The day my heart died

by Tammy Crockett
(Bastrop La USA)

Holli Crockett

I was spending the night at my sisters when I got the call from my husband that the police were at our house and that our daughter Holli had been killed.

For the longest time I kept saying that phrase "Holli is dead" over and over in my mind, but it just doesn't seem real. How can it be. I had talked to her the day before. She just turned 21 in February. She was moving in to her first home and had a job she loved. She had her whole life ahead of her and now they are telling me she is gone.

I am so heartbroken that I cannot breathe. She was my best friend as well as my daughter. She took care of me as much as I took care of her. I do not know how I am going to face each day without her. I just want to see her and make sure she is ok, but I know that is not possible because she is not ok.

I see this stuff happen every day, but I never never thought it would happen to me.
They say it gets better with time, but I sure cannot see that now. She was my holli waddles, my goofball, My tormentor during the terrible two's. She was the light of my life and now she is my broken heart.

How do I get through this.......... How do I go on without her.

I have always been able to handle anything that has come my way, but this one I can't. This is more than I know what to do with.

I had her for 21 years.

And that just was NOT enough.


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Fatal Accident on LA Hwy 139

Sunday, April 9th, 2006 11:04:05

An early morning car accident leaves one dead and another in the hospital. It happened around 3:30 this morning on Louisiana Highway 139 near Perryville.

State Police say Holli Crockett was pronounced dead when they arrived. She was the front seat passenger in a 2003 Cavalier driven by J***** W*** of Bastrop.

Troopers say the couple was headed North when W*** veered off of the left shoulder. He then struck a concrete culvert, sending the car airborne.

State Police say the car rotated in the air and collided with a large tree roof-first. Police had to extricate W*** and Crockett from the vehicle. West sustained moderate to serious injuries and was transported to Morehouse General Hospital.
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The driver was the man she was to marry.
He came away with an injured arm and then claimed she was driving.

His blood alcohol level was .19---twice the legal limit.

The judge had the nerve in court to say " this would be a simple DWI but there is a dead girl involved so...".

They did not want to prosecute him and I do believe if it were not for the Madd organization coming down from Shreveport La and sitting in court that they wouldn't have.

They even asked us if we wanted them to prosecute him for a DWI or did we want to go with vehicular manslaughter.

He was sentenced to 20 years for vehicular manslaughter and he has to serve 10 years before he can come up for parole.

Because of him being so intoxicated it was considered a violent crime.



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In loving memory of
Holli Nicole Crockett
Feb 9, 1985 -- Apr 9, 2006
Bastrop, Louisiana USA
http://holli-crockett.memory-of.com