I don't believe for one second they came there for anyone else but Holly. They easily could have contained her and forced her to go into the home with them. They certainly wouldn't take her word for anything. We know they had a weapon of some sort... since her blood was shed in the carport iirc. Nothing was preventing them from entering the house if they were looking for someone else. They weren't. They had who they came for and that is why they took her and left.
Imo, they weren't looking for anyone else. They waited until her parents left for work. If they weren't looking for Holly they could have just waited in the woods until she drove off to school too. But, they didn't. As soon as Holly came out they had who they wanted and that is why she was led off into the woods never to be seen alive again.
This wasn't random on that, I agree. She was targeted because she was a very beautiful young woman and the kidnapper knew the only way he could have his way with her... is if he gave her no choice and that is exactly what he did. Then, imo, he took her to his home and let all of his buddies have their way with her too. These pack of meth thugs are worse than rabid dogs because poor rabid dogs cant help being rabid.
When the witnesses testify who were there when Holly was being tortured and brutalized they are going to tell she was brought there and was repeatedly beaten, tortured, and raped while she was clinging to life, IMO.
That is WHY she was taken. Adams was use to settling for unattractive women... who were just like him... who also used meth... and also had criminal dealings with the law just like he did. Holly was unobtainable to him and he knew it. She didn't associate with meth heads like him.
So he took what he knew he couldn't have any other way. And to be the big leader of the pack he passed his helpless kidnapped victim around to the other savages that were there.
If you have read the articles that has been linked here about the other brutal murder case of two men in TN which was done by deranged meth heads... you would know when meth heads resort to murder.... they like nothing better than to torment and torture their victims for days on end before they finally get around to murdering them.
It is the same motive it is in every case when a very attractive woman is kidnapped and later found murdered. Its all about libido and sex... fueled by meth and thinking they could do whatever they wanted to do...just like Adams who always thought he was above the law.
The only difference in this case is there was more than one sexual predator that preyed upon Holly.
IMO
There was nothing particularly special about Holly, and the accused supposedly didn't know her. So why would they go specifically after her? And not just one, but a whole bunch of them. This is not a lone nut case, this is apparently an entire group of people in an enterprise, if popular opinion is anything to go by.
This type of scenario you presented does not happen. Either you have a lone wolf who is definitely not going to be spreading word of his actions around to half the town, or you have a group of people targeting her for a specific reason. But they didn't know her and she had not contact with them. So, if they were not targeting her, and she just got in the way, who were they targeting and why were they there?
Predators of the sort you describe do their thing in secret. There would not be a long line of informants ready to turn them in because no one else would know about it.
What you are apparently forgetting is that news of her disappearance quickly spread. These people who supposedly saw her with ZA would have known about it, and we are supposed to believe that they all kept quite about it after all these years even though it was such a high profile case, and even though most of them were criminals themselves who would cut a deal a the drop of a hat if given a fraction of a chance. If ZA really did this at random there is no way he would have let all these other people know about it.
One would think that if a person took her for sexual purposes, they would keep quite about it and get rid of her ASAP when the story hit the headlines. But you would have us believe that not only did this guy take her for that purpose, he kept her for an extended period of time, allowed who knows how many other people to see her with him, and to top it all bragged about it to all and sundry. Unless this guy is completely crazy and delusional, as well as all his friends and the people around him, that is not going to happen like that. If your theory is correct, and they were an out of control bunch of addicts looking for thrills, then why was Holly the only one? If a group of people were behaving as you said, they wouldn't stop at just one, there would be a long string of other dead girls - but there are none!
IMO your theory is not credible.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - there is a reason why all this happened, and I doubt that reason has anything to do with Holly herself. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.