Arrested Tuesday in Columbus, the mother of Kamarie Holland, 5, is now charged with sex trafficking and three counts of murder for rape, sodomy and first degree kidnapping, authorities said on Wednesday.
Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said Kristy Siple, 35, also known as Kristy Hoskins, had a hearing before Judge Walter Gray on Wednesday morning and was ordered to be held without bail.
U.S. Marshals tracked down Siple and arrested her around 1 p.m. Tuesday at a Circle K store on Victory Drive in Columbus, Taylor said. She waived the extradition to face charges in Russell County.
Siple’s warrant for the sex trafficking charge alleges that she “agreed with another person to pay her for having sex and sodomy with her underage child.”
Taylor said Siple faces an unrelated charge of not appearing at a court hearing. This dates back to a charge of chemical endangerment of a child in 2018, alleging her newborn baby tested positive for methamphetamine, the sheriff said. This child was not Kamarie.
Siple reported that Kamarie went missing on December 13 from her home at 1607 Bowman Street in Columbus. Kamarie’s body was found that night in a vacant 15th Avenue home in Phenix City, Taylor said. The girl had been sexually assaulted and suffocated.
What you need to know about Jeremy Williams
Investigators captured Kamarie’s first homicide suspect, Jeremy Tremaine Williams, the same night at Bamboo Motel in Phenix City, 3104 Opelika Road. Williams lived in the house where Kamarie’s body was found, Taylor said.
Williams, 37, is charged with capital murder, but other charges should align his allegations with those of the mother, said Taylor and Russell County Assistant District Attorney Rick Chancey.
Taylor said Williams would likely be charged with other counts of capital murder based on kidnapping, rape and sodomy. Williams will also be charged with producing child pornography, he said.
Chancey said when additional charges are laid against Williams, he will be brought back to court for another hearing.
What happens next?
During Williams’ first hearing before Judge David Johnson on December 14, the judge issued a gag order barring authorities from discussing the details of the investigation. Taylor said Justice Gray used the same verbiage in a gag order on the Siple case, limiting what he could say to reporters on Wednesday.
Chancey said the next step in the case, after Williams’ next hearing on new charges, will be a preliminary hearing for the two suspects, when investigators expect to reveal more of what they know in court. .
After that, the evidence will go to a grand jury for arraignment and then go to trial, he said.
Chancey called Kamarie’s homicide “a thing that pulls everyone’s heartstrings” and urged parents to keep an eye on their children and the company they keep.
Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon and Deputy Police Chief Joyce Dent-Fitzpatrick were also in attendance at a press conference on Wednesday, who reiterated Chancey’s advice on children. Columbus Police and the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office are working with Russell County on the investigation.
Chancey said it may be the first human trafficking case to go to trial in Russell County. “This status is not very old,” he said.
The first report
According to a Columbus police report, an officer dispatched to the Siple’s Bowman St. home met her around 6:45 a.m. on December 13. Identifying the mother as Kristy Hoskins, the officer wrote that she reported that Kamarie “slept with her in bed and woke up she gets up” at 3 a.m.
When the mother woke up again at 6 am, Kamarie was gone, she told the police, “Miss Hoskins said she searched the house, but couldn’t find it, so she called. the police. Miss Hoskins then stated that she lived at home alone, but received visits… authorized by Father Corey Holland.
This story was originally published December 29, 2021 11:52 a.m.
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