't who she was and they just all believed it from the very get go.
And so that's why I'm trying to get it where the investigator isn't allowed to have any say or be in the autopsy until it's been done completely. Let it be a medical evaluation only first. Yes. And then put all the pieces, but don't add their opinion to your report. No.
Yeah. And so I don't get it. So those are some of the changes that I'm working with them. So the death investigation team in Rutherford County, that's who I'm working with. And so I'm really just hoping that
I could have, and they actually said they would read it for me, but I told them no. I told them they can't read my words. So I just posted it publicly.
July 29th, 2023 was a day I will never forget. A piece of my soul was taken from this earth, from her children. from her family and friends and from her future plans. I didn't get to look in April's eyes that day to see her pain. I didn't get to rescue her. The questions of did she suffer? Was she scared her last moments of life? Did she fight for her life?
And did she cry will always haunt my mind. Her eyes last vision was looking into the eyes of the man who took her hand in marriage and promised to protect her and love her. The man she loved and the hands that she held feeling comforted in the end were the same hands that wrapped around her neck, taking her life away. The courts like to see this as an act of reckless homicide.
After her breath was taken from her, she was treated as a piece of garbage. And that's what destroys me to the core. She was drugged to the shower and a garbage bag was placed over her head and then taped. Donovan then proceeded to go into the next room and eat lunch with their seven-year-old son, who he then sent in the bathroom to find his mother dead lying there on the floor.
The mindset is that of someone who has a mental illness. The mindset is not of reckless homicide, but rather a premeditated act of murder. This was not an accidental death. The actions that took place after April was no longer breathing were intentional and deliberate. He staged April's death as a suicide.
He had a bag and tape ready and prepared where no person would think to wrap up their spouse's head and take the bag if their partner, who they claimed to love, was not breathing. In a sexual act, a partner would make all attempts to rescue their spouse. The lies began the second the 911 call was made and the procedures that followed were nothing short of erratical.
April was born into this world as a gift from God to me, her mother. I watched her grow up into the beautiful, amazing, loving woman she had become. She loved and adored her two children and often talked about how excited she was for her their futures.
She spoke about how she was looking forward to buying a home within the next year, opening a training studio to teach others to do lashes, foster children, and continue to grow in youth ministry leadership roles. April was as soft as a feather, floating to the ground with such ease and calmness. April was a friend to all and even wore her smile when I knew she didn't want to. April was the first.
of what our family calls the first six, which are the first six grandkids who were raised so close together that they were like siblings. All of that was taken from her and from us. She didn't ask to die. She did not take her own life. Like Donovan told many people, including her children, this lie was thought to be true by so many people for almost a year.
So many people thought April was that sad and none of us even were aware. I knew in my heart that is not what happened and Donovan met me each week with months to exchange Denzel and looked me in my eyes knowing what he had done to my daughter. Knowing that I was fighting for justice, knowing he sent his seven-year-old son in that bathroom that day to find his mom dead on the floor.
We have experienced every parent's worst nightmare. We live with this pain for the rest of our lives and a hole in our hearts that can never be filled. There will always be an empty chair at the table and at all of life's milestones that her children reach. This was all taken by the hands of another human being who has been given charges as if he simply made a mistake.
It was not a mistake to lie about what happened. It was not a mistake to treat April like a piece of garbage. It was not a mistake to send Denzel in the bathroom, traumatizing him forever. It was not a mistake to tamper with evidence. It was not a mistake to falsify a report. This was intentional homicide of an innocent person. I am a Christian woman with faith that I didn't even know I had.
Through this tragedy in my life, I have found that I am much stronger than I ever thought. I won't walk around with an anger that strips me of the person I've been created to be. I will walk in the spirit and not the flesh.
raising april's two children serenity and denzel to have loving hearts they will carry their memories of their mom and them always and we will channel our energy of missing her into giving back just like she would want us to we have a grief um a grief center opened which now we don't but we have grieve with me still the non-profit i pray that donovan asks for true forgiveness for his actions i pray for eternity with christ because i can't imagine the alternative
As I read this statement, there are simply just words. These are simply just words to everybody. This is part of a procedure for sentencing and considered to be a privilege to read a letter. You allow me to say a few last words to the courts and the murderer of my daughter. To me, this was my flesh and blood. This was not just a file for your filing cabinet like it has been treated since day one.
This was my child. This is not just another number in the log of how many homicides happened this past year. This was the mother of my grandchildren. April Holt was a person. April Holt was a case that I pray makes an impact to the entire justice system of all the wrongs that happened in her investigation and that through these mistakes, changes are made.
I will make it my mission as her mother to get policies and procedures changed so that no family has to endure grieving while investigating their own child's case because the system failed them and refused to listen or see the facts presented to them numerous times. When you hear the name April Holt from this point forward, hear an echo of the change that is to come.
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