TAVARES — When Jeremy Alan Main called his wife, Holly, Monday to say that he had killed their 18-month-old child, he told her that he did it because she was divorcing him.
She immediately called Ocala police, who then called the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 9:30 a.m. Deputies rushed to the home on Redbud Road in Lady Lake, kicked in the back door and found the child floating face down in the bathtub of the master bathroom. There was some blood in the water, according to Main’s arrest affidavit.
At about 10:08 a.m., Main walked into the Sumter County sheriff’s substation and told two non-law enforcement workers at the front desk, “I killed my daughter and failed to kill myself.” [Read Full Article]