Hugo Holland
Appearances
48 Hours
A Love Affair Turned Deadly
You're looking awfully mad and stuff. I mean, you mad at somebody right now? I love law enforcement. It's a way for me to give back to my community. I asked you if you had any weapons or drugs in your truck. Most murder cases, they don't involve completely innocent victims.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
And Stephanie's one of those rare innocent victims who didn't put herself in a position to have something like this happen to her. It was just thrust on her. When she was reported missing, Stephanie spent the morning with her husband, David Sims. She spent the remainder of that afternoon and all evening with Wayne Gentry.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Prosecutor Hugo Holland. I'm going to maintain that Stephanie's dead at the bottom of a hole long before this argument takes place.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Bottom line is he was looking at her and she was looking at him when she was shot. He dumps her in the hole in the woods and then he drives back to the apartment.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
That computer is what will allow me to prove that Wayne Guidry is a liar, bald-faced liar.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
The person that was on the internet was ordering golf supplies, looking at golf supplies, and looking at pornography. I went to Stephanie.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Is David Sims a suspect in this case? He was. He's not anymore.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Because of the fact that Stephanie still lived at home with David, when Wayne and Stephanie wanted to be together, when they wanted to be intimate, they would come here on this dirt road in the middle of no place in the Jackson Bienville Wildlife Area. It was passionate. Certainly, if David knew about the affair, one could ascribe the motive to him to kill Herman.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
I've never had a case where the only direct evidence is from a crazy guy that's got murder charges pending against him.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
I have described him as crazy as an outhouse rat. He is. He's crazy.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
As crazy as he is, and even though he's got first-degree murder charges pending against him, the fact is there are details in the letter that could only be obtained from the mouth of the killer. Terry, could it be you are as crazy as an outhouse rat?
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
I can only guess as to what happened here, but I think there was definitely some kind of confrontation. Stephanie saw our killer and knew it was coming. There's no doubt that she was drug by her feet, on her back. She lived for two to three minutes before she finally quit breathing. She knew she was going to die, and she knew who did it.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
You could lose this case. Of course I could. And believe me, because of the way I feel about this case and about the Peppers, I don't want to disappoint them.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Wayne Guidry was fascinated with that hole in the middle of the woods. Eric Dufresne knew about it. And more importantly, Wayne's daddy knew about that hole. What if Wayne Guidry Sr. had not drawn that map? Then you're not sitting here talking to me, and we're not going to trial.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
The most important piece of evidence, the most important testimony, the most compelling thing in this whole case was Wayne Guidry Sr. But for the honesty and integrity of that man, we may never have found Stephanie's body.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Wayne Guidry said in one of his statements to the police. Wayne Guidry coveted what David Sims had. He wanted David's money. He wanted David's wife. This is where it all began, in Stowe's Bar.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
No parent, though, is ever supposed to bury a child. I'm really big in a retributive justice. What would be fair is for the state of Louisiana to be able to take Wayne Guidry's life like he took Stephanie's. The best I can hope for is that he has to think about what he's done every day for the rest of his life.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
But I know I didn't do it. The statute of limitations for homicide in the state of Louisiana is, well, we don't have one. It's forever. And if that's as long as it takes to figure out who did this and make sure they go to prison, well, then that's just how long it takes.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Investigators had a really good idea. Somewhere in the woods out there, we were going to find the body. The Jackson Bienville Wildlife Area where we are now, it's tens of thousands of acres. This is worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. This is like looking for a needle in a whole field full of haystacks. What we have here is a woman who was reported missing six weeks ago.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
Nobody had seen her. It's like she just disappeared off the face of the earth. Stephanie was a professor at Louisiana Tech, well respected in the community, has lots of friends.
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A Love Affair Turned Deadly
This case is extremely personal to me, just like any case where I have a completely innocent victim. My name is Hugo Holland. I'm an assistant district attorney in the state of Louisiana. But once a week, I get in a black uniform with a badge and a gun belt, get in a black and white car with lights on top, and serve the people of Bossier City, Louisiana as a reserve police officer.