“Tell my brother he is the one who started this (expletive) and if he don't shut his mouth, he will be in the hole beside her,” Zachary R. Adams.
Let’s examine this in light of the discovery of HB’s skull and possible other remains.
When this statement first surfaced, many, including me, immediately thought, “well.” I think so did LE and they dug up wells in their Adams’ property search.
But, one cannot easily put another
beside a body already in a well. Maybe on top, but not beside.
So I pulled up a topo map of the County Corner Road area. As I suspected, the land drops fairly sharply from the I-40/County Corner Road area in the northerly direction. And the ginseng guys spoke of the skull being found in a clearing at the base of a ravine. All of a sudden, EUREKA!
“The hole” is a term Zach would use to describe the land area at the base of the ravine. It is surrounded on three sides by steep up-slopes and when down “in it” I bet you do feel like you are in a hole.
If this is plausible, I think HB was put where she was found soon after she was killed. Not dumped in a well and then somehow retrieved and taken elsewhere. ZA and JA knew this area well, and knew that “the hole” would likely be a safe place to dispose.
I am attaching a topo map of the area. I have drawn an arrow where I think “the hole” is.
This is a hole that a brother's body could be placed
beside Holly's.
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