Mom Says She Solved Daughter’s Murder Case After Police Refused to Believe Her, Ruled Death a Suicide
The mother of a daughter whose death back in July 2023 was ruled a suicide by the police says she got her son-in-law to confess that he murdered her.
Jamie Dickerson, the mother, said that even though the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) at first ruled April Holt, her 29-year-old daughter, died from suicide, there was enough material in their 47-page supplement report to get her 33-year-old son-in-law to confess to killing her, Fox 17 reported.
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MNPD discovered April’s corpse in the couple’s apartment with a plastic bag taped around her neck that led to death by strangulation. Dickerson pointed out that according to police’s own reporting only the fingerprints of Donovan Holt, the son-in-law, were detected on the bag and tape.
The aggrieved mother spent months investigating the case before confronting her son-in-law.
“That is when I confronted him (Donovan) and he confessed to me and so that is when I went to the police,” Dickerson said. (Read more from “Mom Says She Solved Daughter’s Murder Case After Police Refused to Believe Her, Ruled Death a Suicide” HERE)
