The Holly Bobo Murder

I'm not sure this is where to put this but I couldn't find a thread re case of the 2011 murder of Holly Bobo.
There were several arrests and three convictions on the case and I'm currently watching the one prosecution that went to trial.
Anyway, I'm interested to know whether anyone is aware of the case or is familiar it and would share their thoughts.

Murder of Holly Bobo - Wikipedia

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[GrandmaBear]

If you still need it, it's 681 Swan Johnson Rd Darden, TN

THANK YOU!!! Now that was helpful. Here it is, there are lots of outdoor pics too and the plat/lot.

681 Swan Johnson Rd, Darden, TN 38328 | Zillow

681 Swan Johnson Rd, Darden TN, is a Single Family home that contains 1800 sq ft and was built in 1982.It contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.This home last sold for $199,900 in September 2017. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $330,900, which has increased by $53 in the last 30 days.The...

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[GrandmaBear]

The old listing above I think is very helpful. I didn't see a carport and there is an attached garage and a detached but I skimmed quickly. I'll take a closer look later.

 

[Tresir]

I'd still like a good view of her home and those woods they went into if anyone comes across one.

I'll see if i can get it on street view.

 

[Tresir]

Here's the street view of the address.

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[GrandmaBear]

Here's the street view of the address.

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Awesome.

That road doesn't appear to be one that would be highly traveled.

 

[Tresir]

This is an article from 2014 when Holly's remains were found. Really good article with a lot of detail.

http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/special-reports/abduction-holly-bobo/2014/09/09/tbi-skull-found-holly-bobos/15320211/#:~:text=County%20Corner%20Road%20is%20in,and%20accessory%20after%20the%20fact.

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TBI Director Mark Gwyn tells the media that the human remains found Sunday in Decatur County are those of missing nursing student Holly Bobo.

MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun​

TBI: Skull found is Holly Bobo's​

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73)]Jordan Buie | The Jackson Sun
DECATURVILLE – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Monday night that the partial remains of missing nursing student Holly Bobo have been found.
TBI Director Mark Gwyn and District Attorney General Matt Stowe made the announcement at a 10 p.m. news conference at the Decatur County Sheriff's Department. The development in the case came when two Benton County men found a human skull Sunday morning in the woods near a logging road adjacent to County Corner Road in northern Decatur County.
Investigators sent the skull to the TBI forensics lab in Memphis. The lab determined Monday that the remains were Bobo's.
Bobo, 20, was abducted from outside her Decatur County home in April 2011. Two men, Zach Adams and Jason Autry, were indicted earlier this year on charges that they kidnapped and murdered Bobo.

Bobo
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When Gwyn announced that her remains had been found, Holly's friend Rickey Dale Alexander bowed over in tears.
"First, I would like to extend my condolences to the family and friends of Holly Bobo," Gwyn said. "In light of the recent discovery of possible human remains in Decatur County, the TBI has been able to confirm through the findings … that the remains are of Holly Bobo."
Cries broke out in the room.
Gwyn said local law enforcement has worked tirelessly for more than three years to thoroughly follow leads and bring those responsible to justice.
"It was my prayer, as well as the prayers of many others that Holly Bobo would be found," he said. "I assure you all this is not over by any means. The investigation is still ongoing to get to the truth."
Gwyn then turned the podium over to Stowe.
"I've just come from a very difficult conversation with the Bobo family," Stowe said. "They will be issuing a statement tomorrow. I'm going to ask that everyone please respect their privacy until around noon or one o'clock tomorrow.
"After the kind of conversation I've just had, there's not a whole lot you can say, so I'm just going to say three things," Stowe said. "First of all, the TBI has been working exhaustively on this case for years. The evidence is voluminous. We are going through it right now. We are going to be continuing to follow up leads with the TBI and continuing to gather evidence and interview people.
"We are going to make sure that everyone who played a part in the heinous crime that has attacked the peace and dignity of the state of Tennessee faces a consequence for that," Stowe said.
He said the Bobo case is being analyzed as a possible death penalty case and that his office is ready and able to seek such a punishment.
"We will be making a decision sometime in the next couple of weeks in conjunction with the Bobo family," Stowe said. "Right now, in the meantime, we have the finest experts we can find and that are available. There are so many people working on this case right now that it would boggle the mind, and nobody is sleeping, nobody needs to be told what to do in this case.
"We will get to the truth," he said. "If today is proof of anything, it is that you can delay justice, but you can't deny it."
Stowe told The Jackson Sun in an interview last week that he and the TBI are still "actively looking" to bring charges against additional people, though they may not be murder charges.
The TBI and local law enforcement said the investigation is ongoing and that more forensic work will be conducted in the case.
A forensic team — including people from the medical examiner's office in Memphis and forensic anthropologists from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville — is expected to arrive Tuesday to examine the area where the remains were found.
The area includes almost 2,000 acres of uninhabited hardwoods or cut-over, said Cory Tubbs, who works at the Tubbs Sawmill about a half mile down County Corner Road.
Tubbs said his family owns the property.
On Monday morning, before the remains were identified as Bobo's, Tubbs said he could not believe the search has taken so long or that human remains were found on his property, where numerous searches had previously been conducted.
"I just can't believe it," he said. "It doesn't make any sense."
Holly Bobo disappeared from her home on April 13, 2011. Her brother Clint said he saw a man dressed in camouflage lead her into the woods behind their parents' house on Swan Johnson Road near Parsons.
Clint Bobo told investigators that he wasn't alarmed at first by Holly walking with the man because he thought it was her boyfriend, who had been turkey hunting that morning. He knew something was wrong when he saw blood outside. Authorities never publicly confirmed if the blood was Holly's.
Since that day Clint, Holly's father Dana and mother Karen and the rest of the community of Decatur County and the surrounding area have worked tirelessly to bring Holly home.
In the weeks following her abduction, searchers combed the woods and fields in Decatur and surrounding counties on foot, with all-terrain vehicles and on horseback. Investigators publicly reported finding little evidence at the time other than a lunchbox believed to belong to Bobo, which was found in the Bible Hill Road area, about six or seven miles from her home.
Fliers with her picture have covered the windows of gas stations, posters have been tacked to light poles, and 18-wheelers have embarked on cross-country journeys carrying the message, "Bring Holly Home." The ubiquitous pink ribbons strewn across the South have come to represent not only one family's hopes, but the determination of a community to stand together for one of their own.
Even Monday night, as with every other news conference held about Holly's disappearance, many members of the community turned out, desperate for any relieving news, praying for something to bring peace.
When word spread Sunday that human remains were found, the community waited for the news, though sorrowful, it had so long been deprived of.
Bobo's case began to pick up again in the public's eyes in late February and early March of this year when TBI investigators were seen searching and sifting through the dirt at Zach Adams' home in Holladay, in northern Decatur County, about 15 miles from where Bobo was last seen.
County Corner Road is in Holladay within 11 miles of where Adams lived.
Adams, 29, of Holladay, was charged March 5 with Bobo's murder and kidnapping.
On April 29, Autry, 39, was indicted on the same charges.
Two other men have been charged in the case. On May 29, brothers Mark Pearcy, 38, and Jeffrey Pearcy, 42, were charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact.
Investigators with the TBI believe the Pearcys know the location of a video showing Bobo alive after her kidnapping. A friend of Jeffrey Pearcy's, Sandra King, has testified to seeing part of the video, which showed Bobo tied up and crying, she said. King also said she saw Adams on the video.
All four men have pleaded not guilty.
Reporter Nichole Manna contributed to this story.
Reach Jordan Buie at (731) 425-9782. Follow him on Twitter @JordanBuie

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VIDEO: Full Press Conference, Remains Determined to be Holly Bobo
TBI Director Mark Gwyn and DA Matt Stowe tells the media that the human remains found Sunday in Decatur County is missing nursing student Holly Bobo's.

On Monday afternoon, officials had blocked an entry point off of County Corner Road in Decatur County where human remains were found. Two men looking … Show more
MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun

District Attorney General Matt Stowe speaks with media Monday evening in Decatur County after being alerted that part of missing nursing student Holly Bobo’s remains … Show more
MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun
Timeline of abduction, investigation
Holly Bobo, 20, of Darden, Tenn., was kidnapped April 13, 2011, after she dressed for nursing school, ate breakfast and studied for a test.
• 7:40 a.m.: A close neighbor of the Bobos walks out of his home to go to his construction job, hears a scream from the Bobos' house, tells his mother about it and goes on to work.
• 7:45 a.m.: The neighbor's mother calls Karen Bobo at work and tells a school secretary to relay a message about the scream. This is also the time Holly Bobo usually would leave for school to arrive at 7:55 a.m.
• 7:50 a.m.: A barking dog wakes Clint Bobo up. He notices his sister's car still in the driveway and calls his mother's cellphone at school. His mother does not have the phone with her but receives the message from the school secretary, phones home and talks to her son, who tells her that Holly Bobo's car is still there.
• 7:55 a.m.: Karen Bobo calls 911 from school; she reaches the wrong county's emergency dispatcher. Clint Bobo looks out the window and sees a man dressed in camouflage walking with his sister toward the woods. Clint Bobo calls his sister's phone and gets voicemail; he also calls her boyfriend's phone and gets voicemail.
• A little before 8 a.m.: Karen Bobo calls her house again. Her son tells her that he saw his sister and her boyfriend walking toward the woods. Karen Bobo tells him that the man is not Holly Bobo's boyfriend and to call 911.
• 8 a.m.: Clint Bobo gets a loaded pistol at his mother's request and walks out the back door through an open garage attached to the house. He sees a puddle of blood near his sister's car. His neighbor's mother pulls up the driveway to say screams were heard 15 or 20 minutes ago. Clint Bobo then calls 911.
• A little before 8:10 a.m.: The first deputy from Decatur County arrives at the house. Authorities come to believe that Holly Bobo was abducted as she tried to get in her car to drive to nursing school. She is not seen again.
• April 15, 2011: The search efforts are centered in an area where authorities found a lunchbox on Bible Hill Road believed to belong to Bobo.
• April 16, 2011: Volunteers look through wooded areas near Bible Hill, Yellow Springs and Gooche Roads and near Horney Head Creek, hoping to find school supplies or items that may have come from Bobo's purse. Nothing was found.
• April 20, 2011: Prayer vigils are held. It's been one week since Bobo went missing.
• April 18, 2013: TBI agents thought they found Bobo's pink purse, which she was carrying two years earlier, on Myracle Town Road.
• April 19, 2013: Karen Bobo sees the purse in person and confirms that it's not Bobo's.
• Feb. 28, 2014: The TBI executes a search warrant at the home of Zachary Adams in Holladay, about 15 minutes from the Bobos' home. The TBI says it's too early to name suspects.
• March 5, 2014: The TBI holds a news conference about the Bobo case and announces that Adams has been indicted on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping and felony first-degree murder of Bobo.
• April 29, 2014: The TBI holds a news conference and announces that Jason Autry also has been indicted on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping and felony first-degree murder of Bobo.
• May 29, 2014: Brothers Jeffrey and Mark Pearcy are charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact. TBI investigators believe they have knowledge of a video containing images of Bobo alive, tied up and crying.
• Aug. 7, 2014: Matt Stowe is elected as the new district attorney general of the 24th Judicial District, which covers Decatur County. Keith Byrd is elected as Decatur County's new sheriff. Both took office on Sept. 1.
• Sept. 7, 2014: Two men looking for ginseng find human remains about 400 yards into the woods north of County Corner Road in northern Decatur County.
• Sept. 8, 2014: Investigators confirm partial remains found Sunday are Holly Bobo's.
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[Tresir]

The old listing above I think is very helpful. I didn't see a carport and there is an attached garage and a detached but I skimmed quickly. I'll take a closer look later.

On street view if you go past the house in the North direction, the car port becomes visible.

 

[GrandmaBear]

This is an article from 2014 when Holly's remains were found. Really good article with a lot of detail.

http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/special-reports/abduction-holly-bobo/2014/09/09/tbi-skull-found-holly-bobos/15320211/#:~:text=County%20Corner%20Road%20is%20in,and%20accessory%20after%20the%20fact.

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TBI Director Mark Gwyn tells the media that the human remains found Sunday in Decatur County are those of missing nursing student Holly Bobo.

MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun​

TBI: Skull found is Holly Bobo's​

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.73)]Jordan Buie | The Jackson Sun
DECATURVILLE – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Monday night that the partial remains of missing nursing student Holly Bobo have been found.
TBI Director Mark Gwyn and District Attorney General Matt Stowe made the announcement at a 10 p.m. news conference at the Decatur County Sheriff's Department. The development in the case came when two Benton County men found a human skull Sunday morning in the woods near a logging road adjacent to County Corner Road in northern Decatur County.
Investigators sent the skull to the TBI forensics lab in Memphis. The lab determined Monday that the remains were Bobo's.
Bobo, 20, was abducted from outside her Decatur County home in April 2011. Two men, Zach Adams and Jason Autry, were indicted earlier this year on charges that they kidnapped and murdered Bobo.

Bobo
Submitted
When Gwyn announced that her remains had been found, Holly's friend Rickey Dale Alexander bowed over in tears.
"First, I would like to extend my condolences to the family and friends of Holly Bobo," Gwyn said. "In light of the recent discovery of possible human remains in Decatur County, the TBI has been able to confirm through the findings … that the remains are of Holly Bobo."
Cries broke out in the room.
Gwyn said local law enforcement has worked tirelessly for more than three years to thoroughly follow leads and bring those responsible to justice.
"It was my prayer, as well as the prayers of many others that Holly Bobo would be found," he said. "I assure you all this is not over by any means. The investigation is still ongoing to get to the truth."
Gwyn then turned the podium over to Stowe.
"I've just come from a very difficult conversation with the Bobo family," Stowe said. "They will be issuing a statement tomorrow. I'm going to ask that everyone please respect their privacy until around noon or one o'clock tomorrow.
"After the kind of conversation I've just had, there's not a whole lot you can say, so I'm just going to say three things," Stowe said. "First of all, the TBI has been working exhaustively on this case for years. The evidence is voluminous. We are going through it right now. We are going to be continuing to follow up leads with the TBI and continuing to gather evidence and interview people.
"We are going to make sure that everyone who played a part in the heinous crime that has attacked the peace and dignity of the state of Tennessee faces a consequence for that," Stowe said.
He said the Bobo case is being analyzed as a possible death penalty case and that his office is ready and able to seek such a punishment.
"We will be making a decision sometime in the next couple of weeks in conjunction with the Bobo family," Stowe said. "Right now, in the meantime, we have the finest experts we can find and that are available. There are so many people working on this case right now that it would boggle the mind, and nobody is sleeping, nobody needs to be told what to do in this case.
"We will get to the truth," he said. "If today is proof of anything, it is that you can delay justice, but you can't deny it."
Stowe told The Jackson Sun in an interview last week that he and the TBI are still "actively looking" to bring charges against additional people, though they may not be murder charges.
The TBI and local law enforcement said the investigation is ongoing and that more forensic work will be conducted in the case.
A forensic team — including people from the medical examiner's office in Memphis and forensic anthropologists from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville — is expected to arrive Tuesday to examine the area where the remains were found.
The area includes almost 2,000 acres of uninhabited hardwoods or cut-over, said Cory Tubbs, who works at the Tubbs Sawmill about a half mile down County Corner Road.
Tubbs said his family owns the property.
On Monday morning, before the remains were identified as Bobo's, Tubbs said he could not believe the search has taken so long or that human remains were found on his property, where numerous searches had previously been conducted.
"I just can't believe it," he said. "It doesn't make any sense."
Holly Bobo disappeared from her home on April 13, 2011. Her brother Clint said he saw a man dressed in camouflage lead her into the woods behind their parents' house on Swan Johnson Road near Parsons.
Clint Bobo told investigators that he wasn't alarmed at first by Holly walking with the man because he thought it was her boyfriend, who had been turkey hunting that morning. He knew something was wrong when he saw blood outside. Authorities never publicly confirmed if the blood was Holly's.
Since that day Clint, Holly's father Dana and mother Karen and the rest of the community of Decatur County and the surrounding area have worked tirelessly to bring Holly home.
In the weeks following her abduction, searchers combed the woods and fields in Decatur and surrounding counties on foot, with all-terrain vehicles and on horseback. Investigators publicly reported finding little evidence at the time other than a lunchbox believed to belong to Bobo, which was found in the Bible Hill Road area, about six or seven miles from her home.
Fliers with her picture have covered the windows of gas stations, posters have been tacked to light poles, and 18-wheelers have embarked on cross-country journeys carrying the message, "Bring Holly Home." The ubiquitous pink ribbons strewn across the South have come to represent not only one family's hopes, but the determination of a community to stand together for one of their own.
Even Monday night, as with every other news conference held about Holly's disappearance, many members of the community turned out, desperate for any relieving news, praying for something to bring peace.
When word spread Sunday that human remains were found, the community waited for the news, though sorrowful, it had so long been deprived of.
Bobo's case began to pick up again in the public's eyes in late February and early March of this year when TBI investigators were seen searching and sifting through the dirt at Zach Adams' home in Holladay, in northern Decatur County, about 15 miles from where Bobo was last seen.
County Corner Road is in Holladay within 11 miles of where Adams lived.
Adams, 29, of Holladay, was charged March 5 with Bobo's murder and kidnapping.
On April 29, Autry, 39, was indicted on the same charges.
Two other men have been charged in the case. On May 29, brothers Mark Pearcy, 38, and Jeffrey Pearcy, 42, were charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact.
Investigators with the TBI believe the Pearcys know the location of a video showing Bobo alive after her kidnapping. A friend of Jeffrey Pearcy's, Sandra King, has testified to seeing part of the video, which showed Bobo tied up and crying, she said. King also said she saw Adams on the video.
All four men have pleaded not guilty.
Reporter Nichole Manna contributed to this story.
Reach Jordan Buie at (731) 425-9782. Follow him on Twitter @JordanBuie

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0:00
VIDEO: Full Press Conference, Remains Determined to be Holly Bobo
TBI Director Mark Gwyn and DA Matt Stowe tells the media that the human remains found Sunday in Decatur County is missing nursing student Holly Bobo's.

On Monday afternoon, officials had blocked an entry point off of County Corner Road in Decatur County where human remains were found. Two men looking … Show more
MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun

District Attorney General Matt Stowe speaks with media Monday evening in Decatur County after being alerted that part of missing nursing student Holly Bobo’s remains … Show more
MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun
Timeline of abduction, investigation
Holly Bobo, 20, of Darden, Tenn., was kidnapped April 13, 2011, after she dressed for nursing school, ate breakfast and studied for a test.
• 7:40 a.m.: A close neighbor of the Bobos walks out of his home to go to his construction job, hears a scream from the Bobos' house, tells his mother about it and goes on to work.
• 7:45 a.m.: The neighbor's mother calls Karen Bobo at work and tells a school secretary to relay a message about the scream. This is also the time Holly Bobo usually would leave for school to arrive at 7:55 a.m.
• 7:50 a.m.: A barking dog wakes Clint Bobo up. He notices his sister's car still in the driveway and calls his mother's cellphone at school. His mother does not have the phone with her but receives the message from the school secretary, phones home and talks to her son, who tells her that Holly Bobo's car is still there.
• 7:55 a.m.: Karen Bobo calls 911 from school; she reaches the wrong county's emergency dispatcher. Clint Bobo looks out the window and sees a man dressed in camouflage walking with his sister toward the woods. Clint Bobo calls his sister's phone and gets voicemail; he also calls her boyfriend's phone and gets voicemail.
• A little before 8 a.m.: Karen Bobo calls her house again. Her son tells her that he saw his sister and her boyfriend walking toward the woods. Karen Bobo tells him that the man is not Holly Bobo's boyfriend and to call 911.
• 8 a.m.: Clint Bobo gets a loaded pistol at his mother's request and walks out the back door through an open garage attached to the house. He sees a puddle of blood near his sister's car. His neighbor's mother pulls up the driveway to say screams were heard 15 or 20 minutes ago. Clint Bobo then calls 911.
• A little before 8:10 a.m.: The first deputy from Decatur County arrives at the house. Authorities come to believe that Holly Bobo was abducted as she tried to get in her car to drive to nursing school. She is not seen again.
• April 15, 2011: The search efforts are centered in an area where authorities found a lunchbox on Bible Hill Road believed to belong to Bobo.
• April 16, 2011: Volunteers look through wooded areas near Bible Hill, Yellow Springs and Gooche Roads and near Horney Head Creek, hoping to find school supplies or items that may have come from Bobo's purse. Nothing was found.
• April 20, 2011: Prayer vigils are held. It's been one week since Bobo went missing.
• April 18, 2013: TBI agents thought they found Bobo's pink purse, which she was carrying two years earlier, on Myracle Town Road.
• April 19, 2013: Karen Bobo sees the purse in person and confirms that it's not Bobo's.
• Feb. 28, 2014: The TBI executes a search warrant at the home of Zachary Adams in Holladay, about 15 minutes from the Bobos' home. The TBI says it's too early to name suspects.
• March 5, 2014: The TBI holds a news conference about the Bobo case and announces that Adams has been indicted on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping and felony first-degree murder of Bobo.
• April 29, 2014: The TBI holds a news conference and announces that Jason Autry also has been indicted on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping and felony first-degree murder of Bobo.
• May 29, 2014: Brothers Jeffrey and Mark Pearcy are charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact. TBI investigators believe they have knowledge of a video containing images of Bobo alive, tied up and crying.
• Aug. 7, 2014: Matt Stowe is elected as the new district attorney general of the 24th Judicial District, which covers Decatur County. Keith Byrd is elected as Decatur County's new sheriff. Both took office on Sept. 1.
• Sept. 7, 2014: Two men looking for ginseng find human remains about 400 yards into the woods north of County Corner Road in northern Decatur County.
• Sept. 8, 2014: Investigators confirm partial remains found Sunday are Holly Bobo's.
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Hmm. Per this, there was only a purse that was NOT hers. Also, nothing is mentioned at all about the brother seeing her with someone kneeling in the carport, only about them going into the woods.

Seeing a timeline though is VERY helpful.

 

[GrandmaBear]

On street view if you go past the house in the North direction, the car port becomes visible.

I tried, didn't see it. I'm not very good with this swivel kind of map though. I tried only north.

Did you see the realtor pics I linked up above?

also this says 695 not 681, not sure if that means anything?

 

[Tresir]

I tried, didn't see it. I'm not very good with this swivel kind of map though. I tried only north.

Did you see the realtor pics I linked up above?

also this says 695 not 681, not sure if that means anything?

As you go along the road it changes from 611 to 681 and then 695. The pic matches the real estate pic you posted though. If you keep going along the street, past the drive, the carport then becomes visible to the left of the property.

 

[Regina]

The old listing above I think is very helpful. I didn't see a carport and there is an attached garage and a detached but I skimmed quickly. I'll take a closer look later.

A view from above shows that the carport is no longer there.

 

[Mel70]

Hunters found Holly's remains. The perp(s) did not reveal it, according to Wiki.

Murder of Holly Bobo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In September 2014, Bobo's partial remains were found by ginseng hunters in a wooded area of northern Decatur County, Tennessee, just off I-40, nearly 20 miles (32 km) from Darden.[33][2][34] The owner of the property, Gary Tubbs, said it was not uncommon for people to hunt there without permission.[35] Larry Stone, one of the men who found the remains, said he saw a large bucket in the woods, which he upturned. Beneath the bucket, he found a human skull.[36] He then spotted Bobo's remains spread on the ground behind him.[34][37] Investigators recovered Bobo's skull and teeth, several ribs, and one shoulder blade.[38] Her skull had a bullet hole in the back of it; the bullet entered the back-right side of her head and traveled to the front-left side, fracturing her left cheekbone when it exited.[39]

That is absolutely awful.

 

[GrandmaBear]

A view from above shows that the carport is no longer there.

Yeah, I didn't see one either. There is a pergola but that's on a deck, it isn't a carport.

 

[Regina]

I somehow missed this post, only noticed it as Mel responded to it or I never would have saw it. It appears we were posting at the same time so probably is how I missed it.

Not real clear on this, when you say the property line was the edge of the woods, do you mean, the woods were not on their property as in it is the back property line?

I can conceive of 23 acres as I had 12 so it would be double that. Not as much as some might think, I only say that as I find many don't have a good idea of acreage. It's enough, don't get me wrong, but not as vast as some might think. Don't suppose you know if it was square or for instance, long and narrow? Or wide and short? And whether a road bordered their property in the back or was it someone else's land bordering on all sides but the front?

So the detached garage and carport were each separate or do you mean, the garage had a carport on it and they were separate?

Also for him to think she was home alone, he had to know her car and you said they didn't know each other, so he'd have to have known OF her at least, stalking her perhaps?

I appreciate the description but it give me more questions, seems to be my problem with this case lol. Anyhow, just saw this post from this morning.

Their propertyline did not include the woods.
Yes, the carport was a separate structure.
Indeed, I think this perp stalked Holly!
You're welcome. I'm happy to help and so whatever questions you have, please ask and I'll do my best to help you find the answers!

 

[Regina]

Awesome.

That road doesn't appear to be one that would be highly traveled.

All of the roads relevant to the facts of the case are narrow and very lightly traveled.

 

[Regina]

Hmm. Per this, there was only a purse that was NOT hers. Also, nothing is mentioned at all about the brother seeing her with someone kneeling in the carport, only about them going into the woods.

Seeing a timeline though is VERY helpful.

The purse at the site of her remains was indeed Holly's purse!
Her mother identified it in the 2017 trial along with what were the contents, which included her driver license.
(It was very difficult for her to see Holly's things and see them the way they were and identify them, so much so that she lost consciousness.)

 

[GrandmaBear]

Their propertyline did not include the woods.
Yes, the carport was a separate structure.
Indeed, I think this perp stalked Holly!
You're welcome. I'm happy to help and so whatever questions you have, please ask and I'll do my best to help you find the answers!

Many carports come off the house so I wondered.

I feel like I've had too many questions lol. Thanks!

 

[GrandmaBear]

All of the roads relevant to the facts of the case are narrow and very lightly traveled.

Yeah, if he was stalking, I'd think it fairly noticeable if he was coming down their road. Might explain the woods. Just makes me wonder where he became aware of her to begin with... He's certainly not the college or library or type..

 

[GrandmaBear]

The purse at the site of her remains was indeed Holly's purse!
Her mother identified it in the 2017 trial along with what were the contents, which included her driver license.
(It was very difficult for her to see Holly's things and see them the way they were and identify them, so much so that she lost consciousness.)

Goes to show how the reporting of the facts varied I guess.

 

[Regina]

Yeah, if he was stalking, I'd think it fairly noticeable if he was coming down their road. Might explain the woods. Just makes me wonder where he became aware of her to begin with... He's certainly not the college or library or type..

I think it's clear he's a sexual predator and definitely a local!
Re how he came and went, just north of their driveway, there's a clearing between two posts where I think it's believed he'd entered and exited the woods.