Catahoula authorities have arrested the man they say is responsible for the slaying of Sheryl Turner.
Detectives with the Catahoula Sheriff’s Department were in New Iberia today to notify her family that a man from West Monroe, Anthony P. Holland Jr. was arrested Tuesday night. Authorities tell us that Holland, 27, allegedly has confessed. He has been booked with second-degree murder.
We’re told that Holland was arrested Tuesday night by West Monroe Police.
Here’s the release that has now been sent out by Catahoula Sheriff Toney Edwards:
Catahoula Sheriff Department Investigators along with West Monroe Police Department, Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Department, along with the FBI conducted a joint investigation into the homicide of Sheryl Turner. Ms. Turner was last seen by her family on December 31, of 2023. She sent messages to her sister stating that she had met someone in the Ouachita Parish area and was going to move up there for a while. Sheryl then sent a message to a family friend in New Iberia stating that she had made it to West Monroe and she would talk to him soon.