Mom Gets Murder Confession from Son-in-Law | Crime Alert 6AM 02.28.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Mom who refuses to accept suicide ruling for her daughter gets her son-in-law to confess to her murder. Woman stopped at the border with a giant load of bologna!
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Donovan Holt finds his wife April 29, |
| 0:06.0 | almost lifeless in their Antioch, Tennessee apartment with a plastic back taped around her neck. She's pronounced brain dead in the hospital and taken off life support. |
| 0:15.0 | Metro National PD ruled the death of suicide, but her mom, Jamie Dickerson, doesn't accept that. Dickerson discovers |
| 0:22.7 | a report that says Donovan Holt's fingerprints are on the bag and tape, not April's. Jamie |
| 0:29.0 | confronts Donovan, who admits he murdered his wife. Nancy, Donovan Holt did not even tell |
| 0:35.3 | Jamie Dickerson that April had a bag over her head |
| 0:38.1 | while April fought for her life in the hospital. On finding that out, Jamie did not believe |
| 0:43.2 | April would take her own life just a few hours after making plans with her for the next day |
| 0:48.5 | over text. After Jamie secured the confession, Nashville PD reopened the investigation and arrested Holt in San |
| 0:55.9 | Antonio, Texas. Holt has now been extradited back to Nashville. Donovan Holt 33, |
| 1:02.3 | charged with reckless homicide false reporting and tampering with evidence. A woman trying to enter |
| 1:08.4 | Presidio, Texas from Mexico stopped for extra inspection when her luggage weighs a lot more than expected. |
| 1:15.8 | Border Patrol finds 800 pounds of Mexican bologna in the suitcases prohibited in the U.S. due to the risk of foreign animal disease. |
| 1:25.9 | The woman 43 also carrying nearly 300 boxes of meds, Xanax, Valium, the attempted smuggler, |
| 1:34.5 | now facing $1,000 fine. |
| 1:37.4 | Well, that's a bunch of baloney. |
| 1:39.1 | Okay, sorry. |
| 1:40.4 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:46.1 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Lemley. |
| 1:50.9 | A California judge accused of murdering his wife is now on trial. |
| 1:55.8 | Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who's charged with the August |
| 2:00.8 | 23 shooting death of his |
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