Holly Bobo

Hi, I'm Holly. And I'm Hailey. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries, channels from Appalachia. Welcome back.

Hello. We just heard some ticking. We did. I'm like a bomb.

We thought that's it. The end is near. The end is near. But what an episode that would be.

I know, right? And then at the end they blew up. Yeah. Yeah.

What a way to go. I mean, yeah, it's a quick death. We're really committed to the bit, to what we do. Yes.

Yes. We are committed. I mean, we've risked our lives for it at this point. Yeah.

So I am traveling, coming up. Yeah. Actually, I guess by the time since we've had to do some crazy kind of stitching around of when we record episodes, I have already traveled. But the time you were hearing this.

Was it delightful? I'm assuming it was. Yes, it was great. For a friend of mine's 30th birthday.

It's exciting. So I'm assuming it was great. I'm assuming it was a drunken time had by all. Probably.

We're going to to Myrtle, dirty Myrtle. Actually, we'll be up north, like, so kind of the nicer area of Myrtle. Yes. Without all the crazy, crazy, solid crime there, actually.

There is. It's a really, yeah. And yeah, it's a pretty active area for the cries. It is.

It makes a lot of sense. It's a tourist. It's not a debauchery. It's a debauchery.

I feel like that's kind of like every place you go a little bit. But it seems unassuming, right? Because it also seems like, oh, we're laid back. We need to bring our families.

But it's like, no, it's pretty wild. It's a little rowdy. Little rowdy. Hailey's coming so watch, blank out.

Yeah, watch out. So yeah, we're going to be meanwhile, what does she do for me for my 40th? Nothing. Nothing.

She doesn't come rowdy party with me. And by that, I mean have some herbal tea and go to sleep at 8pm. Right. Yeah.

She'd be down for that, though. I'm sure. Yeah. I'll sleep on that couch downstairs.

It's comfortable. Yeah. I mean, it sounds inappropriate. Yeah.

We're trying to pull up the footrest. It's not as old but a crinkle, but it's all good. Oh, it's comfy. Oh, good.

Yeah. Well, we have quite the story today. I'm excited. Okay.

So this is... I think... Oh, no, I think you are. Okay.

It's good. But here's the thing is the individual that this story is about her name is Holly. So it feels very weird to be referencing. Yeah, that's not...

I guess, you know, my name is not an uncommon name, but it's not one that you hear all the time. Right. That is pretty common. More so...

I feel like I hear a lot more now than I did when I was a kid. I feel like when you were born, it was kind of like you had heard of it. You know, people were using it, but it wasn't as trendy as it became maybe a couple of years later. Yeah.

Because I feel like by the early 2000s, you heard a lot of it. You heard a lot of it. In my generation, there was no Haley. Right.

Ever. Right. There were Megan's and Jennifer's and... And then like for me, I didn't know any other Holly's.

Yeah, because it would have been gone by the... You know, like it would have been popular by then. And like Haley's not popular now, because they aren't naming their kids. No.

Their names are Mave and Florence. And Lin, anything with a Lin at the end, like Braylin or... Yeah. Jaden or...

Jaden. Jaden. In like that kind of, in like I have so many of those at my school. I was determined when I had a child that I was not going to name my child a popular name.

So my child does not have a popular name. However, I've noticed that it's like starting to be popular. Yeah. And I think that's like the kind of the thing though.

Right? Like oh yeah, this is a cute name. And then everybody's like, oh yeah, that's a cute name. Exactly.

Yeah. I know. When I was a teacher, I had all the boys with like those biblical names, like the Elijah's, the Jacob's. They were all hell on wheels.

Hell on wheels. And I was like, the Joshua's, I was like, I know we are not doing that. We can't do a biblical name. Like we can't.

And I really like the name Elijah a lot. But I was like, oh, I can't do that name. And I love the name Noah. I love that name.

I only know one other Noah. And he's a good guy. My son has a Noah in his class. He actually saw him in the middle of the weekend and he was like, Noah!

And it was really sweet. I love that name. He was a cute kid. Yes, yes.

Really? Very pretty, very unique. And she's just like the cutest thing. Yeah.

So adorable. I mean, for my son, I had a girl named picked out. Like I knew what I was going to name him. And he was a boy.

So whoopsie. But no, like I knew. I have always, I was like, I'm a girl mom. I'm only going to have girl.

Like this is. And so having a boy was like, what? I think you're such a boy mom now. I'm such a boy mom.

I'm such a shift. Like, so somebody, we were over here for Hayley's mom and her grandma's birthday party. And somebody, you know, said to me, like your son's over there digging in the yard with pork. I'm like, is getting them all.

And I'm like, okay, cool. And you know, it's like, oh, he has a giant stick. I was like, okay. That's fine.

You know, and they're like, oh, he's, he's turned Hayley's dog bed into a trampoline. And I'm like, okay, hope he doesn't get hurt. You know, like there's something about being a boy mom where you're just like, yeah, where like my friend who's a girl mom is like, do you think he's going to get hurt? Oh dear.

And she's worried about little things. Like she's, when my son was little, he would, he would sometimes eat dirt. I mean, it's, yeah, that's what they do. And she'd be like, oh gross.

No, we don't eat dirt. And I'm like, eh, God, my dirt don't hurt. And so it's like, it's like, it's part of the house. Um, this little like, how to place that?

Yeah. All it has is a slide. He like climb up and then you go to the slide. Yeah, you can slide down it.

And so it's one of those. They're like, it's kind of up a little bit. So you hit the bottom of the slide and you launch off. Yes.

Like towards the tree. So, um, you know, he was there and there were two other, um, like younger kids here and my buddy Isaac was thankfully like on child duty. He was great. We just like stuck in your son with them.

And so he would like fly down this thing. Isaac was very cute. And he loved him. But yeah, it was hilarious.

And then, you know, your son's like, finally at the end of the night, he's, we're like taking everything down and there's like a water container. And he's like filling up the cups of water and like making mud and like doing all this stuff. I'm like, hey, you making a potion? And he's like, nah, I'm making mud.

I'm like, all right. And Hayley has a little, um, like a little concrete gnome. No, man. He called it Santa Claus.

Yes, it does kind of look Santa. And he was like, I'm giving Santa a shower. And he would just dump the water on the gnome. Dump the mud.

He'd keep going. He actually said as we were leaving, he said, um, is Auntie Hayley going to keep the park here at her house? And he called it the park where you are sliding down because that is his, you know. Yeah.

And it may, it may be here, it may not. I have a neighbor who has young grandkids and she's walked by and been like, hey, like, just you know, I don't have kids. And I'm like, I mean, if you want to yank that thing out of the ground. I mean, if you have a play on it, that's amazing.

No, no. Right now it's got, it has a cat house on it. I saw that. But yeah, it's a, it's something.

The cup that he did used to wash the gnome, he then put it on top of the gnome, it is still on there. I left it. That's where it lives. He's like, that's what happens when the party ends.

Yeah. And it's like where they had a balloon car and they gave him, they were taking it down, you know. And so he had a stick so he could puncture them and hear them all pop. And it was so cute because it was so large that it was just sort of like following behind him.

It was so great. It was so cute. It's one of my, I got to send that video to you and your mom. Yeah.

And I'm like, get it. Everybody else is like, oh my gosh, he's destroying it. I'm like, that's perfect. That's what we want him to do.

That's actually what we want him. Oh my gosh, they're horrible. That's so great. Okay, Haley, two day.

We are headed to Decatur County, Tennessee and a small town on the banks of the Tennessee River. And it's located about an hour and a half east of Nashville. So it's a rural area. Most of the people there know each other.

The population right now is about 2100. So very, very small. Fun fact, in 1997, while driving back from CNR family in Arkansas, we stopped at a rest area near Parsons where our car broke down. Oh no.

So we ended up, yeah, I know Parsons very well because we stayed at a motel connected to the Apple Annie's restaurant. Yeah, we stayed there for a few days until the car was fixed. There was apparently a local like Ford dealership. Anyway, we got a ride from this tow truck driver who my mom said, don't make eye contact with him.

He might kill you. You know, my mom had it in her head that he was going to kill my dad, my brother, and rape us. What a wild turn event. I was a teenager and my mom's like, we're going to die.

I was like, oh my God. I would say probably 90% of tow truck drivers are excellent people. Correct. And he just seemed like a nice country fella helping us out.

My mom's like, he will kill us. Well, this is our city mind-stopping. We're so city-fied. Right.

But we, you know, and we don't even cover like New York City or anything ridiculous like that. But my mom just has this ideology. She's like, he's going to kill some barrier bodies because we need to not know like country lifestyle or things like that. And so, yeah, anyway, but that is my connection to the area.

That's amazing. Yeah, so great. And we did not die. That's good.

So it's April of 2011 in Parsons, Tennessee. And we go to the home of the Bobo family. So the Bobo's include mom, Karen, who's a school teacher, dad, Dana, who's the owner of an excavation business, and 20-year-old college student Holly, along with her older brother, 25-year-old Clint. So all of them are living in the house.

Okay. The Bobo's lived in a ranch style home that Dana, the father, built with his own hands. Wow. That's impressive.

The Bobo's son was always very happy, and Holly was extremely close with her mother. The two were joined at the hip and loved listening to country music and riding horses. Sounds really nice. I love country music.

The family always went to church on Sundays, rode four wheelers, and were very tight knit. The Bobo's oldest son, Clint, was in college studying to be a social worker. Oh, good. Yeah.

While 20-year-old Holly is attending the University of Tennessee at Parsons and is enrolled in their nursing program. Classmates state that Holly was an excellent student who focused on her academics and was always studying. She wanted to be a nurse and put her heart and soul into everything that she did. In the morning of April 13, 2011, Dana Bobo, her dad, woke up and went outside to feed the animals.

This was his typical ordinary day. Dana passes Holly's room and sees that she's already awake and studying. When he asked her why she's up so early, because it's about 5-15. Yeah, I was born in animals.

That's an early morning. Exactly. She tells him she has a test at school later today, wants to make a good grade on it. Turns out Holly had woken up actually an hour before and about before to start studying.

I was like that too, actually. I was more of a late night studying. I would stay up early late and study, but I never would get up early to study. I could see that.

Yeah, I could see my light too. Yeah, that's appropriate for us. Yeah, it is. So like I said, she was dedicated.

Dana said goodbye to Holly and left some money for lunch for his daughter and left the house. So this was 5-31. He leaves. Around six, Holly's mom Karen woke up and began getting ready for her workday.

She packed Holly's lunch, which I was like, wait, she packed Holly's lunch. Then daddy for money. I don't know. It's very strange.

But she also packed her lunch as well. So maybe she did that. And noticed that Holly was sitting at the kitchen table studying. As Karen headed out the door, she kissed Holly on the head and told her she loved her to which Holly replied, love you too.

This was around seven o'clock. When Karen leaves the house, she gets in her car, goes to work. By 745, the Bobo's next door neighbor wakes up and is getting ready for work when he hears an alarming scream come from the house. The neighbor heard a female boy she'll stop, stop, stop.

Leave me alone. Stop, stop. The neighbor was so alarmed by this that he was telling his mother who he lived with. And he said, hey, it was coming from the Bobo's house.

His mother, who was friends with Karen Bobo, called her to inquire like, is everything okay? Like we don't go. We heard some screaming. You know, Karen, who was at work at the time, when she got the neighbor's call, instantly felt panicked.

Because this wasn't a normal thing. She just felt like something was wrong. So meanwhile, Holly's brother Clint is in the house sleeping. Clint is awoken, not by the sounds of screams, but by the sounds of their dog, Rascal, who was incessantly barking.

Annoyed by the barking, as one would be, Clint woke up and tried to figure out what was going on. Like, is it a squirrel? Is that a hero? Right.

Did the wind move a certain way? Exactly. You know how it is. So Clint approached the window that faced the carport area of the house.

He heard a male and female's voice, but he couldn't distinguish who was speaking. He looked out the carport window and he sees Holly and a male dressed in camouflage kneeling down in what can be described as a kickers stance. Oh my God. Yeah.

So this is where you have one knee on the ground and then the other knee bent like a chest. So Clint believes the man in camo to be Holly's boyfriend, a man named Drew Scott. Okay. So she's like, oh, okay, Holly's out here with her boyfriend.

Clint thought that Holly and Drew were maybe having an argument. You know, he didn't want to get involved in it because he's like, not really my business. So he kind of politely steps away from the window. Clint sent his mother a text at work and just asked, you know, like, doesn't Holly have school like it was really weird because she's out here fighting with Drew in the garage.

So Clint thought that Drew was the man in the garage due to the camouflage she was wearing because apparently the night before Clint, the brother had spoken to Drew on the phone and Drew said, yeah, I'm going to be going turkey hunting. Gotcha. So he was like, oh, so Karen had confirmation though that Drew was 30 minutes away hunting on her mother's land. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there is no way that he could be the person in that garage.

Right. Like he is there. Timeline doesn't make sense. It does not make sense.

Like, enough of this texting. She calls him and she says, this is a quote. That is not Drew. Get a gun and shoot him, end quote.

Oh my God. Yeah. Tell all the neighbors, like, tell everybody, like, this is not something that's not right. Freaked out.

Obviously. Clint replied, you want me to shoot Drew? Question mark? Because again, like, he's sleepy, he's confused.

And he's like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? You want me to shoot Drew? Like, he's trying to figure this out.

And his mother didn't even respond. She just hangs up the phone and like is like a puddle at work. Yeah. So Clint decides to do his mother instructed and get his gun.

He looks out the window to the cardboard again and sees Holly walking with a man in camo towards the woods behind their house. Oh, I don't like that. Don't like that either. They were walking on a trail that leads to a logging road.

So again, Clint's thinking this has to be Holly's boyfriend Drew and the two were trying to calm down after their fight. Maybe they just needed to go somewhere and talk. So he watches the two walk out of sight and disappear. Yeah.

It's important to note here that Holly didn't seem to be struggling or fighting. So she willingly went into the woods with this person which supported the notion to Clint that it was her boyfriend. Right. Meanwhile, back at work, Karen is beside herself with worry.

A colleague takes her outside and offers her cell phone for Karen to call 911. So there is a chilling 911 recording where Karen states that someone has her daughter. She's begging that everyone in the community go out and look for her. She indicated that the individual was dressed in all camouflage.

Police descend on the family's property along with hundreds of friends and neighbors like everybody hears about this quickly and is like, you know, we're going to help you. So the search is on to find Holly. They confirm that Drew was hunting the whole time. So we know this is not true at this point.

Neighbors form teams and would go out and search the woods, streams, sheds, basically anything. There were visual visuals and signs throughout the community saying pray for Holly. There were posters and pink ribbons with her pictures just everywhere. How do you imagine being Clint at this time?

Oh my gosh. How horrible you would be. Like, oh my gosh. You should have gone.

Like you should have gone. At least go check it out. How would you know? Like, you know what I mean?

I mean, I know if mom's telling you get out there and maybe don't shoot him right away but go check it out. Yeah. It's really odd that he didn't react to me. I mean, I don't want to like pass a judgment on Clint but it's a little strange.

Well, and then if you pass a sleep, you know, and who's to say, you know, he didn't take something that made him sleepy. You know what I mean? Like maybe that's how he went to sleep is to take like a sleeping pill or something. Yeah.

And maybe he just like was like, you know what I mean? Like he wasn't really thinking. Yeah. Her parents went on local television begging for Holly's save return.

In order to expand the search team, volunteers from counties as far as Memphis were dispatched to help aid in the search, which at this point, Memphis were talking three hours away. Yeah. Yeah. Eventually, Holly's disappearance made national headlines.

Due to this exposure, the TBI, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation came in alongside US Marshals and the FBI. This was one of the biggest search efforts in TBI history. Wow. Yeah.

Bloodhounds were brought in and diapers were sent into different ponds and the Tennessee River but to no avail. Back at the house, there wasn't a ton of evidence in the cardboard. A Holly's black Mustang was parked there and three spots of blood were found in front of it near the steps leading into the house. The largest spot of blood was about the size of a baseball while the others were much, much smaller.

Test on the blood determined that it was Holly's blood. So we know something happened. Holly's car was taken in for testing, but all that was found was a palm print, not matching Holly's or anybody else on the family on the hood of the car. Police felt that whomever kidnapped Holly had to be local and know the area.

They also felt that this person would have had to know the family's schedule in order to target Holly as she was leaving for class. It seemed likely it was someone the family knew. But here's a thing about the small town. Yeah, everybody else on the family probably knew everybody.

Yeah, exactly. But that has to be haunting as a family to know someone among you. Maybe who's close to you could be. So then you start looking at everybody with a detective lens.

Can I trust you? Oh, yeah. I don't like that. Police pull Holly's cell phone records to see who the last people she talked to was.

According to records, she received a call from her boyfriend Drew at 730 AM. Cell tower records indicate that Drew was, like we said, 30 minutes away when he made the call to Holly. He was in another part of the county on Holly's grandmother's property, Turkey Hunting. The conversation was relatively short and it ended.

And at 742 Holly makes one last cell phone call and this is the last time her phone is used. Holly did have her cell phone on her, however, when she was kidnapped, allowing police to track her via the pinging from the cell towers. Police were able to determine that Holly and her abductor went north and at some point got into a vehicle as they were able to trace her movement to around 32 miles per hour. So the team of searchers began following this exact route.

Low and behold, they discovered Holly's cell phone on the side of the road on Highway 641. Wow. Yeah. Her phone, an AT&T model Samsung was in a ditch and further out into the woods they found her notebook, school papers and her lunch box at her mom had packed her that day.

Yeah. Police were happy to have made the discovery but also nervous about what was going to come next. He was the entire family but thought that Clint wasn't telling the truth about what he saw. Clint the brother.

Yeah. It also appeared suspicious that Clint didn't go outside. Right. And in front of the individual.

This is weird. Clint remained steadfast that he thought that it was Holly and her boyfriend and he just didn't want to get involved. He felt like, you know, this is their business. He was interviewed multiple times but appeared that he was being honest.

He even did a polygraph. But didn't he talk to a girl on the phone? The night before. The night before?

But I guess he could have thought like, oh he stopped here before he went on to. Right. Right. And usually, I mean, when you're turkey hunting, turkey hunting, you would do that really early and then he'd come back because you know, it's feeling late for him or something.

Yeah. So like he said, I just thought he was like, I thought it was him. And his cell phone data showed that he remained in the home the entire time. So Clint didn't go out to show.

Yeah. Meanwhile, Holly's cell phone showed that she was moving northward for over an hour and a half. So the brother didn't have anything to do with it unless you know you just ditched his cell phone, you know, but seems very unlikely. Right.

Police also looked into the boyfriend Drew Scott. But again, he was seen at the property turkey hunting. His cell phone records show that he was on the property the entire time. So family members and Drew Scott all cleared, no longer considered suspects.

Police began to make a list of local criminals, particularly those sexual perpetrators that could be likely suspects, meaning that, you know, they fit the description of the person last name with Holly that way. So there was a man identified by Clint, this man in the camo was identified as being a white male between five foot 10 and six inches. I'm not sure. Wow.

What a range. What a range. Wow. It's amazing.

Wow. And I thought I was good in the morning. Guess not. Okay.

The abductor identified by Clint was stated to be a white male between five, ten and six feet tall, weighing approximately 180 to 200 pounds. The man had dark hair sticking out from his cap and was long enough to touch his collar bone. So relatively longer hair. The man was wearing a cap and camo flage from his chest down his feet.

The camo was the mossy oak pattern and the man spoke with a very deep voice. Okay. One of the individuals that matched Clint's description was a local sex offender by the name of Terry Britt. Yeah.

Terry had spent most of his life in and out of prison on charges of rape and sexual misconduct. Terry seemed to target blonde, blue-eyed girls just like Holly. Terry was 5'11 and weighed around 200 pounds. Sounds like a match.

Terry was a local, so he knew the area very well, which again speaks to the police's theory that whomever took Holly had a familiar relation to the surroundings. Police find Terry, who has recently been arrested on minor charges. So he sits in a local jail while police go in and interview him. Terry speaks in hypothetical terms and states that he didn't do it.

But he did. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

Terry states that it's kind of like a fantasy, right? You have a perfect young girl who is essentially a toy to you. This toy could be taken to the woods, this toy could be played with, and fantasies could be lived out. Terry states that after you're done playing with your toy, the reality sets in.

If you keep this person, you're going to have to feed it and keep it quiet. And that's a lot of work. So it's probably best just to get rid of them. Investigators, you know, had some hair standing on edge in this toy.

Yeah. Yeah. Terry kind of gave him some chills. But Terry kept saying that he wasn't responsible for it.

He's just saying. Right. If, you know, if, like, this is how people like me work. Right.

Yeah. When Terry was released from jail, investigators wiretapped his phone to see if there was anything that he would say that was incriminating. Prior to his release from jail, they searched his home, but they didn't find anything to leak him to Holly. Mm.

Brit claimed that he was home that day with his wife installing a bathtub. There were some inconsistencies like Terry's wife was actually at work that day. And the receipt for the bathtub was handwritten. Sorry.

What? And the company that he purchased the bathtub from had no record of him purchasing this bathtub. Gotcha. So we're not dealing with the brightest.

That is correct. Among us. That is correct. Yes.

So apparently in past rapes, Terry's wife would go with him and help him find these girls. Well, that is unsettling. Isn't it, though? And gross and ew.

Oh, so many things. Yes. Yes. After months of surveillance on Terry Britt, there isn't enough evidence to support the theory that he took Holly.

So he's cleared as a suspect. Whoa. Police begin to focus on five other men who live in the surrounding counties. So those include Zack Adams, who has a long criminal history and matches the description.

Zack's brother Dylan, who met the description and again had drug charge history. Jason Autry, who had a history of drug charges in theft. And lastly Shane Austin, who had a history again of drug charges and some petty theft. The only difference with Shane is that he was a redhead.

He was heavier. So he didn't match the description of the man scene with Holly. These four men were friends known as the A train because all of their last names started with an A. And they were known as the A train.

These four friends were well known around town for their petty crimes, foul mouths and intimidating behavior. It was reported that Zack once told someone they were going to quote, end up being in a hole just like Holly. So Holly's mom, Karen, is the definition of like mama bear, who would like stop at nothing to figure out what happened to her daughter. So Karen actually went to these four men.

She like knew their history, you know, because again, small town. She goes up to them directly and asks if they were responsible for Holly's disappearance, to which they were like, no, we're not. Yeah. I love it.

It was said that a few weeks before Holly disappeared, Shane Audrey saw her at a raccoon hunting festival and followed her around making her very uncomfortable, like stalker like. That's weird, but also what a country thing to do. I know I was like a raccoon hunting festival. It's a festival that feels odd.

But it's a festival. Bring your guns. Bring the cocaine on. My son did tell me the other day that he was a squirrel trainer.

Oh, wow. And I was like, you're a squirrel trainer. I was like, how do you do that? And he said, well, I get a bag of nuts and they all come and I teach them how to sit and stay and roll over.

I was like, oh, that's a squirrel. I mean, yeah, that's impressive. So my son is a trainer apparently. So we wouldn't be attending the festival, but I mean, it does sound very, what you do in the country.

It does. Yeah, indeed. You don't need the records. Yeah.

You don't need the records. Oh, okay. I don't know. No, you, um, they're considered like a pest.

So people, or people will train their dogs on them, which I think is mean, but. Who's their mean little boogers though? But they'll train like hunting dogs on raccoons and. That's a coon dogs.

Yeah, interesting. Huh? Yep. See, I don't know all these things.

I don't, I don't participate in it because I think, you know, live in. I don't, I don't like the idea of hunting personally, but I mean, other people do it and it's whatever they want. But yeah. Interesting.

Yeah, my kids at school tell me about all the things that they hunt all the time. Wow. So I know like, what's in season and what's not? They're like, it's turkey season.

And I'm like, so you're going to be at school and they're like, nah, I'm going to turkey. Oh my gosh. I'm like, oh, go geeky. I could never imagine that in high school.

Somebody would be like, I'm going hunting. I think for me in high school, it'd be more like, yeah, so I've joined the gang. No, well, and then like my kids are like, yeah, I'm going hunting and they'll tell me about, you know, all the stuff. Like, you know, for like my kids, you know, having guns and doing things like that is pretty normal.

It's like a cultural thing. Wow. It's so funny. And my high school, if they had guns that have been like taken down, like one of them.

Well, you used to, I mean, obviously before, this is like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, like people, like kids, I think my mom is in school, she remembers this. People would have their like hunting rifles, like mounted in their trucks. So like they would have them in their vehicles because they were going to hunt after school. So they would like drive their truck on canvas and their rifles in the back, like on canvas.

I can't imagine that. No, you can now definitely not. But I do know in my math class, I could buy drugs. The back of my math class were sure I could buy drugs.

I didn't. I just want to clarify. But you knew where to get them if you needed them. If I needed them, if I were there, they were available to me into that SaaS class.

I know they could be mine. So that's good to know. Yeah, what doesn't that make you feel all good inside? We have some of that too.

But you know, mixed group. Exactly. Exactly. Look at all the things we have.

So police go to Shane's trailer. He lived on the same property as his parents a little further down in a trailer that they had given to him. So they searched this trailer. It couldn't find anything to connect him to Holly.

Police though aren't giving up because they feel like Shane either is involved or maybe he knows something. So they bring Shane in and they offer him an immunity deal if he agrees to tell them who's involved. Yeah. Shane is pretty much told by his lawyer like, okay, you probably need to take this because they're going to arrest you like you're going to go down for this.

So he takes a deal and he says that he overheard Zack make comments about Holly but he doesn't know where the body is. He really doesn't know. He just thought like Zack was talking crap because apparently Zack would just kind of, you know, talk like that. So police feeling frustrated revoked the immunity deal.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. And they put a lot of heavy pressure on Shane like they didn't arrest him but they get following him and then you know, sort of, I don't want to say intimidate but you know, what kind of a kind like we're here.

Yeah. So Shane's drug habit which was bad got worse and in 2015 he went off and committed suicide. Oh yeah. So we've lost the potential informant if he was connected.

Right. So he had got the pressure on one of the other men, Dylan Adams, who had been arrested for a farm charge and he was a felon and so, you know, all those things that go with that. He implicates his brother Zack and his friend, you know, yeah, friend Jason saying like, yeah, they orchestrate this kidnapping blah, blah, blah. Keep in mind though, Dylan was developmentally delayed.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So he's released from jail on this arms charge and instead of going back home to his mom, he sent to a safe house that was set up by the police. Okay.

So he's released to the home of this like former police officer named Dennis Benjamin, which is so weird in so many ways. Yeah. But in September of 2014, so we're going to shift gears. So right now we've got Dylan who's in the safe house.

We still don't have a lot of answers, but we think we're trying to hone in on these men because we think they're connected. Got it. So at this point, it's September of 2014, we're about three and a half years after Holly's gone missing, two men were searching a wooded area for ginseng and stumbled upon a strue of body parts. Oh, they quickly called the police who search the area and a full body could not be found.

But they did find ribs, teeth, a shoulder blade and a skull. A forensic team swept the area, but were unable to find anything else. One second of their ginseng. Oh, I didn't even make a connection about hunting ginseng.

Oh, that's a big thing. Isn't it? Make a lot of money on ginseng. Oh, no.

Like if you have a ginseng patch or whatever, like there used to be one on like my family's land, there's not anymore. But like people will like protect that. Well, because the root, like if you harvest the root, I make a big money on it. Who knew?

You learned something new every day. I come here and I learned something. Yeah, ginseng hunting. Yeah, there used to be out.

I don't think there's any more though. If it is, you better like lay your body. It is. Yeah, you better just protect that with your life.

I guess. I'm like, granny out there. Just, you know, ready. Orm and ready.

That's right. So in the lab, investigators were able to connect the remains through DNA to Holly. They also concluded that the cause of death was likely a gunshot wound to the head because there was a bullet hole that appeared to enter the back of the skull and exited the right side of the cheekbone. So, yeah.

They did find her promising. They found sandals and some of her skull work. Yeah. And then they released a phone call not long after from Dennis Benjamin, the police officer that Dylan was staying with.

And he had some interesting news. Oh. Yes, Dennis reported that Dylan had confessed to the murder. What?

Yep. He tells police, so this is Dylan talking that the three guys committed the crime together. He stated that she was wearing this pink shirt and these long pants that they sexually assaulted her at Zack's house after that Zack was the one who actually got her into the woods. They brought her back to Zack's house.

They did this to her and Dylan states that they shot her in the back of the head at Zack's house and then disposed the body. Investigators go to Zack's house to cooperate the story. They actually pulled out the floorboards. Like they ravaged this house and Zack was living there with like family.

So like, yeah, so part of their floor was just like missing. You know, so they didn't find anything. There was nothing. So Dylan's family argued that he was interrogated and not allowed like basic things like food or sleep.

So of course. Yes. And eventually Dylan said, what do you want me to say? Yeah.

However, due to this, all three men were indicted for aggravated kidnapping and first remur. Wow. So they were looking at the death penalty. Yup.

The first trial starts with the person the defense feels that they have, excuse me, the prosecution feels that they have enough evidence to convict who is Zack Adams. Keep in mind Zack is the brother of Dylan, the developmentally delayed individual who claimed that he was coerced into the confession. During Zack's trial, his defense team claimed that this was all a mistake and that the brother, you know, was coerced into saying what the police wanted him to say. They also claimed that Zack confessed to the crime himself because he thought he would get a reduced sentence.

So when Zack was arrested, they were like, you know, Zack, your brother already told us what you did, you know, you're going to be killed if you don't say X, Y, Z. And so again, he's going like, Oh my God, no matter what I say, you're going to kill me. So whatever, fine. Yeah.

In addition to the Coors confession, the defense also presented Holly's cell phone record saying that it did not ping in the location of Zack's home. It was the opposite direction. So it couldn't have taken place. The crime could not have taken place in the house like they had said.

Holly's phone was following Northward where her body was eventually discovered. Also neither of the three men truly matched the description of the person seen by Clint, Holly's brother. Zack, Dylan and Jason were much taller. They were thinner.

They were younger in appearance than the person that Clint Bobo had seen. Yeah. The individual first suspected to be involved who ended up shooting himself Shane. He matched the like weight and height.

He was like a bigger guy. But again, he had red hair, you know, so unless you were like wearing a wig, you know what I mean? Like it wasn't right. Yeah.

So former TBI agent, Terry Dicus, who had been the lead investigator on the case, testified for the defense. Yeah. Wow. He told the jury that he had ruled the men out really early on because Shane Austin passed a polygraph test.

All their alibis checked out. None of their cell phone records matched the area where like Holly was. They were all like miles apart during the timeframe. Like none of it linked them to this crime.

It was stated unequivocally that Zack and Holly's cell phones were in separate locations during the timeframe of the abduction. There was a point when the cell phones came into like the same proximity, but that was at 910 AM, which was like an hour after the abduction. And you got to remember, this is kind of a small town that pings off of like only a couple of hours. So it could have been that he was still like 20 minutes away.

Right. Right. So Jason Autry or one of the other men to have been the killer, they would have had to travel to the place where Holly's body was discarded and driven over 100 miles per hour on winding gravel roads to make it back home. Not possible.