at the link http://www.wsmv.com/story/26137704/man-linked-to-holly-bobo-case-in-court-tuesday it says that LE had the witness call Jeff Pearcy in an attempt to get him to discuss the video she alleges she saw. In their phone conversation she says something like (paraphrase cause the article wont let me copy n paste) if it had been you in the video I would have watched it. He answers yes, I know.
Earlier in teh article it says she did not want to watch the alleged rape but saw Mark Pearcy approach a tied up blond woman who resembled Holly Bobo with the obvious intent to rape her. The article does not state she watched the alleged rape.
Jeff Pearcy claims he could not hear well on the phone call and that there is a sex tape of his brother Mark Pearcy having sex with his own wife who is also named Holly.
That is what I took from the article anyway.
I agree Foxfire. It seems odd to me that after this much time, and knowing the importance of this video, the TBI still has not even found some way to at least unlock the phone?
1 This may be an important point in unraveling the truth.
J Pearcy can't claim that he never showed her a video, and that no video ever existed, while also saying that what she saw might have been a video of M Pearcy's wife that he showed her. Is he claiming that, at one time, there was indeed a video of some "Holly" that's akin to what she describes and that he showed her?
2 On the other hand, her claim is that this was something she was shown a couple months ago. It's pretty extreme to think that he would have had such an incriminating video in his possession, keeping it more than 3 years after the crime, and casually showing it around. That doesn't make sense on any level.
Just looking at things another way here - if there isn't anything incriminating on the phone, why doesn't the owner simply provide LE with the code needed to unlock it and clear himself straight away? Even if the phone contains another embarrassing or revolting video of some sort, revealing it would have to be better than being accused of being part of Holly's death?
I think that JP is alleging that there was a video involving his brother Mark's ex (another Holly) and ZA and that brother Mark filmed the encounter. It's hard to follow because of how JP worded his statement in the article linked last page but that is what I think he is saying. That some sex tape exists showing ZA in a sexual consensual encounter with his brother, Mark's ex wife who is named Holly.
I suspect, if such a video exists, that seeing a snippet of that video coupled with the long standing rumor that there was a video out there of Holly being raped after her abduction became melded in this woman's mind.
[ETA think about it. The local rumor mill has long been pumping out this business about Holly Bobo being raped and tortured on video. Then ZA and JA are arrested. And now the MSM is even beginning to discuss and hint at this rumor of the video. It is all the buzz for months after these arrests.
Then someone you know shows you a snippet of a video on their cell phone with ZA approaching some tied up blond woman named Holly ready to have sex with her and you hear MP's voice on the video (hence is the filmer). You might a) think this is THE rumored video or b) even knowing it is not, here is a way to get back at someone who has pissed you off and you really don't even have to lie.
The witness testified she saw a blond woman who resembled Holly Bobo on the tape.
I know others will disagree but that is what this is all looking like to me.
So the TBI better have something more substantial than this to convict ZA or I will lose it. Literally lose my chit. We have waited too long for justice for Holly to let it go that route.
My only question is, IF what I describe above is what happened - why does JP or MP not simply produce the video/ innocent consensual sex tape?]
How long have they had this phone? A couple of months or more? And, despite the crucial nature of whatever it is supposed to contain, they are still claiming that it must be in there but they just can't access it yet? Either they are lying to stall for time (hoping for something to fall from the sky to help their case) or they are incompetent as can be. Not very encouraging.
There was a security based issue with an iPhone in another case recently that caused problems for LE. It will drive me crazy now until I can remember which one. Tim Bosma's murder, perhaps. Anyway, this isn't a first.JP has said there is no video and also said it was his ex wife in the video? Which is it?
I'm thinking it's a process x20 phones extracting the data to tie the charged and possibly potential charge of others in Holly's murder. Not all will be Iphones but this is Apple's Law Enforcement quidelines for data extraction request. You can skip down to L.
https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/law-enforcement/
Excellent post my friend.
We have to remember who Ms. King was going up against by even having the nerve to come to police two weeks after she saw this despicable video and from my understanding she didn't watch all of it but just a short part of it. No telling what the complete video shows.
You are so correct. Since cell phones have video capacity many criminals nowadays are immortalizing their horrendous hideous acts they do against innocent victims.
I believe ZA and JA capable of anything and still have their followers on the outside. Ms. King had to think twice whether she wanted to even get involved knowing who the players are in this brutal case.
She said she had known Pearcy for 19 years. I do not think this is a case of a woman's revenge. She came forth with what she knew and what SHE saw,imo, and nothing more. She was really putting her own life in danger by coming forward. She is not accusing Pearcy of raping Holly. Why? Because the video she saw showed Zach Adams raping Holly. If she was just lying to get back at Pearcy and knew there really isn't a video then she could have said that he too was in the middle of raping Holly but she didn't do that. The reason she didn't is because the part of the video she saw it was Zach Adams being the brutalizing monster. And she knows if the police can retrieve the cell phone footage THAT is what it is going to show.
I am thankful that the Judge found Ms. King credible. I do believe he believes her and that is why he found there was enough probable cause to send it to the GJ.
IMO