[suspenseful music playing]
Grace: Four deaths
In one household.
Dorinda: We lost three generations
In one night.
Summer had been having some troubles
With the neighbors shooting guns
Up towards the house.
Det. Weisman: Two nine-millimeter casings
Had been found in the bedroom.
Grace: There had been some past relationship
Where an angry boyfriend came after summer.
Det. Weisman: He stated to me
He had loaned him a firearm.
Grace: As soon as I heard that,
They were like, "wow."
Officer gillet: What type of person
Would kill babies?
Dorinda: I wanted answers.
Grace: The courtroom is completely silent,
And then the bombshell.
[ominous music playing]
Officer gillet: The town of corydon,
It's a small community.
Darrell: A lot of farm people.
You know, country good old boys.
Grace: I mean, you talk about low crime rate.
A lot of people didn't lock
Their doors at night.
Det. Weisman: The fact that this incident happened
Within our community, it shattered a lot of people.
Officer gillet: At 4:30 am
Kelly howland called the harrison county
Sheriff's department
From his job in louisville, kentucky,
And asked for us to do a welfare check
That he couldn't get a hold of his wife.
[radio chatter]
Officer gillet: When I arrived at that location,
The storm door was ajar
And the front door was open.
And there were smoke stain
On the overhang above that front door
And on the gutter.
I entered the house.
The house was pitch black.
The only light I had was my flashlight.
There's a smell of gasoline.
Everything was covered in black soot.
And there was dense black smoke
About two foot
Down from the ceiling.
It was obviously that there had a fire
Of some kind.
I went up the steps to my left.
I could see a person sitting in a doorway
On the right-hand side of the hallway.
Black soot covering her.
Blood on her face.
It was obvious she was deceased.
I was understanding it might be a crime scene
And everything you touch or move
Could destroy evidence.
I stepped over that body
And went into the bedroom.
And there's a female in bed.
And she's dead also.
Went back out into the hallway.
Went into a bedroom.
There's a little girl
Laying on a bed covered in soot,
Obviously deceased.
I checked another bedroom
And found a little boy...
In between the bed and the wall.
There was claw marks on the wall
Where he had tried to escape.
His handprints on the wall
Told you that he struggled for his life
Until life left his body.
I never saw anything like this
In my life experiences ever.
It gives me cold feels to sit here
And think about that little baby
Trying to fight his way out
Of that smoke.
I hope what little time I have left on this earth
I never seen anything like it again.
Went back down the hallway and outside,
And brian byrne was there.
Sgt. Byrne: This was this badass vietnam
Vet cop who obviously doesn't get flustered
Or anything, and you could see he was pale
And he was visibly upset.
He's like, "crime scene, detectives, coroner."
So I asked dispatch to go ahead
And contact the sheriff, contact detectives,
Contact the coroner, and continue
The fire department, everybody.
And we started to set up the crime scene.
Officer gillet: At that time, the state police
Came in to assist with scene techs,
Including state police detectors.
[sirens wailing]
Sgt. Byrne: After the fire department got there,
The fire departments and paramedics
-Entered the residence. -Det. Weisman: At this point,
We had four deceased victims.
It seemed the two children had succumbed
To smoke inhalation.
The paramedics indicated
That the two adult female victims
Had gunshots to their heads.
Det. Gibson: With the gunshot wounds,
We knew we had a murder investigation.
Sgt. Byrne: At that point, there's a blue car
That showed up on the driveway.
The driver jumps out.
He sees what we're doing,
And he tries to run past us into the house.
And gilley and I both stopped and grabbed him.
Told him he's going in the house.
Officer gillet: I asked him who he was,
And he said, "that's my family."
Det. Weisman: The husband, kelly holland,
Had been unable to get a hold of his wife.
That he had tried to call the residence several times
And there was no answer.
Det. Gibson: Kelly stated he had worked nights
With the kroger distribution center
In louisville, kentucky.
Officer gillet: We told him the persons in there
Were all deceased.
And kelly gets on his hands and knees,
And he starts retching and vomiting.
There's really no words
That can explain truly what it means
That he's lost his family.
Det. Gibson: We learned that the younger adult female
Was summer holland, the wife of kelly holland,
Who lived at the residence
With her husband and her two kids.
They were the two deceased children.
Det. Weisman: The woman found slumped in the doorway
Was summer holland's mother,
Donna daley.
Dorinda: My mom, donna, was a good mom.
She worked hard.
She provided for us,
Protected us.
Everything a mom should be.
Summer, growing up, was a firecracker.
She was mischievous
But she was mostly just spunky,
And no matter what she did,
We loved her.
Mom and summer were always together.
And mom was there for the births
Of both her kids dillian and marissa.
Dillian is my little clown.
I love him to death.
He had this smile
That just would lighten up the room.
And he'd stick his little tongue out
And be just like this little goofball.
Marissa was beautiful.
She used to look like a little china doll.
She had a little attitude like her mama,
Full of smiles.
Both of the children just--
They didn't have a care in the world.
Summer worked. Mom babysitted.
They worked together to raise the kids.
And then summer met kelly.
About six months into their relationship,
They-they started getting really serious.
They did wind up getting married.
Grace: Everyone saw kelly holland
And summer holland as just head over heels
Over each other.
The minister who married them said
That they were just so in love.
Det. Gibson: From what I could gather, he had
A close relationship with the children.
I didn't learn they were stepchildren
Till probably 24 hours into the investigation.
Grace: Everyone said that kelly holland
Was kind and caring to the two children,
And he was more than happy to have a family.
Dorinda: After they got married,
They started their life in corydon,
Kelly, summer, dillian, and marissa,
In a nice tri-level house.
That was several months
Before all this happened.
[phone rings]
Dorinda: The next thing I knew
I was getting a phone call
From the police department
Saying that there was a fire in her house.
This was horrific news
For my family
Because not only did we lose our mother
And our baby sister
And the littlest niece and nephew of our family.
We lost three generations
In one night.
I was in shock.
Summer didn't have any enemies.
And then I was just like in my head going,
"who-who could do this?
Why take the whole family?"
I wanted answers.
[suspenseful music playing]
Det. Weisman: Sometime afternoon 1:00, 2:00,
The officers on the scene searched the residence.
Two nine-millimeter casings
Had been found in the bedroom
And a nine-millimeter round
Was recovered from underneath the bed.
Det. Gibson: The fire marshal stated
There were signs of arson.
You could see that there was an obvious
Fire pattern that started from the downstairs
Living room
And went up the staircase
Indicating pour pattern
For some kind of accelerant.
The reason the residents did not completely burn
Was because the fire had burned
All the oxygen in the air,
Putting the fire out.
Det. Gibson: That day, we were surprised
To learn that the night before
The harrison county sheriff's department
Had responded to the holland residence,
They met with summer.
She had made a complaint against some neighbors
That she was concerned and scared about
That lived in the adjoining property.
Dorinda: Summer had been having some troubles
With the neighbor shooting guns
Up towards the house,
Then actually penetrating
The siding on the house.
It kind of escalated
So summer called the police.
Officer gillet: Just the night before,
I had been dispatched
To the same house
Because of disruptive neighbors.
Being called to this house 24 hours apart...
Seemed very strange.
Det. Gibson: So we did wanna talk to these neighbors.
Grace: I did find some court records
That indicated that summer holland
Had some entanglements
With her ex-boyfriend.
Det. Gibson: It appeared there could have been
Some past violence or even some jealousy
That her and kelly had married.
Det. Weisman: We got a phone call from a guardsman,
And he said that he had information.
Det. Gibson: This guardsman was able to produce
Some of the ammunition
Along with the pistol.
Grace: As soon as they heard that,
They were like, "wow."
Music playing] det. Gibson: There had been a quadruple homicide.
You're talking three generations.
A whole family wiped out,
Summer holland and her two children
And summer holland's mother.
Det. Weisman: The two children had succumbed
To smoke inhalation.
And on donna daley and summer holland,
It was due to the injuries
From being shot in the head.
The husband, kelly holland,
Had called into the sheriff's office
'cause he hadn't been able to get a hold of his wife,
And he was concerned because they apparently
Had problems with neighbors.
The night before summer called the--
The sheriff's office.
Summer had made a complaint against them
For loud noise.
The sheriff's department responded
To the holland residents 'cause summer holland
Felt a little threatened and a little scared,
So we did wanna talk to these neighbors
About the homicides.
During--in the meantime,
Like in all criminal investigations
Where the wife is killed,
Your first primary suspect should be the husband.
He was gonna be heavily scrutinized.
Det. Gibson: At this point in the investigation,
Myself and the detective clements
Interviewed summer's husband,
Kelly holland,
At the residence of his mother.
There was a lot of emotion.
You know, someone had just murdered his wife,
His mother-in-law, and stepkids
So you feel extremely bad for kelly.
Det. Weisman: As a police officer, you have to
Kind of detach yourself from your feelings
When you're doing these kind of cases
And go on with your job
And do what has to be done.
But, at this point, we needed to check off the list
To make sure that kelly was not involved.
Det. Gibson: Because we knew we had accelerants
Involved in this crime, standard operating procedure,
We asked kelly if he would let us have his clothing.
He stated that he would.
And we took this clothing from him
For test.
We asked kelly, "any problems with anyone?
Who would have wanted to do this?"
He did say about the neighbors,
But he really didn't have any good leads
For us to go on.
I asked kelly if he owned
Or possessed a firearm. He said he did not.
He did not own a firearm, did not have access to one.
Kelly stated he had worked the night before
At the kroger distribution center
In louisville, kentucky
At the time the murder happened.
We felt he was telling the truth
So, at that time, the interview was ended.
Kelly was a very likeable guy.
He was clean-cut
And very low-key, soft spoken.
He was a veteran.
He was in the army reserve.
He worked every day,
Provided for his wife and his stepkids.
Grace: He had been a high school wrestler
And a football player.
Not a troublemaker.
No juvenile delinquency.
Nothing that would have pointed
To some violence or some criminal past at all.
All he'd had was a speeding ticket.
Det. Gibson: The prosecutor at the time
Of harrison county told me, he said,
"you're gonna have to find out who did this. It wasn't kelly."
He said, "I coached him in little league baseball,
And he's a good guy.
He'd never do anything like this."
We felt that we had to prove or disapproved his story,
So we went to the kentucky distribution center
For kroger's,
Interviewed kelly's supervisor,
And--and checked his work schedules.
It showed that he was there that night
When these homicides had happened.
Sgt. Byrne: We were able to confirm kelly's alibi
That he had worked that night
At the kroger distribution center
So we had to keep looking for other leads.
Det. Gibson: At that point in time
We knew that the night before,
Harrison county sheriff's department
Had received a call from summer holland
About the neighbors,
And had responded into the residence
And had also spoke to summer.
Sgt. Byrne: Summer's sister, dorinda,
Said that the neighbors had been shooting guns
Next to her house and that some of the bullets
Had actually struck summer's residence.
[gunshot]
Dorinda: They were rambunctious neighbors
And kept popping off.
And summer would go out and run her mouth
'cause she had a bit of a mouth on her,
And would yell, you know, down the street,
"stop shooting up at my house, you know?
You're gonna hit one of my kids."
The commotion with the neighbors
Escalated that night so summer called my mom
And got my mom to come out there and stay with her
In case something happened.
Sgt. Byrne: The night before the murder,
I was on duty and I was dispatched
To a loud noise complaint
At the holland residence.
Officer gillet: And we spoke to mrs. Holland
And she was very, very upset.
The neighbors were-- were loud and disruptive,
And loud music and loud vehicles.
Sgt. Byrne: Her husband wasn't there.
Her husband worked nights.
She seemed like a really nice, really sweet young lady.
Mainly was just concerned for herself and her family.
And we walked into the woods,
Which is a pretty good distance from the house,
Found the neighbors who were having a party,
And they were pretty loud.
Officer gillet: They were having a very good time.
Had a bonfire.
Sgt. Byrne: And we talked to them
And I said, "hey, man, there's been--
Been complaints. Go ahead and calm it down.
We need you to respect your neighbors."
Officer gillet: Oh, they didn't like it.
That's for sure.
Well, they were upset that a person
Who just moved into the neighborhood
Would call the police on them.
Sgt. Byrne: A little over 24 hours later,
Summer and her family were victims of a homicide.
Music playing] det. Gibson: We start getting information together
To interview the neighbors
Who lived behind the holland's
'cause they had problems the night before.
Sgt. Byrne: Summer was complaining
Because her next-door neighbors were in...
The woods behind them having a bonfire party
And you could hear it from the house.
Officer gillet: We went back on the neighbor's property
And had a discussion with them and warned them.
They were very upset that we were there. I asked them,
I said, "please don't make us come back here
Over this again."
Det. Gibson: The next day, when we talked to the neighbors
About the homicides,
They stated they had had a bonfire, a cookout,
But they were all gone or in bed by midnight that night
And had never made contact with the hollands.
But summer had called the police on them
The night before.
People do not like having the police called on them.
Were they upset enough to come over and commit murder?
We ran them through ncic
And also checked them for local warrants.
Nothing was found on them.
So we had to continue with our investigation,
Looking somewhere else.
However, we kept them as a potential suspect.
At this point in the investigation,
We decided it would be best to canvass the neighborhood
To see if any of the neighbors
Had possibly heard or seen anything.
Any neighbors seen any suspicious vehicles,
Seen anyone coming and going,
And, in this case, heard any gunshots,
But nothing really substantial came
From the neighborhood canvas.
You know, you got people living in the community
That are thinking,
"is it gonna happen at my house next?"
So we've got a job to do
Before it happens again.
[dramatic music playing]
Through the week, we're not getting much information
From the police at all.
They just said they were talking to various suspects.
I did find some court records in another county
Where there was either a protective order
Or some other court-related document
That indicated that summer had some entanglements
With a boyfriend.
Det. Weisman: Summer had-- had a acquaintance
With a male subject.
She had tried to file a protective order.
Det. Gibson: It appeared that it was possible
There could have been some past violence
Or even some jealousy
That her and kelly had married,
And that was something we had to consider.
[dramatic music playing]
Dorinda: The family made arrangements.
We had a three-and-a-half-mile-long
Procession from corydon
All the way back to the gravesite.
So you had mom on one side,
You had summer on one side,
And then you had dillian and marissa in the middle.
And that's how they were laid to rest.
They had a whole life still to live.
It's not fair to family. It's not fair to her.
It's not fair to her little babies.
Officer gillet: I'm not sure what type of person
Would kill babies.
Twenty years later, my mind still
Doesn't accept that thought.
I struggle with that thought.
Dorinda: The hurt is there,
And it's never ever gonna go away.
[dramatic music playing]
Grace: There had been some past relationship
Where an angry boyfriend came after summer.
I questioned the police about this boyfriend.
They apparently have reconciled
So investigators did not get the sense
That they were in any way embattled.
Det. Gibson: Detective clemons has spoken to him
And we concluded that the ex-boyfriend
Didn't have anything to do with these murders.
[dramatic music playing]
[phone ringing]
Det. Weisman: Later in the week,
We got a phone call from a guardsman
From a national guard unit over in kentucky
Where kelly was a guardsman.
He was a little concerned
With what he'd seen on the news
And what happened to--
With kelly holland's family.
And he said that he had information
On kelly holland.
Det. Gibson: We interviewed that guardsman in a phone call.
He stated to me that he wanted me to know
That two days prior to this,
He had loaned kelly a firearm.
[dramatic music playing]
Kelly had stated to us
He did not own or have access to a firearm.
It appeared to me
Kelly was not telling the truth.
I asked this guardsman if he would
Make a phone call to kelly.
We want him to ask him about
Where the firearm was.
And, you know, we got him on a recorded telephone line
Stating that he does have this firearm.
Det. Weisman: We went back to the kroger distribution center.
We interviewed people
Who was working with him on that shift.
Det. Gibson: I asked one of the gentleman,
"is there any someone could slip out
And be gone an hour or two and come back?"
[dramatic music playing] four deaths in one household.
A community so safe where everybody knows each other,
Everybody trusts each other.
That's the unsettling part
With three generations killed in a single night.
Det. Weisman: We got a phone call
From a national guardsman
Over in kentucky where kelly holland,
The husband of the female victim,
Was a guardsman at duty.
Kelly had told him that
There were wild dogs in the neighborhood.
He wanted to borrow a firearm
To protect himself and his family.
His guard friend told him,
"yeah, I got a handgun. I'll let you borrow that."
So this has given us a little more information
To think that maybe kelly
Had something to do with this.
At that time, I asked this guardsman
If he would allow me
And harrison county detective roy weisman
To accompany him to his house.
We wanted him to make a phone call to kelly.
He stated that he would.
And during the phone call, we really want him to ask him
About the firearm he had loaned him
And where the firearm was.
Kelly made a statement to him that, yes,
He did still have his firearm.
So--and we've got kelly saying to us
He doesn't have a firearm,
And now we got him on a recorded telephone line
Stating that he does have this firearm.
As soon as they heard that, they were like, "wow."
You could tell that they--
This was a huge piece of evidence.
Det. Weisman: This guardsman was able to produce
Some of the ammunition that
He had given kelly along with the pistol.
Det. Gibson: What was significant about that
Was two nine-millimeter casings
Were recovered in the residence
Where summer holland and donna daley had been shot.
In the meantime, the fire marshal
Was doing an investigation for the clothing
That kelly had on that morning.
And we met with the indiana fire marshal
With a accelerant-sniffing k9 dog.
We laid kelly's clothes out in different piles,
His work overalls, his shoes,
Different things.
And the k9 did hit on both his coveralls
And both of his shoes, so we knew that
We've had accelerant on mr. Holland's clothes.
[dramatic music playing]
Det. Gibson: We sent the shell casings
Found at the scene of the crime
And also the shell casings obtained from the guardsman
To the indiana state police crime lab.
The shell casing at the crime scene
Did match up with the shell casings
That we obtained from the guardsman.
It was starting to get stronger
And stronger evidence against kelly.
What we couldn't figure out was the motive.
Why he would wanna kill his entire family.
That part just didn't add up.
At that time,
We obtained another search warrant
To reenter the residence of kelly holland
To search for this firearm.
No firearm was located.
Grace: They don't know where the murder weapon is,
But so much of the physical evidence
Ties kelly holland to the crime scene.
Det. Gibson: With the evidence starting to pile up
Against kelly holland,
We decided to recheck his alibi
That he had worked all night
At the kroger distribution center.
Det. Weisman: We interviewed people
Who was working with him on that shift.
When we talk to his coworkers,
A different side of kelly holland
Began to emerge.
They talk about kelly could be hot and cold,
Either moody and doesn't say anything to you
Or he's talking your head off.
A couple of the guys did mention that,
Yeah, he had told them that he thought his wife,
Summer, was cheating on him.
And he even said to one of them he thought about,
"I just thought to leave for work one night
And I'd go to work, and go back home later
And see what's going on."
I asked one of the gentleman who I knew personally,
"is there anyway someone could work here
And slip out and be gone an hour or two and come back?"
And he stated it depended on what job
You were assigned that evening.
[dramatic music playing]
Det. Weisman: We found kelly holland
Was not doing his usual job that night.
That night he was doing what they called a porter job,
Which was basically someone who cleans up messes,
And so there's long periods of time there
Where no one sees kelly.
It would easy to leave out of this warehouse
Out of a back dock bay and not be seen leaving
Or seen coming back.
Det. Gibson: So we knew it would be possible
For him to leave and kill his family
And return to work.
We had a lot of evidence piling up
Against kelly holland,
And we now had information that he would have had
The opportunity to commit this crime.
Det. Weisman: Because of the totality
Of the evidence coming out against kelly,
He was asked if he would consent
To a polygraph,
Which he did say he would take a polygraph.
Det. Gibson: Polygraphs are not admissible in court
But they are a good tool to use
To eliminate someone or to gain information.
Det. Gibson: The polygraph examiner
Came out and told me his opinion was that...
Kelly had failed every question
Pertaining to the questions asked about the homicides.
At that time, we went into the room where kelly was
And just laid our case out to him.
I thought, "now, we've got him.
Se music playing] det. Gibson: At this point in time,
Kelly holland is a major suspect
In the murder of his family.
The idea that someone like this could wipe out a family,
It was just extremely coldblooded.
Det. Gibson: He had proven to be deceitful
On the polygraph examination.
After the polygraph,
Kelly stated that...
He was telling the truth.
I advised kelly again we had accelerants
On his clothing.
Det. Weisman: Kelly said he had taken a couple of gallon
Windshield washer plastic bottles with him
To work that day 'cause he was gonna stop
And get gas 'cause he and summer
Were gonna do yard work the next day
And he was gonna burn trash in the sink hole in--
In the back of the property.
Det. Gibson: He said when he was filling up
The containers, some of the gas
Had splashed on to him.
That was the reason the dog hit on the accelerant.
The fumes became too toxic in his vehicle
So he stopped alongside the interstate
And set the gas out.
We sent troopers to search that area.
However, we did not find any gasoline canisters
Along that stretch of interstate.
After detective clemons pointed out to him
The evidence we had against him
That he did kill his whole family.
He didn't wanna be interviewed anymore
And he wanted us to take him home.
And detective clemons was driving.
Kelly was riding in the-- in the front passenger seat
And I was riding in the backseat.
And then the bombshell.
Det. Gibson: Kelly looks over to detective clemons
And stated if we would pull over,
He would tell us everything that happened.
We pulled over on the side of the interstate.
At this point in time, kelly was not under arrest,
So we did advise him again of his rights.
Kelly kind of put his head down and said that
He would tell us the truth.
He said he had returned home from work
During his shift.
And he said at the time, he was thinking
About committing suicide.
He said he went to the side of the bed,
Had the nine millimeter handgun.
Summer was in bed asleep.
Him and summer had been having problems.
She had stated that she had-- had a brief affair
But that it was over and ended.
He brought the gun up.
He didn't mean for it to go off
But he did shoot his wife
With the pistol.
He said he was confronted by summer's mother.
She kind of startled him.
He said, you know, he doesn't remember
Shooting his mother-in-law. However, he said
He remembered the firearm going off
And her hitting the floor.
He stated at that time,
The children seemed to be fine or asleep.
He said he did not wanna be the one to contact
The police to notify them of this,
So he did pour some gas, just only linoleum
In the front door
Thinking that it wouldn't burn down the house
But it would be enough of a fire
That the neighbors would see it,
And call the fire department and the police
And they would find them.
In his personal confession,
He stated he didn't tell us about the firearm
Because he thought it wouldn't look good.
Kelly stated that the person
He borrowed the firearm from
Did not have a thing to do with it
And he was not involved.
We asked him where the gun was.
Kelly stated that he threw the nine millimeter pistol
Out the window into the ohio river.
I knew this man was gonna go to jail.
He was now being placed under arrest
For four homicides and attempted arson,
And he was booked into the harrison county jail.
Dorinda: It was five days between the discovery
Of the bodies,
And then, the arrest of kelly holland.
I didn't want to believe that it was kelly.
The relationship was so new.
It was only a year.
They were still in the newly-wed stage,
Talking about having a family.
I wanted to know why.
I wanted to know why he did it.
What was so bad?
Why take the whole family?
Grace: Kelly holland's portrait
In the community was completely opposite
Of someone who's a coldblooded murderer.
It just didn't match up.
After his arrest was that arraignment.
Everybody's packed in the courtroom.
Summer holland's family is sobbing.
This is the first time after the arrest
That they've been able to see him.
The family is holding photographs
Of the kids and of summer
And her mother, donna.
Dorinda: We wanted him to remember dillian
And marissa's face.
We wanted him to remember summer's face.
To feel some kind of hurt like we were feeling.
But instead all we got was these blank looks.
And not even one teardrop
Fell from that man's eyes.
Not one.
Grace: He's eventually arraigned,
Enters a not guilty plea, which is standard,
And the prosecutor at the time
Decided he is gonna go for...
Capital murder.
Therefore, apply pressure for a guilty plea.
Det. Gibson: We just wanna see it all the way through,
'cause if you do not get it resolved,
It eats the family up.
It just destroys them.
Dorinda: The court proceedings
Went for a long, long time.
On and off cancellations.
On and off reschedulings.
I was at every court hearing.
[tense music playing]
Grace: There is another court hearing in the spring,
And it appeared to be sort of a procedural thing.
People did not come to court expecting to hear
Kelly holland speak about the murders.
It was a surprise that day.
He's gonna testify and he's pleading guilty.
Dorinda: Everybody that was in that room
Just gasped.
Grace: You could tell the family
Is completely astonished.
Dorinda: I wanted to know why he did it.
What she had done so bad
That deserved taking my mom,
My sister, and the babies.
Grace: It was a surprise that day.
People did not come to court expecting to hear
Kelly holland speak about the murders.
Det. Gibson: During the court proceeding,
Kelly end up taking a plea
To life without chance of parole
In exchange for the death penalty
Not being filed against him.
To satisfy the court, he had to admit
In his own words as causing the death
Of summer and his mother-in-law
And his two stepchildren.
Grace: People were finally going to hear from him.
So kelly holland begins to speak.
The courtroom is completely silent.
And he explains about what's going on his life
Leading up to the murders.
Kelly holland described wanting the gun
Because his wife was fearful of noises
And hearing neighbors carrying on and felt unsafe,
Especially when she was there alone.
Summer and kelly had not been
Married that long, and they're struggling.
They're very strapped for money.
And he describes a life
Where he is just running himself ragged.
He says he's been diagnosed with social anxiety.
He's also got ocd and was taking medicine
For depression.
Dorinda: Summer told me that he was on paxil,
And that they were discussing something about
Trying to have kids
And that he had to get off of the paxil
So that they could have a baby.
Grace: Kelly holland testifies
They had hatched a plan for him to leave
During the middle of his shift and to have sex
And then he goes back to work.
He's described coming home that night however,
And he's very upset by what he sees.
He sees open cabinets.
He sees food around.
He sees toys scattered all over.
Instead of feeling romantic,
Kelly holland is angry.
Kelly holland made it sound first
That summer woke up,
And he went back and forth and argued with her
And then shot her.
He describes hearing his mother-in-law
Come down the hallway and shooting her,
And then setting the house on fire.
And kelly holland goes on to say that
One of the reasons why he was completely on edge
Was his wife had admitted
To an extramarital affair,
And it was just a few days before the murders.
Dorinda: He came off with this lame excuse
That my sister was cheating on him.
He tried to make it look like my sister
Was the bad person.
And all my sister was was in love with him
And wanted a family and wanted to be with him.
Grace: Essentially, the judge dismisses
Kelly's accounts.
He appears angry about the fact
That kelly holland was not truthful.
He thinks that he had it in mind
When he got the gun that he would kill his wife.
He says, "your acts that night were critical
And you will play for them."
Det. Gibson: Kelly holland was convicted
Of four counts of homicide,
One count of arson,
And was sentenced to life in prison
Without parole.
Dorinda: When he left the courtroom,
I wasn't getting any remorse.
He just stayed this dull lifeless look
In his face.
I looked at him and I told him,
"I don't forgive you."
You never know how people think or what's in their minds.
I think he was just unhappy in the relationship.
What kelly did was just give enough information
To satisfy the court so that they would not file
The death penalty on him.
In my opinion, the person who would murder
An entire family is a selfish person.
I mean, you could say they were deranged.
They were upset.
But when it comes down to it, selfish.
It was evil.
It's maybe some kind of sickness.
But the bottom line, it was the most evil act
I've ever witnessed in my life.
He's been in prison over 20 years
And he'll never be a free person
To walk the face of the earth.
[tense music playing]
Dorinda: I live right down the road from the cemetery,
So I pass it every day, and I say,
"good morning," or, "good afternoon,"
Or, "good night."
I miss my mom every day.
Just the little comments
That your mama gives you.
I didn't have those anymore.
If summer had lived,
She'd be beautiful.
She was a beautiful woman.
I know she'd have kids in school right now.
The kids would be getting up.
There ain't no telling what they would have become.
Dillian could be a saxophone player
Like his daddy.
Marissa could be a botanist
Because she loved butterflies and dandelions.
They still had their whole life to go.