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An Indiana man accused of murdering and dismembering a woman in late July allegedly stabbed her 51 times after discovering text messages saying she was dating another man, according to court documents .
According to prosecutors in Indianapolis, Indiana, 33-year-old Marcus Garvin was charged with murder after he was allegedly caught on surveillance video carrying the decomposing body of his girlfriend, 30-year-old Christie Holt’s, to a wooded area near a motel dragged.
According to the statement probable causeOn July 30, 2021, the Indianapolis Police Department received a call about 5 a.m. about a “suspicious person” dragging a sheet “with something heavy” into the woods before returning to a room at the motel. According to court documents, the man was said to “keep looking back to see if anyone was watching.”
Prosecutors charged Marcus Garvin, 33, with murder on Tuesday, June 6, for killing his girlfriend, Christie Holt. (Indianapolis Police Department)
Motel employees told police that Garvin and Holt were long-term guests and had been staying at the motel since October 2021.
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Motel security footage reportedly showed Garvin dragging “a heavy white sheet” from a motel room. The 33-year-old seemed to have trouble dragging the sheet, researchers say, and at one point “a human arm fell out of the sheet.”
At 5:30 a.m., investigators found Holt’s decomposing body “wrapped in a comforter in the creek near the treeline east of the motel.”
Witnesses told investigators that Holt had previously said Garvin was abusive, allegedly telling them he had strangled her and she was afraid to leave him. The affidavit said that when employees told her they would call authorities, she said he was just being verbally abusive, despite having regular bruises on her and handprints on her neck.
Marcus Garvin and Christie Holt were long-term guests at a motel, the Always Inn, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Google Maps)
At approximately 8:55 a.m., authorities found Garvin — fully clothed and wearing a backpack — in the bathroom of his motel room and took him into custody.
The room smelled of human decomposition, court documents said. Police reportedly found a red dolly by the front door, a shopping cart, a garbage can, a cut-off GPS monitoring device on the floor, and no bedding on the bed.
The floor was sticky and there were two knives on the floor by the bathtub.
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In an interview with homicide detectives, Garvin initially denied involvement in his girlfriend’s death. He told detectives that he and Holt had a fight when she came home from work on Friday, July 23, 2021.
He told detectives that he went through Holt’s cell phone while she slept and discovered she was seeing another man, whom she “fooled him into not having a job and/or not going anywhere in life,” according to the affidavit.
Garvin said he woke Holt up, “grabbed a small knife and stabbed it twice in the side of her neck,” investigators said. Holt tried to defend herself, but Garvin reportedly “stabbed her multiple times in the neck, upper body, and possibly the left leg.”
Indianapolis police arrived at the Always Inn and arrested Marcus Garvin for allegedly stabbing 51 Christie Holt in the head, neck, and torso. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
He tried to dismember Holt, but was unable to cut through the bones. He eventually decided to dump her dismembered body near the motel.
Garvin eventually admitted to stabbing and killing Holt, reportedly saying he was sorry but “she deserved it,” according to the affidavit. He said he missed her and still loved her, but he just felt “he had no other choice.”
Holt’s autopsy showed she had been stabbed 51 times — in the head, torso, thighs, hands, and “all the way around her neck.” On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, Garvin was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Garvin was required to wear a GPS tracking device following a Dec. 26, 2020, arrest for battery use by means of a deadly weapon, authorities said.
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According to FOX59, he allegedly stabbed a customer who took too long in a restroom of a Circle K where he worked as a cashier.
After the 2020 stabbing, Garvin reportedly returned to the cash register, threw the knife on the counter and said, “D—, that was satisfying,” the affidavit read.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on Fox News Digital’s breaking news team. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhiteten.
