Charleroi couple accused of hiding infant's death now charged with homicide

A Charleroi couple charged last month with hiding their dead infant’s body in the wall of their home now face homicide charges, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office.

Kylie Wilt, 25, and Alan Hollis, 27, are both now charged with homicide and aggravated assault along with conspiracy, concealing the death of a child, abuse of a corpse, obstructing the administration of justice, welfare fraud and tampering with evidence.

Police said the infant boy, referred to in a criminal complaint as “AH,” was found wrapped in blankets inside a gray plastic crate that had been sealed with new drywall in a cubbyhole in a bedroom. Wilt said the child had died sometime in February when they were living in a different home, and she moved the corpse with her to their new home, the complaint said.

She said the child had died from sudden unexplained infant death syndrome, according to the complaint.

District Attorney Jason Walsh wrote in a memo that the infant’s autopsy showed trauma to ribs on both sides of his body that happened before his death. The trauma “displayed various stages of healing,” he said.

The incident came to light when an investigator contracted by Washington County Children and Youth Services reached out to police for help locating the child, according to police.

In new charges filed Thursday, police wrote that Wilt reached out the day after her initial arrest and said she “wanted to tell the truth.” She told investigators Hollis was aware of the child’s death and was the one who cut the hole in the wall and sealed the crate inside.

Hollis later admitted he was the one who cut the hole in the wall, according to the complaint.

Investigators detailed November 2020 text messages between Wilt and Hollis in which they express their disdain for “AH” and occasionally their other children, according to the complaint. The text messages, included in the complaint, show both Wilt and Hollis referring to the child by explicit, derogatory names and complaining about how he “just won’t shut up.”

At one point, according to the complaint, Wilt wrote to Hollis: “I’m about to (expletive) snap his neck.” In another message, Hollis writes that he is “so (expletive) tired of (AH).”