TikToker April Holt’s Death Almost Went Unsolved… Until Her Mom Got Her Killer To Confess

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

April Lynn Holt was a mother of two, living outside of Nashville, Tennessee, working hard to create a good life for herself and her family. TikTok was a huge passion of hers, and she began making content back in the pandemic and had garnered over 200,000 followers. Her content was mainly surrounding her family, her faith, and lifting other people up. She was really big on manifestations and elevating your life, so her content was a reflection of that. Her content also centered around her husband, Donovan Holt. However, in 2021 the two of them separated. It was an amicable decision, but eventually they decided to give it another go. But in July of 2023, April realized she no longer wanted to be with him. So that month she asked him for a formal divorce. 2 weeks later, her 7 year old son found her with a plastic bag duct taped to her head in their bathroom. Three days later she died. From the beginning, April’s mom Jamie knew there was more to the story, and she was right. She learned that Donovan had gotten into an argument with April, strangled her, and then staged it as a suicide. Through her hard work, April is on the path towards getting justice.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Ray.
0:10.1	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:12.4	Genuinely, it means a lot to all of you who support my content and to those of you who are new.
0:18.3	Welcome.
0:18.5	So guys, today I have a case that I am, oh, God, I am very fired up to tell you about.
0:26.7	I have so much to say, so many thoughts.
0:28.7	I know that you guys are going to feel the same.
0:31.0	This is a case that needs more exposure.
0:33.8	And when you hear about this one, like I said, you're probably going to feel angry.
0:39.6	But also inspired because today I got to collaborate with April Holt's mom.
0:45.1	Her name is Jamie.
0:46.2	And wow, what a fantastic human, truly a salt of the earth individual with so much strength
0:53.6	that I can't even put into words how inspired
0:57.1	I have been just by talking to her seeing everything she's done in such a short period of time.
1:03.5	I mean, this happened pretty recently in the summer of 2023.
1:09.1	Really because just as a mother, she inspires me,
1:11.6	everything that she has done for her daughter,
1:13.2	but then also everything that she has done for other people
1:15.6	in this short amount of time is so, so impressive.
1:19.0	Because when this first happened,
1:21.5	the police ruled this as a suicide.
1:23.7	And she knew that that absolutely was not the case and never gave up. And at first,
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