Holly Bobo has been missing for nearly two months now after she was allegedly led from her home in Darden, Tennessee by a man in camouflage. As of today the TBI still haven't cracked the case and it doesn't look like they will any time soon. Although John Mehr claims they are "just one clue away," from solving it; it's more than obvious that these people just don't know what is going on.
It's been revealed that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) believe that people in the area know something about the case that they are intentionally not sharing with investigators. Well does that come as a surprise at all?
Small towns are tightly knit. Bottom line.
Just how tightly knit are small towns like Darden and Parsons? Well, if the standoff-ish demeanor of the locals, police and even the family of Holly Bobo is any indication, it speaks volumes of just how tight-lipped some communities remain to protect one another or otherwise sweep their problems under the proverbial rug.
Remember, Holly Bobo is the victim here, and no matter how distraught some people may appear to be it doesn't change the fact that Holly is the one who was allegedly kidnapped. She is the one who is missing. She is the one who experienced something that these locals and her family members did not.
So the kid gloves are coming off for Holly. It's obvious that people aren't talking. In fact, it's laughable that the TBI would even say this. It's almost as if they're blaming the lack of information from locals on their shoddy investigation tactics. There is less than 3,000 people in the town of Parsons and less than 1,500 in the town of Darden. How hard could it possibly be to get information?
Well, take into consideration that this assailant, or assailants as the TBI now believe more than one person is involved, is being protected by their families. Mothers, fathers, grandparents and siblings in small towns are protective of their own. Naturally someone doesn't want a loved one facing prison time for some dumb mistake like kidnapping a pretty, young nursing student.
It's also probably safe to say that if the youth of that region may be a little tight-lipped about the disappearance of Holly Bobo. Hell, doing a Google search of "fight clubs" in Tennessee will show you that there are some pretty brutal past-time activities in the high schools of this southern state. If teenagers, children, are partaking in these kind of activities, would they be apt to talk if one of their classmates comes up missing? It's also notable to mention that the parents of Holly Bobo have yet to speak to anyone in the media, nor has her brother, Clint, who claims to be the last person to see her before she went missing. Why?
So maybe the TBI is correct when they assume that people aren't saying what they know.
However, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation doesn't necessarily smell like a white mushroom. In fact, just a couple of months before Holly Bobo went missing, the TBI was accused of public corruption and failure to respond to a shooting incident. How convenient. If you click this link you may or may not be surprised to find that Kristin Helm was one of the agents contacted during this incident. Kristin Helm is also on the Holly Bobo case. That's not all, and there is far more than can be fit in one story.
Chelsea Hoffman is the author "Chloe and Louis," and two other novels. She resides in Las Vegas where she works as a freelance writer covering true crime stories and a myriad of other assorted works. You can follow her on Twitter or follow her blog Beauty Made Fresh!
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Comments: 33
I find it interesting that TBI has publicly announced that volunteer groups are interfering with the investigation. Those kind of statements will likely just alienate local residents that knew and cared about the girl. A smarter approach would be for TBI to take the reigns, and perhaps oversee/coordinate the efforts of the volunteer groups.
It never ceases to amaze me that victims families put complete trust in LE when it comes to solving cases such as this. The same situation has transpired here in Virginia, twice in recent memory: Tragedies involving Morgan Harrington, as well as the Caldwell Fields murders.
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It's not that LE doesnt want to solve the case. Its that so often people with valuable information are reluctant to share it with LE for their own reasons. Either they don't want to get involved, or aren't particularly big fans of authorities for one reason or another. (Often, the feeling is mutual).
Those same people might be willing to share their secrets with a private investigator or someone else they feel is solely interested in pursuing the matter at hand, not undertaking an indepth scrutiny of the informant as well. These sorts of people very likely don't have squeaky clean criminal histories. Perhaps they dabble in drugs, or have some petty theft offenses in their history. That doesn't mean that kidnapping or murder sits well with them, and that helpful information they may have doesn't torment their conscious.
Over the course of the Morgan Harrington investigation it amazed me how many leads werent followed up on in a timely manner, and sometimes not at all! I know, because I personally looked into several of the leads. Statements were made by the well meaning parties such as "It's about time someone called me!" and "Finally! Some is taking me seriously!"
Additionally, I know of one situation in particular where a witness was accused of lying to law enforcement. News of that mistake spread like wildfire, and 'turned off' anyone else who might of been willing to share what they knew (or thought they knew). The witness in question may of been mistaken, but she wasn't lying.. and harshly accusing her of doing so without discovering a motive for her to do so was flat out stupid.
Another thing to keep in mind is that what goes on behind the scenes often bares little resemblance to what transpires in formal statements made by LE at press conferences.
James "Bulldog" Pollock
Virginia based Private Investigator
www.bulldogpi.net
This is the ONLY explination why there is very little or NO appearances/coroperation from the friends and family. I have never seen a case where the family of the victim has had 0 media/public appearance, interviews or pleas- other than an initial one-liner by Mr Bobo.
Maybe we have received very little information because much of the information is associated with criminal activity (maybe drugs, fraud... etc).
But still very frustrating to us whom want to help and/or know what happend.
Most of us on here are still following this case because we have interest in missing person cases. Most of us have followed several missing person cases and know that the behavior/coroperation/invlovement of the Bobo family and investigators is ANYTHING but normal.
The brother changing his story, his refusal of a lie-detector test, the refusal to release results of the blood sample, the refusal to even disclose general facts and events, the lack of appearances and pleas by the family, the TBI saying individuals close to the case are not cooperating... THESE EVENTS AND OTHERS MAKE NO SENSE and this behavior is NOT consistant with family who has suddenly lost their daughter.
You cannot dismiss all this odd behavior and events... and say they are hurting or fearful just leave them alone.
Sorry this is long... but there are so many times when folks look innocent at first and then you find out down the road that things weren't so innocent and you see why the events took place the way they did.
FOR EXAMPLE: I don't know if you are familiar with the Tonya Shannon case this last winter. Police found a car crashed on a rural snowy county road. The driver (Mr Shannon) was found dead behind the wheel and the passenger door was found open with footprints leading away from the car and no sign of Tonya. They searched for weeks for her in the snowy field. They interviewed her friends and family and everyone at first said how perfect a couple they were, happily married, great responsible parents… yadayadayada. They were at a Christmas party that night having fun. Everyone at the party said they were perfect/normal when they left that night. Turns out in the end they had marital problems, not so perfect and they were both smash-drunk wasted when they left the party, Mr Shannon crashed the car into a pole and died of a broken neck. Tonya was also highly intoxicated and started walking without her shoes and jacket into a field where they found her body in a ditch once the weather got better.
So this couple went from happy, responsible, model-parents who just had an unfortunate car accident- to a troubled, irresponsible, intoxicated couple who are lucky they just killed themselves and not crashed into and killed someone innocent driving down the road.
We will eventually know these facts showing there is somehting “not-right” with this case and we have every right to speculate.
There is no conspiracy of silence going on here and everyone (except the rapist/murderer) would give information if they had it.....This hottie was stalked by a man who captured her and made her his sex slave. plain and simple.....Hopefully, he hasn't gotten tired of her....I can guarantee you that even his own mother would turn him in if she knew anything....This is too tragic and sad to warrant any support. It's a lone wolf, I guarantee.....
TruTv has a notorious murder archive -- I'd start there. There is one story in particular that involves an entire family turning their heads and acting "dumb" after one of their family members kept a 9-yr old girl captive in his bedroom closet for like a week before burying her alive in their backyard.
That is just ONE of the many stories. TRUE stories.
I must admit, I somewhat agree with Dave Roberts comment about this article.
I have lived in small communities. Everyone loves to share a secret with that one special person that they thought could be trusted to silence. It doesn't take long before the whole damn town knows. Problem is, no one relays the story just exactly as explained to them. We have all played the pass along story game in grade school. It is amazing how quickly the story goes from simple to bizarre. I would guess there are sooo many rumors and half truths going around in the Parsons Community that no one knows what to believe. I just can't imagine that a small community such as Parsons would intentionally withhold reliable information concerning the return of one of their own. Holly was definitely one of their own. I was a little offended by Mr. Roberts referring to Holly Bobo as "This Hottie". I do not know Holly or anyone in her family. I believe at this stage Holly deserves a bit more respect. I understand dave roberts was just trying to make a point, but until Holly is found (Alive, I pray) and the facts known, we all can only speculate.
Dave Roberts must be privy to more information than the rest of us as well.
I hope Clint Bobo had nothing to do with his sisters disappearance, but until we know all of the facts, I don't think anyone can be ruled out. Just plain and simple facts the TBI has decided to withhold from the public. If Holly Bobo was alive at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, April 13th then Clint Bobo had nothing to do with her disappearance. I can not find any information as to when another individual other than Clint either saw or talked to Holly.
If the answer ends up being 10 PM Tuesday night, then something crazy could have happened between Holly and Clint. Pure speculation because we don't have the facts.
I am sadly amazed how day by day has marched forward without an arrest or return of Holly. I have stated in many other posts; I believe the TBI has botched this case from the Get Go. I will believe that until they can prove otherwise.
RMV
It's a sad commentary on the state of our society that this appears to be happening with ever increasing frequency, but recent news stories show that these sick predators are out there......
there apparently was a car parked on a road several miles from the home to which she was led and transported....a well planned abduction, and probably not the only time he has done this.
otherwise.. *yak yak yak*
The USA is a very dangerous country to live in. This is not related to the Holly Bobo case, but i think its worthy to say it here. Well, what I am trying to say is that there are these truck drivers and drivers in many highways and interstates of America that have this tendency to provoke accidents to lonely drivers or to smaller cars. This is not related to the abduction of Holly Bobo, but I am just trying to warn people in this forum about the excess of evil and criminals in America.
This is a country where there lots of mafia cartels and criminals and for some reason I can't explain here they have very clever ways to escape justice and prison. We are really doomed in a nation that locks inocent people in jail, and the criminals, rapists, thieves and killers are living their life of their time and their time of their lives.
We need a real radical change in this country, because americans cannot continue to live in a hell of crime and insecurity
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What USA needs is a radical political change. Because you cannot cure crimes like home invasions, robberies individually, you need an economic revolution so that the wealth of the nation gets spread more equally, leading to a rise in wealth and living standards in the negleted alienated and oppressed millions of americans.
Because people we are not living in the XV Century anymore, what i mean is that poverty itself can lead to criminal behaviour. When people are very hungry, or bored from living a life with nothing to do, this can lead to alcoholism, and even to rape.
So you cannot cure crimes, robbery, abduction of girls and rapes of them, with a Nazi police dictatorship, that will not go to the roots of crimes.
The best way to lower crime levels, to lower anger in Americans, depression, and to make USA a happy nation to live in where people love each other, where people have access to college education, health, and high wages is with an economic revolution.
As long as we have these Robber Barons Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Dupont, Morgans and the 5% oligarchic fascist ruling class in the nation concentrating 90% of the wealth created by tax payers and workers, we will have a failed country, a failed society, full of 50 millions in extreme poverty and 50 millions eating from food stamps.
The USA right now is looking like a big africa third world country, but with lots of Mcdonalds, roads and Wal Marts
We need a change in order to go to the roots of crimes. The word radical means going to roots of problems.
Thanx
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Jump out of this ship before the US Titanic Ship takes you down and your family with it !! we are doomed !!!
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Because the other day I was doing my regular 1 hour fast walk around my house and these reject teens in a car threw an egg at me. How the hell can people do that in a nation of mentally healthy, rational individuals behaving in a rational world of common sense?
I swear the USA is a barbaric hell. No wonder the US government is forced to apply many abusive police measures to prevent a rise in crime levels. Because americans are not nice on their own and spontanously. They need a fascist police dictatorship in order to behave like rational moralist individuals that do not go around the society, robbing, killing and raping people.
Not only our ruling classes are to blame for many crimes, but the general american population needs a change of behaviour if we want a better country for our grand children in the future
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