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[Music] crime [Music] 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo went missing April 13
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2011 now where we left off we had gone through the following years and we have a situation where we have several men
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who are arrested uh 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 ay 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 uh but we have the
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police and investigators saying that they may seek charges against Austin at some point because he doesn't seem to be
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completely honest and completely forthcoming uh to help them in their investigation now later that year after
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3 and A2 years for of looking for Holly Bobo her remains are discovered in September of
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2014 when we left off yesterday we said that we were going to get into these suspects a little more and that's
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exactly what we're going to do so now we mentioned that Shane Austin we said that
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he was offered immunity in exchange for information regarding the location of Holly Bobo's body uh police checked
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Shane's phone records and those indicated that Shane Austin was in contact with Zachary Adams several times
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on the day of Holly's kidnapping and the police believe that Austin helped dispose of this body now this agreement
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between Austin and the authorities granted him immunity from very charges in the case including all charges
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arising out of the disposal destruction burial and or concealment of Holly Bobo's deceased body it also included a
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provision granting Austin immunity for drug rated criminal activity not to include any drugs administered to Holly
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Bobo the agreement hinged on Bobo's body being recovered from the place where Austin said it was buried that didn't
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happen so then the agreement was withdrawn after Austin was unable or unwilling to lead them to the body yeah
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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 20 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 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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Austin was found in a hotel room in BTO 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 Poss as
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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 ay who was also charged with first-degree murder so we have this
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confession from Dylan Zachary's brother and then we have Shane working with the police they're gathering information but
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at this time in the investigation these guys are all kind of turning on one another and each one is saying that so
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and so had did this so and so did that I had nothing to do with it we got this circle of idiots all kind of turning on
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one another well the facts are that each of these players or each of these suspects were involved on some level but
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where they're turning on each other is uh kind of let me point the finger at you so that makes me look less guilty MH
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like um yeah I did some bad stuff but I didn't kill her right now the the two uh
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Shane Austin the guy that committed suicide uh he he hung himself in that uh that uh down in Florida in a hotel room
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now uh he and Zachary Adams who like I said seems to be the center point the focal point of their investigation maybe
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he's the ring leader of this group of idiots but uh they seem to have some kind of um drug ring going on in
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Tennessee they they fancy I'm guessing they fancy themselves some kind of some kind of fake gang um they seem to run
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around a lot together and uh were known to be meth addicts uh they cooked meth um they sold drugs to people um and then
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we have you know as I said he's the cousin of the other guy who's been charged in the murder and it seems that
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that the real connection of Jason arrey to Zack Adams and his cousin Shane Austin seems to be his own drug
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addiction it seems to me like he was going to these guys to purchase drugs on a regular basis right now let's
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get into to those two brothers remember we said we have Jeff and Mark Percy that
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in July of 2014 the Percy brothers were arrested and charged with accessory after the fact and tampering with
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evidence they were arrested on the basis of allegations made by Jeffrey Percy's former roommate SRE King King alleged
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that in May of 2014 Jeff had shown her part of a video showing Zack Adams assaulting Holly Bobo
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who was tied up and crying she told police that she only watched a small clip and did not see an actual sexual
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assault during this clip police arranged for sandre King to make a recorded phone
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call to Jeff where sandre told Jeff over the phone that video of Holly if it had
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been you in the video I would have watched it to which Jeff replied I know SRE King also alleges that Jeff's
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brother Mark was the one that shot the video but to be clear they are saying that they have knowledge that this video
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exists or existed at least at one time uh when sandre said that she had saw it now authorities had not located this
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video both brothers denied that any type of video anything remotely like this existed at all and Jeff Percy denies
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knowing the other men who have been charged in the crime Jeff claims that he was unable to hear sandre during that
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recorded phone call conversation and that his ex-wife's name was also Holly uh the alleged videotape as I said
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has not been found police have analyzed over 20 phones over 20 cell phones but have not found any video on those phones
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charges against both men were eventually dropped yeah the charges were dropped but Karma will catch up to him um here's
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the thing um we talked about John Dylan Adams uh he goes by Dylan Adams he's the
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brother of Zachary Adams um well just to kind of let's kind of clear up this suspect pool very quickly before we move
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on to another one so we have all these suspects we have one who's dead and gone so we can kind of forget about him he's
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no longer a concern we have the two brothers that were accessory after the fact uh police believed but eventually
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they dropped the charges against the Percy brothers so let's go ahead and push them out and off to the side we're
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getting a smaller group to be concerned with now one of those people is still this Dylan Adams um he's the one that
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confessed to observing Holly Bobo sitting in a green chair in the living room of Zachary Adams home wearing a
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pink T-shirt and he also says that Jason ay was standing just a few feet away when he saw Holly Bobo he also told
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police that Zach was was wearing camouflage shorts that black T-shirt with the sleeves cut off and the the
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green pair of Crocs um Dylan also reported that Zach had told him that Zach had raped Holly and videotaped it
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eventually Dylan would be charged with rape in this case related to this case Dylan later recanted the confession and
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alleged that he was coerced right but his confession led to the arrest of Zachary Adams Jason autrey and Shane
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Austin many of the details con contained in that confession were eventually found
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to be inconsistent with the known evidence at the time plus the prosecution has been heavily criticized
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for their refusal to produce evidence against the defendants missing multiple Discovery deadlines and for making
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frequent changes to the charges against the defendants with little or no explanation at all the other complaint
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is how long it took for the state to share evidence with the defense of these characters so the arrest take place in
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early 2014 but it wasn't until July of 2015 that it was announced that the defendants finally received access to
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all of the evidence against them all right now we have to fast forward to this year this is from News 5 in
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Nashville uh the state granted immunity to Jason ay who was accused of killing and kidnapping nursing student Holly
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Bobo a shocking development that legal analysts said means Aly likely knows something about Holly Bobo's death
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according to court documents Jason ay Victor denmore Michael Alexander and Shane Austin were all granted immunity
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agreements in this case why is this important because we're finally going to go to trial in this casee they have
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charged Zachary Adams with murder and his trial is was approaching at this time now we said Shane Austin who was
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somehow connected to Holly's death he was the one that committed suicide a few years ago atrey Jason atrey who was
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recently granted immunity uh he was already in prison when he was charged with his alleged role in Holly Bobo's
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murder he was serving time for federal gun charges of some sort uh Jason alry has always maintained his innocence
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though the agreement that they reached will protect atrey by keeping his testimony from being used against him ay
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could still be prosecuted for his alleged role in Holly's death but not for anything that he may testify about
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against Zachary Adams right so this move by the prosecution obviously points and
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proves how crucial Jason atre's testimony will be for the state's case against Zachary Adams the body was so
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decomposed that it was probably hard to get a lot of forensic evidence off the remains you're exactly right now last
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month um in September of 2017 Zachary Adams was to the first to go on trial the prosecution's case was uh
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circumstantial we'll say uh as there was no DNA or other forensic evidence tying
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Zachary to the murder Jason atrey 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 [Music] testimony I want you to start at the
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moment that you pulled into his driveway and tell the jury what happened pulled into the
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driveway and I got out the first thing I know noticed was a burn Barrow that was
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burning the second thing was Dylan was standing in the doorway with the shirt off Shane was walking
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around saying y'all need to help and get the goddamn hell out of here and hosted
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on his side was a firearm I'm sorry can you repeat please your last statement can you say it again holster
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she couldn't hear yeah when I pulled in there was a large fire burning in a burn
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barrel Dylan Adams was standing at the door of the trailer just moving it so you can talk
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Dylan Adams was standing at the door of the trailer with his shirt off Shane was
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walking around in the yard holl yall need to hurry up and get the goddamn hell out of here with a
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firearm holstered on the right side died Zach was standing at the door of a white
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44 Nissan Frontier I instantly got to Mr Austin and bought a peill bought a morphine 100 mgram walked
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directly back to the PT Cruiser broke it in half cooked it down and shot it few minutes later I got out and
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walked back to the four before Nissan where Zach was standing at the door and he
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said I need you to help me bury this body and I told him I said God damn I hate that y'all kill little
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JoJo he said Jason he said that he said train he didn't say Jason my nickname was train 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 Joel owed some money for some
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pills him and Zach's 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 a woman connection
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between Joe Z did you know what there's a child both of them have a child with the
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same woman so you had you knew there was bad blood about a drug deal you knew there's bad blood
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about yeah some some stuff that happened the child one child got oh abused maybe when he said that's not JoJo
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that's Holly Bobo what' you do I I was clear I I didn't know Holly Bobo you've since come to know who she was is
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well pictures TVs pictures and stuff like that so let's be honest did you really care
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one way or 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 what you did after that the body was laying in a multicolored Farm blanket Farm style
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blanket that looked like multiple colors wrapped in the blanket laying up against the
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back say the truck is sitting here it's laying against the back instead of laying long ways it's laying this
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way from the moment you figured out that he he wanted help with hly versus help with
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the batch of meth were you willing yes I was tell the JY what happened what you said what he
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said he asked me would I help him bury the body and I said yeah I said I will and he said but I said there's under I
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want to leave my car somewhere else besides here I said I don't want Shane or Dylan to know that I got involved in
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this so I told him I said meet me at Yellow Springs Church I'll park the PT Cruiser in there and I'll get in the
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truck with you and so while you were having this conversation with Zach where was
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Dylan Dylan never came out of the trailer right where was Shane continuing putting stuff into the
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barn Barrel can you say putting stuff into the burn barrel could you see what he
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was putting into the burn barrel the smell the smell was an appearance of camp fuel and meth it was
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a large Blaze you could the area was tighted and you could smell the smell of a meth lab
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burning okay I understand what you could smell but could you see what he was putting in I could not say I never
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I never made it that far down I never made it past the door of that floor before front
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uh the door I didn't hear the door I never made it past the truck TR the truck door you said earlier that Shane was
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saying y'all got to pray and get out of here did he say why he had a satellite uh he said there was a guy
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coming to install a satellite and he didn't know what time he'd be there so you had him saying satellite guy cable
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guy whatever is coming and throwing things in the burn barrel you had Dylan first at the door with no shirt on and
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then never came out correct that's correct this conversation took place between you and Zachary Adams there
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backed out went to Yellow Springs Church pulled in when I walked out to the road
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he was backing out of 30 y Springs Road he picked me up I got in the truck and we go towards 641 down PE
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Road right Mr ay you're you've now gotten into the truck with the guy who says there is
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hly boo is dead and right up in in the truck bed so tell the jury what you guys talked
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about as we got down going down the road I brought it to his attention that there
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were no shovels or pickaxes in the truck how are we going to bury a body with no shovels or
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pickaxes he looks at me and like he's lost and I said I I don't know of nowhere a man can just pull up and get a
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shovels and pickaxes with a dead body in the be here all right keep talking continue on
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yes we go across now before you continue on you say there's nothing to there's nothing to there's nothing to
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dig so what's an alternative suggested by me all right I told him that some years back that I had been underneath
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Interstate 40 bridge and there was a body floating and I told him I said the only
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thing holding the body up was the intestines yes and we set we set a course that
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direction why did did you mention a body floating what did you talk about specifically what was your plan of
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disposing of Holly's body was to gutter put her in the deep end of the slooh I told him I said you
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put her in the deep in that SLO Turtles and she eat it up just like that Turtles what turtles animals of
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opportunity so did you all the only thing holding the other body up was the gases and the guts I mean it was
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floating just like I'm from the river you see a dead fish the only thing holding it up is the gases in the
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intestines that's the same as it was you get the guts out down it goes so you had
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a good idea I understand yeah yes ma'am all right so where did you all go and who was driving
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Mr Adams was driving we went to 133 I believe is the we went to the 133 where the
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interstate Bridge crosses the Tennessee River okay underneath it tell what happened we
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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 well mile or so from there also there's a beach and uh we circled the boat R down
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by the beach turned around come back out not not back out but back up to the bridge made the
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circle and stopped at a pile of rip wrap what's rip wrap it's a large Limestone Rock
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generally about this size you're using your hands to rip W changes but you're using your hands to
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to show something larger than a dinner plate that's correct okay and you said you stopped beside we backed into a pile
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is this an area that you had been to before that's correct is this an area do you know whether or not um Mr Adams had
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been to that area before I believe he had well did you tell him where to turn or did he know where to go he went on
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his own okay we backed up to that pile of rip wrap approximately the distance of this to to that we didn't back all
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the way against it when you say this to that you just indicated the witness box to to the jury box yes approximately 5
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6t room room room to get out I got out of the truck with a right hand and I grabbed the upper torso of
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Miss Bobo Zach come around let the tailgate down I brought the upper torole to the end of the
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tailgate where he grabbed the legs and I set the head the upper hand on the rip wrap
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pile did you notice anything about the blanket or the truck the bed of the truck you see
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anything in the bed of the truck there appeared to be a small amount of blood can you use your hands to describe
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what you mean by small amount the the the the bed of the truck was ridged like the bed of the truck and it
00:32:05
looked like it looked as if it had just lightly skied it over and the blanket at the upper end of the Torso
00:32:15
that I grabbed had a small blood spot maybe the size of an orange up I don't think they can see on here maybe
00:32:26
the size of an orange did you look inside the blanket never did you unwrap never how were you able to swing her
00:32:46
body around and you get the top part and Zachary Adams get the bottom part without unwrapping the
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blanket I grabbed the blanket just like you would this shirt right here the body didn't weigh very
00:33:06
much I was in pretty good size shape I'm a pretty good siiz guy I grabbed the blanket just like that right
00:33:15
there and walk to the to the to the tailgate of the truck at that time he grabs the
00:33:23
legs we set the body down with the upper torso on that pile of rip wrap that y'all just shown that we just discussed
00:33:35
after you put H's body down on the rip what happen Mr Adams goes to the driver's side of the
00:33:48
pickup I'm standing I'm standing over the top of them my my hands on my knees she being right
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here and at that time I see the foot move a movement and a sound of distress that sound
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like come out of The Voice come out of come from the blanket at that time I walked to the
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door to the passenger side door of the pickup and Mr Adams was digging in a fanny
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pack I told him I said this [ __ ] [ __ ] is still alive we just stopped for a second I walked to the front of the
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truck I told Jack I said she's heard my name called and heard me talking and all at that time
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he Wheels around walks back to the driver's side pickup out of the floorboard of
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pickup he pulls a pistol the same pistol that was hosted on Mr Austin's side at 30 y Springs
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Road and I said wo hey let me ask you something here did you say wo cuz you thought you were
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going to save her life and stop him from doing something bad or did you say wo for another reason I said woe for
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another reason to go look and I run all the way across here to about this area and look that
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way to see if anything was coming how far could you see down there maybe 250 yard it's a long pretty
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long stretch right here to the next curve I looked around and when I looked back
00:36:05
around Mr Adams was standing let me stop you said you look around did you stay down there in the corner or did you come
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back I stayed right here working back and forth watching what about looking the other
00:36:22
way there was nothing coming I looked back this way and I told him there was nothing
00:36:29
coming when did you look back the other way the way the way that you came in on just shortly after I noticed that I
00:36:38
looked down here and was nothing coming okay going I looked around and I told him there was nothing coming closest
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clear something to that to that effect and at that time Boom the gun sounded gun went out
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and it sound like to me that it shot three four times underneath that bridge I had done made
00:37:08
it back I had done started my way back this way and it sound like boom boom boom underneath that bridge it was just
00:37:22
one shot but it echoed underneath that bridge all the way down that damn River Bottom
00:37:33
[Music] so that's the testimony of Jason atrey describing how he helped Zachary Adams
00:37:44
with Holly Bobo's body and then discovering that she was still alive and Zach shoots her in the back of the
00:37:51
head um what happens after this is fearing that the noise of the gunshot May attract attention they decide to
00:37:59
load her body back into the truck um and then at that point Zack drops Jason off
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because now this is a this Jason atrey is a strange dude he's he's a scary dude and there's plenty of reasons why um
00:38:16
first of all you hear him say you know he thought the body was somebody else thought it was JoJo because this guy
00:38:23
owed money to Zach and his friends right and when he's told no that's not JoJo that's Holly Bobo and the the the state
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asks him you know did that mean anything to you or did you care he said simply says no he didn't care whose body that
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was and that's because why one he's a coldhearted bastard but then on top of that he's this dude is has like a $500 a
00:38:52
week drug habit right so the only thing going through his mind and according to Jason atrey when he shows up there he
00:39:03
didn't know that he was going to see a body he didn't know that he was going to be asked to help dispose of a body or
00:39:10
who it was right all he's thinking about when he's presented with the problem that Zach and these other guys have in
00:39:17
front of him is that you know what if I help these dudes they're going to they're going to owe me big time right
00:39:24
and this is my these are the that I go to to get my $50 morphine pill 100 mgram morphine pill that he cuts into half he
00:39:34
cooks it up with some meth and then he shoots it now he said that his meth his meth would typically last him two maybe
00:39:43
three days one pill would usually last him about one day he would do this twice a day and several times a week he would
00:39:51
buy one of these pills so really all he's thinking about all all he's doing is they're going to owe me big I can
00:39:58
feed my drug habit for free for a while because I'm helping these these monsters
00:40:05
get rid of this body even if it's not for free this is my connection so I don't want to burn this bridge you know
00:40:13
and the the you know I said why he's a scary dude but he's a strange dude because it seems to me like Jason atry
00:40:21
the only thing that he is afraid of now mind you this guy gave about six hours testimony and you learn when you listen
00:40:29
to this testimony the only thing he seems to be afraid of is his girlfriend because the whole reason why he has Zach
00:40:36
drop him off before Zach goes and dumps the body is because he's supposed to meet his girlfriend for lunch and he
00:40:43
starts saying to Zach at some point look dude I got this place that I have to be
00:40:46
at this time you got to drop me off you got to get me back to my PT Cruiser so I
00:40:51
can go on my lunch date well it's sad because it you know the way he talks about it is so
00:41:00
nonchalant like this is not that big of a deal you know these these actions that
00:41:06
we did and this these events that you know he lived through uh they're not a big deal at all mhm and that that this
00:41:13
person it didn't matter who who this person was they just don't matter the only person that matters is him and his drug
00:41:21
habit MH uh anyway ay would testif that Zack later said that he took Holly Bobo's
00:41:30
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
00:41:37
abduction what was presented at trial is that Zack Shane and Dylan so not Jason alrey not the guy that we just heard
00:41:45
from but Zachary Shane and Dylan went to Holly's residence supposedly to teach Clint Bobo how to
00:41:53
make meth right uh ACC according to this story Holly came out of the home she's screaming and hollering at the guys and
00:42:02
that's when the men decided to abduct her uh the prosecution presented the this situation that Shane Austin the guy
00:42:10
that hung himself in the hotel uh was actually the man that Clint had seen walking Holly Bobo into the woods uh the
00:42:19
reason why they presented this is he's the only one that would fit the size of the person described by
00:42:27
Clint um and there's no easy way to say this but then the the three men zacher Adams
00:42:34
Dylan Adams and Shane Austin they they sexually assaulted Holly in a barn that was owned by the
00:42:43
grandmother of both Shane Austin and Jason atrey remember their cousins right um it's not well you can call it sexual
00:42:52
assault they raped her and right they're [ __ ] pieces of [ __ ] so the reason for this
00:43:00
whole this all right look I watched enough of this trial and I and I watched enough of Clint Bobo on the stand and
00:43:07
seen him in interviews closer to the time that his sister went missing and her abduction they weren't there to you
00:43:15
know I hate to break it to you bad guys but I maybe it makes for a good story for you dudes but you weren't there to
00:43:22
to teach Clint how to cook meth you weren't there for that reason these three guys went there with the sole
00:43:28
purpose of abducting this girl and had she not been there that day they would have went back on another time and
00:43:34
attempted to do it that day yeah it just so happened to be that Clint was home and and they could read that in the
00:43:41
newspaper that Clint was there and described who was taking her into the woods so they came up with a good story
00:43:47
so when when they needed somebody to help them dispose of a body it makes them look like hey we didn't premeditate
00:43:53
this thing this this thing just kind of happened the other thing that comes up in uh
00:43:59
Jason atre's testimony is that at some point Zachary Adams asked Jason atrey if he would kill his brother Dylan the
00:44:11
reason for this is at some point in the case you know we said Dylan had spoken to the police and gave them some kind of
00:44:19
confession well he was also kind of he wasn't very quiet about what had happened he was kind of telling other
00:44:26
people as well and Zachary Adams started getting worried and nervous that his brother was going to get them all caught
00:44:34
so he asked Jason atrey if he would kill Dylan Adams to which Jason atry says let
00:44:40
me think about it and I'll get back to you right um and at some point he actually takes Dylan on
00:44:47
a he says a fishing trip on a boat um and they're out fishing and Jason says on the stand
00:44:56
I thought quite hard and good about making good on that uh on that deal of killing Dylan when I was out there with
00:45:03
him well the particulars of that remember we said that Zachary Adams had leeched on to his grandfather and he
00:45:10
would he would use him for money and to help him get out of trouble well the grandfather had quite a bit of land and
00:45:17
owned several homes and had quite a bit of money as well Zachary Adams knew that
00:45:22
his grandfather was close to dying he was he was in poor health he was old and the promise that he made to
00:45:29
Jason ayy was you know you kill my brother and then after my grandfather dies I will give you some of the
00:45:37
property maybe a house and split some of the money with you right but he doesn't
00:45:42
offer this deal just one time though no no he he he there's a few follow-up questions you know every time they are
00:45:51
together uh he he's going to ask Jason again Zach's going to ask Jason again what do you what do you think about my
00:45:58
offer what do you think about the deal that we talked about and there's one particular time uh after they're smoking
00:46:05
meth together and Jason atrey tells Zack after repeated questions about if he would kill Dylan he says you know what I
00:46:14
I might take you up on that offer uh but if I do you might be next saying that he
00:46:20
would kill Zachary Adams uh some other evidence that was presented at the trial there were two pieces of paper remember
00:46:28
we talked about a receipt and a card from her school that was found yeah um these were actually found near they were
00:46:37
found on a road where Shane Austin lived he's one of he's the person that that hung himself uh the receipt was about 75
00:46:44
ft from Austin's driveway so they believe that they they went back there shortly after the abduction uh several
00:46:53
other Witnesses testified that Zachary Adams made statements implicating himself in Holly's disappearance one was
00:46:59
Rebecca her this is Zach's ex-girlfriend she says that Zack told her that he would tie her up just like he did Holly
00:47:07
Bobo and nobody would ever see her again now a 32 caliber Smith and Wesson long revolver was presented as evidence at
00:47:16
trial now remember we said Victor denmore this is a guy that we haven't spoken about hardly at all but he is
00:47:23
somebody that lately that just months before the trial he's one of these guys that was granted immunity as well mhm
00:47:31
this is why because he led police to a gun and said that Shane Austin and Jason atrey traded him the gun for drugs uh
00:47:42
the gun was found underwater so no DNA or fingerprints were on the weapon you know this case I mean every case is
00:47:51
difficult but this one and and probably with everything going on in the world I mean
00:47:56
is there any hope for Humanity at all uh well I I think you know let's talk about
00:48:01
there's people out there that have come to Zachary Adam's defense and said that he's innocent and of course his defense
00:48:09
attorneys are going to try to um make that happen in trial there were a lot of things that they presented um and we'll
00:48:16
go through those real quickly um first of all Holly Bobo's remains were found in a different location than what Jason
00:48:24
atrey had told the police it's unclear how the body ended up where it was ultimately found you had said earlier
00:48:32
and I agree with you maybe they moved it um meaning Zachary Adams and and the other guys uh I I believe that you're
00:48:41
probably right on this situation I bet you that they they probably panicked and went back and moved it to a different
00:48:48
location uh we've seen this before in other crimes there was a pal print that was found on Holly's car
00:48:56
um all four men including Jason arrey Zachary Adams uh Dylan Adams Shane Austin they were all ruled out as having
00:49:05
contributed to that palm print but but that pal print may have nothing to do with the actual case with with her
00:49:12
abduction at all yeah you it could be anybody's palm print yeah the defense alleged that the state used unethical
00:49:20
investigatory techniques to coers a confession from Dylan Adam so pay attention cuz this is where it
00:49:27
gets very strange in 2014 Dylan was arrested on federal gun charges that would have ended in a lengthy prison
00:49:35
sentence the prosecutor who was also handling the Holly Bobo case arranged a no jail plea deal on the condition that
00:49:43
he go live with a retired police officer this is Dennis Benjamin who Dylan Adams
00:49:49
did not know at that time now 5 weeks later after living with Dennis Benjamin Benjamin called 911 to to report that he
00:49:56
has someone in his home that wants to confess to the murder of Holly Bobo despite the fact that this confession
00:50:03
led to the arrest of the men much of what he confessed to it did not match the evidence Dylan Adams States um he's
00:50:11
a mentally disabled man um and that they kept him up all night and would not give
00:50:17
him anything to eat or drink uh and this ended up in Dylan basically saying what
00:50:23
do you want me to say to the inves ators uh claiming that he would have said anything at that point um Jason ay
00:50:31
testified to a series of events that was drastically different from Dylan Adams confession uh he testified that he
00:50:40
himself was not involved in the abduction okay so let's let's think about that for a minute we have this
00:50:46
situation we have this Dylan Adams who's eventually charged with rape and he's going to face trial at some point on
00:50:52
these charges we said that he gave a vague confession to police at that time he's saying it's under duress but you
00:51:01
know we've seen many times in a case where somebody that is actually guilty of a lot more things will sit down with
00:51:08
police and they will admit to some of the things right and they might tell you who was involved but they're not
00:51:14
actually going to implicate themselves in any major crime being committed so I personally here's my vibe and what my
00:51:22
gut tells me after watching all of Jason 's test testimony I believe him to be true I believe that that the majority of
00:51:31
what he's saying is fact and what actually happened right I have to believe that Dylan Adams in his vague
00:51:38
confession that he gave to police was there was probably some elements of truth to it um he named the people that
00:51:46
would ultimately be tried for this murder um but I think he was kind of making it up and kind of weaving the
00:51:54
story to paint himself in a much better light and therefore those stories are not going to match right yeah now
00:52:02
remember the Percy Brothers these were the ones that um the police thought had knowledge of some kind of videotape
00:52:08
showing Holly Bobo after she had been abducted that whole story never came up in trial the state
00:52:16
never brought it up uh there's no pending charges against the Percy Brothers um so that thing seems to have
00:52:23
kind of washed away maybe it was just something that the police got wrong um I can't fault them if they got it wrong
00:52:31
maybe maybe they got it right I don't know but this this sandre King uh seems to have reason to maybe want to throw
00:52:38
Jeffrey Percy under the bus um apparently her son who's been in prison for like 14 years he still has 24 years
00:52:49
left on his sentence um there's rumor and rumbling that maybe she was getting some kind of deal to uh implicate these
00:52:58
two guys right in Holly Bobo's murder for a lesser sentence for her son well it's this case is difficult cuz
00:53:07
you know I applaud uh law enforcement you know to try to do anything you can to um put bad guys behind bars but you
00:53:17
have to do it legally right and and you also can't you know how is that fair to the you know it's there's no justice
00:53:26
there if if somebody's going to give you a false confession so their son can get
00:53:30
a lighter sentence that person had nothing to do with this case they shouldn't be involved you know you know
00:53:37
if if if your mother wants to come forward and and testify in a case fine but that has nothing to do with you MH
00:53:44
now Zachary Adams defense alleged that Jason arrey concocted this whole story in exchange for a reduced sentence uh
00:53:53
and that only some of his story could be corroborated well one thing regarding his testimony J Jason A's
00:54:01
testimony when he's asked why are you here why are you testifying today he says because I'm hoping for U leniency
00:54:09
in my case I mean he's he's he's outright about it he's like look dude I'm telling you what happened because
00:54:16
now I'm going to beg the court for Mercy when I go to trial uh for my involvement
00:54:22
in this case yeah uh the state would also point out that none of the men Accused by Jason ay
00:54:28
matched the witness description given by Clint Bobo um they were all either Too Tall too slim or too heavy to be the
00:54:36
abductor um as we said Shane Austin was the correct height and weight but Clint described a man with dark hair that had
00:54:44
covered his neck Shane had short red hair um the problem with this and this is what the defense would claim is that
00:54:52
you know who that physical description matches it matches Terry Britt so Terry Britt he's the stalker sex offender
00:55:00
rapist that we talked about in episode one his name appears in this trial because Zach's defense attorney contends
00:55:09
that the initial suspect in the case was Terry Brit and they said he's the real killer uh noting that he had never been
00:55:16
cleared by the TBI and in fact uh stating that it appears that the government has more evidence of his
00:55:23
guilt than it does of the three defendants charged in this casee according to John Walker who is a US
00:55:30
Marshal Terry Brit actually offered a plea to plead guilty to murder at one point uh Terry Brit could not be
00:55:40
excluded as a contributor of the palm print that was found on Holly's car well like we said before or or at least I
00:55:47
thought before I don't know if I said it out loud but it's like when he came up as a suspect there was just so many
00:55:53
things that at some point it's like this is not a coincidence anymore something's
00:55:58
going on here with this individual and it this case is very difficult because with so many drug addicts it's like who
00:56:05
do you believe right and and like and can you even believe anything they say because what state of mind were they in
00:56:13
you know cuz like his whole story starts off with yeah I went in got some drugs and I'm super drugged up and now I walk
00:56:21
out and go hey uh you need me to help you bar somebody all right MH you know but you just got done telling me you
00:56:29
just did heroin yeah so I I but again I can only go with my gut I sat through many hours of his testimony and I
00:56:38
believe Jason autrey to be telling the truth or 95% of his testimony to be the actual truth it's very chilling I do
00:56:47
want to um what was the verdict the verdict well on September 22nd of this year a jury found Zachary Adams guilty
00:56:56
on all charges including first-degree murder especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape on September 23rd he
00:57:04
was sentenced to life in prison without parole and to consecutive terms of 25 years for both the kidnapping and rape
00:57:12
convictions now Jason ay and John Dylan Adams also face charges in this case they will be tried separately uh and
00:57:22
they have both plad not guil y as did Zachary Adams now regarding before we move on though Captain I do want to
00:57:31
mention that Terry brick guy who's been sentenced to prison for multiple rapes yeah he's been known to stock women he
00:57:38
was considered a suspect in this case I think he I think he should that was good
00:57:43
work on the police department's end and the tbi's end however I think at the end
00:57:48
of the day they got their right guy and guys for the Holly Bobo murder uh but this dude is is set to be released from
00:57:56
prison he's currently in prison right now but he's set to be released next year uh from prison this is not a guy
00:58:02
that you want on the streets this is not a guy that you want living in your neighborhood with your daughters your
00:58:07
wives your sisters your mothers any female at all um if you live in that area I know here in Ohio we have block
00:58:16
parole programs where you can sign petitions and give a quick reason why you think an individual should not be
00:58:23
paroled uh if you live in the state of Tennessee and they have that there I recommend you sign your name on Terry
00:58:29
britz paper yes sign your real name sign your fake name sign your mom's name your
00:58:34
cat's name yeah sign your cat's name Jesus I I I don't know I'm I've been bummed out by cases before
00:58:43
but I don't know well so we have two more trials in this case it' be interesting to see what comes out
00:58:49
because Jason ay was not really allowed per the agreement that they had and the and and what you can say and can't say
00:58:57
in court he wasn't really allowed to accuse Dylan Adams of much because Dylan was not on trial um but he will be so
00:59:06
it' be interesting to see what Jason Autry says about uh Dylan Adams as I'm I'm guessing he would be the state's key
00:59:13
witness in that trial as well so it'd be interesting to see what sentences these
00:59:17
guys get I think they're all very guilty and like you said cases have made you depressed th this is the the thing I sat
00:59:25
through a lot of this trial and and I I got to tell you man it has affected me terribly I I I feel like I have some
00:59:32
kind of mild form of PTSD from this thing I can only imagine well I can't I can't imagine what the Bobo
00:59:40
family uh I mean one for this experience to happen to lose a daughter and then so many
00:59:48
years later to have to sit through the trial and hear what happened I mean I just you're it just breaks your heart it
00:59:56
absolutely breaks your heart well so hopefully there's update soon on these trials and uh once we hear something uh
01:00:02
we'll let you guys know as well uh do we have a recommended reading for this week
01:00:07
uh yes Captain I'm excited about this one this just came out about a week or so ago I'm in the middle of it right now
01:00:13
I'm loving it this week we are recommending murder and velia the coin dealer Killer by Ron colard uh this is
01:00:20
about a stamp and coin dealer who was gunned down in front of his shop I'm sorry inside his shop the police linked
01:00:27
this murder to a death in another jurisdiction because just two months earlier the body of a coin dealer in
01:00:34
another city was found locked in the trunk of his car this book is great it covers the entire investigation from
01:00:40
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01:00:54
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