DA says 'evil is out there,' Kamarie Holland's killer put to death

Phenix City, Ala. - On August 13, at 6:16 p.m. CT, child rapist and murderer Jeremy Tremaine Williams was pronounced dead by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

“Justice has been served. In addition to molesting and murdering five-year-old Kamarie Holland in 2021, Williams confessed to a series of violent crimes against children. He killed his infant daughter in Alaska, raped at least two other small children, and sexually abused his young cousin. At his own request, his execution was set and carried out. This is one of the most atrocious crimes we have seen against an innocent child. This lack of humanity is hard to comprehend,” said Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall in a press release.

He added, “For her entire life, little Kamarie was exploited by the people around her who were supposed to keep her safe. First, by a father who refused to follow a court order keeping Kamarie and her brother away from their mother, then by a mother who sold her innocent child, and then by Williams, who assaulted and murdered her. At trial, the court wrote that Williams’s actions ‘were so shockingly evil in everything that you did that there’s nothing that I can order to give you what you truly deserve.’

“My office will always stand for victims and fight to ensure that the perpetrators who commit the most violent crimes in Alabama are punished to the maximum extent of the law. It is my sincere hope tonight that survivors of Williams’s crimes know that he can never hurt them, or another innocent child, again.”

On Dec. 12, 2021, Jeremy Williams convinced Kristy Siple to sell him her five-year-old daughter, Kamarie Holland, for sex. Williams agreed to return the girl to her mother afterward, but he never returned the child. Kamarie was taken from Siple’s home in Columbus, Ga., to Williams’s home, and then to an abandoned house in Phenix City. The physical, sexual abuse, and murder by strangulation, as well as sexual abuse of Kamarie’s corpse was videotaped by Williams. After hiding her body, he returned to Columbus and changed his tires. He was arrested in a hotel room in Phenix City. Kamarie’s body was found while Williams was in jail. Williams admitted in a five-hour recorded statement to the crimes, including the rapes of two other children under the age of six, as well as the murder of his one-month old daughter in Alaska.

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On March 26, 2024, Williams entered guilty pleas in Russell County Circuit Court to four counts of capital murder. He also pleaded guilty to the production of obscene material involving Kamarie, the abuse of her corpse, and human trafficking and conspiracy to commit human trafficking of Kamarie. Additionally, Williams pleaded guilty to the sodomy and sexual abuse of his cousin, who was less than twelve at the time of the offense. Kristy Siple is now serving 20 years for her role in her daughter’s death.

“My thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been impacted by this man,” said Russell County District Attorney Rick Chancey. “I will never understand why this happens in our society. It reminds me evil is out there, and we should all be diligent in looking for it. Do not turn away. Do not downplay its existence. Our children and the most vulnerable among us need our watchful eye. We as a community should stand for nothing less than protecting our children. Although Williams is gone, his damage lives on.”

Following his sentencing, Williams wrote a series of letters indicating his desire to drop his appeals and be immediately executed. Alabama law mandates that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals review death-sentenced cases, and that court affirmed Williams’s capital murder convictions and death sentence on March 27, 2026. The Alabama Supreme Court authorized Williams’s execution on June 16, and Governor Ivey scheduled it two days later.

Attorney General Marshall gave thanks to the Office of the Attorney General’s Capital Litigation Division and Victims’ Services Unit, and the Russell County District Attorney’s Office, for their work in this difficult case.