Donovan Holt
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And he was somebody that was introduced, put it like this, in our nine years of being together or whatever,
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
He had been messing around with him for seven.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
He was introduced as a friend, as a homeboy, and that was kind of her go-to guy.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
There are certain things that she liked sexually that I was not willing to do or willing to participate in.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And it... Over the years, like, yeah, there were more people.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
There were different people.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
So, I mean, we went through years like this.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And like I said, that's all stuff I've kept.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Yeah. And so it was a lot of times. She referred to me, and this was an in-the-house thing, she referred to me as her bottom B word, I'll say that, because I was the guy who was always at the house and, you know, took care of things or whatever, but when she wanted to go out and about, she felt like she should have the freedom to do so.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
I mean, it was hard.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
It wasn't easy.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
I'm not going to sit there.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And then it was a lot of lies as well, you know, just in the sense of it. So let me reference something that was brought up and the whole thing about the people that people didn't know. And I told April I would keep it with what she wanted to go with. I never cheated on April. April, of course, with all this going on, I entertained a conversation with somebody online.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Somebody I'd never met before, but it was just like daily check-ins. And I had sent them up to, I think it was over a course of a couple months, it was like $100 in the span of like $20 per lunch or gas or whatever. And, you know, to me, I was like, well, she's doing this, and she's having an issue with me talking to somebody else.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And for her, her thing was, well, if you're making money, that's my money. It should be going to our household.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
So that happened to me.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
bring that even now it's hard to bring that kind of stuff you know to somebody's mom or somebody's family or people who see her a certain way i didn't want i didn't want to be the person that changed the way she looked because she because in the end of the day it's not putting on the front she is the great she was a great person like i know outside of those things that she needed but when i went to the boat
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
We were not in a relationship, and at that time she had got with Zach. But it was more than, it was Zach and there was another guy named Ross. So he lived in Clarksville, Zach was in Murfreesboro, and then she had me, so she had her people for different stuff. Apparently Ross had bought her a house.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Yeah.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Oh my gosh. Did Zach know? No, Zach did not know about Ross.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Yeah.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
No, no, you're all right. So she had that going on, and it was just, like I said, I'm on the boat just kind of getting all this information and sitting with it all day. Like, it was a lot on my mental, so... And, you know, of course, everybody knows April had her bit. Beautiful thing. But she was very big on, like, if I'm working, you got to bring money in, too.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And our issue with me being on the boat, it wasn't an issue with me being on the boat. It was, well, the first part was me being on the boat and Denzel having his issues at the house.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And, you know, she was very big on, like, Yeah, Zach, you're over here, but you're not his father. Like, there is no discipline in, like, there is no, like, that's his dad's job. At the same time, it was video calls and phone calls between me and Denzel for two months, three months at a time because I'm trying to make the money for the house. So, coming out of all of that,
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
You know, April, she had, she had cut, she had cut Zach off, but she still had, behind you to talk about, she still had Ant. She still had the dude that she was going to be with. And I know, I don't think Zach knew about that.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
But, so she still had all that going on. And even that fight, so that's why, that's why I would say, like, she had a lot of other stuff going on that people don't know about. Like, because that, that fight still was messing with her mental because she didn't really know what direction to go. And then on top of that, you're talking, you're taking relationship out of it.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And then you have friends who are all because of who you are as this last spiritual person and great advice person pulling on you, pulling on you, pulling on you, needing stuff. It was a lot being taken and I didn't have enough. Yeah. I knew April was not going to take no shit. I could not come off that boat and not be working. So, you know, I mean, that's how it was.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
So I talked to a restaurant over there that had promised me $1,000 a week.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And this was actually a family number, to be honest with you.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
He promised me $1,000 a week.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
She never got in any fights in school, but she said she was dangerous with her words.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
So that was a big issue. That was a huge issue in my house. She would say what she wanted to say, and I took it. I can take it. But it really got bad when I couldn't make any money. I was doing what I could to maintain what I could with my business, but being gone for those months, you know, my clientele had went elsewhere.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
i was like i was really trying i was trying and it wasn't enough for her and so there was one point she she kicked me out and it was fine you know i walked two hours every day back to the apartment to wash the clothes and cook more and then i have to be back out the house and that was about a three month period and then i got back in the house and i got my job with the
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
the security company and things were kind of getting better. And then she found out that, you know, she might be losing her business. And when I tell you, she spiraled because she's dealing with that I want to now get a decent job where I can make a little bit of money.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And I had offered her before she went and met with the, before she went and met with the dude, because the problem with that was they had had, her and the other guy had had a dinner before. And I guess he had rubbed her lady and she didn't like that. So she had cut that business off.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
But when she had felt like she was going to lose her business, I know she kind of freaked out and she ran back to that because she knew, I guess with certain things she would get the money.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
now she told me it was airbnb and that he was gonna let her be her assistant like 500 dollars a week and of course i'm like okay if that's what you're doing you need to do but i told her i had picked up another shift from my security job to cover what she was going to be making yeah and she but she was very i mean she was a And it was... It was a series. It was me versus we.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And how you have to be, you both have to be great we's in order to be a great we. And I knew I had financial stuff I needed to get together in order to be able to support her how she needed. She knew she had other stuff she needed to figure out if she was going to be with anybody at all.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And so, you know, it... That wasn't an issue between us at that point. The first time we talked about divorce, of course, I'm begging and pleading. This time, I understood it, and we knew we were going to do our thing together with Denzel. I do feel like maybe they had agreed to something, but I do feel like there was some type of... I don't know if you can call it rape.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
I mean, that's what she came and told me, and I mean, Denzel was there when she came in like that, but... It was because the way she stood in front of the mirror and had, I mean, she had bruises all down her breasts. She had bruises on her thighs. She had bruises on her chest, on her neck. And I do think that at some point, something happened where she wasn't aware of what was going on.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Everything, you know, I told you, was straightforward as far as, like, you know, she shut down. She went to the doctor. She just wasn't herself. And when that day came, the...
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
like a weird perk up but it was it felt good because she was kind of back to herself from being because after it happened like all like i said all she wanted to do was go back to work that's all she could focus on i gotta go to work i gotta go to work like you need to go to the hospital no i gotta go to work i have to work yeah and um so i know she had talked to i know she had talked to zach i know she had talked to uh the ant the ant guy and
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
I promise. We were getting ready for the football game and I put her towel in the bathroom and the door to the room was shut because she was naked and getting hurt. She got undressed and I was getting her clothes out of the drawer. And I put her towel in the bathroom and started her shower like I always do. And she was like, I'm not going to use the word she used, but she was like, no.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
She was like, have sex with him. I'm like, no, because in my mind, you just went through this situation. She's like, no, have sex with me and my husband. I said, all right. So we have sex on the floor. In that process, she's like. Okay, just being honest, it wasn't unusual for April to want to be choked during sex. It was one of her things. And she was like, so, you know, we were doing that.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And she was like, harder. And I'm like, no. And she punched me. It was like in my chest. She was like, harder. And I was like, okay. So I was on top. And I was doing it harder and I was doing it harder. And she didn't make it out of that situation. And I'm telling you now, I panicked. I took her to the shower. I put her in the water. I'm like, wake up. She didn't wake up.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
I'm not going to lie to you, Jamie. I panicked, and I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to explain it. I didn't know what to tell. So I put the bag on her head and wrapped it up to make it look like she did it to herself.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
That's not who I was. That's not something I did with her. That wasn't my... That's something she did elsewhere, and I'm trying to satisfy her needs.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
So it took me a couple of minutes for something that it took them weeks to do.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And then he wouldn't even give us the phone back.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
That part right there. Tampering with the body and everything.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
It was an accident.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Two interviews. Two interviews he lied about it and said that, no, he didn't do it.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
Once again, you know, being up front, I do want to have this talk.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
I promised her I would never put out there that she's never put out there, and I don't know that she ever plans to put out there, but it's going to take knowing certain stuff in order to understand it.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
i don't want to say it became a problem but it affected a lot of other stuff like it kept to the point of people i introduced her to how they want to they're finding out information from me so that they can go behind my back and try to have a relationship and build a relationship so it might like i said that there was a lot of stuff that i didn't know i know you guys had an open relationship at times but then
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
It started in our, in our first year.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
She had went back and messed around with Anthony and went back and messed around with Dion.
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EP. 192: TENNESSEE - The Confession: A Massive Update In The April Holt Case
And if you looked at our messages, his name was either Ant or A.W.