On December 13, 2021, five-year-old Kamarie Holland (November 23, 2016 – December 13, 2021), a girl residing in Columbus, Georgia, was reported missing after she was last seen at her home and on that same night, Holland was found dead inside an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama. Police investigations later led to the arrest of Jeremy Tremaine Williams, who used to live in the house. Holland's mother Kristy Marie Siple was also arrested as a suspect after her involvement in her daughter's death was discovered.

It was revealed through investigations and trial that on the night of December 12, 2021, the date before Holland was reported missing, Siple had agreed to allow Williams to have sex with her daughter, and Williams, who filmed down the sexual acts, killed the girl by strangulation after raping and sodomizing her. Williams was found guilty of capital murder and rape and other charges, and sentenced to death in April 2024, while Siple, who was originally charged with capital murder, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.

Prior to his trial for murdering Kamarie Holland, on March 13, 2024, Jeremy Williams pleaded guilty to multiple counts of capital murder, rape and other offences preferred against him in his upcoming trial. However, under Alabama law, Williams had to undergo a jury trial to determine his guilt before his potential conviction. When asked by the judge why he had to plead guilty despite knowing the possibility of a death sentence, Williams replied that he only wanted to "expedite the process".^[1]

On April 8, 2024, Williams officially stood trial before a Russell County jury, and prosecutors affiliated with the Russell County District Attorney's Office were seeking the death penalty against Williams.^[2] On the first day of trial, the jury were presented with video evidence of Williams's self-recorded acts of sodomy and rape committed against Holland, and it was revealed in court that Williams chose to confess due to him wanting to "get right with God" before he was potentially executed.^[3]

Dr. David Rydzewsk, the forensic pathologist, testified in court that the cause of Holland's death was asphyxia due to ligature strangulation, and that there were trauma in the private parts of the girl, proving that Holland was raped and strangled to death. Dr. Rydzewsk also testified that based on toxicological reports and blood tests, there were traces of methamphetamine and amphetamine inside the body system of the girl, suggesting that Holland was drugged before her death.^[4][5]

On April 12, 2024, after a trial lasting three days, the jury found Williams guilty of a total of four counts of capital murder, mainly one of murder of a child less than 14 years old; one of murder in the course of rape; one of murder in the course of kidnapping; and one of murder in the course of first-degree sodomy. Williams was also convicted of one count each of sodomy, sexual abuse of a child less than 12, production of obscene material involving a child, human trafficking, conspiracy to commit human trafficking and abuse of a corpse.

On April 15, 2024, Russell County Circuit Court Judge David Johnson sentenced 39-year-old Jeremy Tremaine Williams to death for all four counts of capital murder. On top of the four death sentences, Williams was also sentenced to life in prison for production of obscene material of a child and human trafficking; 20 years' jail for conspiracy of human trafficking; and 10 years' jail for abuse of a corpse.^[6]

Prior to Williams's sentencing, the judge allowed the court to hear victim impact statements.

Since the end of his sentencing, Williams was transferred to the Holman Correctional Facility, where he is currently incarcerated on death row as of 2025.

• Capital punishment in Alabama
• List of death row inmates in Alabama