Liese Dodd.Photo: Facebook
In an emotional video posted to Facebook, Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido called Holloway, 22, “a monster” who “savagely killed” the pregnant woman with whom he’d had a two-year on-again, off-again relationship.
Pulido called Dodd’s killing “beyond reprehensible.”
“It’s abominable,” he said. “It is completely terrible what happened to her.”
Dodd’s mother, Alito noted, was the person who found her body.
Deundrea Holloway.Gillespie Police Department
In addition to two counts of first-degree murder, Holloway faces two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, one count of dismembering a human body, concealment of homicidal death and a several motor vehicle charges.
KMOV spoke to Heidi Noel, Dodd’s mother.
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“She was just a bright light that cared for everyone,” Noel told the station. “She had a big heart.
She’d do anything for anyone. She’d go out of her way to help people.”
Dodd grew up in Illinois.
“She had attended college and was planning on going into the medical field,” Noel said. “I’m a nurse, and, so, she was toying with heading in that direction.”
Added the grieving mom: “I just wish she would’ve known how loved she was. That she wouldn’t have ever been alone, [and] that she could’ve gotten out of this relationship and had a full life.”
A GoFundMe campaignhas been created online to help cover Dodd’s funeral expenses.
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source: people.com
