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grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] [Music] 20 year old nursing student Holly Bobo
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went missing April 13 2011. now where we left off we had gone through the following years and we have
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a situation where we have several men who are arrested this seems to be the the cause for these arrests seems to be
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a confession from Dylan Adams his brother Zachary Adams is the first one arrested and charged with first degree
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murder and then we have their friend Jason Autry who is arrested and charged with first degree murder two more
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Brothers Mark and Jeffrey Percy are arrested for accessory after the fact and then we have Shane Austin who seems
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to be working with the police in some form now he was granted immunity early on in this case but we have the police
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and investigators saying that they may see charges against Austin at some point because he doesn't seem to be completely
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honest and completely for forthcoming to help them in their investigation now later that year after three and a half
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years for of looking for Holly Bobo her remains are discovered in September of 2014. when we left off yesterday we said
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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
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mentioned that Shane Austin we said that he was offered immunity in exchange for
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information regarding the location of Holly Bobo's body uh police checked Shane's phone records and those
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indicated that Shane Austen was in contact with Zachary Adams several times on the day of Holly's kidnapping and the
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police believe that Austin helped dispose of this body now this agreement between Austin and the authorities
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granted him immunity from various charges in the case including all charges arising out of the disposal
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destruction burial and or concealment of Holly Bobo's deceased body it also included a provision granting Austin
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immunity for drug-related criminal activity not to include any drugs administered to Holly Bobo the agreement
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hinged on Bobo's body being recovered from the place where Austin said it was buried that didn't happen so then the
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agreement was withdrawn after Austin was unable or unwilling to lead them to the
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body yeah the district attorney released a statement that said Austin has not been completely truthful forthcoming and
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Cooperative as to any and all aspects of this investigation after that Shane Austin's attorney filed a complaint
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against the state asking for an immediate and permanent injunction preventing the state from charging him
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in this case so then in February of 2015 by now like I said we have Holly's remains recovered and even before that
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we have people charged for the murder charged for the kidnapping and some to accessory 3 after the fact a man once
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thought to be a witness in the Holly Bobo case was found dead in an apparent suicide in Florida the body of Shane
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Austen was found in a hotel room in Bartow Florida there was no sign of Foul Play and evidence pointed to Austin
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committing suicide Austin's attorney blamed the suicide on the continual threats of the prosecution as well as
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the Witch Hunt style of Investigation where according to Austin's attorneys authorities relied on rumors instead of
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evidence Austin's attorney insists he had nothing to do with the murder of Holly Bobo and that Austin cooperated
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fully with the police all right what's your thoughts on this okay well like I said he seemed to have been working with
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the police for some time right for whatever reason either he was unwilling or didn't exactly know the whereabouts
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of her body because it's not found where he said it would be found or it's possibility that they moved it possible
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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
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of this Zachary Adams who we already said had been charged with first degree murder at this time he's actually the
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cousin of Jason Autry who was also charged with first-degree murder so we have this confession from Dylan
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Zachary's brother and then we have Shane working with the police they're gathering information but at this time
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in the investigation these guys are all kind of turning on one another and each one is saying that so and so had did
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this so and so did that I had nothing to do with it we got this circle of idiots
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all kind of turning on one another well the facts are that each of these players
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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
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the finger at you so that makes me look less guilty like yeah I did some bad stuff but I didn't
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kill her right now the the two uh Shane Austen the guy that committed suicide uh he he hung
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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
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be the center point the focal point of their investigation maybe he's the ringleader of this group of idiots but
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uh they seem to have some kind of um drug ring going on in Tennessee they they fancy I'm guessing they fancy
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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
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addicts uh they cooked meth um they sold drugs to people um and then we have you know as I said
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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
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Autry to Zach Adams and his cousin Shane Austin seems to be his own drug addiction it seems to me like he was
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going to these guys to purchase drugs on a regular basis right now let's get into
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those two brothers remember we said we have Jeff and Mark Percy that in July of 2014 the Percy brothers were arrested
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and charged with accessory after the fact and tampering with evidence they were arrested on the basis of
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allegations made by Jeffrey Percy's former roommate Sandra King King alleged that in May of 2014 Jeff had shown her
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part of a video showing Zach Adams assaulting Holly Bobo who was tied up and crying
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she told police that she only watched a small clip and did not see an actual sexual assault during this clip
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police arranged for Sandra King to make a recorded phone call to Jeff where Sandra told Jeff over the phone that
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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
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alleges that Jeff's brother Mark was the one that shot the video but to be clear
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they are saying that they have knowledge that this video exists or existed at least at one time uh when Sandra said
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that she had saw it now authorities had not located this video both brothers denied that any type of
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video anything remotely like this existed at all and Jeff Percy denies knowing the other men who have been
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charged in the crime Jeff claims that he was unable to hear Sandra during that recorded phone call conversation and
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that his ex-wife's name was also Holly the alleged videotape as I said has not been found police have analyzed over 20
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phones over 20 cell phones but have not found any video on those phones charges against both men were eventually dropped
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yeah the charges were dropped but karma will catch up to him um here's the thing we talked about John
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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
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clear up this suspect pool very quickly before we move on to another one so we have all these suspects we have one
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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
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were accessory after the fact uh police believed but eventually they dropped the
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charges against the Percy brothers so let's go ahead and push them out and off to the side we're getting a smaller
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group to be concerned with now one of those people was still this Dylan Adams uh he's the one that confessed to
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observing Holly Bobo sitting in a green chair in the living room of Zachary Adams home wearing a pink T-shirt and he
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also says that Jason Autry was standing just a few feet away when he saw Holly Bobo he also told police that Zach was
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wearing camouflage shorts that black T-shirt with the sleeves cut off and the the green pair of Crocs Dylan also
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reported that Zach had told him that Zach had raped Holly and videotaped it eventually Dylan would be charged with
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rape in this case related to this case Dylan later recanted the confession and alleged that he was coerced right but
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his confession led to the arrest of Zachary Adams Jason Autry and Shane Austen many of the details can contained
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in that confession were eventually found to be inconsistent with the known evidence at the time
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plus the prosecution has been heavily criticized for their refusal to produce evidence against the defendants missing
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multiple Discovery deadlines and for making frequent changes to the charges against the defendants with little or no
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explanation at all the other complaint is how long it took for the state to share evidence with the defense of these
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characters so the arrests take place in early 2014 but it wasn't until July of 2015 that it was announced that the
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defendants finally received access to all of the evidence against them all right now we have to fast forward to
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this year this is from News 5 in Nashville uh the state granted immunity to Jason Autry who was accused of
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killing and kidnapping nursing student Holly Bobo a shocking development that legal analysts said means Autry likely
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knows something about Holly Bobo's death according to court documents Jason Autry
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Victor Dinsmore Michael Alexander and Shane Austin were all granted immunity agreements in this case why is this
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important because we're finally going to go to trial in this case they have charged Zachary Adams with murder and
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his trial is was approaching at this time now we said Shane Austen who was somehow
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connected to Holly's death he was the one that committed suicide a few years ago
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Autry Jason Autry who was recently granted immunity uh he was already in prison when he was charged with his
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alleged role in Holly Bobo's murder he was serving time for federal gun charges of some sort uh Jason Autry has always
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maintained his innocence though the agreement that they reached will protect Autry by keeping his testimony from
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being used against him Autry could still be prosecuted for his alleged role in Holly's death but not for anything that
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he may testify about against Zachary Adams right so this move by the prosecution obviously points and proves
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how crucial Jason Autry's testimony will be for the state's case against Zachary
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Adams the body was so decomposed that it was probably hard to get a lot of forensic evidence off the remains you're
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exactly right now last month in September of 2017 Zachary Adams was to the first to go on trial the
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prosecution's case was um circumstantial we'll say uh as there was no DNA or other forensic evidence
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tying Zachary to the murder Jason Autry of course was the state's key witness and on day four of the Holly Bobo murder
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trial he took the stand and here's a clip from his testimony [Music] that you pulled into his driveway
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and tell the jury what happened pulled into the driveway I got out the first thing I noticed was a burn
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barrel that was burning the second thing was Dylan was standing in the doorway with a shirt off
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Shane was walking around saying y'all need to hurry up and get the goddamn hell out of here
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and holstered on his side was a firearm I'm sorry I can you repeat please your life statement
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The holster you couldn't hear yeah when I pulled in there was a large fire burning
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in a burn barrel Dylan Adams was standing at the door of the trailer I'm just moving it so you can tell them
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Dylan Adams were standing at the door of the trailer with his shirt off Shane was walking around in the yard
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hollering y'all need to hurry up and get the goddamn hell out of here with a firearm
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poster on the right side Zach was standing at the door of a white four before Nissan Frontier
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I instantly got to Mr Austin and bought a peel about a morphine 100 milligram walked directly back to the PT Cruiser
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broke it in half cooked it down and chopped it a few minutes later I got out and walked
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back to the four before Nissan where Zach was standing at the door and he said I need
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you to help me bury this body and I told him I said yeah damn I hate to tell kill a little JoJo
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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
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Bobo who's JoJo why do you think it was Jojo some days before that Joe owed some money for some pills
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him and Jack his enemies they was talking about killing him for the drug debt was there also another relationship
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between or another connection between Joe and Zach Shane was there a woman connection between Joe
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and Zach did you know what there's a child most of them have a child with the same
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woman oh the child one child got oh abused Maybe what'd you do I was clueless all right
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I didn't know Holly Bobo since come to know who she was or yes well pictures TVs pictures and stuff like
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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
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and once you did after that the body was laying in a multi-colored Farm blanket Farm style blanket it
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looked like multiple colors wrapped in the blanket laying up against the back say the truck is sitting here it's
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laying against the back instead of laying long ways it's laying this way from the moment
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you help with Holly versus hip help with the batch of Meth were you willing yes it was
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what you said what he said he said he asked me what happened buried the body and I said yeah
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I said I will and he said but I said there's under I want to leave my car somewhere else besides here
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instead of shame or Dylan to know that I got involved in this so I told him I said meet me at Yellow
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Springs Church I'll talk to PT Cruiser in there and I'll get in the truck with you all right
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and so while you were having this conversation with Zach where was Dylan Dylan never came out of the trailer
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continuing putting stuff into the burn barrel can you say putting stuff into the barn
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Barrel could you see what he was putting into the burn barrel the smell was an apparent
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of camp fuel and mayor there was a large Blaze you could the area was tacked and you could smell
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the smell of a meth lab burning okay I understand what you could smell but could you see what he was putting in I
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could not say I never I never made it that far down I never made it past the door
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of that fought before front to uh I never made it past the truck across the truck door
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you said earlier that Shane was saying y'all got to hurry up and get out of here did he say why
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he had a satellite oh he said there was a guy coming to install the satellite and he didn't know
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what time he'd be there so you had him saying it's not like guy Cable Guy whatever's
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coming and throwing things in the burn barrel you had Dylan first at the door with no shirt on and then never came out
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correct that's great this conversation took place between you and Zachary Adams there between his truck and your Cruiser
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that's correct okay [Music] [Music] so what happened I got into PT Cruiser I backed out
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went to Yellow Springs Church pulled in when I walked out to the road he was backing out of 30 Yellow Springs Road
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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
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into the truck with the guy who says there is Holly Bobo is dead and wrapped up in the
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truck bed so tell the jury what you guys talked about as we got down going down the road I
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brought a change of tension and there were no shovels or pickaxes in the truck all right we're gonna bury our body with
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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
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can just pull up and get a shovels and pickaxes for the dead body in the video continue on yes
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yes we go across you say there's nothing to us there's nothing that there's nothing to dig
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alternative suggested by me I told him that some years back that I had been underneath Interstate 40 Bridge
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and there was a body floating and I told him I said the only thing holding the body up
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was the intestines yes and we said we said of course that direction why did you mention about his clothing
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what did you talk about specifically what was your plan of disposing of Holly's body
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Mr gutter put her in the deep end of the slew I told him I said put her in the deep end that slew
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Turtles and she had to heat it up just like that was the opportunity so did you all the only thing holding
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the other body up was the gases and the gut I mean it was floating just like I'm
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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
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was you get the guts out down it goes and you had a good idea I understand yeah yes ma'am
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so where did you all go and just driving Mr Adams was driving we went to 133 I believe is the
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we went to the 133 where the interstate Bridge crosses the Tennessee River underneath it
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we made a loop of the entire area to scope it out to make sure no one was in the area
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there's a boat ramp small mile or so from there also there's a beach and uh we've circled the boat round
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down by the beach turned around come back out not back out but back up to the bridge
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made the circle and stopped in a pile of rip wrap let's rip wrap it's a large Limestone Rock
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generally about this size changes but you're using handset to show something larger than a dinner plate
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that's correct and you said you stopped beside we're back into a pile is this an area that
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you had been to before that's correct is this an area do you know whether or not uh
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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
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he went on his own okay put it backed up to that pile a rip wrap approximately the distance of
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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
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jury box yes approximately five six foot room room to get out I got out of the truck
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with a right hand and I grabbed the upper torso from Miss Lobo Jack come around let the tailgate down
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I brought the upper torso to the end of the tailgate where he grabbed the legs and I set the head the upper hand
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on the rip wrap dial in the bed of the truck there appeared to be a small amount of
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blood can you use your hands to describe what you mean by small amount the the bed of the truck was raged
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like the bed of the truck and it looked like it looked as if it had just lightly skid it over
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and the blanket at the upper end of the Torso that I grabbed had a small blood spot
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maybe the size of an orange maybe the size of an orange did you look inside the blanket never
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did you unwrap never how were you able to swing her body around and you get the top part
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Zachary Adams gets the bottom part without unwrapping the blanket I grabbed the blanket just like you
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would this shirt right here the body didn't weigh very much I was in pretty good shot I say shape
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I'm a pretty good sized guy I grabbed a blanket just like that right there and walk to visit
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there's a tailgate of the truck at that time he grabs the legs we set the body down
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with the upper torso on that pile of rip wrap that y'all just show and we just discussed
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[Music] what happened Mr Adams goes to the driver's side of the pickup I'm standing
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I'm standing over the top of them my hand on my knees she being right here okay at that time
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I see your foot move ment and the sound of distress that sound like um come out of the doors come out come from
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the blanket at that time I walked to the door to the passenger side door of the pickup that Mr Adams was digging
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in a fanny pack and I told him I said this [ __ ] [ __ ] is still alive we just stopped for a second
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I'll walk to the front of the truck and I told Jack I said she's heard my name called and heard me
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talking you know at that time he Wheels around walks back to the driver's side pickup
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out of the floorboard pickup people was a pistol the same pistol it was hosted on Mr Austin's side at 30
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Alice Springs Road and I said whoa let me ask you to stop here did you say whoa because you thought you were gonna
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save her life and stop him from doing something bad or did you say whoa for another reason I said well for another
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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
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coming how far could you see maybe 250 yards it's a long pretty long stretch I'm right here to the next curve
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I looked around and when I looked back around for students are standing let me stop
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you said you walked around did you stay down there and then come back stay back here working back and forth watch
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it what about looking the other way there was nothing coming I look back this way
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and I told him there was nothing coming when did you look just you gotta look down here and wasn't
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nothing coming okay I looked around and I told him there was nothing coming close it's clear
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something to that to that effect and at that time boom we're going inside the gun went out
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and it sound like to me but this shot three four times underneath that bridge I had done made
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it back I had done started my way back this way and it sounded like boom boom boom
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underneath that bridge was just one shot but it echoed underneath that bridge all
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the way down that damn River Bottom foreign so that's the testimony of Jason Autry
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describing how he helped Zachary Adams with Holly Bobo's body and then discovering that she was still alive and
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Zack shoots her in the back of the head what happens after this is fearing that the noise of The Gunshot May attract
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attention they decide to load her body back into the truck and then at that point Zach drops Jason
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off because now this is a this Jason Autry is a strange dude he's he's a scary dude and
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there's plenty of reasons why um first of all you hear him say you know he thought the body was somebody
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else thought it was JoJo because this guy owed money to Zach and his friends right
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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
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mean anything to you or did you care he said simply says no he didn't care whose
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body that was and that's because why one he's a cold-hearted bastard but then on top of
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that he's this dude has like a 500 a week drug habit right so the only thing going through his mind
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and according to Jason Autry when he shows up there he didn't know that he was going to see
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a body he didn't know that he was going to be asked to help dispose of a body or
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who it was right all he's thinking about when he's presented with the problem that Zach and these other guys have in
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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
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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
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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
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him two maybe three days one pill would usually last them about one day he would
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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
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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
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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
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bridge you know and the the you know I said why he's a scary dude but he's a strange dude
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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
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of testimony and you learn when you listen to this testimony the only thing he seems to be
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afraid of is his girlfriend because the whole reason why he has Zach drop him off before Zach goes and dumps the body
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is because he's supposed to meet his girlfriend for lunch and he starts saying to Zach at some point look dude I
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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
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on my lunch date well it's sad because it you know the way he talks about it is so
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nonchalant like this is not that big of a deal you know these these actions that we did
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and this these events that you know he lived through they're not a big deal at all and that
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that this person it didn't matter who who this person was they just don't matter the only person
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that matters is him and his drug habit uh anyway Autry would testify that Zack later said that he took Holly Bobo's
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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
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abduction what was presented at trial is that Zach Shane and Dylan so not Jason Autry not the guy that we just heard
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from but Zachary Shane and Dylan went to Holly's residence supposedly to teach Clint Bobo how to make meth
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right uh according to this story Holly came out of the home she's screaming and hollering at the guys and that's when
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the men decided to abduct her uh the prosecution presented the this situation that Shane Austin the guy that hung
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himself in the hotel uh was actually the man that Clint had seen walking Holly Bobo into the woods uh the reason why
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they presented this is he's the only one that would fit the size of the person described by Clint
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um and there's no easy way to say this but then the the three men Zachary Adams Dylan Adams and Shane Austin
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they they sexually assaulted Holly in a barn that was owned by the grandmother of both Shane Austen and Jason Autry
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remember their cousins right um it's not well you could call it sexual assault they raped her and right
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her [ __ ] pieces of [ __ ] so the reason for this whole this all right look I watched enough of
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this trial and I and I watched enough of Clint Bobo on the stand and seen him in
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interviews closer to the time that his sister went missing in her abduction they weren't there to
00:40:22
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
00:40:28
there to to teach Clint how to cook meth you weren't there for that reason these
00:40:33
three guys went there with the sole purpose of abducting this girl and had she not been there that day they would
00:40:40
have went back on another time and attempted to do it that day yeah it just so happened to be that Clint was home
00:40:46
and it and they could read that in the newspaper that Clint was there and described who was taking her into the
00:40:52
woods so they came up with a good story so when they needed somebody to help them dispose of a body it makes them
00:40:58
look like hey we didn't premeditate this thing this this thing just kind of happened
00:41:04
the other thing that comes up in uh Jason Autry's testimony is that at some point
00:41:11
Zachary Adams asked Jason Autry if he would kill his brother Dylan the reason for this is at some point in
00:41:21
the case you know we said Dylan had spoken to the police and gave them some kind of confession
00:41:27
well he was also kind of he wasn't very quiet about what had happened he was kind of telling other people as well
00:41:35
and Zachary Adams started getting worried and nervous that his brother was going to get them all caught so he asked
00:41:42
Jason Autry if he would kill Dylan Adams to which Jason Autry says let me think about it and I'll get back
00:41:49
to you okay um and at some point he actually takes Dylan on a he says a fishing trip on a boat
00:42:00
um and they're out fishing and Jason says on the stand I thought quite hard and good about making good on that on
00:42:08
that deal of killing Dylan when I was out there with him where the particulars of that remember we said that Zachary
00:42:14
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
00:42:22
the grandfather had quite a bit of land and owned several homes and had quite a bit of money as well
00:42:28
Zachary Adams knew that his grandfather was close to dying he was he was in poor
00:42:33
health he was old and the promise that he made to Jason Autry was you know you kill my brother
00:42:40
and then after my grandfather dies I will give you some of the property maybe a house and split some of the money with
00:42:48
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
00:42:56
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
00:43:04
what do you think about my offer what do you think about the deal that we talked
00:43:07
about and there's one particular time uh after their smoking meth together and Jason Autry tells Zach after
00:43:17
repeated questions about if he would kill Dylan he says you know what I I might take you up on that offer uh but
00:43:24
if I do you might be next saying that he would kill Zachary Adams uh some other evidence that was
00:43:32
presented at the trial there were two pieces of paper remember we talked about a receipt and a card from her school
00:43:39
that was found yeah these were actually found near they were found on a road where Shane Austin lived he's one of
00:43:47
he's the person that that hung himself uh the receipt was about 75 feet from Austin's driveway so they believed that
00:43:54
they went back there shortly after the abduction several other Witnesses testified that Zachary Adams made
00:44:03
statements implicating himself in Holly's disappearance one was Rebecca Erp this is Zach's ex-girlfriend she
00:44:10
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
00:44:18
a 32 caliber Smith and Wesson long revolver was presented as evidence at trial now remember we said Victor
00:44:26
Dinsmore this is a guy that we haven't spoken about hardly at all but he is somebody that lately that just months
00:44:33
before the trial he's one of these guys that was granted immunity as well this is why because he led police to a
00:44:42
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
00:44:52
or fingerprints were on the weapon you know this case I mean every case is difficult but this
00:44:59
one and and probably with everything going on in the world I mean is there any hope for Humanity at all uh
00:45:07
well I think you know let's talk about there's a people out there that have come to Zachary Adams defense
00:45:13
and said that he's innocent and of course his defense attorneys are going to try to
00:45:19
um make that happen in trial there are a lot of things that they presented and we'll go through those real quickly
00:45:25
first of all Holly Bobo's remains were found in a different location than what Jason Autry
00:45:32
had told the police it's unclear how the body ended up where it was ultimately found you had said earlier and I agree
00:45:40
with you maybe they moved it um meaning Zachary Adams and and the other guys I believe that you're probably right on
00:45:49
this situation I bet you that they they probably panicked and went back and moved it to a different location we've
00:45:57
seen this before in other crimes there was a palm print that was found on Holly's car
00:46:03
um all four men including Jason Autry Zachary Adams uh Dylan Adams Shane Austen they were all ruled out as
00:46:12
having contributed to that palm print but that palm print may have nothing to do with the actual case with with her
00:46:19
abduction at all yeah you can it could be anybody's palm print yeah the defense alleged that the state used unethical
00:46:27
investigatory techniques to coerce a confession from Dylan Adams so pay attention because this is where it gets
00:46:35
very strange in 2014 Dylan was arrested on federal gun charges that would have ended in a lengthy prison sentence the
00:46:44
prosecutor who was also handling the Holly Bobo case arranged a no jail plea deal on the condition that he go live
00:46:51
with a retired police officer this is Dennis Benjamin who Dylan Adams did not know at that time now five weeks later
00:46:59
after living with Dennis Benjamin Benjamin called 9-1-1 to report that he has someone in his home that wants to
00:47:06
confess to the murder of Holly Bobo despite the fact that this confession led to the arrest of the men much of
00:47:12
what he confessed to it did not match the evidence Dylan Adams States um he's a mentally disabled man
00:47:21
um and that they kept him up all night and would not give him anything to eat or drink
00:47:26
and this ended up in Dylan basically saying what do you want me to say right to the investigators uh claiming that he
00:47:34
would have said anything at that point um Jason Autry testified to a series of events that was drastically different
00:47:43
from Dylan Adams confession he testified that he himself was not involved in the
00:47:49
abduction okay so let's let's think about that for a minute we have this situation we have this Dylan Adams who's
00:47:55
eventually charged with rape and he's going to face trial at some point on these charges we said that he gave a
00:48:02
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
00:48:10
case where somebody that is actually guilty of a lot more things will sit down with police and they will admit to
00:48:16
some of the things right and they might tell you who was involved but they're not actually going to implicate
00:48:22
themselves in any major crime being committed so I personally here's my vibe and what my gut tells me after watching
00:48:30
all of Jason Autry's testimony I believe him to be true I believe that that the majority of what he's saying is
00:48:39
fact and what actually happened right I have to believe that Dylan Adams in his vague confession that he gave to police
00:48:47
was there was probably some elements of truth to it um he named the people that would
00:48:53
ultimately be tried for this murder um but I think he was kind of making it up and
00:49:00
kind of weaving the story to paint himself in a much better light and therefore those stories are not going to match
00:49:07
right yeah now remember the Percy Brothers these were the ones that um the police thought had knowledge of some
00:49:15
kind of videotape showing Holly Bobo after she had been abducted that whole story
00:49:20
never came up in trial the state never brought it up uh there's no pending charges against the Percy
00:49:27
brothers so that thing seems to have kind of washed away um maybe it was just something that the
00:49:34
police got wrong um I can't fault them if they got it wrong maybe maybe they got it right I
00:49:39
don't know but this this Sandra King seems to have reason to maybe want to throw Jeffrey Percy under the bus
00:49:48
um apparently her son who's been in prison for like 14 years he still has 24 years left on his
00:49:57
sentence um there's rumor and rumbling that maybe she was getting some kind of deal to uh
00:50:04
implicate these two guys right and Holly Bobo's murder for a lesser sentence for
00:50:09
her son well it's this case is difficult because you know I applaud uh law enforcement
00:50:17
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
00:50:27
and you also can't you know how is that fair to the you know there's no justice there if if
00:50:34
somebody's going to give you a false confession so their son can get a lighter sentence that person had nothing
00:50:39
to do with this case they shouldn't be involved you know you know if if your mother wants to come forward and and
00:50:47
testify in a case fine but that has nothing to do with you now Zachary Adams defense alleged that
00:50:54
Jason Autry concocted this whole story in exchange for a reduced sentence uh and that only some of his story could be
00:51:02
corroborated well one thing regarding his testimony Jason Autry's testimony when he's asked why are you here why are
00:51:11
you testifying today he says because I'm hoping for uh leniency in my case I mean he's he's
00:51:19
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
00:51:26
when I go to trial uh for my involvement in this case yeah uh the state would also point out that
00:51:33
none of the men Accused by Jason Autry matched the witness description given by Clint Bobo
00:51:39
um they were all either Too Tall too slim or too heavy to be the abductor um as we said Shane Austin was the
00:51:47
correct height and weight but Clint described a man with dark hair that had covered his neck Shane had short red
00:51:54
hair um the problem with this and this is what the defense would claim is that you
00:52:00
know who that physical description matches it matches Terry Britt so Terry Britt he's the stalker sex offender
00:52:07
rapist that we've talked about in episode one his name appears in this trial because Zach's defense attorney
00:52:15
contends that the initial suspect in the case was Terry Britt and they said he's
00:52:20
the real killer uh noting that he had never been cleared by the TBI and in fact uh stating that it appears that the
00:52:29
government has more evidence of his guilt than it does of the three defendants charged in this case
00:52:34
according to John Walker who is a U.S Marshal Terry Britt actually offered a plea to plead guilty to murder at one
00:52:44
point uh Terry Britt could not be excluded as a contributor of the palm print that was found on Holly's car come
00:52:52
on like we said before or or at least I thought before I don't know if I said it
00:52:56
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
00:53:02
is not a coincidence anymore something's going on here with this individual and it this case is very difficult because
00:53:09
with so many drug addicts it's like who do you believe right and and like and can you even believe
00:53:17
anything they say because of what state of mind were they in you know because like his whole story starts off with
00:53:23
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
00:53:32
somebody all right you know but you just got done telling me you just did heroin
00:53:38
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
00:53:46
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
00:53:56
the verdict the verdict well on September 22nd of this year a jury found Zachary Adams guilty on all charges
00:54:04
including first degree murder especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape on September 23rd he was sentenced
00:54:12
to life in prison without parole and to consecutive terms of 25 years for both the kidnapping and rape convictions now
00:54:21
Jason Autry and John Dylan Adams also face charges in this case they will be tried separately uh and they have both
00:54:31
pled not guilty as did Zachary Adams now regarding before we move on though Captain I do want to mention that Terry
00:54:40
brick guy who's been sentenced to prison for multiple rapes yeah it's been known
00:54:45
to stalk women he was considered a suspect in this case I think he I think he should that was good work on the
00:54:50
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
00:54:58
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
00:55:05
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
00:55:12
living in your neighborhood with your daughters your wives your sisters your mothers any female at all
00:55:19
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
00:55:27
quick reason why you think an individual should not be paroled uh if you live in
00:55:32
the state of Tennessee and they have that there I recommend you sign your name on Terry Britt's paper yes sign
00:55:38
your real name sign your fake name sign your mom's name your cat's name yes my new cat's name
00:55:44
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
00:55:53
more trials in this case it'd be interesting to see what comes out because Jason Autry was not really
00:55:58
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
00:56:06
allowed to accuse Dylan Adams of much because Dylan was not on trial um but he will be so to be interesting
00:56:14
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
00:56:21
as well so it'd be interesting to see what sentences these guys get I think they're all very guilty and like you
00:56:27
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
00:56:35
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
00:56:43
well I can't I can't imagine right what the Bobo family uh I mean one for this experience to happen to
00:56:53
lose a daughter and then so many years later to have to sit through the trial and hear what happened
00:57:00
I mean I just you're it just breaks your heart it absolutely breaks your heart well so hopefully there's updates soon
00:57:06
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
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00:58:01
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until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music]