Hey, all! I'm April, of "I Grow, You Grow,"
and I have been helping others manifest their perfect lives
as I have been manifesting mine.
April's TikTok account had well over 200,000 followers
that would love to watch her.
The question of the day is, what is something that you are
passionate about?
April wanted the fantasy of being on TikTok
and having crazy followers.
Not everything is pretty and sunflowers and rainbows.
Social media is judgmental as [bleep].
The problems going on behind the scenes can be a lot darker
than what they're showing online.
We're going through all of this stuff.
I was absolutely shocked when I saw not only one,
but two guns.
It's weird.
A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined
by their current circumstances.
Choose to have positive thoughts.
Your life will change.
I don't think anyone that was following April
would have ever predicted what happened next.
I'm her mom, and I'm gonna get justice.
I see so many women every week, and I just have to say,
every woman is so unique and special in their own way,
which means if you're seeing this, you're probably one
of those women, and I'm probably talking directly to you.
April wanted to make an impact that's positive in this world,
and I'm so proud of what she was doing.
So I just wanna let you know,
you're beautiful inside and out.
Embrace who you are because you're already perfect.
She was just like a light everywhere she went
because she wanted to make other people
feel good about themselves,
and I loved that about her.
Have a great day on purpose and brush your lashes.
I've always told my kids they can do
anything they wanted,
and April has always had big ideas.
At some point, she decided,
"Imma go to lash tech school."
She excelled tremendously.
That's when she started her social media accounts.
I do offer after hour appointments
Monday through Wednesday.
She knew being on Instagram that that's what would
skyrocket and help her be viewed by so many different people.
I'm officially offering $100 freestyle sessions.
♪ Have your attention ♪
Her following went up pretty quickly
within the first couple months.
I was like, "Oh, wow. I never knew you can actually
use your social media like that."
That was truly amazing.
Have a great day on purpose and brush your lashes.
♪ Do I have your attention? Boom ♪
I was on April's lash page a lot.
I think I was her third or fourth client
that she had ever had.
I got a couple messages from some friends asking,
"Did you get your eyelashes filled?
"'Cause I see this page and you're tagged in it,
"and then I can tell that it's you
because I can see your mustache and your beard."
And I was like, "Oh."
I loved her so much.
They would shout her out, tag her, post her
on different platforms.
Get on IG and go look up literallylashes615.
She was really good at what she did.
One of the best.
♪ Do I have your attention? ♪
When I gave birth and I found out that I had a little girl,
I was just...
instantly in love. Like, instantly in love.
Have you just-- I saw her. She was gorgeous.
We named her April, which means new life.
She was the oldest of the three that we had.
I stayed home with the kids, and then my husband worked.
She never went without a thing. Spoiled rotten.
She had such a great childhood.
Her friends brought her into the social media world
when she went to high school,
'cause in our house, we didn't do social media.
Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram,
those were her three apps.
If she wasn't on one, she was probably on the other.
Around 2015, I get a message from April on Facebook.
She told me how she was talking to somebody new.
She did send me a picture and say, like,
"Well, this is Donovan.
We've been talking for a little while."
From the very beginning when April met Donovan,
she used to tell me, "He's my best friend."
He was a chef, so he would make her very, very fancy meals.
Treat her like a princess.
Shortly after she met Donovan,
April told me that she was pregnant.
She was very excited about it because it was kind of like
they were starting their own little family.
April always thought that her and Donovan were
a power couple because she was lashing,
he had his food business.
Hey, what's going on, everybody? Chef Big Poppa here.
They wanted to help each other expand and grow even more
with both of their platforms.
The caption says, "I'm blessed.
"Thank you, 2019.
"I'm so excited to see what 2020 has in store
for literallylashes615."
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee declares a state of emergency
to help fight the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID did take a toll on a lot of beauty industries
because it was really hard to continue to make money
when we had to be six feet apart.
What's up, everybody? Chef Big Poppa,
Chef Little Poppa here.
Donovan wasn't getting as much business.
His page wasn't doing so well.
Today is the last day of the 20% off spring sale.
It was kind of hard for them.
She was trying to come up with a plan that could
give her a future for her family.
OK, so this is day one in quarantine.
Because of COVID, a lot of people turned to TikTok.
I think it just kind of gave people a community
in such a dark time in the world.
Hello!
A lot of people were at home with their spouses,
filming couples' content and posting it,
and it grew really fast.
During this time, April did start posting videos
of her family.
Who initiated the first kiss?
They were always laughing and giggling
with each other and kind of giving you an idea
of what their relationship was like.
OK, I'm gonna turn you on.
- All right, go ahead. - OK, you ready?
Here it goes.
Ooh!
- OK, that's it, goodbye. - No, wait, wait, hold on!
A couple of months into starting her TikTok,
she started posting more about--
- Manifesting. - Manifesting.
We're going to manifest and show you guys how to make
$5,000 in two weeks.
Donovan was very supportive of April's professional
wants and desires, especially if it was gonna
financially benefit them.
Tune in tomorrow to see what we do.
Ask, believe, receive.
They were manifesting what they wanted for their family,
for their life, for their finances.
You gotta believe. If you believe it
and truly just let it be and don't worry about it,
it'll come to fruition. I promise.
And that's when her account really started to grow.
I think when it comes to manifesting, she was
a strong believer, like, "Hey, if I want a million dollars,
I can have it," you know? And so...
I don't wanna burst her bubble.
I'm like, "Hey, baby, pray for it.
If that's what you want, you can have it."
If you are wanting to manifest something in your life,
I will help you to the best of my abilities.
April's main goal was to be a light for others.
- I am powerful. - I am powerful.
- I am Denzel. - I am Denzel.
Her total intent was to uplift people.
About eight months into April's TikTok journey,
she finally hit 100,000 followers.
And that is such a huge milestone for creators.
Companies would ask her to promote their product...
This is a monthly subscription box.
This was just the August box.
...and she was making an income off of it.
Check this out, check them out, they're amazing.
She was on the right path towards this career
that she really wanted.
Start coming, start purchasing, and let's grow.
♪ Oh, no, oh no ♪
But in the midst of posting all of this positivity
and family content,
tragedy was right around the corner.
In 2021, April posted this video of Donovan in the ICU.
He apparently had a heart attack
and the video updates
her followers on what was going on with him.
And through thick and thin... and health.
Hey, all, so don't judge me.
This is me trying to get ready the day after
Donovan's heart attack.
It was a scary experience for her because it really
made her feel like, "Oh my gosh, I'm about to lose my husband,
I'm about to lose the father of my son."
I told y'all I wouldn't leave
without him by my side.
I thought that they were going to be sticking out
through everything that would come their way.
Story time.
OK, so the story is that we are getting divorced
because it was our decision.
She's my best friend. I still love her to death.
No hard feelings. This is not a messy divorce
or anything like that. We don't do that.
This is like...
When she posted about their separation,
her followers were very surprised.
The marriage may have ended, but at least they can still be
friends and still co-parent with Denzel.
He's my best friend.
Nothing's gonna change that, so... - A light.
Look at her, bro.
Like, I will never lose this forever.
When you're going through a divorce
and you lose the person that you tell everything to,
it's like, "I still have all these things
that I wanna get out and talk about."
Her followers were also invested in their relationship.
What do you guys think?
She was talking herself through it
with her followers while also helping them.
I want real opinions, let me know about this, for real.
During their separation, Donovan had started working
on a NAVY ship as a chef.
So he was gone for long periods of time.
That's when she decided to start posting things
about self-care and self-love.
If you need time to heal and get yourself back on track,
don't say sorry for doing what's best for yourself,
because nobody else is gonna do it for you.
Her account continued to grow.
Embrace loneliness
and reinvent yourself in the process.
She was really trying to do everything she could
to make herself the best person she could be
on her own without a partner.
Denzel, what is your purpose?
Your purpose was inside your body...
And then every once in a while, she would post
a video with Donovan.
It was like, "Hey, guys, look at us.
"We're still civil with each other.
"We still love each other.
And we're co-parenting Denzel."
It showed really, really healthy separation.
When April was separated from Donovan,
she wanted to become much more active with the church.
I'm a Sunday school teacher, and I'm running late.
Zach was one of my volunteers as well.
How you doing, TikTok?
What you doing?
When I met April,
I was really bad at TikTok. Yeah.
For me, it was more starting off as like a friendship.
And we hung out one time outside of the church, sitting,
and I was like, "Oh, yeah, this could be more."
I did like how natural it felt.
Nothing was forced.
- Yeah, I see you- - I see you.
Her love is authentic.
April didn't bring up Donovan initially.
I found out about that situation through Jamie.
I asked April about how long they had been divorced,
but she told me she wasn't.
And I told her, I said, "This relationship with me
won't be legit unless that's done."
And she was like, "I understand. Just be patient with me,
and, you know, we'll make that happen."
Donovan was still on the ship working as a chef.
He was only back usually for a few days,
and then he would get back on the boat.
So, I'm not sure where he would stay during those time.
Initially, it started off as him in hotels.
Then it became a situation where, you know, he would sleep
in Denzel's room.
And when it got to a point where it was becoming
a consistent thing, that was when we started having
some really tough conversations.
'Cause that just wasn't gonna work for me.
If you thought you knew me last week,
you don't know me this week.
'Cause so many decisions have been made, and my life is
completely transformed.
And yes, this past year, I was trying to reconnect
spiritually with God and just align my life more.
Because she was growing closer to God, that's when she started
to feel a pull at her heartstrings
to try to make her marriage work one more time.
Anything I did, anywhere I went,
it was like screaming in my head,
"Go back to your husband."
And so she took him back in.
I'm being so transparent right now.
I was dating somebody else.
It took a while for me to come to terms with it.
But, you know, I accepted it, prayed about it, moved on.
What do you think the secret to our relationship has been?
Being best friends.
That came first.
So, even through the bullshit, we can joke around
and maintain that friendship.
I mean, it's what kept us
through our separation, honestly, so...
Yeah.
After two years apart,
April and Donovan got back together.
Her followers were happy to see that.
- Say, "Hey," babe. - What's up?
They wanted to say, "Hey, let's give it
another chance."
So then she gave him six months.
From there, we see a bunch of happy, wholesome content
between April and Donovan.
That's the trick with social media sometimes,
is that we can deceive our audience.
Behind closed doors, she started talking to me
about financial issues and being on top of bills.
Donovan gave up very fast
in anything he was doing.
So, if his job wasn't working, he didn't think, "Well,
how am I gonna pay the bill in three weeks?"
He left it all on April.
Only one week after she took him back,
he quit his job again.
I do offer after-hour appointments
Monday through Wednesday.
She would work hours and hours and hours to make sure
that she could bring in the income
to support their apartment,
their lifestyle. Denzel...
But she was tired.
She was tired of taking care of him.
A lot of people feel stuck
or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances.
Choose to have positive thoughts.
Your life will change.
I remember April did tell me about how there were days
where everything's good and then days where she's just crying.
She told me, "Stephen, I can't do this anymore.
"I'm so over being disappointed and let down by men.
"I'm getting a divorce and staying single.
The second I got back with him, my life went to shit again."
So that's when she called me and said, "Mom,
"I'm really serious. I gave him six months,
and I can't do it anymore. I wanna divorce."
So lately, I have been going through just a lot,
and I'm in, like, a depressed state.
It seemed like she was just overwhelmed
and couldn't handle it anymore.
Someone's gonna have to tell him...
That day, we were gonna go to the Barbie movie.
I looked at my phone, and she had texted me.
It was 12:30, and she just said, "Hey, Mom, I have to be
"home with Denzel, so I'm not gonna be able
to go to the Barbie movie."
And I just put my phone down. I didn't reply.
The next thing is my phone ringing,
and it's Donovan, and he said,
"I just found April in the shower
not breathing and she's on her way to the hospital."
My mind was just, like, going around in circles,
like, "Why? What is going on?"
She just text me at 12:30.
Perfectly fine.
I get to the hospital, and little Denzel is just
sitting in the waiting room, and I gave him a hug,
and I said, "Baby, I'm just gonna go check on Mom."
When I walked into that room, I had no idea what to expect.
And so when I saw her, I was hysterical,
just crying and crying.
And there's Donovan, and he's rocking.
And he's like, "I don't know what happened.
I don't know what happened." And I was like,
"What do you mean? Like, what's going on?"
The doctor comes into the room and he says,
"April went without blood or oxygen for over 15 minutes.
"So she is on life support.
We're gonna give her some time."
Then my mom says, "Did you know
Donovan said that he found her with a bag over her head?"
I said, "Mom, what are you talking about?"
And Donovan said, "Yeah, she did.
And she taped it."
There was a belief that she attempted
to commit suicide.
So lately, I have been going through just a lot.
Finding out that it was a suicide,
I had no words. I sat in silence.
I know that one of my issues is that I just have not been
taking care of myself lately.
I said to myself, "Was there something that she wasn't
telling me?" - I had a mental breakdown
the other night and I plucked all of my lashes off.
A lot of her other content was very, like, captions and smiles
and curated perfectly.
This is probably one of the most vulnerable videos
that I've posted in a really long time.
But this video was just very raw and vulnerable.
Not everything is pretty and sunflowers and rainbows.
I think it shows that things weren't all great in her life.
As an influencer, it's been really hard for me
to share my personal struggles with social media.
You can tell she's kind of nervous.
Do they just wanna see the happy, positive April?
I always feel like I'm being, like, judged.
And I know I'm not being judged. No, I am being judged.
Social media is judgmental as [bleep].
- Anyways... - When you put
yourself out there and then it flops,
it feels like these people don't care
about what I'm saying. And then you're like,
"Oh, well, I shouldn't have shared that."
Like, "That was a mistake."
♪ Oh, no, oh, no ♪
She also posted a video...
♪ Oh, no, no, no, no, no ♪
talking about a suicide attempt and severe depression.
April doesn't specify who attempted suicide
or who the severe depression was about,
and she doesn't really elaborate on it after that,
so it's kind of just up in the air.
After that, it seems like everything's good again.
Six hours after I got to the hospital,
they moved her up to the ICU floor.
And that's when I noticed there was a bruise on her neck,
and she had bruises on her wrists and her ankles.
The doctors did not give me a reason for the bruises.
My mama gut was like,
"Something's not right."
At this time, we alert police.
When the cops arrived, they called me
in for questioning.
And I told them, "I know my daughter
didn't try to commit suicide."
And they're like, "Every parent wants to believe that."
Shortly after that, I go back to April,
and the doctors tell me
there's no brain activity.
She's gone.
"I hope this message finds you in high spirits
"and ready to conquer the day ahead.
"Take a moment to appreciate how far you've come
"and the incredible person you are.
"Have an amazing day, my dear friend,
filled with positivity, hope, and a heart full of joy."
Sorry.
"And take care and have a great weekend."
And that was the last message I sent to her,
but she had never read them.
Do you want to have a moment?
I-- if-- if you don't mind.
The death of a child,
that's the hardest thing you ever have to experience
in your life.
It hits so differently.
But then...
the pain and the sadness turned into...
fuel.
I know my daughter didn't commit suicide.
Something's not right.
And I'm gonna find out what it is.
The cops were saying on the reports, there was
no signs of foul play.
And I said, "What about all the bruises?"
"Oh, we didn't see any bruises."
And I'm like...
"I don't understand.
I don't understand what's happening."
And they called in a therapist for me.
And they just kept saying, "Well, you know, you're gonna
have to accept this is suicide."
And I said,
"How do you get to just rule suicide when you haven't
investigated the rest of the pieces of the puzzle?"
Shortly after that, we took Denzel on a trip
to try to just distract him from everything that's going on.
Denzel's laying with me in a bed,
and I wanted to get up and get a shower.
And he says, "Don't get in the shower.
I don't want you to leave me."
I said, "I'm not gonna leave you.
I'm gonna be in there for a few minutes."
He was so scared.
I said, "Let's just talk about that day."
He said, "I gave my mommy a kiss
that morning." And he said,
"And then she said, she's gonna get in the shower."
And that's when he tells me that his mom and dad
were arguing in the bathroom.
But he said, "I couldn't understand
what they were saying."
Then later, he looked under the door,
and his mom was laying on the ground.
That conversation that I had with Denzel was my confirmation
of what I was suspecting all along,
that Donovan had taken the life of April.
So I recorded Denzel saying these things,
and I sent it over to the detective.
They just told me, "You keep asking
"leading questions.
"It's just a seven-year-old saying these things.
He could change his story."
So I decided, what can I do next?
How am I gonna draw attention to this case?
How to find your purpose and start living in it fully.
April used TikTok as her platform.
And I thought, "OK, if she can reach this many people,
"then that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna learn how to use TikTok."
So I created an account
and I went on there to explain what was going on
and that I needed my voice heard.
I'm making this post to make people aware of the situation
that we have at hand.
The main goal in my TikTok videos were to let people know
how amazing my daughter was.
Her name was April Lynn Holt.
An amazing mom.
Second, I wanted people to know, she did not
take her life. Her life was taken.
I promise you, he took my daughter.
I'm gonna take his freedom.
Hello, everyone.
So many people rallied behind Jamie when she posted
those videos. She got millions of views.
And it's easy to see why. The story is so insane.
When I first saw Jamie out there on social media,
I knew this is a mama that's really on a mission.
But what I'm asking for everybody to do is make signs.
I want you to post it on social media.
She's gonna prove everyone wrong.
She will go to the ends of Earth.
Please, please, please help me and share this
as much as possible. Thank you all.
You could feel it through the screen, just how desperate
she was to get this story out there.
Please continue to help me seek justice for April.
Justice for April Holt.
Hashtag justice for April Holt.
Justice for April Holt.
Say her name, April Holt.
Hashtag justice for April Holt.
I'm her mom, and I'm gonna get justice.
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I first heard about April's story
through my wife, Courtney. She wanted to help Jamie.
I reached out to her, but right before we were able
to do the interview, Jamie was hit with a gag order.
And this is day one.
Two weeks after I started posting about April's case,
Donovan went to the attorney that he had,
and he got a gag order put against me.
In a show of support, I actually did the same thing,
and I sent a picture of myself with a piece of tape
over my mouth.
Even after the gag order was issued, she reached
over 100,000 followers on TikTok, and that's huge.
That was her way of spreading the story without breaking
the rules of the gag order.
I would say, "Let my silence be loud."
Donovan knew all eyes were on him.
That's why he put the gag order on me.
He was scared.
Be honest with each other about how you feel
through this journey. That's the only way
y'all will truly get through it together. - Yes!
People don't always see
that when the camera stops rolling,
that it's different.
Constantly be learning each other,
because you're always going be changing.
Always.
I found out a lot after everything transpired.
Things I didn't know were s-- were happening.
She couldn't post or say certain things on her TikTok
because he only wanted good things to come out of it.
So he wasn't looking like the bad guy.
Even from early on in their relationship,
April would say that Donovan had suicidal thoughts.
When things were rough, he would stop taking
all of his heart medications and end up in the hospital.
She started telling me about how he would do things
to make himself sick to the point where
she needed to take care of him.
Thought we were going home,
and then hubby had another heart attack.
He literally would say things
like, "If I take my life, it's gonna be because of you,
because I love you so much."
He did what he did to make her feel like she has
no control in anything,
to put fear into her so she'll never go.
All of those are red flags of an abusive person
that can snap.
It does not have to be a physical sign in order
for you to be in an abusive situation.
If you see the signs of jealousy,
if you see the signs of being manipulated,
get out.
Thinking that Donovan was the murderer of my daughter
and knowing that my grandson was still in his care
was heart wrenching.
I don't know what to do.
I've used all the legal resources I can, and this man,
this monster is gonna get my grandson,
and I-- I can't do anything about it, I'm just--
And then Donovan decided he wanted to move to Texas,
and so was very worried, because now Denzel's not by me.
Well, we'll help pull together.
Jamie was literally doing everything in her power
to get the case moving.
She was writing to the White House.
I'm sending a letter to the president
of the United States. - To the governor...
"Our office cannot conduct criminal investigations."
I looked into private investigators,
and they were so expensive.
So I just kept Googling
and I found the Community Review Board.
They investigate your investigation.
I submitted my claim with them.
It took six weeks to get it back.
The Community Review Board report just agreed
with what the investigators were saying.
According to the committee, the police did a thorough
investigation and they believed in their findings.
It was just heartbreaking.
It was another dead end.
I decided in the back of my head that I'm gonna have
to figure out another way to get the truth.
I went through the Community Review Board report
with a fine-tooth comb, every word.
That is when I found that there was a section that said
Donovan Holt's fingerprints were found on the tape at the scene.
The police said that those prints could have been,
because they lived in the same household,
he could have touched that tape at any time.
But Donovan, he didn't know that.
So I decided to take a picture with my phone
and send him just that line.
And I said, "Just so you know,
"I now have evidence that you killed April
"and that your fingerprints are the only ones
found on the tape and the bag."
Donovan calls me, and that is when he decided
that he was going to...
tell me what really happened.
This was the confession that he gave me
of how he murdered April.
There has been an arrest.
Donovan Holt has been arrested in the state of Texas
for the homicide of April Holt.
We have gotten a confession that my daughter was strangled.
She had the bag put over her head and taped
around her neck by her husband, Donovan Holt.
He then went into the living room.
He ate lunch with his son.
And then he sent his son into the bathroom
to find my daughter.
We were able to explain that mommy did not commit suicide.
She did not intentionally leave this earth.
She would have never intentionally left you.
Denzel will be raised by me and by his poppy,
and we also have the autopsy that has been amended
from suicide to homicide.
The DA called me and said that he was being charged
with three felonies,
falsifying the report, tampering with evidence,
and reckless homicide.
Reckless homicide?
That was almost a term that I was unfamiliar with.
But then his defense is that they were having
such violent sex that he ended up killing her on accident.
If a person got engaged in a sexual act of choking
and doesn't resuscitate the person but decides
to drag them to a shower and put a bag over their head
and tape it up,
that's not an accident.
In my opinion, this was just simple, a straight murder.
So, we were right there with Jamie advocating to see
a larger prison sentence handed down to Donovan.
All right, guys, let me tell you about what's going on.
So the apartments that Donovan was living at have evidence
from the case from that morning, from the crime scene.
The police in San Antonio will not help me.
This is insane.
After Donovan's arrest, his apartment in San Antonio
was about to be emptied.
Me and my husband live in Houston, which is only
a few hours away from San Antonio.
I'm exhausted, so I just need your guys' help, please.
I just knew we had to help her.
Shortly before Courtney and I headed to San Antonio,
we sat down in our kitchen, had a discussion,
and decided we should be filming this.
That day, we pulled into the apartment complex.
We met his ex-girlfriend at the door.
We didn't even know that Donovan had another girlfriend
after April, but he had given her a key when they started
dating, so that's the reason we were even
allowed access into the apartment.
The energy in there was definitely a little strange.
All of their stuff was still there.
There was still, like, food out on the counter.
I went into Donovan's room and was doing a little digging,
and I was absolutely shocked when I looked underneath his bed
and saw not only one, but two guns.
That's weird.
And there was a spent shell casing.
So he had fired the weapon at some point.
Obviously, it was concerning knowing that he had actually
killed someone and was living with this child
with guns under his bed.
in there you can find those journals.
We had been in there a few minutes
packing up Denzel's stuff.
Wanna drag the other one?
I opened up a closet, and that's when I found
Donovan's journals.
We packed up everything that we found, and we drove
back home to Houston.
Still so many questions.
So many questions.
At home, we sat down and opened everything.
You can see we're going through all of this stuff.
The standout thing to me was Donovan's journal,
where he essentially stated that he wanted to start
a suicide crisis center.
"My wife could have avoided suicide by simply having
"a professional show support, care, and concern
towards what she was dealing with mentally."
And he was actually using the acronym of April's name.
I want April to be that resource.
Oh, A-P-R-I-L.
A Personal Refuge In Love.
- But she didn't commit suicide. - Yeah...
So this is all fake. This whole thing is
fake.
And that was huge.
Courtney and I were shocked to see that.
Hello, you have reached the Metro Police Department
South Precinct.
But ultimately, the police really didn't care
that we had found that.
They didn't wanna use it in any of their proceedings.
So it was just another piece of evidence that was
either tossed out or completely disregarded.
We tried.
Today, Donovan Holt was sentenced to just over
two years behind bars for the killing of his wife.
He was convicted of reckless homicide,
evidence tampering, and false reporting.
Our family is disgusted by this decision.
It took me so long to fight for this justice,
and I would do it all again because I have Denzel
here with me, and he is safe.
The world knows that April didn't kill herself.
Without Jamie, no one would ever know the true story.
I will make it my mission as her mother to get policies
and procedures changed, so that no family has
to endure grieving while investigating
their own child's case because the system failed them.
When you hear the name April Holt
from this point forward,
hear an echo of the change that is to come.
I think the hardest thing
is that at every family function,
there's an empty chair.
I would do anything to have her back, but at the same time,
she's in a much better place.
I'll see her again one day.
Taking five minutes out of your day can change
your kids' entire lives.
Do it. Put the phones down.
Turn off the TV.
Give your kids the time that they need,
because this is the only time we have with them right now.
You're welcome. And thank you.
Hello, lovelies.
Mahek Bukhari was the epitome of Gen Z girls.
This is a case of love,
obsession,
extortion,
...and ultimately cold-blooded murder.