The man charged with capital murder in the kidnapping, rape and strangulation of a 5-year-old girl was named a suspect in a Columbus sexual assault just hours before the girl was reported missing.
A Columbus police report obtained by the Ledger-Enquirer says a 31-year-old woman reported Jeremy Tremaine Williams sodomized her on Dec. 12, the night before Kamarie Holland’s mother reported her daughter missing.
The girl was found dead the next night at a vacant house Williams once occupied on 15th Avenue in Phenix City. According to the Russell County warrants issued for Williams, she had been raped and sodomized, and strangled with some sort of ligature before Williams afterward raped her corpse.
Authorities have charged Kamarie’s mother, Kristy Siple, 35, also known as Kristy Hoskins, accusing her of felony murder and sex trafficking, a warrant alleging she “did agree with another person to pay her for having sexual intercourse and sodomy with her minor child.”
Under a gag order that prohibits their disclosing details of the investigation, Russell County authorities have not said what they believe Siple got in return for allegedly trafficking her daughter to Williams.
They also were not at liberty this week to comment on the earlier Columbus police report.
Columbus police said they also could not comment on that:
“This case is still under investigation,” Deputy Chief Joyce Dent-Fitzpatrick wrote in an email, in response to L-E questions. “We can not disclose the particulars at this time.”
Besides naming Williams a suspect in the Dec. 12 sodomy case, the Columbus report had his correct age, 37, and his Columbus address, 1029 Dozier St.
Investigators later searched that home, along with Siple’s home at 1607 Bowman St., off Fort Benning Road, where she reported Kamarie was taken overnight.
Hours apart
The timing of the two reports is close.
The 31-year-old woman told police Williams sodomized her between 6 and 10 p.m. Dec. 12. She called police at 1:01 a.m., and two officers were sent to her home at 1:07 a.m., with the report filed at 2:08 a.m.
Authorities have said Siple called police around 6 a.m. Her police report says an officer met with her around 6:45. Identifying the mother as Kristy Hoskins, the officer wrote that she reported Kamarie “slept with her in bed and woke her up” at 3 a.m.
When the mother awoke again, Kamarie was gone, she told police: “Miss Hoskins stated that she searched the house, but could not find her, so she called police. Miss Hoskins then stated that she lives at the home alone, but gets visitation ... allowed by the father Corey Holland.”
Police and sheriff’s deputies started searching for the girl, and the police department sent out a “critically missing person” alert at 8:36 a.m.
Kamarie’s body was found around 11 p.m., and Williams was arrested at the Bamboo Motel on Opelika Road in Phenix City that same night.
The earlier Columbus police report is titled “sodomy,” citing a code section that prohibits the act, even if the sex is consensual: “A person commits the offense of sodomy when he or she performs or submits to any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another,” it says.
That is distinguishable from “aggravated sodomy,” an offense included in the same Georgia code section, which says someone commits that crime “when he or she commits sodomy with force and against the will of the other person or ... with a person who is less than ten years of age.”
Sodomy carries a sentence of one to 20 years in prison, the law says. Aggravated sodomy has a sentence of 25 years to life.
Though the sodomy law remains on the books, the Georgia Supreme Court found punishing consenting adults for the act unconstitutional under state law in 1998, and the U.S. Supreme Court issued a similar ruling under federal law in a Texas case in 2003.
This story was originally published January 14, 2022 6:00 AM.