Four-year-old Kayla Marie Holton, a biracial female, was killed on November 30, 1997, in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Her mother’s ex-husband, 36-year-old Gulf War veteran Daryl Keith Holton, picked up Kayla and three half-brothers for a scheduled visit that day. Instead of taking them shopping, he took the children to his uncle’s auto repair garage where he lived and led them to a back room.

After killing the four children, he covered their bodies, cleaned the area, and then drove to the Shelbyville Police Department to confess. Officers found the bodies and pipe bombs at the garage; Holton said he had intended to use the bombs against his ex-wife and her home. The confession was linked to a custody dispute.

At a June 1999 trial the jury rejected an insanity defense and convicted Holton of four counts of first-degree premeditated murder. He was sentenced to death. If anyone knew Kayla, her family, or was in Shelbyville at the time, please share what you remember or any information that might help document her life.