Victims 5+ | Name William Holbert Date apprehended July 26, 2010 | |
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Education North Henderson High School | ||
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On the 14th of August 2017 - Wild Bill was sentenced for 47 years for the killings of 5 Americans in Panama.
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William Dathan Holbert (born September 12, 1979), also known as Wild Bill, is a self-confessed murderer from Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Prosecutors allege Holbert, a former associate of the National Alliance, confessed to killing five people in Panama and one person in Costa Rica to get their money and properties. Prosecutors say Holbert befriended the victims, shot them in the head, buried their bodies, and then stole their homes and businesses.
Holbert and his ex-wife, Laura Michelle Reese, were arrested by authorities as they attempted to make their way into Nicaragua via Costa Rica on July 26, 2010.
Holbert now operates and chairs "Los Reos Unificados," a syndicated Christian inmate organization, on the national level in the Republic of Panama. Holbert also operates "Panama Human Rights," an international human rights organization for prisoners. In September 2014, Holbert's lawyer issued a statement saying that Holbert had been appointed Chaplain of the Catholic Church in the Public Jail of David; however, the Directorate General for Prisons immediately issued a statement of denial indicating that was not the case.
After six years of his confession for the killing five people in Panama, the Superior Court of the province of Chiriqui in Panama set a trial date for Dec. 5 2016.
Wild Bill was sentenced to 47 years on the 14th of August 2017 for the killings of the 5 victims in Guatemala
Brother william dathan holbert leads prayer music
Media coverage
Dateline NBC season 20 episode 7 "Rescue on the Mountainside/Stealing Paradise", original air date October 2010. Kate Snow investigates Cher Hughe, a resident of Panama and her ties to Holbert and Reese's criminal ways.
In 2016, a detailed account of Holbert's crimes written by Nick Foster, "The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of a Killer in Paradise," was published.