![]() has the details in an all-new #Dateline Friday at 10/9c on /efukTiHFsA What we have is a murder, a marriage, and a mystery. The Trajectory of Mike Holton’s Head Wound Made Sheriff’s Investigators Suspicious April was still alive, but she wouldn’t live for long.Ģ. Mike Holton was dead when deputies arrived. According to Emlore & Autauga News, “Jesse ran to a neighbor’s home, still handcuffed reportedly, and said he needed help…Jesse told the neighbor his father had a gun and his parents were in the house.” He claimed his parents went into the bedroom and got involved in a physical fight. A neighbor reported the parents had been shot in the head, WSFA-TV reported.Ī sheriff’s investigator says that Madison Holton left his residence and told his neighbor that his parents were involved in a physical altercation. ![]() There were “remnants of a teenage party.” Eleven minutes later, after the deputy left, there was a 911 call. The dad was upset the house “was trashed,” the sheriff told Elmore & Autauga News. WSFA-TV reports that Mike Holton had handcuffed his son. He told the deputy he found drug paraphernalia associated with the party, the Wetumpka Herald reported. The deputy reported that April was in the living room, and Madison was “sullen on the couch.” Michael asked the deputy “how as parents they could get the juvenile courts involved,” according to Dateline. Michael Holton called the sheriff’s office, and a deputy came over to the home at the dad’s request. ![]() The parents told him if he messed up again, he would go to jail.Īccording to Dateline, Madison threw a house party while his dad was at work. “I don’t know why he has such a grudge against me.” Told the sheriff thinks he committed murder, Holton said, “He will think wrong for the rest of his life.”Īccording to Dateline, the couple seemed “on the same page about their teenage son.” However, Madison Holton was going through “teenage rebellion,” and his parents were separating. “I have no doubt in my mind that the sheriff will try to put me back in jail,” Madison Holton told Dateline. The charges were dropped in fall 2018 after Jesse Madison Holton spent more than a year in jail. The teen is often simply called Madison Holton (his dad’s first name was technically Jesse too). Holton, then 17, was charged as an adult with the slayings of his mother and father, but the charges were later dismissed. One thing that led authorities to initially suspect Madison Holton – falsely, his attorney and Madison say – is because there was rancor between father and son only 11 minutes before the parents ended up dead. He was dead by the time deputies arrived… #Dateline all new tonight at 10/9c with on /bkJHR0mso1 Mike Holton Called the Sheriff’s Department Because He Was Angry That His Son Held a Party In addition, Mike’s diaries also indicated a man who felt like he couldn’t go on without his marriage.ġ. A friend told Dateline that April had left the marriage because Mike’s treatment of her changed, and he was not happy about the split.Īccording to Dateline, Mike Holton had a drug problem and narcotics in his system on that night. Mike and April’s marriage had ruptured, and they were not living in the same home at the time of their deaths, according to the Elmore & Autauga News. Mike Holton was a former mayor and fire chief his wife was a “team mom” and full-time mother. ![]() Jesse Madison Holton, one of the couple’s three sons, was charged with their deaths, but the charges were later dismissed, and the DA now admits that prosecutors can’t sort out the truth beyond a reasonable doubt. The third theory, equally grisly and disturbing: That Mike Holton killed his wife, prompting his son to kill him.Īn Apepisode of NBC’s Dateline show explores the Alabama deaths, which occurred in September 2016. Who killed Mike Holton and his estranged wife, April Holton? There are three key theories in the case, the local District Attorney in Alabama has said:Įither Mike Holton took a gun and killed his wife, before turning it on himself, or their teenage son, Jesse Madison Holton killed both parents. KUAR is also available internationally via online live streaming, a service provided to give people all over the world the opportunity to listen live to its informative, cultural, and musical programming.Mike Holton and April Holton, the parents of Jesse Madison Holton. The nights are reserved for Jazz music, with KUAR broadcasting in simulcast with the radio channel Jazz 24. During the day, its daily schedule follows the news/talk format by broadcasting in-depth local, statewide, national and international news reports, as well as talk shows on culture, education, arts, and music. The station carries a news/talk and jazz music format. It is affiliated with NPR, American Public Media, Public Radio International, and Jazz 24. KUAR is a public radio station owned and operated by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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