By Carol Robinson
al.com
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence for a man who bound, raped and fatally strangled a 5-year-old girl, and he is now asking for a speedy execution.
The appeals court issued its ruling Friday for 41-year-old Jeremy Tremaine Williams in connection with the horrific 2021 death of Kamarie Holland in Phenix City, which Williams recorded on his cell phone.
Though Williams prohibited his attorneys from presenting any evidence that could help spare his life, his conviction and death sentence automatically underwent an appeals review.
Williams since 2025 has been writing letters to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office and Gov. Kay Ivey asking to waive any further appeals and for an execution date to be set.
A competency evaluation determined, “he knew his life was at stake,” the appeals court judges found.
“I am doing everything I can to move this along to the end,” said Russell County District Attorney Rick Chancey.
Chancey said the case will now go to the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of execution and then to Ivey, at which point an execution date would be set.
It could be weeks, months or years, Chancey said. There’s also a chance Williams could change his mind.
“Hopefully it will be sooner than later,” the district attorney said.
“This is a terrible human being, and he did a tremendous amount of damage over the years.”
“What he did to this little girl, and he’s raped others, killed her on video and then raped her dead body is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever seen,” Chancey said.
The ordeal began Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, when Kamarie’s mother called 911 to report her daughter missing.
Kristy Marie Siple told authorities she went to sleep about midnight and awoke to find Kamarie gone and the front door open.
Columbus police launched an immediate investigation and quickly identified Williams as a potential suspect.
Williams and Siple, according to court records, had a sexual relationship and Siple would sometimes leave her children in Williams’ care while she prostituted herself.
Columbus police notified authorities that Williams could be in the Phenix City area.
Ultimately, investigators went to Williams’ duplex in Phenix City and executed a search warrant.
In a backyard shed, they found a child-sized foam chair and peanut butter sandwich that had a child-sized bite taken out of it, records show.
Kamarie’s naked body was found in the basement, covered by a tarp.
When Russell County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Brad Evans was asked in court proceedings to describe the scene, appeals’ judges wrote, Evans replied, “I a saw a 5-year-old little girl in rigor mortis, legs up and spread, ligature marks around her wrists, around her throat, bruising on the face, bleeding from the vagina and anus.”
Investigators would eventually learn that Kamarie’s mother agreed to let Williams sexually abuse her daughter for $2,500, but they reduced that amount to $1,300 after negotiations.
Williams never paid Siple the money.
Williams would go on to tell investigators he smoked meth and forced Kamarie to smoke meth as well.
He then sexually abused her for more than an hour before he strangled her.
The abuse and subsequent murder were described by Williams as “very rageful and sexually driven.”
Williams told investigators that Kamarie’s death did not come quickly.
He said he choked her for about 10 to 15 minutes, and at one point let go because his hands were tired.
When Kamarie gasped and he realized she was still alive, he then began to choke her again until she was dead.
The appeals court noted that Williams used his cell phone to take photos and videos of him raping Kamarie both before and after her death.
In the weeks after Kamarie’s murder, her mother was charged with sex trafficking and felony murder.
In March 2024, she pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Under the plea agreement, the murder charge for Siple was dismissed.
Also in March 2024, Williams pleaded guilty to multiple counts of capital murder, rape and other crimes but still had to undergo a jury trial because of the severity of the crimes.
He was convicted in April 2024 and sentenced to death.
Williams had also previously been charged child abuse in Phenix City in 2009 and acquitted by a jury in 2012, and was also charged at some point with abuse of a child in Columbus.
At the time of his arrest in Kamarie’s murder, Williams had long been suspected in the 2005 death of his newborn daughter in Alaska but was never charged.
The case was reopened after Kamarie’s death, and Williams was later indicted in the Alaska case.
Records show Williams told investigators in Alabama that he had sexually abused his own daughter in Alaska and said he had molested others but could not remember their names.
Williams remains on Death Row at Holman Correctional Facility.
“This is punishment and justice for families going back to Alaska, especially what this little 5-year-old girl went through here in Phenix City, - to be fed meth and raped and choked and slapped and hit and made to perform oral sex and then rape her dead body,” Chancey said.
“You do that to children,” he said, “and there’s no hope for you.”
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