Overview
- Authorities upgraded the case to murder after an autopsy found Hollis died from asphyxia and ruled the death a homicide.
- Reported missing on May 8, Hollis was found by family and friends on Saturday, May 16, in Greene County after investigators flagged the area through recovered data.
- The Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit and Northport police executed multiple search warrants that produced physical, witness, and electronic leads.
- Randall Lendell Dejourney, 44, was first booked on abuse of a corpse with a $15,000 cash bond and is now held without bond on the murder charge.
- The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency had issued a missing and endangered alert noting a condition that could impair Hollis’s judgment, which shaped the public search effort.