Cops ruled woman’s death a suicide until her mother’s persistence triggered murder confession: ‘I knew it was foul play’

A heartbroken mother refused to accept the initial ruling that her daughter’s death was a suicide because she believed it was something far more sinister.

April Holt — a 29-year-old mother of two — was found by police almost lifeless at her apartment in Antioch, Tennessee, on July 31, 2023. Officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department said they found Holt in the bathroom with a plastic bag duct-taped tightly around her neck.

‘And I’m curled up in a ball on a bench next to him, just hysterically crying and just calling out to God to save my child. Even though I knew in my gut that she was gone.’

Holt left behind a 12-year-old daughter, an 8-year-old son, and her husband – 33-year-old Donovan

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