Holly Bobo /// Part 2 /// 147 | Forensic Files

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grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] [Music] 20 year old nursing student Holly Bobo
went missing April 13 2011. now where we left off we had gone through the following years and we have
a situation where we have several men who are arrested this seems to be the the cause for these arrests seems to be
a confession from Dylan Adams his brother Zachary Adams is the first one arrested and charged with first degree
murder and then we have their friend Jason Autry who is arrested and charged with first degree murder two more
Brothers Mark and Jeffrey Percy are arrested for accessory after the fact and then we have Shane Austin who seems
to be working with the police in some form now he was granted immunity early on in this case but we have the police
and investigators saying that they may see charges against Austin at some point because he doesn't seem to be completely
honest and completely for forthcoming to help them in their investigation now later that year after three and a half
years for of looking for Holly Bobo her remains are discovered in September of 2014. when we left off yesterday we said
that we were going to get into these suspects a little more and that's exactly what we're going to do so now we
mentioned that Shane Austin we said that he was offered immunity in exchange for
information regarding the location of Holly Bobo's body uh police checked Shane's phone records and those
indicated that Shane Austen was in contact with Zachary Adams several times on the day of Holly's kidnapping and the
police believe that Austin helped dispose of this body now this agreement between Austin and the authorities
granted him immunity from various charges in the case including all charges arising out of the disposal
destruction burial and or concealment of Holly Bobo's deceased body it also included a provision granting Austin
immunity for drug-related criminal activity not to include any drugs administered to Holly Bobo the agreement
hinged on Bobo's body being recovered from the place where Austin said it was buried that didn't happen so then the
agreement was withdrawn after Austin was unable or unwilling to lead them to the
body yeah the district attorney released a statement that said Austin has not been completely truthful forthcoming and
Cooperative as to any and all aspects of this investigation after that Shane Austin's attorney filed a complaint
against the state asking for an immediate and permanent injunction preventing the state from charging him
in this case so then in February of 2015 by now like I said we have Holly's remains recovered and even before that
we have people charged for the murder charged for the kidnapping and some to accessory 3 after the fact a man once
thought to be a witness in the Holly Bobo case was found dead in an apparent suicide in Florida the body of Shane
Austen was found in a hotel room in Bartow Florida there was no sign of Foul Play and evidence pointed to Austin
committing suicide Austin's attorney blamed the suicide on the continual threats of the prosecution as well as
the Witch Hunt style of Investigation where according to Austin's attorneys authorities relied on rumors instead of
evidence Austin's attorney insists he had nothing to do with the murder of Holly Bobo and that Austin cooperated
fully with the police all right what's your thoughts on this okay well like I said he seemed to have been working with
the police for some time right for whatever reason either he was unwilling or didn't exactly know the whereabouts
of her body because it's not found where he said it would be found or it's possibility that they moved it possible
as well correct now so his ties to this case he has several ties to this case one being that he is a very good friend
of this Zachary Adams who we already said had been charged with first degree murder at this time he's actually the
cousin of Jason Autry who was also charged with first-degree murder so we have this confession from Dylan
Zachary's brother and then we have Shane working with the police they're gathering information but at this time
in the investigation these guys are all kind of turning on one another and each one is saying that so and so had did
this so and so did that I had nothing to do with it we got this circle of idiots
all kind of turning on one another well the facts are that each of these players
or each of these suspects were involved on some level but where they're turning on each other is uh kind of let me point
the finger at you so that makes me look less guilty like yeah I did some bad stuff but I didn't
kill her right now the the two uh Shane Austen the guy that committed suicide uh he he hung
himself in that uh that uh down in Florida in a hotel room now uh he and Zachary Adams who like I said seems to
be the center point the focal point of their investigation maybe he's the ringleader of this group of idiots but
uh they seem to have some kind of um drug ring going on in Tennessee they they fancy I'm guessing they fancy
themselves some kind of some kind of fake gang um they seem to run around a lot together and uh were known to be meth
addicts uh they cooked meth um they sold drugs to people um and then we have you know as I said
he's the cousin of the other guy who's been charged in the murder and it seems that that the real connection of Jason
Autry to Zach Adams and his cousin Shane Austin seems to be his own drug addiction it seems to me like he was
going to these guys to purchase drugs on a regular basis right now let's get into
those two brothers remember we said we have Jeff and Mark Percy that in July of 2014 the Percy brothers were arrested
and charged with accessory after the fact and tampering with evidence they were arrested on the basis of
allegations made by Jeffrey Percy's former roommate Sandra King King alleged that in May of 2014 Jeff had shown her
part of a video showing Zach Adams assaulting Holly Bobo who was tied up and crying
she told police that she only watched a small clip and did not see an actual sexual assault during this clip
police arranged for Sandra King to make a recorded phone call to Jeff where Sandra told Jeff over the phone that
video of Holly if it had been you in the video I would have watched it to which Jeff replied I know Sandra King also
alleges that Jeff's brother Mark was the one that shot the video but to be clear
they are saying that they have knowledge that this video exists or existed at least at one time uh when Sandra said
that she had saw it now authorities had not located this video both brothers denied that any type of
video anything remotely like this existed at all and Jeff Percy denies knowing the other men who have been
charged in the crime Jeff claims that he was unable to hear Sandra during that recorded phone call conversation and
that his ex-wife's name was also Holly the alleged videotape as I said has not been found police have analyzed over 20
phones over 20 cell phones but have not found any video on those phones charges against both men were eventually dropped
yeah the charges were dropped but karma will catch up to him um here's the thing we talked about John
Dylan Adams uh he goes by Dylan Adams he's the brother of Zachary Adams um well just to kind of let's kind of
clear up this suspect pool very quickly before we move on to another one so we have all these suspects we have one
who's dead and gone so we can kind of forget about him he's no longer a concern we have the two brothers that
were accessory after the fact uh police believed but eventually they dropped the
charges against the Percy brothers so let's go ahead and push them out and off to the side we're getting a smaller
group to be concerned with now one of those people was still this Dylan Adams uh he's the one that confessed to
observing Holly Bobo sitting in a green chair in the living room of Zachary Adams home wearing a pink T-shirt and he
also says that Jason Autry was standing just a few feet away when he saw Holly Bobo he also told police that Zach was
wearing camouflage shorts that black T-shirt with the sleeves cut off and the the green pair of Crocs Dylan also
reported that Zach had told him that Zach had raped Holly and videotaped it eventually Dylan would be charged with
rape in this case related to this case Dylan later recanted the confession and alleged that he was coerced right but
his confession led to the arrest of Zachary Adams Jason Autry and Shane Austen many of the details can contained
in that confession were eventually found to be inconsistent with the known evidence at the time
plus the prosecution has been heavily criticized for their refusal to produce evidence against the defendants missing
multiple Discovery deadlines and for making frequent changes to the charges against the defendants with little or no
explanation at all the other complaint is how long it took for the state to share evidence with the defense of these
characters so the arrests take place in early 2014 but it wasn't until July of 2015 that it was announced that the
defendants finally received access to all of the evidence against them all right now we have to fast forward to
this year this is from News 5 in Nashville uh the state granted immunity to Jason Autry who was accused of
killing and kidnapping nursing student Holly Bobo a shocking development that legal analysts said means Autry likely
knows something about Holly Bobo's death according to court documents Jason Autry
Victor Dinsmore Michael Alexander and Shane Austin were all granted immunity agreements in this case why is this
important because we're finally going to go to trial in this case they have charged Zachary Adams with murder and
his trial is was approaching at this time now we said Shane Austen who was somehow
connected to Holly's death he was the one that committed suicide a few years ago
Autry Jason Autry who was recently granted immunity uh he was already in prison when he was charged with his
alleged role in Holly Bobo's murder he was serving time for federal gun charges of some sort uh Jason Autry has always
maintained his innocence though the agreement that they reached will protect Autry by keeping his testimony from
being used against him Autry could still be prosecuted for his alleged role in Holly's death but not for anything that
he may testify about against Zachary Adams right so this move by the prosecution obviously points and proves
how crucial Jason Autry's testimony will be for the state's case against Zachary
Adams the body was so decomposed that it was probably hard to get a lot of forensic evidence off the remains you're
exactly right now last month in September of 2017 Zachary Adams was to the first to go on trial the
prosecution's case was um circumstantial we'll say uh as there was no DNA or other forensic evidence
tying Zachary to the murder Jason Autry of course was the state's key witness and on day four of the Holly Bobo murder
trial he took the stand and here's a clip from his testimony [Music] that you pulled into his driveway
and tell the jury what happened pulled into the driveway I got out the first thing I noticed was a burn
barrel that was burning the second thing was Dylan was standing in the doorway with a shirt off
Shane was walking around saying y'all need to hurry up and get the goddamn hell out of here
and holstered on his side was a firearm I'm sorry I can you repeat please your life statement
The holster you couldn't hear yeah when I pulled in there was a large fire burning
in a burn barrel Dylan Adams was standing at the door of the trailer I'm just moving it so you can tell them
Dylan Adams were standing at the door of the trailer with his shirt off Shane was walking around in the yard
hollering y'all need to hurry up and get the goddamn hell out of here with a firearm
poster on the right side Zach was standing at the door of a white four before Nissan Frontier
I instantly got to Mr Austin and bought a peel about a morphine 100 milligram walked directly back to the PT Cruiser
broke it in half cooked it down and chopped it a few minutes later I got out and walked
back to the four before Nissan where Zach was standing at the door and he said I need
you to help me bury this body and I told him I said yeah damn I hate to tell kill a little JoJo
and he said Jason he said that he said training he didn't say Jason my nickname was trained he said Train That's Holly
Bobo who's JoJo why do you think it was Jojo some days before that Joe owed some money for some pills
him and Jack his enemies they was talking about killing him for the drug debt was there also another relationship
between or another connection between Joe and Zach Shane was there a woman connection between Joe
and Zach did you know what there's a child most of them have a child with the same
woman oh the child one child got oh abused Maybe what'd you do I was clueless all right
I didn't know Holly Bobo since come to know who she was or yes well pictures TVs pictures and stuff like
that so for another about the body that was in the back of the truck I did not describe for the jury where the body was
and once you did after that the body was laying in a multi-colored Farm blanket Farm style blanket it
looked like multiple colors wrapped in the blanket laying up against the back say the truck is sitting here it's
laying against the back instead of laying long ways it's laying this way from the moment
you help with Holly versus hip help with the batch of Meth were you willing yes it was
what you said what he said he said he asked me what happened buried the body and I said yeah
I said I will and he said but I said there's under I want to leave my car somewhere else besides here
instead of shame or Dylan to know that I got involved in this so I told him I said meet me at Yellow
Springs Church I'll talk to PT Cruiser in there and I'll get in the truck with you all right
and so while you were having this conversation with Zach where was Dylan Dylan never came out of the trailer
continuing putting stuff into the burn barrel can you say putting stuff into the barn
Barrel could you see what he was putting into the burn barrel the smell was an apparent
of camp fuel and mayor there was a large Blaze you could the area was tacked and you could smell
the smell of a meth lab burning okay I understand what you could smell but could you see what he was putting in I
could not say I never I never made it that far down I never made it past the door
of that fought before front to uh I never made it past the truck across the truck door
you said earlier that Shane was saying y'all got to hurry up and get out of here did he say why
he had a satellite oh he said there was a guy coming to install the satellite and he didn't know
what time he'd be there so you had him saying it's not like guy Cable Guy whatever's
coming and throwing things in the burn barrel you had Dylan first at the door with no shirt on and then never came out
correct that's great this conversation took place between you and Zachary Adams there between his truck and your Cruiser
that's correct okay [Music] [Music] so what happened I got into PT Cruiser I backed out
went to Yellow Springs Church pulled in when I walked out to the road he was backing out of 30 Yellow Springs Road
he picked me up I got in the truck and we go towards 641 down P Road hey Mr Audrey you're you've now gotten
into the truck with the guy who says there is Holly Bobo is dead and wrapped up in the
truck bed so tell the jury what you guys talked about as we got down going down the road I
brought a change of tension and there were no shovels or pickaxes in the truck all right we're gonna bury our body with
no shovels or pickaxes he looks at me and like he's lost and I said I don't know of no word a man
can just pull up and get a shovels and pickaxes for the dead body in the video continue on yes
yes we go across you say there's nothing to us there's nothing that there's nothing to dig
alternative suggested by me I told him that some years back that I had been underneath Interstate 40 Bridge
and there was a body floating and I told him I said the only thing holding the body up
was the intestines yes and we said we said of course that direction why did you mention about his clothing
what did you talk about specifically what was your plan of disposing of Holly's body
Mr gutter put her in the deep end of the slew I told him I said put her in the deep end that slew
Turtles and she had to heat it up just like that was the opportunity so did you all the only thing holding
the other body up was the gases and the gut I mean it was floating just like I'm
from the river you see a dead fish the only thing holding its up is the gases and the intestines that's the same as it
was you get the guts out down it goes and you had a good idea I understand yeah yes ma'am
so where did you all go and just driving Mr Adams was driving we went to 133 I believe is the
we went to the 133 where the interstate Bridge crosses the Tennessee River underneath it
we made a loop of the entire area to scope it out to make sure no one was in the area
there's a boat ramp small mile or so from there also there's a beach and uh we've circled the boat round
down by the beach turned around come back out not back out but back up to the bridge
made the circle and stopped in a pile of rip wrap let's rip wrap it's a large Limestone Rock
generally about this size changes but you're using handset to show something larger than a dinner plate
that's correct and you said you stopped beside we're back into a pile is this an area that
you had been to before that's correct is this an area do you know whether or not uh
Mr Adams had been to that area before I believe he had well did you tell me where to turn or do you know where to go
he went on his own okay put it backed up to that pile a rip wrap approximately the distance of
this to to that we didn't back all the way against it when you say this to that he just indicated the witness box to the
jury box yes approximately five six foot room room to get out I got out of the truck
with a right hand and I grabbed the upper torso from Miss Lobo Jack come around let the tailgate down
I brought the upper torso to the end of the tailgate where he grabbed the legs and I set the head the upper hand
on the rip wrap dial in the bed of the truck there appeared to be a small amount of
blood can you use your hands to describe what you mean by small amount the the bed of the truck was raged
like the bed of the truck and it looked like it looked as if it had just lightly skid it over
and the blanket at the upper end of the Torso that I grabbed had a small blood spot
maybe the size of an orange maybe the size of an orange did you look inside the blanket never
did you unwrap never how were you able to swing her body around and you get the top part
Zachary Adams gets the bottom part without unwrapping the blanket I grabbed the blanket just like you
would this shirt right here the body didn't weigh very much I was in pretty good shot I say shape
I'm a pretty good sized guy I grabbed a blanket just like that right there and walk to visit
there's a tailgate of the truck at that time he grabs the legs we set the body down
with the upper torso on that pile of rip wrap that y'all just show and we just discussed
[Music] what happened Mr Adams goes to the driver's side of the pickup I'm standing
I'm standing over the top of them my hand on my knees she being right here okay at that time
I see your foot move ment and the sound of distress that sound like um come out of the doors come out come from
the blanket at that time I walked to the door to the passenger side door of the pickup that Mr Adams was digging
in a fanny pack and I told him I said this [ __ ] [ __ ] is still alive we just stopped for a second
I'll walk to the front of the truck and I told Jack I said she's heard my name called and heard me
talking you know at that time he Wheels around walks back to the driver's side pickup
out of the floorboard pickup people was a pistol the same pistol it was hosted on Mr Austin's side at 30
Alice Springs Road and I said whoa let me ask you to stop here did you say whoa because you thought you were gonna
save her life and stop him from doing something bad or did you say whoa for another reason I said well for another
reason to go look and I'll run all the way across here to about this area and look that way to see if anything was
coming how far could you see maybe 250 yards it's a long pretty long stretch I'm right here to the next curve
I looked around and when I looked back around for students are standing let me stop
you said you walked around did you stay down there and then come back stay back here working back and forth watch
it what about looking the other way there was nothing coming I look back this way
and I told him there was nothing coming when did you look just you gotta look down here and wasn't
nothing coming okay I looked around and I told him there was nothing coming close it's clear
something to that to that effect and at that time boom we're going inside the gun went out
and it sound like to me but this shot three four times underneath that bridge I had done made
it back I had done started my way back this way and it sounded like boom boom boom
underneath that bridge was just one shot but it echoed underneath that bridge all
the way down that damn River Bottom foreign so that's the testimony of Jason Autry
describing how he helped Zachary Adams with Holly Bobo's body and then discovering that she was still alive and
Zack shoots her in the back of the head what happens after this is fearing that the noise of The Gunshot May attract
attention they decide to load her body back into the truck and then at that point Zach drops Jason
off because now this is a this Jason Autry is a strange dude he's he's a scary dude and
there's plenty of reasons why um first of all you hear him say you know he thought the body was somebody
else thought it was JoJo because this guy owed money to Zach and his friends right
and when he's told no that's not JoJo that's Holly Bobo and the the the state asked him you know did that
mean anything to you or did you care he said simply says no he didn't care whose
body that was and that's because why one he's a cold-hearted bastard but then on top of
that he's this dude has like a 500 a week drug habit right so the only thing going through his mind
and according to Jason Autry when he shows up there he didn't know that he was going to see
a body he didn't know that he was going to be asked to help dispose of a body or
who it was right all he's thinking about when he's presented with the problem that Zach and these other guys have in
front of him is that you know what if I help these dudes they're gonna they're gonna owe me big time right and
this is my these are the guys that I go to to get my fifty dollar morphine pill 100 milligram morphine pill that he cuts
into half he cooks it up with some meth and then he shoots it now he said that his meth his meth would typically last
him two maybe three days one pill would usually last them about one day he would
do this twice a day and several times a week he would buy one of these pills so really all he's thinking about all all
he's doing is they're gonna owe me big I can feed my drug habit for free for a while because I'm helping these these
monsters well get rid of this body even if it's not for free this is my connection so I don't want to burn this
bridge you know and the the you know I said why he's a scary dude but he's a strange dude
because it seems to me like Jason Autry the only thing that he is afraid of now mind you this guy gave about six hours
of testimony and you learn when you listen to this testimony the only thing he seems to be
afraid of is his girlfriend because the whole reason why he has Zach drop him off before Zach goes and dumps the body
is because he's supposed to meet his girlfriend for lunch and he starts saying to Zach at some point look dude I
got this place that I have to be at this time you got to drop me off you got to get me back to my PT Cruiser so I can go
on my lunch date well it's sad because it you know the way he talks about it is so
nonchalant like this is not that big of a deal you know these these actions that we did
and this these events that you know he lived through they're not a big deal at all and that
that this person it didn't matter who who this person was they just don't matter the only person
that matters is him and his drug habit uh anyway Autry would testify that Zack later said that he took Holly Bobo's
body and left it in a spot near a place called kelly Ridge now the part we didn't get to yet is the actual
abduction what was presented at trial is that Zach Shane and Dylan so not Jason Autry not the guy that we just heard
from but Zachary Shane and Dylan went to Holly's residence supposedly to teach Clint Bobo how to make meth
right uh according to this story Holly came out of the home she's screaming and hollering at the guys and that's when
the men decided to abduct her uh the prosecution presented the this situation that Shane Austin the guy that hung
himself in the hotel uh was actually the man that Clint had seen walking Holly Bobo into the woods uh the reason why
they presented this is he's the only one that would fit the size of the person described by Clint
um and there's no easy way to say this but then the the three men Zachary Adams Dylan Adams and Shane Austin
they they sexually assaulted Holly in a barn that was owned by the grandmother of both Shane Austen and Jason Autry
remember their cousins right um it's not well you could call it sexual assault they raped her and right
her [ __ ] pieces of [ __ ] so the reason for this whole this all right look I watched enough of
this trial and I and I watched enough of Clint Bobo on the stand and seen him in
interviews closer to the time that his sister went missing in her abduction they weren't there to
you know I hate to break it to you bad guys but I maybe it makes for a good story for you dudes but you weren't
there to to teach Clint how to cook meth you weren't there for that reason these
three guys went there with the sole purpose of abducting this girl and had she not been there that day they would
have went back on another time and attempted to do it that day yeah it just so happened to be that Clint was home
and it and they could read that in the newspaper that Clint was there and described who was taking her into the
woods so they came up with a good story so when they needed somebody to help them dispose of a body it makes them
look like hey we didn't premeditate this thing this this thing just kind of happened
the other thing that comes up in uh Jason Autry's testimony is that at some point
Zachary Adams asked Jason Autry if he would kill his brother Dylan the reason for this is at some point in
the case you know we said Dylan had spoken to the police and gave them some kind of confession
well he was also kind of he wasn't very quiet about what had happened he was kind of telling other people as well
and Zachary Adams started getting worried and nervous that his brother was going to get them all caught so he asked
Jason Autry if he would kill Dylan Adams to which Jason Autry says let me think about it and I'll get back
to you okay um and at some point he actually takes Dylan on a he says a fishing trip on a boat
um and they're out fishing and Jason says on the stand I thought quite hard and good about making good on that on
that deal of killing Dylan when I was out there with him where the particulars of that remember we said that Zachary
Adams had leeched on to his grandfather and he would he would use him for money and to help him get out of trouble well
the grandfather had quite a bit of land and owned several homes and had quite a bit of money as well
Zachary Adams knew that his grandfather was close to dying he was he was in poor
health he was old and the promise that he made to Jason Autry was you know you kill my brother
and then after my grandfather dies I will give you some of the property maybe a house and split some of the money with
you right but he doesn't offer this deal just one time though no no he he he there's a few follow-up questions you
know every time they are together uh he he's going to ask Jason again Zach's going to ask Jason again what do you
what do you think about my offer what do you think about the deal that we talked
about and there's one particular time uh after their smoking meth together and Jason Autry tells Zach after
repeated questions about if he would kill Dylan he says you know what I I might take you up on that offer uh but
if I do you might be next saying that he would kill Zachary Adams uh some other evidence that was
presented at the trial there were two pieces of paper remember we talked about a receipt and a card from her school
that was found yeah these were actually found near they were found on a road where Shane Austin lived he's one of
he's the person that that hung himself uh the receipt was about 75 feet from Austin's driveway so they believed that
they went back there shortly after the abduction several other Witnesses testified that Zachary Adams made
statements implicating himself in Holly's disappearance one was Rebecca Erp this is Zach's ex-girlfriend she
says that Zach told her that he would tie her up just like he did Holly Bobo and nobody would ever see her again now
a 32 caliber Smith and Wesson long revolver was presented as evidence at trial now remember we said Victor
Dinsmore this is a guy that we haven't spoken about hardly at all but he is somebody that lately that just months
before the trial he's one of these guys that was granted immunity as well this is why because he led police to a
gun and said that Shane Austen and Jason Autry traded him the gun for drugs uh the gun was found under water so no DNA
or fingerprints were on the weapon you know this case I mean every case is difficult but this
one and and probably with everything going on in the world I mean is there any hope for Humanity at all uh
well I think you know let's talk about there's a people out there that have come to Zachary Adams defense
and said that he's innocent and of course his defense attorneys are going to try to
um make that happen in trial there are a lot of things that they presented and we'll go through those real quickly
first of all Holly Bobo's remains were found in a different location than what Jason Autry
had told the police it's unclear how the body ended up where it was ultimately found you had said earlier and I agree
with you maybe they moved it um meaning Zachary Adams and and the other guys I believe that you're probably right on
this situation I bet you that they they probably panicked and went back and moved it to a different location we've
seen this before in other crimes there was a palm print that was found on Holly's car
um all four men including Jason Autry Zachary Adams uh Dylan Adams Shane Austen they were all ruled out as
having contributed to that palm print but that palm print may have nothing to do with the actual case with with her
abduction at all yeah you can it could be anybody's palm print yeah the defense alleged that the state used unethical
investigatory techniques to coerce a confession from Dylan Adams so pay attention because this is where it gets
very strange in 2014 Dylan was arrested on federal gun charges that would have ended in a lengthy prison sentence the
prosecutor who was also handling the Holly Bobo case arranged a no jail plea deal on the condition that he go live
with a retired police officer this is Dennis Benjamin who Dylan Adams did not know at that time now five weeks later
after living with Dennis Benjamin Benjamin called 9-1-1 to report that he has someone in his home that wants to
confess to the murder of Holly Bobo despite the fact that this confession led to the arrest of the men much of
what he confessed to it did not match the evidence Dylan Adams States um he's a mentally disabled man
um and that they kept him up all night and would not give him anything to eat or drink
and this ended up in Dylan basically saying what do you want me to say right to the investigators uh claiming that he
would have said anything at that point um Jason Autry testified to a series of events that was drastically different
from Dylan Adams confession he testified that he himself was not involved in the
abduction okay so let's let's think about that for a minute we have this situation we have this Dylan Adams who's
eventually charged with rape and he's going to face trial at some point on these charges we said that he gave a
vague confession to police at that time he's saying it's under duress but you know know we've seen many times in a
case where somebody that is actually guilty of a lot more things will sit down with police and they will admit to
some of the things right and they might tell you who was involved but they're not actually going to implicate
themselves in any major crime being committed so I personally here's my vibe and what my gut tells me after watching
all of Jason Autry's testimony I believe him to be true I believe that that the majority of what he's saying is
fact and what actually happened right I have to believe that Dylan Adams in his vague confession that he gave to police
was there was probably some elements of truth to it um he named the people that would
ultimately be tried for this murder um but I think he was kind of making it up and
kind of weaving the story to paint himself in a much better light and therefore those stories are not going to match
right yeah now remember the Percy Brothers these were the ones that um the police thought had knowledge of some
kind of videotape showing Holly Bobo after she had been abducted that whole story
never came up in trial the state never brought it up uh there's no pending charges against the Percy
brothers so that thing seems to have kind of washed away um maybe it was just something that the
police got wrong um I can't fault them if they got it wrong maybe maybe they got it right I
don't know but this this Sandra King seems to have reason to maybe want to throw Jeffrey Percy under the bus
um apparently her son who's been in prison for like 14 years he still has 24 years left on his
sentence um there's rumor and rumbling that maybe she was getting some kind of deal to uh
implicate these two guys right and Holly Bobo's murder for a lesser sentence for
her son well it's this case is difficult because you know I applaud uh law enforcement
you know to try to do anything you can to um put bad guys behind bars but you have to do it legally right and
and you also can't you know how is that fair to the you know there's no justice there if if
somebody's going to give you a false confession so their son can get a lighter sentence that person had nothing
to do with this case they shouldn't be involved you know you know if if your mother wants to come forward and and
testify in a case fine but that has nothing to do with you now Zachary Adams defense alleged that
Jason Autry concocted this whole story in exchange for a reduced sentence uh and that only some of his story could be
corroborated well one thing regarding his testimony Jason Autry's testimony when he's asked why are you here why are
you testifying today he says because I'm hoping for uh leniency in my case I mean he's he's
outright about it he's like look dude I'm telling you what happened because now I'm going to beg the court for Mercy
when I go to trial uh for my involvement in this case yeah uh the state would also point out that
none of the men Accused by Jason Autry matched the witness description given by Clint Bobo
um they were all either Too Tall too slim or too heavy to be the abductor um as we said Shane Austin was the
correct height and weight but Clint described a man with dark hair that had covered his neck Shane had short red
hair um the problem with this and this is what the defense would claim is that you
know who that physical description matches it matches Terry Britt so Terry Britt he's the stalker sex offender
rapist that we've talked about in episode one his name appears in this trial because Zach's defense attorney
contends that the initial suspect in the case was Terry Britt and they said he's
the real killer uh noting that he had never been cleared by the TBI and in fact uh stating that it appears that the
government has more evidence of his guilt than it does of the three defendants charged in this case
according to John Walker who is a U.S Marshal Terry Britt actually offered a plea to plead guilty to murder at one
point uh Terry Britt could not be excluded as a contributor of the palm print that was found on Holly's car come
on like we said before or or at least I thought before I don't know if I said it
out loud but it's like when he came up as a suspect there was just so many things that at some point it's like this
is not a coincidence anymore something's going on here with this individual and it this case is very difficult because
with so many drug addicts it's like who do you believe right and and like and can you even believe
anything they say because of what state of mind were they in you know because like his whole story starts off with
yeah I went in got some drugs and I'm super drugged up and now I walk out and go hey uh you need me to help you bury
somebody all right you know but you just got done telling me you just did heroin
yeah so I I but again I can only go with my gut I sat through many hours of his testimony and I I believe Jason Autry to
be telling the truth or 95 of his testimony to be yeah the actual truth is very chilling I do want to uh what was
the verdict the verdict well on September 22nd of this year a jury found Zachary Adams guilty on all charges
including first degree murder especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape on September 23rd he was sentenced
to life in prison without parole and to consecutive terms of 25 years for both the kidnapping and rape convictions now
Jason Autry and John Dylan Adams also face charges in this case they will be tried separately uh and they have both
pled not guilty as did Zachary Adams now regarding before we move on though Captain I do want to mention that Terry
brick guy who's been sentenced to prison for multiple rapes yeah it's been known
to stalk women he was considered a suspect in this case I think he I think he should that was good work on the
police department's end and the tbi's end however I think at the end of the day they got their right guy and guys
for the Holly Bobo murder but this dude is set to be released from prison he's currently in prison right now but he's
set to be released next year from prison this is not a guy that you want on the streets this is not a guy that you want
living in your neighborhood with your daughters your wives your sisters your mothers any female at all
um if you live in that area I know here in Ohio we have block parole programs where you can sign petitions and give a
quick reason why you think an individual should not be paroled uh if you live in
the state of Tennessee and they have that there I recommend you sign your name on Terry Britt's paper yes sign
your real name sign your fake name sign your mom's name your cat's name yes my new cat's name
Jesus I I don't know I'm hey I've been bummed out by cases before but I don't know well so we have two
more trials in this case it'd be interesting to see what comes out because Jason Autry was not really
allowed per the agreement that they had and this and and what you can say and can't say in court he wasn't really
allowed to accuse Dylan Adams of much because Dylan was not on trial um but he will be so to be interesting
to see what Jason Autry says about uh Dylan Adams as I'm I'm guessing he would be the state's key witness in that trial
as well so it'd be interesting to see what sentences these guys get I think they're all very guilty and like you
said cases have made you depressed this is the thing I sat through a lot of this trial and and I I gotta tell you
man it has affected me terribly I I feel like I have some kind of mild form of PTSD from this thing I can only imagine
well I can't I can't imagine right what the Bobo family uh I mean one for this experience to happen to
lose a daughter and then so many years later to have to sit through the trial and hear what happened
I mean I just you're it just breaks your heart it absolutely breaks your heart well so hopefully there's updates soon
on these trials and now once we hear something uh we'll let you guys know as well uh do we have a recommended reading
for this week uh yes Captain I'm excited about this one this just came out about
a week or so ago I'm in the middle of it right now I'm loving it this week we are
recommending murder in Visalia the coin dealer Killer by Ron colliard uh this is
about a stamp and coin dealer who was gunned down in front of his shop I'm sorry inside his shop the police linked
this murder to a death in another jurisdiction because just two months earlier the body of a coin dealer in
another city was found locked in the trunk of his car this book is great it covers the entire investigation from
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recommended page at truecrime garage.com hey buddy why don't you turn on that Happy Gilmore or take a load off and try
to cheer up and how about you try not to call me for a week all right I'll see you back here next week in the garage
until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music]

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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 covers the Holly Bobo case, detailing suspects, confessions, and the trial of Zachary Adams for murder and rape.

Key points

The Disappearance of Holly Bobo. 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo went missing on April 13, 2011. Her case involves multiple suspects and confessions.
Confessions and Arrests. Several men are arrested in connection with Holly Bobo's disappearance, including Dylan and Zachary Adams.
Shane Austin's Suicide. Shane Austin, linked to Holly's case, was found dead in an apparent suicide.
Immunity Agreements. Jason Autry and others were granted immunity, indicating they may know crucial information about Holly's death.
Jason Autry's Testimony. Autry describes how he helped dispose of Holly Bobo's body and reveals shocking details.
The Abduction of Holly Bobo. The prosecution presents evidence of Holly's abduction, contradicting the defense's claims.

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