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ACCUSED CHILD RAPIST AND HUMAN TRAFFICKER FACING MURDER-FOR-HIRE CHARGES, HCSO
SAYS

By Jennifer Kveglis
Published  April 29, 2024 10:34pm EDT
Hernando County
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INMATE CHARGED IN MURDER-FOR-HIRE

Jennifer Kveglis reports.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. - An accused child rapist and human trafficker is now facing
murder-for-hire charges while inside the Hernando County Detention Center.

Deputies said while incarcerated, 57-year-old James Houllis sought out someone
to commit the murder of at least one witness from a July 2023 case in exchange
for a few things.





"Our detectives received information that Houllis was soliciting other inmates
in the jail to either get someone on the outside to kill one or both witnesses,"
said HCSO Public Relations Director, Denise Moloney. "When detectives finally
questioned him about it, he denied the whole thing and said he was joking. ‘I
might have made a factual statement that if the witness disappeared, so would
most of my case.’"




Investigators said he promised an inmate who was set to be released shortly
thereafter multiple things in exchange for the murder.

"He drew a map, he told him where he could find this witness, what time the
witness goes to work, where the witness works, what door the witness goes in at
work. So he really meant business," she said.

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But deputies halted those plans.

Since the 1980s, Houllis changed his address 53 times, including locations in
California and Colorado, where he allegedly met one adult female victim online
and groomed her into participating in sexual activities with multiple males for
Houllis' monetary gain.

Then the two moved to Spring Hill, where he posed as the adult female victim
online to solicit a juvenile female runaway to move in with him while the
juvenile was under the impression she was meeting the adult victim.

The juvenile unknowingly signed a contract agreeing to partake in any sexual
acts Houllis desired.

"The victim stated that she was sent a contract, and it was related to dominant
and submissive agreement by email," said HCSO Sheriff Al Neinhuis during a July
2023 press conference.

In a first appearance in court, a judge granted the victims no-contact orders.
However, investigators said Houllis disregarded it and contacted the victims
multiple times, threatening them to drop the charges.

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