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missing the Tennessee Sheriff's Association has added $5,000 to the reward fund for Holly Bobo the
20-year-old nursing student who reportedly was abducted from her home a week ago today it brings the reward
total to $80,000 investigators say the abductor is likely a local figure no suspect yet
though the small town of Parsons meanwhile is hoping praying that any minute now Holly will be found
safe what we're going to do we're going to go and divide up into groups time is of the essence every hour that passes is
crucial any tip could be the key y'all go ahead and spread out that's why authorities are turning to the public in
The Disappearance of Holly Bobo a beautiful 20-year-old nursing student who hasn't been seen in a week just
before 8:00 last Wednesday morning Holly's 25-year-old brother Clint told police he watched from inside the family
home as a man in camouflage LED Holly Into the Woods at first Clint thought she was going off with a friend but when
he went outside he found blood in the driveway and immediately called 9911 the police went into high gear searching for
the Manning camouflage we feel that she knew that she was in fear of her life so
she was complying with his command the family begged for help olly I love you so
much please please try to get home to us and if anybody knows anything about her
please please help us find her the close Nick community rallied hundreds volunteered to comb the woods for Clues
that's the last phone call you ever expect to get and it's a close family so we're just trying to hold it
together until now the town of Parson's main claim to fame was country music singer Whitney Duncan she's Holly Bobo's
cousin she thinks of her as a little sister She's beautiful kind of shy quiet girl until you get to know her and then
she's just funny and sweet and uh she's amazing and Whitney's also had to defend
's brother Clint bloggers and tweeters immediately began to question his story and tweets like this one appeared I
think the authorities should focus more on Holly Bobo's brother Clint very strange contradicting story Whitney
Duncan fired back with a tweet of her own writing my cousin Clint Holly's brother is not a suspect and I'm sick of
people saying that he is he's been cleared for good reason shut up investigators say they're not following
any individual suspect but have not ruled anyone out in the meantime the days are tiing by this is where our
virtual Command Center is it's a way to organize the information that's coming into us and a way to disperse that
information out to investigators so right here tips are coming in right and she's just verifying that everything's
been followed up on right they've received more than 250 tips from all across the state they're constantly
checking the map trying to connect the dots so far investigators have found several items including Holly's lunch
bag which her family was able to identify we've really been concentrating from Holly's house North up to I40 and
just so we have a little scale here from here to where the lunch boox was found we're talking about a distance of about
8 Miles yes how long can you sustain such a massive search when those leads stop coming in and you stop having
things to follow up follow up on then that's when you may begin to scale back it has now been a week since Holly was
last seen if someone has not discovered within the first day or two it's unlikely that it'll be discovered alive
when children are abducted criminologist James fox says the abductor is most likely someone a child knows perhaps not
so in this case when it's an adult who is abducted it's usually a stranger it's often times a sex crime and murder is
used as a way to cover up the evidence of that crime but still there is hope that occasionally cases like these
do end up with good news even after a long period of time does it kind of feel like you're looking for a needle and a
haast stack yes ma'am volunteers were not deterred by that challenge one group found this duct tape that they say had
hair stuck to it sure hope everybody brings your back she can hug her mama there were so many volunteers at one
point dozens had to be turned away they had 2,000 volunteers sign in at the State fairgrounds and then they had
another about 1500 show up and we're talking about a community of about 500 people have you ever experienced
something like this in all the investigations the community being so helpful no never we've never seen a
community like this when someone goes missing in a town of just 2500 the whole town becomes one
family hundreds of pink ribbons now dot the streets signs of support and love on
every billboard Community with one common goal finding Holly [Music] first off early this week we this great
country and its good people suffered another senseless act of horrible violence I'm not sure I nor anyone
understands this stuff it's of course shocking and sad I pray that the shooting that took place in Las Vegas is
the very last one we ever have to suffer through and our hearts and prayers go out to the victims their families
friends loved ones and the community and First Responders as well now for this week's case we're
discussing Holly Bobo Holly Lyn Bobo was born October 12th 1990 her parents are Dana and Karen Bobo she has a brother
Clint uh in 2011 Holly is 20 years old she is a nursing student in the LPN program at Tennessee Technology Center
she's living with her parents Dana and Karen and her brother then 25-year-old Clint in Parsons Tennessee this is very
much small town America the population is like 2400 people back in 2011 her friends described Holly as
funny shy and sweet on Wednesday April 13th 2011 Holly woke up at 4:30 a.m. to study for an
exam that she had to take that morning she she does spend some time trading text with her friend Hannah uh she's
also a student as well going to the same program now Holly's father Dana he's one
of these early morning dudes he works an early shift uh he typically gets up and
leaves the house about 5:30 a.m. each morning Holly's mother Karen is a teacher and she leaves the house on a
typical day she would leave around 7 am so I'm I'm assuming that this is the case on this day as well now at 7:30
a.m. Holly Gets a phone call from her boyfriend his name is Drew Scott drew is turkey hunting somewhat nearby on
Holly's grandmother's property Drew tells Holly that while he was out there hunting someone had dropped by and
questioned him about being on the property now Drew had permission to be on the property hunting so he decided he
would call Holly you know just to confirm that it's cool that he's out there that sort of thing at 7:42 a.m.
Holly makes another phone call now Clint is still sleeping at this time but just
a few minutes before 8: a.m. Clint he's awakened by the family dog dog's barking
at something this is a small dog named champ Clint knowing that the dog barks when someone pulls their car up to the
house assume that someone was outside he goes over to the window and he looks out
there's no vehicle that had pulled up he looks out another window now the the bobos have a carport attached to the
house so Clint sees his sister Holly's car still near the carport he hears some voices but he's not sure who it is the
sound of the voices draws his eyes to uh the silouette of two people that appear
to be kneeling down outside from the way that Clint describes this it sounds like
he he would not have been able to see the people themselves due to the angle of his view from the window in relation
to where the two people are positioned M however he had a good idea of who it who
it is outside he can't hear what the voices are saying but it sounds like a girl and a guy talking to one another
his sister's car again still outside so it must be his sister Holly and her boyfriend Drew he says that the man's
voice sounds either angered or agitated and the woman's voice his sister's voice
sounds upset Clint says the man was doing most of the talking at this time now Clint called his mother by this
point you know he's thinking Holly and Drew are arguing and possibly breaking up uh his mother does not answer her
phone he then texts her uh for him for her to call him back she calls back rather quickly Clint asked why Holly is
not at school his mother Karen says what do you mean she has a test today she should be at school no he replies Holly
is outside with Drew Karen tells Clint that that is not Drew outside with her and that he should call 911 and then
call the neighbors mhm Clint hangs up the phone he looks outside again this time through a different window and he
can see two people uh one appears to be his sister wearing a pink T-shirt and the other is a man wearing camouflage
they are standing or walking toward a tree line all the way across the yard Beyond this tree line is a wooded area
now the two people are a good distance from Clint but he says by now from from what his mother had told him on the
phone and the size of the guy that he sees with his sister he's starting to think that that is not her
boyfriend at 7:55 a.m. Clint Bobo calls his sister's phone and gets the voicemail he also calls her boyfriend's
phone and gets the voicemail as well his mother calls the house again by now it's
8:00 he tells her what he saw the man and Camo or Drew and Holly walking into the woods his mother says oh my God
that's not Drew get a gun and shoot whoever that is she instructs him to get a gun and go outside and shoot whoever
that guy is with his sister yeah Clint says you want me to shoot Drew he's still you know now mind you Clint just
woke up minutes ago he is still wearing whatever he wore to bed so he throws on some clothes grabs a gun and his cell
phone and he goes outside first he goes over to where he thought the two were kneeling down and talking there he sees
what he describes as many drops of blood or a pool of blood this is somewhat near
Holly's car then he runs down to the tree line where he had seen what he thought to be his sister and the man and
Camo going into the woods there once he's there he sees nothing no one he hears nothing no one Clint is only there
for a short while maybe a minute or two when he hears the sound of an approaching vehicle he turns to see a
white pickup truck coming up the driveway to his house he runs out front it's his neighbor Kathy she says what's
going on down here my son heard a scream coming from your house Clint with his cell phone still in hand
he he then calls 911 he tells them he thinks someone has taken his sister now he's not on the
phone very long when he hears a police car pulling in see what happened here Clint's mother remember she she's at
work but she had actually already called 911 to report that something was going on at her home before she called Clint
the SEC second time right um a little before 10:00 a.m. the first uh from decanter County arrives at the
house they look for Holly but they can't find her uh after observing the scene authorities come to believe that Holly
Bobo was abducted as she tried to get in her car to drive to nursing school so actually some of this goes down before
Clint says he woke up uh to the sound of the family dog barking so at 7:40 a.m. a
close neighbor this is uh Kathy uh of the the bobos uh her son walked out of of his home to go to his construction
job he he's the one that hears the scream coming from the Bobo's house he tells his mother about it and then he
leaves to go to work so the neighbor's mother Kathy she called Karen Bobo at work and tells uh the school secretary
to relay a message about the scream this is also the time that Holly Bob Bobo would usually leave for school
to arrive uh about 7 55 a.m. the the school was rather close so we're lucky here captain in this situation because a
lot of times when we discuss an abduction there's a lot of questions there's a lot of you know time Windows
where things could have happened and we're not really sure a lot of questions um this situation we're lucky that there
are eyewitnesses um and so that timeline of events on on of the morning of April
13th 2011 was compiled on the basis of witness stat statements and phone records right and we have a pretty short
window of time there so really we're only left with two questions you know uh where is Holly and who was the man that
was seen with her uh that was taking her into the woods so the search for Holly Bobo began that morning on April 13 2011
as soon as the authorities arrived then we have hundreds of Searchers comb the woods and Fields in decer and Henderson
counties that day on foot and with allterrain vehicles and on Horseback as well um remember we said this was a
small you know small town America the 2400 people um I this is not small town it's it's dinky yeah and I believe that
there were reports that like they had like a thousand Searchers um you know most of them being
volunteers mhm so I mean that's practically half your population out there uh helping you look for this young
woman uh they were also searching for the man obviously that was spotted with uh by Clint Clint Bobo described the man
as being between 5' 10 and 6' tall and between 180 to 200 lb uh he says he was wearing a hat and camouflage clothing
from head to toe yeah he identified the pattern as either mossy oak or leafy wear um he
had I I'm glad somebody I'm glad he was able to describe that because if somebody asked me what kind of camo
somebody was wearing I would have been like green mhm um he said that the the man had dark hair sticking out from
under his cap uh that was long enough to cover his neck and touch his collar uh he did describe the male's
voice that he heard as very deep and a very low voice the the search area widened uh
each each following day they spent a lot of time searching near the Bobo's home and then north of there because it was
quickly learned by police that at 8:17 a.m. so just minutes after her abduction Holly cell phone pings it shows that her
cell phone was moving away from her home Tower heading north right now we have uh
John Graves he's a construction worker he assisted in the search for Holly Bobo by taking his four-wheeler and searching
the woods uh some sheds and barns uh the day after Holly went missing he made it
to a creek and he noticed something Graves found a polka dot lunchbox with an embroidered h on it okay uh Graves
said that he fished The Lunchbox out of the creek and he made phone calls you know stating you may have to get someone
out here this might be something and this actually turns out to be Holly's lunchbox so the search efforts on April
15th were centered on that area where the authorities found The Lunchbox it was found on uh Bible Hill Road or in
the Bible Hill Road area this is about 6 or seven miles from Holly's home the next day on April 16th volunteers looked
through wooded areas near Bible Hill Yellow Springs and near horny head Creek horny head Creek anyway let's let's move
on who named that street uh hoping to find school supplies or items that may have come from Holly's purse nothing was
found um two days after uh her lunchbox was found a TBI spokeswoman that's the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said
investigators had already received and were following more than 250 leads volunteers searched wooded areas
including uh a state park that was nearby as well as Henderson County Law Enforcement Officers were going door to
door talking to people near the Bobo's home at this point were they able to rule out her
boyfriend um yeah that that is that is certainly one one question that we have right away you know who is the man with
Holly uh was it the boyfriend we said that uh Clint thought that The Voice sounded to be uh Drew Scott the
boyfriend right um I think that um after further talking to Clint uh the authorities very quickly realized that
that was just an assumption that he made he didn't base that off of anything he did he actually didn't base it off of
the sound of the the man's voice he did he didn't think it sounded like Drew uh he didn't think the guy that he saw
looked like Drew uh he just made that assumption because he heard it was a a man's voice and and he said that you
know Holly other than her her her father Clint himself and a cousin didn't really
have any guy friends she didn't interact with a bunch of guys so you know hearing
a man's voice talking to Holly at their home he would just naturally assume that
it would be her boyfriend yeah and the only one that claims that they saw this man or heard this man was the brother
mhm so there have to be some questioning there yeah and we're talking about a small window of time she would have been
taken um you know the the first scream is reported to be at 7:40 7:42 a.m. and then by
8:00 um she's seen by her brother going into the woods the thing with Drew Scott
with her boyfriend is we said he was out hunting you know he's turkey hunting so
you would assume he's wearing some kind of camo uh he's nearby uh he would know where Holly would be so these things
don't look good for him however he his phone records were checked and and he called Holly just like he had
said he did to to confirm that he was allowed to be on the property he was seen by this person at the property
around you know just minutes before she was taken and then he he was hunting before going to work that day so he
would later report to work at his normal time so he doesn't really seem to have the opportunity uh to do so so we have
uh talking about the the search we have the Tennessee Wildlife uh resource agency go ahead we haven't really
discuss the brother uh we'll get to the brother um we have the Tennessee Wildlife Resource agency offered a site
imaging technology so investigators could scan the bottoms of nearby Lakes so we can see that I mean every effort
is being made here to locate this young woman very quickly after she she's abducted then on April 20th uh prayer
vigils are head and held and they are by this point it's 9 days later and there's
been no sign of Holly since she went missing the reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Holly Bobo
or an arrest of her possible abductor quickly grew as a part to push to produce a breakthrough in the
investigation that has by this time produced 280 leads but not named a single suspect M uh the Tennessee Bureau
of Investigation director Mark Gwyn said that there's no person of interest in this case and adding there's a family
out there that needs closure and it's up to us to give it to them we will let the
investigation go where the leads take us it may be in state it may be out of state but no matter where it is we're
going to follow that lead so that means that this very very early into the search in the invest investigative
efforts there was $75,000 reward being offered for details that might lead to a break in the case state law enforcement
agencies urged people this is kind of a public Cry for Help uh to take notice of
anyone whose whereabouts were unaccounted for on that morning when Holly went missing and changes in
Behavior since the incident saying it's possible the suspect missed work or appointments that day or the day or two
after unexpectedly he may also have excessively cleaned a car or ATV or suddenly sold a vehicle or possibly Cuts
or bruises correct the the suspect may be showing signs of anxiety or stress um someone could have taken a car or
allterrain vehicle into the woods near Holly's secluded home that was one thing that they had suspected uh the type of
terrain and nature of this community leads investigators to believe that the person responsible is from the area um
but we have uh Bobo's brother the lone witness was unable to get a solid description of the man now by this time
authorities have backed away from their assertion that Holly was dragged um but they do believe they don't believe that
she went willingly um they don't think she was dragged into the woods but this person was able to control her somehow
and force her to come with him um saying that they said that we feel she was in fear for her life so she was compliant
with her abductor demands as the extensive searches of the area continued um it started to provide the findings of
several items belonging to Holly uh they were found scattered throughout the area
now we mentioned the L The Lunchbox that was found but also found was a receipt with her name on it a card from her
school uh her cell phone and the SIM card which had been removed from the cell phone had been found now we would
later learn that at 9:25 a.m. on the day that she disappeared this was the last cell phone ping that came from Holly's
phone uh the the phone last pinged in the area where her phone was ultimately found in the SIM card found as well now
we said that they were searching near the Bobo's home and north of that you know they were kind of searching
everywhere but they were focusing on that are area because they could see her phone moving from that in that direction
now Captain you had mentioned the brother Clint Bobo now shortly after Holly's disappearance just within days
this case started to receive national attention and after that took place well we start to get a suspect in the
Public's eyes and it being one very close to Holly the only witness of that day Clint Bobo himself we'll get into
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if we got the boyfriend Drew who's cleared in this thing now we have our first suspect in the disappear of Holly
Bobo and it's her brother Clint and why is he a suspect because there's some question marks in his story he's the
lone witness to this whole thing and yet we have question marks within his story
and it almost makes it seem like it's not a believable story mhm because okay so let's walk through this situation
you're 25 years old you wake up and you hear who you believe to be your sister outside and your first thought is well
I'll call my mom and ask her if Holly had to go to school today or why she's not at school today yeah that doesn't
make any sense no open up the door to the house and go hey Holly why are you not at school today right um that I
think I think if you put a 100 people in a room that's what 99 of them are going
to do um so and the other person would just be you know the other person would sniffing their armpits be asked to leave
the room yeah uh so we have that question mark there and then on top of that once he's
communicated with his mother and she says hey that's not Drew out there MH go out there and shoot whoever this is he
but but even that part of the story doesn't sound believable at all to you know I'm going to call my mom to see why
my sister's not at school yeah and her first response is that's not true shooting
yeah well by this point she In fairness by this point she's told him to call 911
and then call the neighbors right um right but but if you hear his side of the story you're missing one key piece of
evidence and that is the neighbor already calling the mother right saying we heard a scream right so she she knows
more than what Clint does who's at home right but don't you I still think that you know in maybe go out and find out
who it is MH let's not jump to this idea of let's just shoot this person right like that that seems a little
far-fetched but who again who knows what you know there's probably little details
of the conversation that they're missing in the reports yeah and I and I'll back
up Clint on that because I I have to believe that if you're on the phone with your mom and you've just woke up uh and
she tells you to go outside and shoot somebody you're probably very confused as to what situation you just woke up at
I'd probably think this is my opportunity finally I get a I get to shoot out somebody's kneecaps there's
been a break in my life and here here it goes but the thing here is uh okay so we
have the question mark of why wouldn't he just open up the door and call out to his sister if he thought you know if he
wondered why she was still at home right so that's a question mark then we have the next thing of once he's told by his
mother to go outside and shoot whoever that is he's like well sure uh but but first I'm going to put on some clothes
um you know I see I've seen her going into the woods with some strange guy that I I can't identify right he's he's
dressed in camo now he doesn't see a weapon he doesn't see that this man has any type of weapon but his first thought
is you know what I'm going to I'm going to get dressed and then I'll go outside and and look into the situ situation but
everybody's different you know and it's like um if it's late at night and I hear
something you know coming from the basement or from the front porch area um my thought process has always
been let me run as fast as I can to towards the noise right and and hopefully um that gives me an advantage
and but it's different too because they they're on a little bit of land yeah and
when you're on a little bit of land your your mindset changes a lot for example I
was only on about 2 Acres but my whole house was or my whole cabin was surrounded by a Farmland mhm and I was
on my my deck one night and there was these bridges that you'd have to pass over this Creek mhm so I hear what
sounds like some somebody walking you know some footsteps some leaves that wasn't that scary
but you know but the thing is is why are they out there super late at night why are they on my
property and I didn't start getting freaked out till I actually heard the steps coming over my bridge oh now I am
not fully heck I might not even had any pants on I'm not really for sure but you
have to make a decision right then you know am I going to try to wait for this person going to come into the light what
am I going to do so me being dumb I jump off my my deck and start chasing the whoever this was right and I hear them
running back across the bridge uh and then they got up to the the property line and they jumped this little uh
metal fence that they we had but uh I still don't know why they were back there it could have just been a kid
messing around and you don't know who it was have no clue but what I'm saying is
you know if you if you know that there's a confrontation and your mother is telling you just to shoot him again
that's jumping a couple steps mhm you know I guess again and we're missing details of the reports I mean he might
asked her well why you know uh and when he says well I stopped to get dressed it
could have been as simple as I stopped to get shoes on or or something so you know but I
think it's one of those things where it's like you don't want to question uh the
brother of the girl that's missing right but at the same time there's a lot of things that lead themselves to go this
doesn't add up this doesn't make a lot of sense and so again him getting dressed is that him getting fully
dressed or is that him just putting on shoes you know mhm or or let me change my pants real quick or or maybe didn't
even have any pants on to begin with and maybe that would be another reason why he didn't just open up the door door you
know in his underwear and when hey what's going on right so who knows well he when I say he becomes a suspect I
have to believe that that's more in the eyes of the public you know in social media type situation because when people
look at this case like we said it got national attention and then they hear his story of course those there are
those question marks um well and this is a very small town like you said before I
mean it's not even 3,000 people everybody knows everybody so I think you know as far as law enforcement goes they
probably weren't looking at the brother right away because people would have known his character mhm and so I think
you know his character uh you know his relationship with his family plus his you know there's nothing out of the
ordinary for them but I think you know that's the one bad thing I think of the True Crime Community sometimes is that
uh we put shades on things we put shades on people that maybe shouldn't have been
there but we're looking you know from so far away mhm well the the family the Bobo family had Clint back they you know
they were outwardly saying he's not a suspect uh in fact one of the family members tweeted the following in
response to those accusations uh saying Holly's brother is not a suspect I'm sick of people saying that he is he has
been cleared for good reason shut up um oh that was the cousin right yeah and I think I'm fine with that statement um
because you have well because you have this situation shut up and and you got to think about it like this are there
question marks in his story yes MH um but let's let's break it down like this his mother left the home at 700 a.m. at
7: a.m. Holly was fine and doing everything she was supposed to be doing he's asleep and then at 810 an hour and
10 minutes later the police are on the scene 5 minutes before that the neighbor is there so now we only have a window of
an hour and possibly 5 minutes right that he would have done something to his sister and then been able to put her in
a place where nobody could find her and then return to the scene and and be there as the police arrive and people
start searching the area hundreds of people start searching the area um and but right but it's not ludicrous to
think that because I me obviously he has access to you know the surroundings and
he knows the surroundings better than most people so it's not ludicrous you know it's it's not impossible but but
it's but I mean when you when you really think about that small window of time and then on top of that you are able to
review his his phone records because here's where his story makes sense the story makes sense because he saying this
happened so this was my reaction and it was a phone call or a text right then this happened and this was my reaction
it was another phone call or another text so you can almost you can't you can't verify of those events that
happened but you can verify his reaction being exactly what he said you could also look into his cell phone pings as
well um and now we said that the investigators were going door too one thing that they were doing very quickly
in this investigation was selling Girl Scout cookies when yeah when they're going door to door they are checking on
local and known sex offenders right so early in the investigation the TBI focused heavily this is our other
suspect that we're going to talk about uh a person named Terry Britt uh because he fit the vague description given by
Clint of the man who who had abducted Holly yeah he was big into wearing camo Terry Brit was a known sex offender uh
he had been convicted of rape on three separate occasions he was at the he was serving serving time in prison uh I'm
sorry as of today he's serving time in prison for the 2008 kidnapping an attempted rape of another woman uh he
also had a history of stalking blonde women Holly Bobo was a blonde 20-year-old woman uh he was interviewed
by the TBI he had an alibi but Britt told investigators that his wife stayed home from work that morning to help him
install a bath mhm during the investigation TBI investigator Terry dius not to be
confused with Terry Dickus yeah two separate people uh he discovered that uh Brit's wife uh her name is Janet that
she had in fact gone to work that morning okay so we have Terry saying that his wife had stayed home with him
all morning and then when they look into it Janet had in fact gone to work right
but Terry had called her work and asked her to leave so she does come home at some point leaves early for the day but
Terry the investigator he's wondering you know what kind of coincidence is this where we have on the biggest news
day on the day that Holly Bobo goes missing the biggest news day in this County this known sex offender calls his
wife and asks her to leave work early right like this is a weird coincidence and the the strange thing here according
to the investigator Terry D uh Brit's wife Terry Brit's wife had been with him on previous occasions
where they believed Terry was stalking girls so so she was into it something like
that yeah okay um now Terry I guess there's I guess there's somebody for everybody
right maybe um but Terry sticks to his story that they were installing a bathtub at their home that that day mhm
uh that's his Alibi that's her alibi by now the show me your caul the Brits did produce a handwritten receipt for the
bathtub uh the investigators went to the store the store apparently had no record
of the sale uh so this looks very very strange the other thing too is very shortly after Holly's abduction Terry
Britt uh had cut his hair you know maybe trying to disguise himself we talked about those warnings and the the uh the
asking the public for help earlier right um they recorded his voice they played his voice for Clint Bobo who also
identified the voice sample as being very similar to the voice that he had heard that morning right so they're
really focusing in on this Terry Brit guy um and they what they ultimately end up doing is they wiretapped his home um
and they searched his home and the search turned up nothing and as far as the wir tapped goes um they were never
able to produce anything from that wir tap they didn't record anything from that wir tap that would implicate that
he did this crime so they cleared him no they didn't clear him but they they had
nothing to to suggest that their their hunch was right now the search efforts remained mostly quiet for about two
years following the disappearance uh but the search publicly ramped up again in April of
2013 when TBI agents found a purse um we mentioned the items found earlier however Holly's purse was not one of
those items right a neighbor of the boobos said that his dog brought home a muddy pink purse uh this was turned over
to TBI and then the following day on April 19th Karen Bobo Holly's mother she sees the purse in person and then
confirms that it is not Holly's purse but the case would not remain quiet for long because even though the purse found
was not Holly less than a year later this case is going to catch some heat again because on February 28th 2014 the
TBI executed a search warrant at the home of a man named Zachary Adams in Halliday uh Tennessee this is about 15
minutes from the Bobo's home uh t CBI says that it's too early at this point to name any suspects um they stated that
uh was there like a reason why they had a hunch about this guy I I'm unclear why
they decided to could just have been a called in tip possibly you know we said there were close to 300 tips at early in
the investigation two years later I can only imagine how many um uh tips they had received now a person that was
interviewed her name is hie Herer uh she said that she went to school with with Clint Bobo and she told the Jackson Sun
newspaper that she was part of a volunteer search group that had previously searched the woods in front
of Adam's home shortly after Holly's disappearance but she did state that they had never searched Adam's property
itself then on March 5th 2014 the TBI holds a news conference about the Holly Bobo case and announces that Adams Zack
Adams has been indicted on charges of aggravated kidnapping and felony first-degree murder but it's not going
to cool down yet Captain because in April of uh that same year April 29th well let's just go back for a second CU
so he's going to be indited on murder charges but we don't have a body we have no body so which makes it always tougher
and and to top that off they're charging him but they're not publicly stating why
they're charging him like they're not saying we found this evidence at his home we found this on his property and
this is why we're charging him so everybody's kind of a little bit clueless as to this this suspect Zachary
Adams and why they are charging him but in another news conference this is April
29 2014 the TBI holds another news conference and announces that Jason ay has been indicted on charges of
aggravated kidnapping and felony first-degree murder so now we have this is the situation we have Terry Brit the
known sex offender his home was searched they set up a wire tap they don't bring
any charges against Terry Britt no evidence right then we have a search that's executed on Zachary Adams home
and then shortly after that with no explanation he's arrested and charged with felony first-degree murder and then
a man that he knows Jason alry is later arrested and charged with the same with the same charges kidnapping and
first-degree murder right but it's going to get even more strange Captain because
on May 29th there are two brothers this is Jeffrey and Mark Percy um they're arrested and they're charged with
tampering of evidence an accessory after the fact okay so the TBI investigators believe that these two brothers have
knowledge of a video containing images of Holly Bobo alive after her kidnapping the investigators said that they believe
that Mark Percy and Jeffrey Percy know the location of this video which showed both tied up in crying I mean these
these people are just animals you know well at this point these are charges we we we don't know what they're guilty of
and again they're not producing any evidence but if they're guilty of this they're they're animals oh of of course
um some some of the worst kind um there were reports at this time that more indictments were likely um they say that
there are they are actively looking at bringing charges against additional individuals in the Holly Bobo case
stating that that won't necessarily be murder charges but there's enough out there uh one of those people who might
be charged is a man by the name of Shane Austin he's 29 years old now at this point in the case how many people were
involved I mean it just seems like it just keeps going well that's what's crazy about this thing at this point
Austin had not been charged but the but he is interesting because he he had a signed agreement with law enforcement
this granted um Austin immunity from criminal charges in exchange for his cooperation in the Holly Bobo
investigation but investigators say that Austin has not been honest in giving information so he's not been complet
completely truthful and not completely forthcoming well and then that should take immunity off the table right that's
why they they were hoping to get some charges against him now it's like we said it's initially it's unclear what
led LED law enforcement to suspect these men but the investigation turns well and
to be fair to law enforcement I mean they can't tell everybody everything right CU you know that could ruin their
case in court and the the most important thing is finding the individuals that are guilty of this and getting them
locked up uh for life you know and and sometimes by leaking that information that could you know uh hinder the the
prosecution well and you said how many people are involved in this thing how many people are they going to charge
well there's another man that we have to talk about because while it's why it's unclear how they got on to these
suspects or suspected these men it turns out that the investigation began with the arrest of Dylan Adams Dylan Adams is
Zachary Adams brother Dylan was arrested on unrelated weapons charges okay now following this arrest he told police
that he witnessed Holly Bobo alive with his brother Zach at Zach's home following her abduction in an affidavit
for a search warrant it it stated that Dylan told authorities that on April 13th 2011 he went to Zach's residence to
pick up his truck while he was there Dylan said that he had observed Holly Bobo sitting in a green chair in the
living room wearing a pink T-shirt there was Jason ay who was also there standing
just a few feet away he also told police that Zach was wearing camouflage shorts
a black T-shirt with the sleeves cut off and a pair of green Crocs you know the the funky shoes yeah um the guy sounds
like a real winner Dylan also reported that Zach had told him that uh Zach had raped uh Holly and videotaped
it all right so why didn't this guy do anything about it then well the um Zach and Dylan's
Dylan's family and others that were charged in this case um they were saying that the the arrests that were made were
made on the basis of this confession right but and we have seen from time to time those confessions against other
people to be completely false so but it doesn't seem like the detectives were interrogating him it seems like he was
just kind of forthcoming with this information once they're arrested on these weapon charges the um regarding
this confession let's get into uh we'll get into this Adam's Family a little bit
um Everybody snapping their fingers now uh but the thing here is the family is stating that you know
the arrestor are made on the basis of this confession but this is a confession by a mentally disabled man this being
Dylan Adams um and why is there always Confessions by the mentally disabled right or the mentally impaired I don't
know it's I don't know how that works its way that we cover when we when we write our true crime novel that's going
to have to be a part of the case mhm yeah that's that's going to be the Cornerstone of the novel The Cornerstone
of the investigation well so who is this Zach Adams dude because with him being the first arrest it almost appears like
he's some kind of ring leader in this thing um but he's mentally no no no he's the brother of the mentally disabled man
the um Dylan is the mentally disabled and when I don't know the whole you know details of that um what I've heard
stated by his family is that he um he can he can read but he can't do simple task like he can't tell time he can't
read a clock um so he's working on on a lower level not probably not much lower than you and I but speak for yourself
there you go uh but as far as Zack Adams goes um there was an interview with a man named Moss Miller he is the cousin
of Zachary Adams and Dylan Adams he says that uh in this interview that Zach is a
drug addict he's addicted to meth he says that Zack leeched on to his grandfather his grandfather uh would
give him money uh and at times had paid to bail Zack out of jail right I I do know that this well I do
know that this grandfather didn't think Zack was a saint because on record uh the grandfather had called 911 on his
grandson three times MH now Zach had a history of violence um and this is you know there's some strange little stories
within this big story here this is this is one of them um I'm uncertain of the outcome of this but Zack shot his own
mother in the leg after trying to rob her wow this this incident is a bit sketchy Captain because here's what I
know was he wearing Crocs at the time I don't know um but this guy's a real dick
nose so we have this like I said it's a sketchy incident so he's robbing his mother for drug money well this is the
way that that I you know the story that I have uh and and I just kind of simplified it for us here because it was
a lengthy story but didn't need to be um I guess Zack was demanding money from his mother he had a gun I don't know if
he was pointing it at her but when he was demanding the money from his mother his mother tried to slap the gun out of
his hand good for her so we're we are left wondering a bit did the gun you know go off or did he intentionally
shoot her either way it's his fault well here's the thing though in my opinion and I'm sure others will share this as
well uh this to me seems like an extremely addicted drug addict you know a violent drug addict he and he also
assaulted a uh guard at a jail at one point when he was in jail yeah and I feel for people that are addicted to
drugs but I mean like I said this guy's a dick knows well so at this point in the case the public and especially the
media involved in this thing they want to know why these guys were arrested and how could the police be certain that
Holly is in fact dead they've not found a body uh there would be several prosecutors that would end up working
this case and the prosecutor who was actively working the case back in 2014 this is prosecutor Stow uh he said to
the media that he wouldn't wouldn't be able to go into the details about the evidence against the men charged with
the killing um listen to this answer I like this answer because he's kind of cornered by these people at this point
mhm uh this is Stow responding to questions from the media back in 2014 he says I know folks have a lot of
questions I'm going to try to answer questions the best I can I just ask that you bear in mind that there is nothing a
prosecutor can say to a reporter that is going to help get a conviction but there
are about a million things that a prosecutor can say to a reporter that will thwart getting a conviction mhm now
sto had also added in that same interview that the TBI has done a very very thorough investigation Into The
Disappearance of Holly Bobo and adding that the case File is about 300 times the size of a normal murder case File
and that they are still receiving tips and information at that time right so we have some suspects arrested M we still
don't know where Holly is correct so here's what we need to do Captain one of these days we need to to develop True
Crime garage scorecards so people can keep track at home because some of these cases get a little tricky to keep up
with we have nobody we have plenty of people in custody it seems like the jail is full at this point because we have
Zachary Adams who's been arrested and charged with murder we have Jason ay his friend who's been arrested and charged
with murder we have Zach's brother Dylan who gives this this kind of vague uh confession that he had seen his brother
and heard his brother tell him things about Holly um so it looks like Dylan will probably be facing charges we have
these two Percy Brothers where other than them saying that they had seen a video or possibly you know knowing about
a V video they've never said that they've seen the video Just to be clear here um but police believe that they
have knowledge of this video and where it may be I don't know how work into the case other than that yeah and possibly
they were talking to somebody you know and then we have the one guy who is he he's got immunity in the case um but
they're also saying that they may charge him with something because he doesn't seem to be being completely honest with
police yeah and this dick knows is named Shane Austin right yeah so that same year after all of these arrest this
takes place in 2014 later that same year in September of 2014 there's a man named
Ernest uh Stone he goes by the name Larry so Larry Stone he is with his cousin and they are out in the woods and
they are looking for Jens sing plants uh this is a wooded area in Northern decanter County Tennessee while out
there something caught his eye it was a bucket which was like oddly placed in the middle of the woods right Stone said
that something told him to turn around so Stone turned around and he saw what he belied to be a human skull [ __ ] so he
called his cousin over and he tells his cousin please tell me that that's one of
those things they use in school and it's not real his cousin said he believed it
was a real skull so they called law enforcement um Larry Stone he was so emotional that about this situation he
had to give the phone to his cousin uh later he told reporters that he just he just broke down he couldn't even speak
yeah so police and forensic scientists from the TBI were sent in to investigate the area where the skull was found and
they found a lot of items near the skull they found an uh inhaler a camera keys with the letter H keychain on it a
ChapStick a small purse filled with writing utensils there was a thumb drive in there as well and lipstick now a
larger purse was also found covered in leaves it was almost bare buried in the ground these items were all found near
the human remains near these bones uh nearby other items were found at the top of a ditch this included a ring a hair
tie two earrings two pink fibers and a small lotion bottle and the sole of a flip-flop there were also some teeth and
rib bones that were found in this area as well now three shell casings were found so we have partial remains found
here investigators recovered the skull teeth and several rib bones and one shoulder blade from this area regarding
the remains the cause of death was ruled a homicide very quickly because they were able to identify a hole on the
right side of the skull as a gunshot wound so a bullet hole in the back of of the skull right on the right side with
the trajectory going left fractur fracturing her left cheekbone when it exited and the findings of this were particular
particular wound were consistent with a 32 caliber bullet um they weren't certain that it was a 32 caliber bullet
but they're saying that it's consistent and they added that uh nothing larger than a 36 caliber bullet could have
caused that actual hole now a wallet was also found at the scene with Holly Bobo's driver's license inside so of
course we think we found our victim after all these years right they'll do DNA testing
but it's most likely hers yeah you're exactly right they took uh DNA from Karen her mother and her father Darr uh
Dana and Clint Bobo as well to run against the remains and evidence that was found to determine if it was a match
to the rest of the Bobo's family uh family DNA the findings were consistent to that it would be a child of Karen and
Dana as well as a sibling of Clint Bobo in fact um they added that the the results of the test conducted were two
I'm sorry 21.8 billion times more likely that the remains found were the child of
Karen and Dana Bobo and a sibling of Clint Bobo rather than just you know some random member of the population
right now the owner of the property um said that it was not uncommon for people to hunt there without permission uh the
woods where these items were found led to almost 2,000 acres of inhabited Hardwoods uh the owner said that his
family was perturbed by the news of the find but but mostly perplexed by the nature of it and the timing saying that
I don't know what to think they've searched back there so many times for Holly Bobo and they are just finding
this now yeah that's a little odd was also a very sad day for the family mhm the owner added that the woods uh his
family owns were among those heavily searched for Holly when she first went missing back in April of 2011 uh the
owner said that logging roads connected to Bible Hill Road and other roads that led All the Way South to where Holly
lived on Swan on Swan Johnson Road so remember we said that they were looking North that backs up his statement that
they had been there several times early in this investigation but also giving a direct route to the
victim's home yeah like I said again it's just a sad day for the family and sad day for the community as well yes it
is and we have at this point now that we found the body we've already had these suspects that have been rounded up and
arrested and charged uh we need to find out more about these people what actually happened and what was their
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On April 13th, 2011 - 25 year old Clint Bobo wakes up just before 8am. As he starts his day he sees something that he cannot understand. When looking out the window of his home he sees a man dressed in camouflage walking his sister Holly into the woods. He calls 911 to report the incident. Before he hangs up the phone the police are already arriving. When police get there they quickly search the area. Holly and her abductor cannot be located. Tonight the Captain and Nic discuss a case that rocked a small town in Tennessee.Beer of the week - Country Roots by Tennessee brew worksGarage Grade - 4 out of 5 bottle caps

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Brief Summary

The episode details the disappearance of Holly Bobo, the investigation, and the suspects involved in her case.

Key points

Urgent Search Efforts. Authorities and volunteers mobilize quickly to find Holly Bobo after her abduction.
The Disappearance of Holly Bobo. A young nursing student goes missing, sparking a massive search effort.
Community Rallies for Holly. The small town unites to search for Holly, showing incredible support.
The Search for Holly Bobo. Investigators utilize advanced imaging technology to search for Holly Bobo after her abduction.
The Growing Reward. As days pass with no sign of Holly, the reward for information increases significantly.
Suspicions on Clint Bobo. Clint Bobo, Holly's brother, becomes a suspect due to inconsistencies in his story.

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