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EP277: The Murder Of Holly Bobo

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In April 2011, 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo vanished from the quiet town of Parsons, Tennessee, after being seen walking into the woods near her home. What followed was one of the most massive and heartbreaking manhunts in Tennessee history. For years, investigators struggled to piece together what had happened, while Holly’s family and community endured unimaginable anguish.In this episode, we unravel the disturbing details of Holly’s disappearance, the shocking revelations that surfaced, and the tangled web of suspects that ultimately led to justice. From the morning she went missing to the years-long investigation and the dramatic courtroom battles, this case is as haunting as it is unforgettable.Join us as we dig deep into the story of Holly Bobo—a case that shocked a small town and left scars that will never fade.

Transcript

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This episode MA contained content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals. Listener discretion is advised.

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Hi. I'm Shannon. Hi I'm Tanya, and we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.

Speaker 3

Hey Shannon, Hello Tanya. How you doing.

Speaker 1

I'm doing great.

Speaker 3

How are you? I am doing really well. Yeah. I'm doing a forty day journey of self reflection. Ooh yeah.

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So it's off very good, and I'll be keeping a diary which I hope to maybe parley into a book. So that's that's my beginning of the week. What about you?

Speaker 3

Doing pretty good? Pretty good? It's Monday.

Speaker 1

I really got nothing much to say.

Speaker 3

Give me a couple of days. I got something.

Speaker 1

I gotta get the wheels rolling on this train because Mondays are just they fucking blow and it's.

Speaker 3

Like a diesel engine warming up.

Speaker 2

Yeah. I really ain't got no pep till Wednesday, exactly.

Speaker 1

We're excited because I worked from home at the end of the week and so like one day down. Now, we've got a couple more to go before I can work from home again.

Speaker 3

I love your setup.

Speaker 2

That is such a great half at the office, half at home, and those days you got off, it's always a long weekend? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3

Why didn't I go to law school?

Speaker 2

No? I had to learn tarot cards and other esoteric learnings.

Speaker 3

But here we are.

Speaker 1

That's why we're friends.

Speaker 2

That's exactly right, you know, And I love it. But I do have a good story this week.

Speaker 3

Right, it's about Holly, a gal name Holly Bobo. Isn't that a fun last name?

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Yeah?

Speaker 1

It is fun.

Speaker 3

I love it.

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Let me tell you a little about her story. And before I get started, I just want to invite everybody who is listening to go ahead and hit subscribe so you'll never miss us.

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Here we go.

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On the early morning hours of April thirteenth, twenty eleven, Clint Bobo was woken up by his family's dog going crazy at the front window, and when he looked out, he saw his sister, Holly and a mystery man having a heated conversation in their garage. Now, Clint assumed that the man was maybe her boyfriend and Holly was maybe dumping him or they were in a fight, but he soon realized that this man was most likely not Holly's boyfriend.

Clint grabbed a loaded pistol and went out to the garage, and once inside the garage, Holly and the man were gone, and Clint saw bloodstains. He immediately called nine one one. Holly was never seen again until September of twenty fourteen, when her remains were found about twenty miles from her home. But who did this? Why was she killed? Did her family ever see justice? The Bobo family lived in Darden, Tennessee, just on the banks of the Tennessee River, an hour

so west of Nashville. Parents Karen and Dana Bobo literally built their home with their own hands and planned to raise their family there. In nineteen eighty five, Karen and Dave gave birth to their first child, Clint, and in nineteen ninety they gave Clint a little sister, who they named Holly. The Bobo children grew up playing outside ATVing, fishing, riding horses, you name it. The Boo family was also very active in their local church. Holly would often sing

at church in the gospel. Holly and her mom, Kieren were so close, she really was a mommy's girl. Friends and family of the Bobos would talk about how Karen and Hollywood literally.

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Finish each other's sentences.

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They had that rare type of mother daughter bond that only a few lucky people get to experience in their lifetime. Kieren was an elementary school teacher in the area, so the family was making an impact on their community. They were a wholesome and tight knit family in their community. In twenty eleven, Holly was twenty years old and she was in the thick of nursing school. Holly had been a model student since she was in high school. She attended Scott's Hill High and had one of the highest

GPAs in her graduating class. Holly was one of those students in high school that wouldn't even let her friends copy her work because she thought it was wrong.

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Oh, I have.

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To take a stand, Shannon, I won't let you copy my work feet Holly.

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It's like Noah, that was hard to do, stand up to your friends.

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She was a wonderful role model to all those who knew her. Friends of Holly said that she was the type of girl that inspired others to be themselves and not be afraid to be bold.

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So at this.

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Point now, Holly was attending the University of Tennessee. At Martin Parson Center for Nursing School. Holly had a very serious boyfriend named Drew Scott. Holly and Drew were actively planning their future, and Drew had recently given Holly a promise ring. On the morning of April thirteenth, twenty eleven, Holly was up super early to finish studying for a nursing exam that she had later that day. She was awake by four thirty am and at the kitchen table

that Wednesday morning. Her mom, Karen, was up for work soon after, and she made Holly a lunch, as she did every day, and then kissed her goodbye and told her she loved her before heading to the elementary school for a day of teaching. After Karen left, the house was quiet again. Around seven point forty, Clint is woken up by the family dog barking like crazy, clearly barking at something. As Clint approached the window, he could hear

two muffled voices in the garage behind the house. While he couldn't totally tell if they were arguing or what, he recognized Holley's voice right away and just assumed that the other voice, which was male, was her boyfriend Drew As Clint peeked through the clothes blinds, he saw Holly and who he thought was Drew, crouched down in the garage facing each other.

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Now, this was his younger sister.

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He was seeing, and he was assuming she was fighting with her boyfriend. So Clint decided not to go out there and get involved, but he did decide to call his mom. When Clint called Karen, he asked her if Holly was going to school that day or if she was going somewhere with Drew, because he was looking at

them in the garage talking about something. Now, Holly's class with the exam was scheduled for eight a m. And Holly had a drive to college, which was a fifteen minute commute, so she would have to leave pretty quickly there. From when Clint was looking out the window, Karen instantly knew something was wrong because she knew that Drew wasn't at their house, he was turkey hunting on Holly's grandma's property.

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Also, Karen knew that Holly would.

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Have typically left for school to give herself plenty of time to get there. Karen told Clint to get his gun and go out there, and she hung up to call nine one one. As Clint went to get his loaded pistol, Holly and this mystery man walked through the yard into a short trail that led to a logging road. Karen was a specially concerned because Clint reported that he saw Holly and the man walking together, and she was walking on her own, so it wasn't like this dude

was dragging her anything. When Clint went outside into the garage, he saw Holly's black Mustang in the garage. Clint also saw a few drops of blood near where Holly and the mystery man were crouching. When Karen first hung up with Clint, she immediately called nine one one, but this

call was answered in another county. Karen's school was in the next county over, so her original nine one one call was routed and answered there, and this definitely delayed police response to the home, and police wouldn't arrive at the Bobo home until over ten minutes after the first call. Karen also called her husband and they both left work and hurried back to their house to meet the police. There, police and honestly the entire county jumped into action right away.

There were crews of people all over on horseback ATVs, on foot, helicopters.

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You name it.

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The police force and community stopped at nothing to hopefully find something out of the ordinary. One of the first things police wanted to do was to talk to neighbors to see if they heard or saw anything that morning. One neighbor, John bab was getting out to the lake to do some fishing around seven thirty am when he heard what he described as a screech or a squall coming from the Bobo yard. John said the sound was

similar to cats fighting. He also reported that he saw a white truck speeding down the road that the Bobos live on. Another neighbor named James Barnes, who lived next door to the Bobos literally seven hundred feet away, said he heard screaming coming from the Bobo yard around seven fifty am. James said he had heard a female voice yelling and pleading for the other person in the conversation

to stop. James and his girlfriend were concerned enough about the screaming that when they left that morning, they stopped at the end of the Bobo driveway with their windows down to see if they hurt anything else. When they didn't hear anything, they continued on their way, but decided to call Karen to check in and make sure everything was okay. It's unclear if they got a hold of Karen, since at this time Clint was already awake and the

police had been called. The other thing police prioritized was getting a tracker on Holly's phone through AT and T.

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Now.

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This was successful at first, but the phone was quickly turned off and abandoned. For about ninety minutes, Holly's phone was moving all around Decatur County. Police saw her phone go through her yard, down the trail north on Interstate forty, and then turned around and headed south down a different route. By nine am, Holly's phone had stopped moving. The leaves

they were taking very quickly came to dead ends. Police also investigated Clint, since he and Holly were home alone at the time of her disappearance, he could have been making up the whole interaction with Holly and the mystery man in the garage.

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Police questioned him.

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And searched his body for any signs of struggle or fight that day the day of her disappearance, but nothing was found. They also made Clint take a polygraph test, not once but twice, and searched his phone and computer, all coming up empty handed. Holly's phone was found near the area last pinged. Search crews also found her homework, notes, underwear, and lunch box, and various places around to Cator County,

but still no real leads. At this point the investigation, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was leading the case and they had a man named Terry Dykas as the head of this Now Terry Dykas felt very very very strongly that a local rapist and kidnapper was responsible for Holly's disappearance, and this man's name was Terry Britt. Now, this Terry

Britt character had quite the track record. He was a local sex offender who had already spent most of his life in and out of prison for kidnapping and rape. Terry Britt lived close to the Bobo home and where some of Holly's stuff was found thrown on the sides of different roads. Terry Britt also matched the description of the man that Clint gave, which was a man about five ten two hundred pounds. TBI agent Terry Dykas was hitting Terry Britt hard. Terry Britt provided TBI with an alibi.

He said that he was buying a new bathtub from a salvage yard with his wife that morning, but neither the yard nor Terry Britt had a receipt for proof of sale. Still, agent Terry Dykas just had a gut feeling that Terry Britt was their guy. Terry Britt's alibi was never able to be officially confirmed, and Agent Terry Dykis did some more digging on where his wife potentially was that morning. When police arrived at the brit home on April thirteenth, twenty eleven, both Terry and his wife

were unloading said bathtub from their truck. However, apparently his wife was at work that morning. Terry Britt called her and asked her to come home and told her that if anyone asked say that she was with him all morning, it's a real peach, of course. Search warrants were obtained for the brit home and cadaver dogs went to the property as well. Even though the dogs signaled at two different spots and several items were taken from the home,

no DNA was found linking Terry Britt to Holly. Agents even went as far to wiretap Terry Britt's home and his phone in hopes to find out any information. While Terry Britt didn't say anything during the time that would incriminate him further, the audio that was captured was incredibly disturbing. At one point, Terry Britt actually went on to fantasize

who Holly's real kidnapper was and what they did to her. Really, yeah, so one of his buddy whoever talks about Yes, if you're a rapist, you're friends with other rapists, so yes, right pig. When Terry Britt testified in twenty seventeen, he claimed that he had never met or heard of the Bobo family until after the news broke about Holly's disappearance.

Terry Britt said that he found out about the missing girl because after the Amber alert went out, a previous wife of Terry's called him basically to see if he was involved or did it, and he told her he didn't rape anyone this time this time just to visualize how he's trying to maybe, Hey, look my ex called and I told her this, So there you go. I didn't do it because I told her I didn't rape her, and she called to see you again.

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Fine, I mean I did not this time.

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No me this time girl.

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The rest your head x yeah, pig.

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Police were really going back and forth on Terry Britt. Interestingly enough, a woman named Lisa Sanders had actually come forward back in twenty eleven and said that on the morning of April thirteenth, she was taking her children to school when she saw a man with black hair, a mustache, and wearing camel driving a tan truck. He looked suspicious and it appeared to her that he was attempting to hide a potential passenger in his car. Two to three days later, Lisa said she saw the same man again,

this time on a four wheeler. She said that there was a white on the back of the four wheeler and Lisa decided to follow the man to a nearby cemetery, and when she got there, the man and the box were somewhere within the woods behind the cemetery. Lisa ended up telling her friend Bonnie Ham, and Bonnie called the Information hotline. Lisa saw this guy again a few days later at the grocery store and just had that gut

feeling that something was off with him. She then saw Terry Britt on the news and confirmed that that was the man she had been seeing since the morning of April thirteenth. Lisa would never end up taking the stand in this trial, although she was potentially a key witness. Now, Terry Britt claimed that he had never heard or met any of the Bobo members, but he actually had met a Bobo family member before. Terry Britt had met Natalie Bobo, Holly's cousin.

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At a party.

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Apparently at this party, Terry Britt was being such an annoying dickhead that he had offended Natalie multiple times throughout the evening that the guy whose house it was had to ask him to leave. It's obvious that Terry Britt really is up to no good in general and isn't a very good person. And while police were looking heavily

at Terry Britt, the case was otherwise going kind of cold. Now, nearly two years after Holly disappeared, her family still didn't have answers, and her mom, Karen, was growing desperate to know what happened to her daughter, and she decided to take matters into her own hands. Karen contacted a local private investigator named Shila Waisaki. Sheila became well known in the area for solving her roommate's twenty year old cold case.

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Murder.

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When Karen saw Sheila on the news, she reached out to see if she could help solve her daughter's case. Sheila and her nonprofit called Without Warning, were made up of two private investies gators, two retired homicide detectives, and paralegal. They worked Holly's case for free and really cracked the thing wide open. Sheila and her team gathered all the information that the Bobos had been putting together over the

previous eighteen months, tips, interviews, handwritten notes. By the time Halloween rolled around in twenty twelve, Sheila and her team had a prime suspect and his name was Shane Austen. Shane Austen's name had been brought up early in the investigation by police and TBI agents. About a week after Holly disappeared, TBI agents were at the Austin property looking for any connection between him and Holly. A little bit about Shane's history. Shane struggled with addiction most of his life.

When he was a sophomore in high school, he injured his shoulder playing football and was prescribed opioids to help with the pain. That was when his battle with addiction began. And that's such a hot time, you know, the turn from two thousand until about this time. Really, Shane's parents described the first time that Shane and Holly had kind of unofficially met, more like crossed paths. Both Shane and Holly were at a local raccoon hunting festival.

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Oh how fun raccoon hunting.

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Raccoon hunting festival. Nice.

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According to witnesses and just friends and family of both Shane and Holly, Shane basically followed Holly.

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Around that night like a stalker.

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Now this was just a rumor, but even his parents heard that that evening he was even trying to take pictures of Holly on his phone. Shane's mother recalled that she didn't know what to believe because Shane had a flip phone and she wasn't sure how he would have been able to do that. But I'm sure she's a bit biased because so many different people reported hearing and or seeing Shane themselves. So when agents went to the Austin property, they were unable to find any evidence that

connected Holly to Shane. Now, it's important to note that in those first days of Holly's disappearance, the TBI was absolutely overwhelmed with tips and information that was pouring in, not to mention the extensive search that was taking place in hopes to find her alive. So what did Sheila and her team find on Shane Austen. The PI team thought that Shane was the prime suspect and he worked with his three friends, Zach Adams, Dylan Adams, and Jason Autrey.

We know that TBI agents had been investigating Shane, and the PI team also knew that these four boys used each other as their alibi, which was a red flag. Karen, Sheila and the rest of the BOBO team decided that they were going to release the information they had to the public in the hopes that TBI agents would take them more seriously, but TBI didn't. In fact, TBI went on to publicly fight against the BOBO team, saying that

their private investigation was detrimental to the case. And the now two years that Holly has been missing and there has been basically no progress in her case, TBI had completely stopped looking into Shane and his crew, and they were still completely focused on Terry Britt If you remember the name of that lead investigator, Terry Dykas. He actually said that he stopped investigating those idiots, referring to Shane, Zach, Dillon and Jason because it was a waste of his time.

Terry Dykas went on to actually be removed from the case because he had tunnel vision on Terry Britt and the case was going cold. Now, even what Sheila and her team found, there was no hard evidence. They were just pieces together. For this to stand up in court, they would need more. And mind you, they still had not found Holly's body. That was until September twenty fourteen.

Two gen Seng hunters were out in a wooded area in northern Tennessee, about twenty miles north of Darden when one of them overturned a bucket to reveal a human skull. For quick background, a Gensing hunter is someone who searches or forages for wild American gin sing, which is a plant that is widely known for its Chinese medicinal benefits aiding in digestion, energy boosts, and other things.

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I say a Gensing hunter, but I was like, Okay, I'm gonna let you keep going, because I was like, what the fuck is that?

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When I was going over, I was like, a Gensing that's a China, that's a Chinese herb. But apparently we have our own svc's here in America. Nice the hunter quickly turned around in shock after finding the skull and notice more bones spread out around the area. They recovered Holly's skull, several ribs, one shoulder blade, and the back of holly skull was a bullet hole that entered from the right side and traveled through her head and exited

out through her left cheekbone. Now we have a body, and police were determined to get the people behind bars that did this. Interestingly enough, the land that Holly's body was found on was owned by someone in the Adams family. Now let's go back to Shane Austen. Apparently, someone in Darden County Lockup who was looking to cut a deal with police for their own crimes threw out the name Zach Adams and that they knew Zach Adams was the kidnapper. Police wanted to get close to Zach, so they set

up a plan. They were going to arrest Zack's brother, Dylan Adams for a weapons charge he had against him already, and then turned the interrogation toward Holly Bobo and see what he do. Their plan worked, and Dylan told police back in twenty eleven, he went over to his brother's house, where he found Holly sitting in a chair in just a pink T shirt. Zach then told Dylan that he

had raped Holly and videotaped it. Dylan also placed another accomplice at Zach's house, a man named Jason Autry, and based on this information, police arrested both men and brought them in. The alleged video of the rape was never found. Phone records that police obtained from Jason showed that Shane and Jason spoke on the phone multiple times the day that Holly was kidnapped. There were other phone records for the four main men involved, but none of these gave

exact locations. It was only the last cell tower that the phones pinged from. Right away, police offered Shane a full immunity deal in return for test against Zach and leading them to Holly's body.

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Mind you, all of this is.

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Happening in early twenty fourteen, They still hadn't found Holly's body yet, so, unfortunately for Shane, this immunity offer was revoked because he was either unable to or unwilling to lead police to the body. Shane ended up being pretty useless in general, as he couldn't provide any information and any information he did provide was proven to be a fabrication. Once the immunity offer was revoked, police shifted their approach towards Shane and actually spent a decent amount of time

trying to file murder charges against him. Other than that confession from Dylan, police didn't have anything, and that was clear when they were parading Dylan's confession and comments through the media but being very secretive about any other potential evidence they had. And that's because they literally didn't have any. Now, let's think back to what Clint, Holly's brother had originally reported about the attacker he saw in the garage. He said that it was a man who was probably around

two hundred pounds five ten to six feet tall. Both Zack and Jason were out right off the bat. Jason was six' eight three hundred. Pounds zack was heavily addicted to meth at the, time making him far too, skinny and on top of, that he's six.' five so we got a chubby and a, sinewy, guy right not your average six foot putting either of them at the scene is.

A stretch the only one who would potentially fit The description clint Gave, is dylan and there was also a single croc footprint at, the Scene and dylan did Report that zach was wearing green crocks when he got to his house later, that day but still investigators are unsure if that krock footprint is. Even related another weird thing that happened was a statement made by a Woman Named. Sandra king sandra came forward and told police that Her Friend jeff Percy Or, jeff piercy showed her a video

of a woman being tied up. And raped sandra claimed that the Woman Resembled. Holly bobo sandra said that the woman was crying in the video and while she didn't watch.

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It long enough to see the, actual rape she knew that it.

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Was, coming next when police staged a phone Call with Sandra, and jeff it.

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Was revealed That actually Jeff's brother mark was the one in the video and he had got it. From.

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Him wow police officers would have literally sold their souls to get their hands on, that video but it was. Never recovered police were never even able to find a connection between the original group of men And the piercy brothers and the Investigation against Jeff and mark and there just to paint a picture of the lack of evidence and organization they had surrounding. This case let's talk about

the mistakes that. Were made first, of all when it was time to have a Hearing for mark surrounding, the video the prosecutor literally forgot To have mark transferred to the courthouse and they had to reschedule. The hearing the prosecutor was also going in circles with dropping And, Charging, shane Dylan. And zach they continued to fail to turn

over evidence that they claimed. To have prosecutors literally said fuck it and decided to arrest And, Charge, shane Zach and dylan of, aggravated kidnapping first, degree murder and Rape in march of. Twenty fourteen now remember this is before they found any Remains, of holly so this is truly a.

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Witch hunt now let's.

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Fast Forward in september, twenty fourteen They found. Holly's remains shane was still maintaining and fighting. For innocence after prosecutors revoked his. Immunity agreement Shane's Lawyer luke evans spoke Out that shane continued to give his full cooperation to the investigation and that he is torn up that he's being lomped into a group that potentially did Something, to holly all because of a few.

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Phone calls luke.

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Stated that he felt that the prosecution was allowing the rumor mill to drive. This, case Sadly on february, twenty third, Twenty fifteen shane committed suicide In the florida. Motel room shane's family was absolutely devastated by the loss of, their son and at this point it really Seemed that shane was coerced by police into giving Information about holly's kidnapping when he didn't actually know anything. About it when comparing the little facts that the police Had to, shane's story

things did not. Add, up additionally the only thing that actually Had connected Shane to zach was that they spoke on the phone multiple times. That Day if shane Was with zack while he was Disposing of, holly's body why would they be calling. Each other the state was never able To corroborate shane's involvement in, the case and his family has stated that they hope people remember him for who he really was and not for some potential involvement in.

This case prosecutors continued to shovel their feet when it came time to getting this. Case rolling after the Suicide, of shane it took seven Months Before zach adams was Tried for holly's Murder in september of. Twenty seventeen jason was the star Witness in. Zach's case Remember that jason was the fourth man who police put at the scene The day holly was kidnapped. And murdered Similar, To shane

jason was offered leniency for his cooperation. And testimony Actually bringing jason to the stand was a shock for the defense and he ended up being on the stand for over seven hours. Wow grueling jason would go into detail about how he had been Friends with zach for over fifteen years and that He and shane were. Actually cousins in, Twenty eleven jason was working on a cattle farm and although he had, a girlfriend their relationship was put on the Outs because jason had a troubled past and it

was putting her children in. Dangerous situations jason recalled That on, april twelfth, twenty eleven he went To see zach because he was looking for drugs and when he first Spoke, To zach zach said that he was busy and he would call. Him later at around nine, Thirty am Zach called jason back and told him that they needed Help at. Shane's house jason assumed that they needed help cooking up. Some meth So when jason Arrived at, shane's house there

were a few things he. Initially noticed there was a fire burning out front in, A barrel dylan was in the doorway to the, trailer Shirtless and zach was in the yard with a gun tucked in. His pants jason bought a Pill, from shane took half, of it and then went back to stand in the yard Near where zack. Was standing zack Then told jason that he needed help hiding.

A body jason told the Court that dylan never came out of the Trailer and shane was putting stuff into the fire in, the barrel and that it smelled like a burning.

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Meth lab jason Then.

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Told zack he would help him dispose of the body if he could just move his, car first so. He did after moving, His car jason Jumped into zach's Truck with holly's body in, the bed wrapped in. A blanket the men then drove out to an area near a boat dock about thirty forty feet away FROM the i. Forty bridge According, to jason the two of the men got out of the truck And moved holly's body from the bed to, the ground and That's when jason noticed that she was still moving and Said to zack that

the bitch was. Still alive zach then went back to, the car grabbed, his pistol and. Came back jason did a quick walk around to make sure the coast, was clear and Then signaled zack he was. All good jason recalled that he heard the gun go off one time and that it echoed.

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UNDER the i.

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Forty bridge jason then said he heard a boat coming and took. Off running the men Quickly packed holly's body back up into the truck and. Sped off jason remembered Saying to zach that he needed to slow down and drive better because if anyone heard that, gun shot police might pull them over for. Driving suspiciously after, this incident in, The morning jason said that he went up to meet his girlfriend for lunch and that he was just wanted

to get as far Away from zach and the others. As, possible now this didn't last, very long because around two pm, That day Jason called, shane again hoping to get another pill, from him and this time when he, Pulled up zack's truck was nowhere to, be seen and he could tell that the three men had been fighting. About something all five of them climbed into another truck and drove to the house of a Woman named dotty to pick up. More drugs the plug apparently body. The plug jason recalled

that the arguing ensued between the. Four men shane was Yelling at zach that he didn't have To, kill Holly and zack yelled back that he was just as much to blame. As him at, This point zach implied that both He and shane Had, raped holly and after picking up, The drugs jason did Not, See, zach Dylan or shane again for two. More days jason met Up with Zack and dylan again two days later in a wooded area

Near a marathon gas STATION off. I forty shane was not with them at, the time and This time jason brought. The drugs he brought an entire marijuana plant that needed to. Be trimmed now if you know nothing. About, Weed basically jason has cut the base of the.

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Plant and brought an entire stem of.

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Flowered weed the guys would need to pick off or trim off the parts of the plant that they were actually going. To smoke jason recalled that during this meet Up with Zach, and dylan He asked zak what he did with, the body To which zach Replied that dylan wouldn't shut up about the. Whole situation Now what i'm about to, Say next jason only told the judge and the jury didn't, hear this But apparently zak Then asked jason To kill dylan because he was worried about him

spilling the beans. To somebody the jury never heard this information because the defense argued that it was irrelevant to. The trial jason said that he Originally declined, zack's offer but later devised a plan in his own mind of how he would do it if he were to. Do it after this, Last encounter jason did not see or Talk, To, zach Dylan or shane.

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For months it.

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Wasn't until august of twenty Twelve that Jason saw zach when the pair went, deer hunting and on this deer, Hunting trip jason Said that zach finally told the. Whole story According, To jason zach told him that on the Morning of, april twelfth, twenty eleven he was At The bobo house because he planned To teach Holly's, brother clint how to. Cook meth upon arriving at, The house holly

came out yelling, and screaming so they decided to. Kidnap her zach Then told Jason, that dylan his, own brother performed oral sex on Him and shane prior to Him and shane Both.

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Raping holly jason said that he was so disturbed.

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By the Information that zach had Shared and zach, could tell so he quickly changed the subject and they didn't speak of. It Again so, zach says my brother bluebe and my friend before we raised.

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This girl and you.

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See the person you're telling's, face change and how you're going to change this?

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WHOLE, lot TMI?

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Little, tmi SORRY should i have not? Said that, oh.

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Yeah you want to.

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Get McDonald's so during, cross examination the defense talked a Lot about jason's.

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Drug use let's not forget here that all four of.

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These, Men, Shane, zach Dylan and jason are all heavy drug users and at this time their world really revolves around. Getting high jason told the court during cross examination that and admitted his wrong, his lies told, the truth and he does hope for leniency from the state when. Sentencing comes he says. All this And while jason was the, star witness there were many other witnesses who testified during. This trial one of Those was zach's now, Ex Girlfriend.

Rebecca irp the overall Energy from rebecca was just. Not good she described her Relationship with zack in twenty eleven as. Absolutely awful she recalled multiple times that she attempted to break Up with zach and he became threatening and sometimes violent. Towards her rebecca said that the Night before, Holly disappeared zach never went. To bed he woke her up around six thirty in the morning and told her he was

going off to. Haul scrap she got up and went, to work and a few Hours later zach came up to. Her work the bear started, fighting again and she recalled accusing him of cheating on her because he now had His brother.

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Dylan's phone rebecca said.

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That the next day she was making Dinner at zach's house, For, him Dylan and shane when the.

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News started Talking. About holly rebecca Said.

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That Zack and shane smirked at, each other saying that they'll never be able to. Find her rebecca also recalled other Times that zach was violent, with her sometimes tying, her up and she'd fear for. Her life like, The others rebecca admitted to using heavy drugs at the time and that was why her story changed a. FEW times a few of the other people who Testified Were tony Webber And. Lawrence James tony weber was the deputy sheriff at the time who was one of the first to

respond to the scene At The. Bobo house tony's testimony was critical to add a timeline for what had happened during the initial moments of. The investigation tony said that while at, the home he Spoke. To clint he also remembered taking photos of a spot of blood that was left in, the garage but never went into. The home after Leaving The, Bobo home tony and the other deputies went.

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To visit the home of local.

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Sex offenders tony said that he did not file the missing persons report until a day or two later after the. Initial call tony also never went into the woods or even the Direction that Clint saw holly walking off with this mystery, Man Now matthew james WAS a. Tbi specialist he was also one of the initial investigators on.

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The scene his job was.

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To collect as much FORENSICS in dna. As possible matthew stated that he did receive a Pair of holly's underwear from the scene to use AS a.

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Dna reference he also reviewed photos from.

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The scene the Trunk to holly's car was open and there was about fifty to sixty drops of blood in. The garage of all, of those there was one that stood out above, the others and that one was a spot that was more of a sneer than. A drop they matched the blood AGAINST the dna from the underwear and got a partial Match. For holly while all of this was happening in, real life police were hearing Whispers Of zach. Adams's name police Actually knew zach well because

of his past run ins with. The law once officers arrived at his house literally The day holly, went missing they recalled him being, super nervous. Literally shaking the officers who visited the house that day Said that zach was acting so suspicious that when, he left he pulled off into a hidden area to watch. The home zack frantically ran into, the house and, shortly later another man left, the home jumped into a, pickup truck and. Sped off this truck was later pulled over and it was confirmed

that that Person. Was dylan the, next day when officers returned to, The home zack had a mattress that was in perfectly good condition leaned up against the outside of. The house this was something that just gave officers a bad feeling in.

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Their guts zack also had scratches.

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On his arms and legs the day after. The crime so what the hell came after? This clusterfuck shane is now dead and all that's Left, Is, zach Dylan. And Jason zach adams was convicted of first, degree, murder kidnapping, and rape and he was sentenced to fifty plus years. In Prison dylan adams was convicted of facilitation of murder

and was sentenced to thirty five years. In Prison jason autry was convicted of solicitation of murder and facilitation of especially, aggravated assault and was sentenced to nine years, in prison but was justice. Actually found jason has since been released and has had a few things to say about his, initial, conviction confession all. Of it now we are fast approaching to the, present day. Well Almost it's, september sixteenth, twenty Twenty and jason is released, from jail and since then

he has been recanting his testimony in. Various confessions, jason claimed now nearly ten, years later that he made up the entire thing to avoid life.

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In prison jason was.

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Already in jail on unrelated charges during the time that the Case against Zach and dillon was. Being built jason said that during that time, in jail he concocted the whole story using discovery evidence that was being provided. To him he especially said that he used the cell phone records to help him create his story. And timeline zach's lawyers have filed petitions multiple times to get a new

trial with, this information but these have. Been denied courts have stated that in Order for zak to get a, new trial he must present. New evidence in, this case he really doesn't have, new evidence just an entire testimony from a friend that was. Complete fabrication whether or not you think this group of men was responsible for, The Crime holly bobo's family are the ones who will have to live with the pain knowing that their daughter and sister were taken from them in a violent way and way.

Too Soon once holly's remains, were found her family was able to close parts part of. That chapter holly was Buried At laffarty Cemetery In, darden County and holly's friends and family remember the girl who was a dedicated. Nursing student Friends remembered holly never in trouble in middle school and, high school one friend describing her as a stickler for. The rules she was loyal to her faith and friend and really lived a Life. Through god she enjoyed listening

to and singing gospel music at. Her church holly's friends and families continue to tell her story and keep her light shining in.

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Their, LIVES ah i know that just, sounds so, you know A good christian girl going. TO gospel i.

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USED to i wouldn't call myself A good, christian GIRL but i used to sing gospel. AT shirt i got, the feeling, you know that's a good feeling to have and then here comes just so weird to have this very, dedicated student very dedicated, young woman and your brother is going to become a.

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Math cooker and this is how all of, this, Happens, Right like, i'm like? What? Fair? Right? Anything, yes well Thank you shannon for my. Pleasure episode and if you.

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NEXT time i love your yea bye bye

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Mm hmm

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