In-and-out-and-in custody defendant is out, again (2024)

DECATUR — Travis B. Holman, the Decatur defendant who has a track record of leaving prison and then quickly returning to custody again, is now free once more after being re-incarcerated and released on the same day.

Prison records show him checked in at the Graham Correctional Center on April 5 and then was immediately granted parole, also on April 5.

Earlier, on April 2, he had appeared in Macon County Circuit Court where he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his wife in a series of menacing calls. They had been made in July of 2023 while the 44-year-old defendant was serving time at the Graham Correctional Center. In 2021 he had been sentenced to six years after being convicted of dealing meth and got another two years for violating an order of protection his wife had taken out against him.

He denied everything and the case had been set for a pretrial hearing April 30 before Holman made his surprise court appearance April 2 and took a plea deal negotiated by defense attorney Lindsay Evans. Holman pleaded guilty to one count of harassment by electronic communications and Judge Rodney Forbes agreed to dismiss all the other charges.

The judge sentenced the defendant to a year behind bars but that was canceled out with day-for-day credit and credit for the time he’d spent in jail since his rearrest Nov. 13. Holman also picked up extra credit for having served as a trustee in the jail as well.

Giving evidence against Holman at an earlier court hearing about the threats to kill charges made from the prison, Decatur Police Department Officer Paul Vickers quoted the defendant as telling his wife he would: “Beat her face in, beat her up, burn her house down, some things to that effect,’” the officer said.

The terrified woman had hired an attorney who had obtained recordings of the phone calls which were taped by the prison. On the tapes, Vickers said the woman can be heard warning Holman that the calls are recorded.

“(Holman) responds by saying he did not care and further states he hoped (she) would ‘die’ several times,” Vickers had told the court.

Prison records show Holman is now due to be discharged from his latest parole on Nov. 13, 2027.