Holly Anderson didn’t have any premonition of trouble on April 26 when her estranged husband asked her to meet him outside the store where she worked in Collegedale.
No bad feeling, no pit-of-the-stomach warning. She’d been trying to get him to sign the divorce papers for months, but it wasn’t unusual for him to show up at her work. He’d been harassing, stalking and calling her nonstop since she’d moved out in November, after just four months of marriage.
Sometimes he’d beg her to come home, sometimes he’d fight. He was almost always drunk.
To be safe, she told her coworkers at the shop in the Ooltewah Crossing development to give her a reason to come back inside if she wasn’t back in five minutes. Call the police, she told them.
Then she walked out to meet Jeffery Held, standing by his red pickup across the parking lot from the store.