Camisha Hollis, 34: Young Girl Witnessed Mother's Suspected Murder
Her husband first drugged their three daughters to make them sleep through the attack. The eldest couldn't fall asleep due to fear.
*Update* Although the body of Camisha Hollis has not been found, her boyfriend, Marvin Young, was found guilty of her homicide. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Camisha has never been located. In 2025, she was declared legally dead.
Original Story:
One thing that many of these missing cases prove is that the ones we love don’t always have our best interests in mind. Too often, women enter into relationships believing that their partners will stand by them, love them, and protect them, not knowing the person to whom they’ve opened their hearts is the very predator they need protection from. Such was the case with Camisha Hollis.
Police in Omaha, Nebraska, were alerted in April 2018 after Martha Hollis found her three grandchildren — 10, eight, and six years old — home alone. Martha was visiting her daughter, 34-year-old Camisha Hollis, and her daughter’s longtime live-in boyfriend, 36-year-old Marvin Young. It was a place that Martha claimed to have avoided because of the negative energy she felt there. When she arrived at the residence and saw the three young girls unsupervised, she asked them where their parents were. She wasn’t prepared for the answer.
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According to reports, the eldest daughter told Martha that on April 1, her father gave them a cough syrup-like drink before bed. The purple liquid helped her sisters fall asleep, but she spat hers out instead. She said that as she lay in bed, she heard a vicious fight between her parents. The girl reportedly claimed that she witnessed her father beat her mother, including savagely attacking Camisha with a boot. The couple had a long history of domestic violence, but the little girl said this was the worst she’d ever witnessed.
“She said she was paralyzed with fear because it was very loud and scarier than any time prior,” Omaha Police Detective Sarah Spizzirri reportedly said.
