Holly Jones

Holly Jones is the main antagonist of the 2013 film Prisoners where she is portrayed by Academy Award winning actress Melissa Leo.

Biography
Once a loving and religous woman, Holly and her husbands minds soon took a twisted turn when their son died of cancer. Blaming God for not saving him and they sought to make other feel their pain. The pair began kidnapping children to turn the parents into demons as they called it, losing their faith like they did.

In their reign, there was only two known survivors. Bob Taylor and Barry. Both suffered greatly to the point when they couldn't speak properly. Bob some how escaped, but the memories kept him from telling the police. Barry was kept by Holly, where she renamed him Alex and told him he was her aunt.

At one point, her husband left her, presumably feeling guilt as he had confessed his crimes to a local priest, who later kills him and throws the body into the church's basement. Thought even with her husband gone, Holly doesn't stop and she then abducts Joy Birch and Anna Dover. Though she is nota suspected by the police, Alex is as the girls were seen playing around his RV before the capture. Alex is taken into custody, but is quickly released due to is IQ being the same as a two year old. But Anna's father, Keller is convinced that Alex is the culprit and soon takes him hostage and begins torturing him for information.

All the while, Bob appears as a new suspect in the case. When the detective leading the case, Detective Loki, finds Bob and in his house is evidence, blood on the girls cloths found in his house, making it appear he'd murdered the girls. Declared dead, the parents and Detective Loki all but give-up when Bob commits suicide. A further look shows that the blood belonged to a pig and when Joy suddenly shows up. She reveals that she heard Keller's while she was captured. Keller soon realizes that Holly was the real kidnapper.

Armed with a hidden gun, Keller heads to see Holly, but she soon learns he knows she kidnapped the girls and points a gun at him. She forces him to drink a drugged liquid, causing him to feel faint. She tells him that her and her husband have been waging a war on God and shows Keller where she hid Anna. She brings him to a hole underneath a car, shots him in the leg and leaves him there. She heads to where she hiding Anna and plans to kill her and taunt Keller by throwing her dead body into the hole with him. But Loki soon arrives at the scene and catches Holly before she can kill Anna. Holly pulls a gun on Loki and the detective shots first, saving Anna and killing Holly.

Personality
While Holly appears as a loving and caring woman, she is truly a cold and deeply desterved and depraved human being, wanting nothing but for others to feel her pain. She has no problam with killing or torturing, even children and seemed to immbrace this side of her.