Update: Holly Bobo Still Missing, Brother Did Not See Her Dragged Away

raped and in the creek

raped and in the creek

I read that they did have the hounds out searching. LE got on the case pretty quickly; I wish they’d been able to catch up to them. Curious about her lunch box, found 8 miles from her home…were they really hoofing it that far?

Unfortunately dakota, you are probably right. I suspect they will find her body today. So sad. I have a hard time watching her mother on TV, I cry like a baby when I see her breakdown. I can’t imagine and honestly don’t want to imagine what she and her entire family are going through. I can’t think of any worse pain in this world that to have your child abducted and then have to just wait, knowing full well that as each day goes by, the likelihood of him/her being alive gets smaller and smaller. To me, that is what Hell would be like.

… I still call BULLSHIT on the brother.

If they all lived in the same house, you would think that Holly brought her boyfriend around and all family members would take note of the boyfriend’s mannerisms, stature and how he behaved towards her. Her brother thought it was her boyfriend? And he STILL called his mom first THEN 911? Really?

He probably stuck her on some kind of ATV after tying her up (or something) and did it that way.

LOL, the newscaster in the video said “they’re asking for physically able” people to help in the search. Probably to keep the hordes of physically incapable people from volunteering….

Omalley, I was thinking the same thing. My guess is maybe LE got a tip about her location.

sounds like the brother is involved and was probably threatened by the dude; which could be why he recanted his story. problem is: motive.
I hope she wasn’t raped or killed in a brutal manner, tho the camo doesn’t give much hope : /

I’m sorry, but does anyone else see even one tear from her mother? Also, her mother can’t even look at the camera, or even hold her head up. Doesn’t look like a grieving mother to me at all. I hate to say this, but it’s just my observations. Here is the video, you be the judge. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7362835n&tag=related;photovideo

I’m sorry, but does anyone else see even one tear from her mother? Also, her mother can’t even look at the camera, or even hold her head up. Doesn’t look like a grieving mother to me at all. I hate to say this, but it’s just my observations. Here is the video, you be the judge. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7362835n&tag=related;photovideo

When people are distraught, depressed, or just in pain, their emotions are all over the place.

I love how this story is updated, to state that all the confusion and varying reports that have been floating around since this unfolded and made it appear that the brother was suspect, but is not in fact suspect, because:

“Police also are reporting he has been ruled out as a suspect”

Yet the majority of you still think he’s involved. LMAO.

I have not been commenting much on this case because to me, it’s like a Casey Anthony/Hailey Dunn case. It will be blown up by the media, swallowing up all the other missing people out there. That’s not to say that I don’t care, I just don’t like it when cases get that much attention over others.

Has anyone seen a video with her brother? Why are they not using search dogs?

The camo doesn’t give much hope? What an ignorant comment. Lots of people wear camo, including myself… and somehow in your mind, people who wear camo rape and kill in a brutal manner???????? You’re an idiot.

No, the blood doesn’t give much hope. The camo has nothing to do with it.

haha. Good point.

True dat. (Somewhere in the back of my head I can hear my kids saying, “Mom, never say that again, n.e.v.e.r.) Haha.

The camo –to me, gives the feel that she was being hunted.

she was on her way out to her car to drive to school, so thats probably what she had in her hand when it all went down.

she acts exactly the way i did when i was told my child was dead.
she is in shock and very distraught.

I posted the link about the brother not witnessing the abduction in the old article last night. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fmissing-persons-in-national%2Fholly-bobo-update-new-clues-brother-didn-t-witness-sister-s-abduction&ei=TVCpTf-wIJL4swOLgO34DA&usg=AFQjCNGy8w3Cb3-GrychNsOd0103e6o76Q This whole thing is tragic enough without the brother wrongfully taking heat. As you can see by some of the posts here, once this type of false information starts, it isn’t easily quelled. I’m sure it is a lot worse for the brother in his home town than some comments on DD. Even after this info came out, I’ll bet he has to stay indoors for fear of getting beat up, or worse. All the different stories and false info is poor and lousy coverage by the media.

He didn’t recant his story, the media did. It was false info and the media did a terrible job on this, spreading false info, and different stories. Check out the link I posted below.

The alleged abductor may have tossed that out later, on his way somewhere else, or intentionally dropped it somewhere to mislead the investigators into searching in an area that had nothing to do with Holly Bobo’s disappearance.

Double amputee grandmothers need not volunteer to search. Thank you.

Her behavior doesn’t ring true to me, either, Andy. The sobbing seems forced and whiney, and my gut says she is playacting. Later during the press conference, when the sheriff gets all choked up and can’t go on, I reacted with tears because his emotion was genuine.

If a mother ‘crying’ over her missing, abducted daughter doesn’t get another mother who is very empathetic and cries easily (me), to tear up and cry, watching her, there’s something wrong there, I think.

Apparently, from many comments I’ve read and from crime experts’ opinions on this subject, I’m not the only one with this viewpoint.

No, it’s not lousy coverage… it’s simply par for the course when news first starts coming out on a case and no different than the multitudes of comments made on this site, including by you, on stories in which you have little to no actual information. The media has been pretty good at clarifying reports as they come in.

The people closest to this situation, including law enforcement, were aware of the facts of this case. I doubt very much that the brother, or Holly’s family, cares at all what people on a website think at this point.

The only other way this story could have been handled, is to wait until TODAY, three days after she was abducted, before giving out information. Regardless of the particulars and the factual details, the news got the most important part right — Holly was taken against her will by a man in camo. The rest of the details are just gossip points that did not effect anything aside from public opinion for those that wanted to jump the gun.

When police say contrary to initial reports, that doesn’t mean initial police reports. That means initial media reports.

How about you show me one report in which anyone says the brother has changed the story.

That is a fact. Including those disseminating the imformation.

Why would the media report so much misinformation? Don’t journalists/reporters have some sort of code of ethics to follow when reporting facts on a story as serious as this? Such as oh, I don’t know, IT HAS TO BE TRUE!? Why didn’t the reporters CHECK the information they were getting before reporting it? Oh wait, I know, each news station just HAD to be the first to report on every little thing and making sure what they were reporting was in fact true would take time; screw fact checking, they just reported everything they were told, not caring if it could lead the investigation in a completely wrong direction or cause the court of public opinion to verbally crucify her brother by hinting he may be a suspect because he watched the abductor drag her away.

I’m sorry, but this really bothers me. If reporters and journalists are going to do a story this serious, they need to have their facts straight from the get go, that way when sites such as Dreamin Demon report on them so MORE people can know about this, readers get the correct facts the first time.

Thank you for updating us on this story Morbid. A lot of sites don’t do that, which is why I visit this site and not any other.

Yes, I see your point there. It doesn’t change the fact that the brother is taking a lot of heat for something he didn’t do, though. Comments from some posters here like Jolie Adams is proof of that. Once the correct info comes out, they still continue to bash him and refuse to accept the fact that they are wrong, and he didn’t witness the abduction. Sad, really.

I think you are right about that…

The updates make me feel better. I just would be so pissed off if her own family was involved. Family is supposed to look out for each other.

BUT if she were on her way to school, why didn’t her brother think it strange that she was going into the wooded area with boyfriend (or any other person)?

BTW Your avatar is perfect for this sight!

BTW Your avatar is perfect for this sight!

Absolutely! I need a beard!

Of course you’re not the only one with that viewpoint – but it still doesn’t make you right

Since when did “no visible tears” mean no real grief? Who made you the authority on the right and wrong way to grieve over your daughter being kidnapped? She made me cry… and I try very hard to hold *back* my tears… soooooo… diff’rnt strokes “Jolier Than Thou”.

I understand this site can jade you on believing family members … but when the police come out and say “that information was wrong” and “the family are not suspects OR person’s of interest”, I tend to believe they know what the fuck they’re talking about. Does it really matter *who* got it wrong? Could come down to simple “semantics” – one person’s “dragged” is another person’s “forcefully walked”.

I disagree. There’s no preset ‘grief face’ and suggesting one exists is silly. When my daughter died, my grief was mine and not to be shared with the strangers in the ER. Granted, when the exam room curtains were closed, it was a different story.

So she looks fairly devastated to me.

I’m so sorry Zazen for the loss of your daughter. I just cannot imagine your grief and I won’t pretend to know. My heartfelt condolences to you and your family.

Jesus. I can’t even imagine. Sorry that happened to you.

I read somewhere that they had to carry the search dogs out of the brush because it was too thick. So I dunno…they were using search dogs before…maybe they picked up with the dogs again after they found the lunchbox.

“That paints an entirely different picture and answers my initial questions about the brothers involvement and makes a lot more sense”.

Thank you…..I was scratching my noggin’ over this, too, Morbid.

What I originally read was that a family member saw her being dragged into the woods. All I could think of is what the hell kind of BOBO watches someone get dragged off into the woods by a stranger and does nothing? Oh…wait….that would describe the majority of the people featured on this site.

Ok, rephrase…what NORMAL person would do that….

Well, it’s also common sense. You’re more likely to be murdered/harmed by your own family than a stranger.

I had to turn it off, she sounds too much like Susan Smith to me. She seems like she is TRYING to cry, trying NOT to cry would be one thing, trying to cry is quite another. I really hope that with all of my heart that I am wrong.

What about something found 8 miles away would make the finder think “I wonder if this belongs to that missing girl?” Maybe it’s because I live in the city that I just do not understand, around here people leave CARS abandoned and nobody thinks it may be connected to a missing person.

PARSONS, Tenn. – When I first reported on Holly Bobo, the 20-year-old girl missing in Texas

…………………………………..get your states straight!

Not saying she did anything to her daughter, but she DID ham it up for the viewers… That’s pretty obvious.

White… blonde… beautiful… celebrity relative…

Well, at least we can count on the media to actually COVER this story. Hopefully she’ll be found alive, but unfortunately I doubt it.

Around. Here and there.

I’m back to bash more perverts and freaks now.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve certainly missed you.

I think I contributed. I found him on a different site and dragged his ass back here. Well, kind of.

Well, Fuck, I guess I should leave NM every once in awhile to see territory fashion sense. lmao Goodness. Camo–its not just for hunting. Wow.

I can see why you would have that opinion, and I respect it, but I have to say that expecting someone to react in a certain way in a given situation can always cause suspicion. We are not all the same and we will not all act the same. Given all the info that has come out on this now, I am sure the whole family is still in some form of shock. And I am back-pedaling from more former stance of BS alarms screeching and something stinking in TN regarding the brother.

Update, Clint Bobo (Holly’s brother) and her ex-boyfriend are no longer excluded as suspects. As the plot thickens, I think everyone will see just how right I was to begin with. Her mother KNOWS what happened to Holly, and if any of you can’t see that just from watching the news broadcast, well…… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Update, Clint Bobo (Holly’s brother) and her ex-boyfriend are no longer excluded as suspects. As the plot thickens, I think everyone will see just how right I was to begin with. Her mother KNOWS what happened to Holly, and if any of you can’t see that just from watching the news broadcast, well…… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Update, Clint Bobo (Holly’s brother) and her ex-boyfriend are no longer excluded as suspects. As the plot thickens, I think everyone will see just how right I was to begin with. Her mother KNOWS what happened to Holly, and if any of you can’t see that just from watching the news broadcast, well…… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

I seriously doubt the police have enough solid information to exclude ANYONE at this point.

The whole “dragged away by a man in camo” thing sounds a little fishy to me, but it could be true. We’re probably going to have to wait for more details before we can point any fingers.

I seriously doubt the police have enough solid information to exclude ANYONE at this point.

The whole “dragged away by a man in camo” thing sounds a little fishy to me, but it could be true. We’re probably going to have to wait for more details before we can point any fingers.

I completely agree with this, and though I made earlier comments in reference to Mom’s lack of tears, I changed my mind as soon as I heard from people who had actually had experience in that area. I’m definitely back-pedaling from what I thought my opinion was on this, although now it is hard to form one since the info is getting skewed. I’m having a tough time figuring out where I stand on this as of yet.

Update: Looks like they are looking at her own brother and ex-boyfriend now. Still think her mother knows nothing? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Do you have a link stating that they are specifically looking at the brother and the ex now? Everything I’ve seen has simply clarified that no one has been ruled out (which would generally include the brother and the ex, but it would generally include dozens of people who both know and don’t know the family).

It seems, thus far, that suspicion pointed at the family is based solely on mom’s appearance. Seems pretty unwarranted. Hell, if you people has seen me after my mother died unexpectedly, you’d have thought I killed her.

[citation needed]

(Sorry, couldn’t resist…but we really do need a legitimate link as proof of this update.)

Brother did it mom is trying to protect her son? Maybe? That is a lot of land there, she could be buried anywhere. I hope they find her so that all of the people who care for her can get some sort of peace.

Indeed. More facts. At this point, there are NO “facts” that would warrant suspicion of the family.

She looks heavily medicated to me,..understandable in this situation. I agree though, it looks dramatic, like she’s acting the way she thinks she should act.

She looks heavily medicated to me,..understandable in this situation. I agree though, it looks dramatic, like she’s acting the way she thinks she should act.

They were never excluded, so they can’t be “re-included” as suspects. NO ONE has ever been excluded.

April 19th, 2011 1:56 am ET

http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/hollo-bobo-search-tbi-says-this-is-no-hoax-searchers-needed-tue-75k-reward

Gwyn said as of Monday there is no person of interest in the case.

This case has been riddled with rumors and accusations against Holly’s family and her boyfriend. “We don’t deal with rumors,” Gwyn announced. “We stick to facts. As long as leads come in, we will be here.”

“Both Clint and Drew have been helpful and cooperative throughout the investigation. Clint, is being treated as an eye witness at this time,” she said.

And your comment makes no sense. You begin with the misinformation on the boyfriend and brother as if to shine the light of suspicion on them – yet you end with accusing her MOTHER because she didn’t “act” the way you *expect* a grieving mother to act! Are you implying a family plot to get rid of their sister/daughter?? Really??

Damn, even the country singer cousin is having to come out and try to stop the “brother did it” rumor mill. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/holly-bobo-search-brother-suspect-13407055.

It’s kind of fascinating to watch how using the word “dragged” instead of “led” fueled the brother-as-a-suspect rumor and how tough it is to squash it once it started.

or the African wilderness….

From a CBS News article titled “Holly Bobo investigators set roadblocks in search for missing Tenn. student” dated 04/20/11

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While [u]police initially believed the attacker had dragged Bobo away[/u], investigators now suspect it was a familiar community member who led Bobo into the woods.

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I honestly don’t know what it is about this case that makes me feel that the brother is not involved, but I have had that feeling since the very beginning. Kyron Horman, my gut said stepmom. Hailey Dunn, my gut says mom/stepdad. Casey Anthony, mom.

Usually, I would say yeah, it was the brother, mostly because statistically, these crimes tend to be committed by someone the victim knows, particularly family. Not this one though. For me my gut says it’s not the brother.

I do hope that I don’t have to eat crow because well, I love my birds on my shoulders, not in my tummy,

I am apologizing ahead of time for going off the topic of this story here, but there is a story in Quebec, Canada that is a great example of how 911 and the media can get things twisted around.

Adam Benhamma was a 4 year old little boy who went missing from a yard (not his own) a few weeks ago. His father left him and his older sister playing outside for a minute while he went into the house. The daughter told her father that she didn’t know where the boy went. The friend they were visiting called 911. It turned out that Adam was autistic and deaf. The media reported this, alluding to the boys’ autism as severe. It was reported that because he was deaf, he could not communicate or hear anyone calling him. All of this information made this a sensational story.

A few days later, corrections were reported. The boy was not a severe autistic. He had a hearing impairment, but was not deaf. He could also talk. Lastly, his last name was spelled wrong, it should be Benhamama, not Benhamma (though, most media sources have stuck with the wrong spelling for some reason).

Between the family friend being vague in his information to 911 and the media playing on the sensationalism of the boys condition, the search was carried out, but without calling out for him because of the obvious misconceptions. As well, gloom was over this case from the start since all the wrong information made this little boy almost invisible to search efforts and in his own world.

It’s turned out that the boy still hasn’t been found and it is believed that he may have fallen into a very nearby river. Hopefully his body will be recovered with thawing. It’s a very sad story.

Interestingly, law enforcement has never said whose blood it is.

I don’t know if the brother did this or not. I just hate people thinking they are some kind of Columbo because of the word “dragged” being changed to “led.”

Also, I have to look at the facts. Let’s say it is the brother. Now, please explain to me how he worked in such a small time-frame considering he did something to his sister and hid her, called his mom, called 911, had time to put duct tape on her, sprinkle her blood in the yard, and drop off her lunchbox (which contained her lunch, btw) 8-miles away.

That makes more sense than someone abducting her? Of course anything is possible, but with the info the public has now, it still just seems like an abduction by someone other than the brother.

There was a link I posted that said he didn’t witness the abduction, but I don’t know. I’m just going by what I read, like you, so you don’t need to be snide about it.

And no, I don’t think he was involved. If he did witness it, I think he should have done more about it, though.

If I saw my lil sister going into sum woods wit a man then Im going guns blazin wantin to knw why the hell my lil sister is going in there that early. We see sh** like that but sit back n dnt do anything til after the fact n ask y we idnt do anything sooner. In n the world we live in we dnt think to do sumthing then. Im 31 and if I saw my sis going into the woods Im Fin sumbody up. N the chance she is still life sucks cus he didnt hve the balls to to go after his sis. N another thing was that sumthing she did all the time b4 school go out to the woods wit a man?? Sry if this upsets anybody….

If I saw my lil sister going into sum woods wit a man then Im going guns blazin wantin to knw why the hell my lil sister is going in there that early. We see sh** like that but sit back n dnt do anything til after the fact n ask y we idnt do anything sooner. In n the world we live in we dnt think to do sumthing then. Im 31 and if I saw my sis going into the woods Im Fin sumbody up. N the chance she is still life sucks cus he didnt hve the balls to to go after his sis. N another thing was that sumthing she did all the time b4 school go out to the woods wit a man?? Sry if this upsets anybody….

New article talking about how rumors are hurting this case. I watched last night as Pat Brown made comments about this being made to look like a staged kidnapping and blatantly hinting at her suspicions that the brother was involved. I’m sure that just pumps up the individuals out there searching in the rain.

New article talking about how rumors are hurting this case. I watched last night as Pat Brown made comments about this being made to look like a staged kidnapping and blatantly hinting at her suspicions that the brother was involved. I’m sure that just pumps up the individuals out there searching in the rain.

You do know that the time frame was CREATED by the brother, right? He’s the one that reported the alleged abduction and supposedly the only witness. In criminal cases, you can never automatically assume that what a witness tells you is the truth. In fact, it is well-known that the last one to allegedly see the victim is the first one to be suspected as possibly involved with the crime.

Other than family members, when was the last time that it can be confirmed that Holly Bobo was seen alive?

Items could have been dropped by suspects or accomplices any time AFTER the 911 call was made.

Too many things point to the brother being involved in some way. Either that, or he is one strange and unusual fellow.

In studies released by the United States Department of Justice, only 14% of all murders committed between 1976 and 2005 involved strangers. On the other hand—and using 2008 numbers—the odds the victim of a solved murder was not a stranger to the murderer are 1 in 1.28 (78%). The odds a victim of a solved murder was in an intimate relationship with the murderer are1 in 5.94. And the odds a victim of a solved murder was related to the murderer are even greater: 1 in 4.3.

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/relationship.cfm

Holly Bobo’s Kin Not Ruled Out in Disappearance, published 04/18/11, by CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/18/earlyshow/main20054812.shtml

Jolie
04/25/11

John Walsh, host of America’s Most Wanted, said AMW is working closely with the Decatur Co. Sheriff’s department on this case. In an interview with FOX News this weekend, he said regarding Clint Bobo, Holly’s brother: “…I’m not saying he’s a suspect, but he’s a person of interest. He’s the only one who saw her taken.” He states the brother and all the family members should have polygraph tests done by the authorities to help the authorities rule them out as being involved in Holly’s disappearance. John and his wife Reve did that when their son Adam Walsh was abducted (and killed) 30 years ago. (The case was officially closed in December 2008 with naming Adam’s killer–Ottis Toole, who died 10 years earlier.)

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4659531/john-walsh-on-st-louis-jailbreak-holly-bobo-case

Ugh. That’s terrible.

Clint Bobo is almost a mysterious to the public as the alleged abductor of Holly Bobo. Even though he is reportedly the last person to see her and report her going off with a man into the woods, he is nowhere to be seen. No photos online of him with media reports about his sister’s disappearance or in any social media that can be accessed by the public.

He has given no interviews to the media, despite his being the only witness to the alleged crime.

He did not attend the family press conference the day after his sister disappeared, to give his parents moral support and a show of solidarity, and perhaps speak to the alleged abductor and/or his sister through the camera.

You have to ask yourself why is Clint Bobo apparently hiding from scrutiny, if he is telling the truth about what happened?

If a neighbor heard a scream and thought it might be Holly’s, why didn’t Clint Bobo hear that scream?

If Holly or the abductor were injured at the carport, leaving blood behind (if the blood is one of theirs), why couldn’t Clint Bobo determine something was wrong by the tone of their voices (he said he heard them talking, which is why he looked out the window). Why couldn’t he see something wrong in their body language as they walked away?

Is their mother, Karen Bobo, covering up for her son and not being honest about what she knows? Her unconvincing, suspicious behavior at the April 14 press conference leads me to believe she is. Her talking about sending her daughter away on a vacation after she is rescued and raising money from the public for that or some other gift to Holly is another red flag that these people are not behaving as one would expect.

I think (and hope) the investigators are also taking a hard look at Clint Bobo and the family and their possible involvement in Holly’s disappearance.

The media didn’t initiate the “dragging away” description, the police did, based on the brother’s story.

QUOTE

Investigators initially said Clint Bobo saw the back of an unidentified man dragging his sister towards the woods as she was leaving for class. Now they say someone walked her away, and that her brother called 911 after spotting blood outside the house.

END QUOTE

and

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CBS News correspondent Don Teague reports that while police initially believed the attacker had dragged Bobo away — based on her brother’s account — investigators now suspect it was a familiar community member who led Bobo into the woods.

END QUOTE

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/18/earlyshow/main20054812.shtml
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QUOTE

Investigators initially said the woman was dragged from near the house’s carport into the woods, leading many to ask why the brother had not intervened.

Her brother, said Mehr, “had reasons to believe [the man] was not an attacker.”

END QUOTE

http://abcnews.go.com/US/holly-bobo-attacker-woods-fear-life/story?id=13381683

The media didn’t initiate the “dragging away” description, the police did, based on the brother’s story.

QUOTE

Investigators initially said Clint Bobo saw the back of an unidentified man dragging his sister towards the woods as she was leaving for class. Now they say someone walked her away, and that her brother called 911 after spotting blood outside the house.

END QUOTE

and

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CBS News correspondent Don Teague reports that while police initially believed the attacker had dragged Bobo away — based on her brother’s account — investigators now suspect it was a familiar community member who led Bobo into the woods.

END QUOTE

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/18/earlyshow/main20054812.shtml
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QUOTE

Investigators initially said the woman was dragged from near the house’s carport into the woods, leading many to ask why the brother had not intervened.

Her brother, said Mehr, “had reasons to believe [the man] was not an attacker.”

END QUOTE

http://abcnews.go.com/US/holly-bobo-attacker-woods-fear-life/story?id=13381683

The media also initially reported that this was a home invasion based on police comments. Did that come from the brother to?

My 2 cents:

First Theory and my gut feeling
LE knows who is responsible and they are using the searchers to just look for clues so they can make the perp sing. Of course finding the body would help too.

Second Theory
She has been kidnapped for ransom and LE is in contact with the kidnappers. We don’t know much about the family (work, background, etc.), so it could be plausible.

Selling t-shirts. WTF? The last thing as a parent I would be thinking of is where to send my kidnapped child on a vacation when she got back! But if I did…I would use the money to buy locks and chains to chain her to my body and never let her out of my sight again!

It is pretty confusing, isn’t it, hershey? What I was referring to was what one link said, but there has been so many versions in different articles that it is hard to say what the hell happened. Why do you think I’m tired of wading through this thread and all the comments by Nancy Grace and Company. If I wanted to hear that much gossip I’d just go hang out at the local Knitting Club.:P

You’re the second one today who called me @pikeman. Awesome, I’m doing a good job.

Almost all of the media reports specify that it is the brother who saw his sister with a man, with three different versions of the story:

1) Holly was dragged by a man in camouflage from the carport to the woods (story #1, confirmed by TBI’s press release that day, which makes it likely that they got that description directly from Clint Bobo, the only person home that morning when the event allegedly occurred)

2) Clint Bobo saw his sister Holly walking away with a man in camo, who Clint thought was Holly’s boyfriend. He didn’t think anything was wrong, so he did nothing in response until later when he went outside and found blood on/by the carport and then called 911. Some reports state a neighbor heard screaming and called 911. Some say the mother was the second person who called 911. Most articles state that two 911 calls were made. The name of the second person, other than Clint, is not being released by authorities. (story #2, widely reported in the media, coinciding with the reporting of story #3 below)

3) Holly Bobo was led away by a man in camo. He had one hand on her arm and she was “in fear for her life” according to authorities. (story #3, which does not mesh up with #2 because if Clint thought the man was Holly’s boyfriend and that there wasn’t any problem at first, he couldn’t possibly have thought Holly was in fear for her life at the time, right?)

My strong suspicion is that it is Clint Bobo who has changed his story when confronted with evidence that counters his earlier accounts. When no drag marks were found on the property by investigators and he was questioned why he did nothing to stop a man dragging his sister away or call 911 right away, he changed his story, I think.

I don’t know what Pikeman is referring to. I didn’t see the link that supposedly states the brother didn’t witness the abduction. The whole premise of her being abducted is based on the brother’s report, according to authorities in all media articles.

See my comment posted today, 04/27/11, re. a full copy of the TBI press release from 04/13/11, the same day that Holly disappeared. It specifically describes the event as a possible home invasion and that Holly was dragged away from the carport to the wooded area by a man in camo.

Guess where they got that description? Most likely from the report from the police officer who responded to Clint Bobo’s 911 call and spoke with CB directly.

Still want to blame the media?

My strong suspicion is that it is Clint Bobo who has changed his story when confronted with evidence that counters his earlier accounts. When no drag marks were found on the property by investigators and he was questioned why he did nothing to stop a man dragging his sister away or call 911 right away, he changed his story, I think.

That is what I suspected all along too because the stories are changing. Also, they may not be releasing who was behind the other 911 call for fear someone may kill their only witness.

However, this scenario doesn’t make sense about the 911 calls IF Clint did it.
1) presumably neighbor called when the screams were heard
2) Clint didn’t call until blood was found sometime later

Wouldn’t the police have been dispatched after the first call? So…if he hid the lunchbox 8 miles away, it would seem the police would have been at the house already when he returned.

I think I’ll change my theory to Clint didn’t do it, but he knows who did.

or dress like Rahm in a pink Tu tu outside city hall….

Discovery of Holly Bobo purse launches large-scale search

DARDEN, TN (WSMV) –
Channel 4 News has learned that there is a major search of an area of Darden, TN, after the discovery of a purse on Wednesday that has been identified as belonging to Holly Bobo.
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Several law enforcement agencies are involved in the search, including the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Investigators said the dog brought the purse to the back door of a home near the intersection of Myracle Town and Box roads. This area is about a mile from Bobo’s home.

The purse has been taken to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Local authorities are searching the area today to try to find where the dog may have discovered the purse.

Bobo, a resident of Darden, TN, has been missing for more than two years. She vanished from Parsons in Decatur County on April 13, 2011
http://www.wsmv.com/story/22014089/holly-bobos-purse-found-by-dog?hpt=ju_bn4

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A neighbor’s dog found the purse and dragged it back to the dog owner’s home.

The bag matches the description of one Bobo was carrying when she disappeared, and there were items in the purse indicating it belonged to the young woman, said TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm.

“We don’t know where the dogs found the purse, but we have other dogs out there searching to see if they can find where they found it,” Helm said, adding that the area had already been searched several times.

Tammy White, a close friend of the Bobo family, said Holly’s mother, Karen, hasn’t been allowed to see the purse yet.

Until she and family members see it, they’re being cautious in their enthusiasm about a potential break in the case.

“You’d like to believe that maybe it is Holly’s, but we’ve heard a lot of stuff that hasn’t been true, so we have to just wait and see what happens,” White said.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/apr/18/holly-bobos-purse-found-in-woods-near-tenn-home/?CID=happeningnow

Investigators and the mother of a missing nursing student say a purse found this week does not belong to Holly Bobo.

Karen Bobo, Holly’s mother, saw a photo of the purse and told investigators that she thought it belonged to her missing daughter. But Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said after Bobo saw it in person she realized it wasn’t Holly’s.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/20/mom-says-purse-found-in-woods-does-not-belong-to-missing-daughter/#ixzz2R29rRcH6

Holly Bobo’s phone pings signal near home hours after abduction

PARSONS, TN (WSMV) -
In what could be the most startling piece of evidence yet
in the mysterious disappearance of Holly Bobo comes proof that whoever
grabbed the young nursing student – and her cell phone – went back to
Bobo’s home the very same day.

It may be the biggest single break in the search for Bobo and the development that could help solve the case.

Since the Channel 4 I-Team’s reports on the Bobo investigation first
aired, tips have poured in and information that had been forgotten has
been put back into the active files.

With the blessing of the Bobo family, a team of investigators led by
nationally known Brentwood mom Sheila Wysocki is uncovering new
developments in the case.

Wysocki received national attention for obtaining a private
investigator license and solving her college roommate’s murder 20 years
after the crime. Now, she has brought together the full resources of her
nonprofit group, Without Warning: Fight Back, and is working to help
the Bobos find out, once and for all, what happened to Holly.

Bobo’s abductor made a big mistake by leaving her cell phone turned
on, so with the help of GPS tracking, the location of Bobo’s phone can
be plotted on a map that traces a path through Parsons that eventually
heads back in the direction of the Bobo family home.

Keep in mind, Bobo was abducted at about 8 a.m., and the first law enforcement officer arrived at the Bobo home at 8:11 a.m.

Then, Holly Bobo’s phone pinged a GPS signal within a quarter-mile
from her home at 9:58 a.m., nearly two hours after she was taken.

“We know at Five Forks at 9:58, there’s another ping. The relevance
of that is, I believe, there is a police car with a police blockade
right there, so we could have dashcam video of who arrived with Holly’s
phone at 9:58 a.m.,” said Mike, a Nashville cyberspecialist and member
of the Without Warning team.

The investigators believe that although the first responders had
arrived by 9:58 a.m., the abduction was recent enough that everyone who
had come to the home to look for Bobo by that point was still local.

“There isn’t going to be outsiders from other towns. The search party
consisted of people in the town who knew Holly and the family,” said
Paul Fantozzi, a member of the Without Warning team.

“I think, at 9:58 a.m., we now have a cell phone and a face in the
same place – and possibly at Five Forks a police car dashcam,” Mike
said.

So, this 2-year-old case that seemed so cold suddenly feels hot again, and that cell phone keeps coming up.

The phone was found days after Bobo’s disappearance, sitting right on
busy Highway 641 north of Parsons. The SIM card was later found just
across the highway. Everything was still in perfect working order.

“The phone and the SIM card are placed in a very public, highly
traveled road. They were found much later but still in perfect condition
– the SIM card could be put in another phone and used. It seems those
things were more calculated in their placement,” said Without Warning
team member Liz Beatty.

“Again, that goes to if they are placing these items they are very
calculated. It’s got to be someone who knows the area – a local person
very familiar with the area,” Wysocki said.

The investigators say they now have a time and a place where the
abductor was near the home, and they say the possible suspect is part of
a relatively small group.

“The circle is very small. It’s not somebody from Miami. It’s not
somebody from out of state. It’s somebody local,” Wysocki said.

The Without Warning team is suggesting a town hall meeting where
everyone who searched for Holly on the day she disappeared – April 13,
2011 – gathers to go over every detail as a group.

Then, all of those searchers in the same room could help put together a picture of who showed up at 9:58 a.m.
There is already talk in Parsons of organizing this town meeting

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http://www.wsmv.com/story/22239801/holly-bobos-phone-pings-signal-near-home-hours-after-abduction