Wanda Holloway

Wanda Holloway is a woman from Texas, known for hiring a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival.

Overview

In 1991, Wanda Holloway asked her brother-in-law to hire a hitman to kill the mother of a girl who was competing with her daughter for a spot on the same Texas cheerleading squad. Holloway wanted the mother killed because she determined the competing girl would be so upset by the murder of her mother that she would drop out of the competition. Both girls were thirteen at the time of the plot.

She became known as the "Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom" and her story spawned two TV movies including "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom", starring Holly Hunter.

Aftermath

Holloway was convicted of solicitation of capital murder after being found guilty in her 1991 trial. Originally sentenced to serve fifteen years in prison, the conviction was overturned when it was found that one of the original jurors was on probation. There was no second trial because Holloway pleaded "no contest" ("nolo contendere"). The judge found her guilty and sentenced her to ten years in prison. She was released on March 1, 1997, after serving six months of her sentence. The judge ordered her to serve the remaining 9.5 years on probation. She was also ordered to complete one thousand hours of community service. [Michelle Koiden [http://www.texnews.com/texas97/mom030197.html 'Cheerleader mom' freed after serving six months] , Abilene Reporter-News, Saturday, March 1, 1997 (last accessed September 01, 2007)]

Movies

Movies made about the incident include:

*"The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom", which starred Holly Hunter as Wanda Holloway.

*"Willing to Kill: the Texas Cheerleader Story" also appeared on ABC in 1992 as a made-for-TV movie.

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