Officer: Did you go into the woods before you picked up Pam?
Terry Hobbs: Sure
Officer: You did,
Terry Hobbs: nods yes
Officer: You remember about what time that was?
Terry Hobbs: 6 - 6:30
Officer: K, who was with you at that time?
Terry Hobbs: David
Officer: David Jacoby. Anybody else?
Terry Hobbs: Just alot of neighbourhood people. Cause there was people on 3 wheelers, 4 wheelers, motorcycles, bicycles, on foot. That was you know, help calling, us, helping us look for 3 kids.
Officer: Is there anything that you saw that you uhh, was it daylight or dark when you all went out there the first time?
Terry Hobbs: Daylight
Officer: Daylight? Was there anything out there that that struck you as unusual or odd that you saw?
Terry Hobbs: Nothing other than I wouldn't have been out here, this is not a place I hang out, No. And we were told at one time that there was something that covered up a hole or something and they thought they mighta been in that hole so some of them little kids that knew where that place was at said that they'd go check it. I think uhh, that little Byers boy. The one that was alive. There's another one alive. I can't think of his name, but I think he was gonna go with some of the people that was there and check, but I don't know what they's talking about.
Officer: Was that suppose to be out there in the wooded area also?
Terry Hobbs: Uhh hmm
Officer: Ok, Ok. Umm, so when you, how long you think you stayed out there in the wooded area the first time? Robinhood area?
Terry Hobbs: I don't know cause we would drive around looking and then go down the service road looking up in there and walk in out there from both sides.
Officer: Did you see anybody uh hanging around that area that, that. Well you said that people were looking, I mean, if you had, your best guess I guess Terry umm. How many people do you, your best estimate of how many people do you during this first time your out there do you think are out in that area loooking?
Terry Hobbs: 20 to 40
Officer: 20 to 40, ok so that's a good number, thats a large amount of people
Terry HObbs: uh hmmm
Officer: Umm, were any of them police officers at that time? Or were they just citizens?
Terry Hobbs: Just Regena, and, after shift change another officer came out, but he aint go in the woods. He stayed in his car.
Officer: k, When you get done, is this the first time your out in the wooded area? Or the
Terry Hobbs: Probably
Officer: Ok, when you get, when you leave there, when. How long after you leave there did you go to pick up Pam?
Terry Hobbs: I picked Pam up at 9 o clock, uh, you know not only are we looking in the wooded area but people keep saying well there's 3 boys riding a bike over here, we seen 3 boys over here, someone said 3 boys so we would go everywhere we heard
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Terry Hobbs: I know I did
Officer: Yep, yep
Terry Hobbs: I don't know what, you know there was a time I was in the woods I seen Mark and his wife Melissa drive down the service road, looking, you know looking in the woods.