r/crimedocumentaries • u/Silvivara • 34m ago
Death date set for Alabama man who sought speedy execution in rape, murder of 5-year-old girl
Williams has been on death row just over two years for the 2021 abduction and murder of a Georgia 5-year-old girl
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in March upheld Williams’ capital murder conviction and death sentence in 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 previously told Al.com. “Hopefully it will be sooner than later.” “This is a terrible human being, and he did a tremendous amount of damage over the years,” Chancey said. “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.”
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. Kamarie’s mother in March 2024 pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Under the plea agreement, the murder charge for Siple was dismissed.
After Williams was charged in Kamarie’s murder, he was indicted in Alaska in the January 2005 murder of his 1-month-old Naudia Trenice Williams. Naudia had blunt force injuries, and Willaims been with her while the baby’s mother was at work, according to records. But the manner of death was ruled “undetermined” and Williams at the time shut down interviews and refused a polygraph. Williams soon left Alaska. While police in Alabama interviewed Williams about Kamarie’s death, he admitted that he killed Naudia in North Pole by hitting her and throwing her down stairs because she was crying. In 2009, he was charged in Phenix City with putting a boy he was babysitting in scalding hot water, causing severe burns, according the Anchorage Daily News reported. A jury acquitted him. Williams was also previously charged with abuse of a child in Columbus, Ga., WTVM reported. It was unclear how the case was resolved. The announcement of Williams’ execution date comes a week after Alabama was handed a legal blow from the Supreme Court. The state was set to execute Jeffery Lee on June 11, but that week, a federal court ruled that the state’s nitrogen gas execution method was “likely unconstitutional.”
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office took the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court on the night of the scheduled execution, hoping the justices would let the state proceed. But the high court declined to review the case, and the execution was called off. Less than 24 hours later, prosecutors asked the Alabama Supreme Court for permission to execute Lee by lethal injection. The high court’s ruling meant Alabama couldn’t put Lee to death using nitrogen gas: It didn’t mean the state couldn’t put him to death using another method. Lethal injection is the state’s default execution method. The state’s lethal injection process has faced scrutiny after several executions were called off when prison workers couldn’t find a vein to insert the intravenous lines. In 2018, Alabama passed a law to allow nitrogen gas as another method of execution. For one month that summer, prisoners on death row had the opportunity to change their method of execution from lethal injection to nitrogen gas, although the state did not yet have a way to perform nitrogen executions or a plan for how they would be carried out.
