LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - In the summer of 2005, 7-year-old Ricky Holland was murdered by his foster mother, turned adoptive parent.

The boy’s tragic death, now 20 years old, had a lasting impact on people across Mid-Michigan and beyond, including the lead investigator on Ricky’s case, retired Ingham County Det. Sgt. Roy Holliday.

He still remembers the massive search that started it all.

“The community really galvanized, you know, trying to help locate this little boy,” he told News 10. “I carried his picture with me throughout the whole case, you know, to remind me.”

It’s the same picture that was plastered on billboards and missing child posters scattered across the state for months, when investigators and community members still thought Ricky was a runaway child.

Today, Holliday see

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