Facts About Holly Bobo's Murder

Holly Bobo's disappearance timeline starts April 13, 2011. Holly's brother, Clint, saw her outside talking to someone he thought was her boyfriend, Drew Scott. Clint saw them kneeling and arguing heatedly; the man he thought was Drew did most of the talking.Clint recalled."The only words I could make out from here were Holly saying, 'No, why?'"

Clint and Holly's mother, Karen, called during the argument. She heard what was happening.She said., "Clint, that's not Drew... shoot him." Clint thought his mother was confused and did not want to shoot anyone.

After Holly Bobo disappeared, Tennessee police struggled to find solid leads. The investigation eventually yielded more than one.

Afive men were the total.were accused of being connected to Bobo's disappearance: Zach Adams, his brother Dylan Adams, Jason Autry, and brothersJeffrey and Mark Pearcy.. Lacking solid evidence made prosecution hard for police. A sixth man, Shayne Austin, also made police suspect his involvement in Bobo's disappearance.

"The bucket" was a key part of the Holly Bobo case. People focused on what was in the bucket. Larry Stone found it in the Decatur County woods in 2014 while looking for ginseng. Stone found a human skull.

At the September 2017 trial, Stone testified and revealed theThe bucket held.human body parts. Authorities used the bones to identify Holly Bobo's body three years after she died.

Jason Autry, a suspect after Bobo's body surfaced and later a prosecution witness, claimed he had only a small part.At the trial.in September 2017, he testified that his buddy Zach Adams—the main suspect—"Showed him a body wrapped in a blanket and identified it as Bobo’s after Autry visited Adams to buy drugs at a house in rural Tennessee, not far from where Bobo disappeared." He admitted he agreed to help dispose of her after learning who she was.

Learning the body was Bobo’s, Autry said he agreed to help. Autry stated Adams planned to "gut her" and "put her in the deep end" of the Tennessee River. As they rolled her up and put her in Adams's truck, Autry testified he saw her move and heard her groan. He allegedly tried to tell Zach, but Adams insulted her and then shot the woman.

Zachary Adams used drugs heavily and participated in a heist of freshwater pearls from the Tennessee Shell Company in Camden. While Adams became a prime suspect, online evidence suggested otherwise.

A friend of Bobo's checked Adams's Facebook page andfound a postThat was made the same day Holly disappeared: "You know you never was, you stupid whore." A friend then saw another post showing Adams in camouflage gear with the caption: "Who am I looking for?" This post appeared as the reward for information on Bobo's disappearance increased. This offered coincidental evidence, but it did not prove anything against him.

Suspect Shayne Austin secured an immunity deal with police after he promised to show them Bobo's body location. Austin failed to guide investigators to the right spot. The deal ended, and Austin faced no formal charges.

Early in 2015, Austin's body was found hanging in a Bartow, Florida, hotel room. It is believed thatAustin committed suicide.However, there is no solid proof Austin was involved in the case beyond his odd choice to send police to an empty piece of land.

Jeff and Mark Pearcy faced arrests after Jeff's roommate claimed the brothers had involvement.A cell phone video surfaced.showed an unknown person sexually assaulting Holly. Police charged the brothers with tampering with evidence and being accessories after the fact because the video was never recovered.

In October 2014, the TBI dropped charges because they lacked evidence.

Once police leads vanished, people sought psychic advice. Days after Bobo vanished, a group of seers and aA tarot reading blogger tried to solve the case." contacted the Tennessee State Police for their views. One psychic posted in a forum that the abductor was a country boy with a "scrawny, or medium build" who might or might not have had a bite mark on his hand.

"Empathy," the Tarot reading blogger, thought "there [was] a lack of faith or energy in finding Holly... as though some people are actually not wanting to help find her, like there is no real effort here." The blogger added "places or people with name initials B or J might be useful... There may be a building over the other side of the water?"

Many interesting points were made, but none of the psychic readings offered any help for the case.

Zachary Adams, the main suspect since 2014, was said to be a local drug addict. The evidence linking Adams to Bobo was minimal—only a few Facebook posts—so his lawyer refused a plea deal for the Bobo case, seeing him as totally innocent. The lawyer told News Channel 5: "The state has been very clear in their discussions with me that"There is no DNA.links Holly Bobo to Zachary Adams." HisZachary Adams has a violent rap sheet. the trial later revealed.

In September 2017, Zach Adams was found guilty of multiple charges related to Holly Bob and received a 50-year prison sentence.

In January 2018, John Dylan AdamsDylan Adams accepted a plea deal and is serving 35 years in prison. and a 35-year sentence for kidnapping, raping, and killing Holly Bobo. His brother Zach is already serving life in prison.

Seven years after Holly disappeared, lawyers feel relief. The Bobo family avoids another trial.

In 2018, seven years passed.Holly Bobo's death occurred.Four years after her body surfaced, her family buried her. Months after Zach Adams was convicted and weeks after his brother took a plea deal, the family said goodbye in a private ceremony near the Bobo home in Tennessee.

The timeline from suspect arrests to the court case start shows prosecutors failed. Prosecutors pushed back cases and often withheld evidence from the defense. One prosecutor even "forgot" about a pretrial for Mark Pearcy.The prosecutor neglected to move Pearcy from jail to the courthouse.The prosecutor neglected to move Pearcy from jail to the courthouse.

After the judge lectured the prosecutor, he rescheduled the case.