Husband admitted to strangling wife after victim’s mom proved her death wasn’t suicide

Left inset: April Holt (WZTV). Right inset: Donovan Holt (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department). Background: The home where April Holt was killed (WZTV).

Left inset: April Holt (WZTV). Right inset: Donovan Holt (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department). Background: The home where April Holt was killed (WZTV).

A Tennessee man was sentenced to two years for strangling his wife to death in a plea deal after the victim’s mother turned over a FaceTime video in which he confessed to her.

Donovan Holt, 33, learned his fate on Tuesday in the death of his wife, April Holt, 29, online court records show. He pleaded guilty in November to reckless homicide, tampering with evidence and false reporting.

Police found April Holt unresponsive in the bathroom of their home in Cane Ridge, a Nashville suburb, on July 31, 2023, with a plastic bag taped tightly around her neck. She died at a hospital. That November, the Medical Examiner’s Office classified her death as a suicide due to complications of suffocation, but the details were later changed to homicide by strangulation after the victim’s mother, Jamie Dickerson — who never believed her daughter killed herself — apparently helped piece the case together and got the confession.

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