TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden, believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #21

[Daisyjane]

This board has gone kinda DEAD. Usually when that happens, it's because one of the other cases has had a big development. O where O where can it be?

 

[falconsfan]

I am wondering why they are "guarding" the Bobo's home. Is this usual? I haven't read about this in any other abduction case, unless there was a randsom demand. Could there have been a threatening note left? It seems strange to me.

I know that most families do not like the media presence; however, to guard the family for 3 weeks seems a bit odd.

Also, I am still wondering why in the beginning they did not set up road blocks. Wouldn't it be a good idea to set up a road block in the area when there is a known abduction?

I talked to my husband about this several days ago..."guarding" the house. IDK if they still are, but I had an idea why they would early on. If LE did find HB's purse, then her keys would be in there. That is, unless the abductor took them. I'm sure she had keys to her home on her key ring. I did as a young teenager. So, to me, initially I could understand LE "guarding" the house until the Bobo family could change their locks. IMO doubtful the person would come back, it would be a HUGE risk.

 

[Carla Lashelle]

This board has gone kinda DEAD. Usually when that happens, it's because one of the other cases has had a big development. O where O where can it be?

I check in but by and large there is no new info, no new news. Pretty much every possible scenario has been battered about. Its really come down to wondering about relatively minor details.

Pretty much we know today, three weeks in, what we knew 24-48 hours into it. :banghead:

 

[OldSteve]

I've heard people here post about the family being "well-off" or "living well". Those terms can be rather subjective, but when I hear those terms, I do not think of the Bobo family. By all accounts they are an average, middle-class family. Both parents work........ Holly's mother is a teacher. I've heard conflicting reports about whether the father owns his own tree-trimming business or if he is an employee. The families are members and by all accounts, very involved in their church. Both children seem to be doing what children from middle-class families do...graduate from high school, attend some sort of secondary education while perhaps work a part-time job. Although technically adults, both children still live at home with their parents. I believe that says a lot for the family dynamics of the Bobo family.

I think (like most of us), they're just doing the best they can with what they have.

This is a link that talks about the property and the value of the home. Not at all above average....



HTH

Just so there is no misunderstanding - my post was a question about "after reading a previous post about the seedier side of the local underbelly -
Could there have been resentment against the family and what took place was done by more than one? "

In other words, could there be a local cabal who were jealous of the family?

I say that because so much of thinking has been catching a perp, when perhaps there is a more than one involved...

 

[OldSteve]

I check in but by and large there is no new info, no new news. Pretty much every possible scenario has been battered about. Its really come down to wondering about relatively minor details.

Pretty much we know today, three weeks in, what we knew 24-48 hours into it. :banghead:

Sadly, you are right.

 

[SmoothOperator]

I photoshopped the pic BeanE posted of carport and sharpened it a tad bit. In black and white you can definitely see that there is a car in the second stall as well. Cannot discern for certain that it's the black mustang, but just by ruling out from other pics IMO its a good possibility that it is Holly's black Mustang that's parked in that second stall. Here's ghe original pic along side the pic in B/W where it's clearly another car in second stall..




Posting via mobile so please excuse errors as there is not the same amount of control as I'd have posting from my laptop! Thanks!

 

[grandmaj]

Guys quickly. No Facebook pictures please. Also, any picture brought to WS from the news, or from Amanada's Album etc., must have a link back to the site. This is a copyright issue. Above or below the picture you must have the credits in a link.

 

[falconsfan]

Thank you! In that first pic, it looks like a car parked inside the... for lack of a better word... carport... on the left hand side.

ETA: I'm sooooo bad at pics.

I agree BeanE! When I saw a pic come up a few threads back I mentioned that it looked like a car was parked in the left stall as well. It looks like something is parked in the right one too. If you look to the right wall on the right stall it kinda looks like something is there. Not sure if it's a car or not. Possible an ATV/ATV's if they own some.

 

[looksbetterinred]

Mustang

crankycrankerson's photobucket page

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm166/crankycrankerson/Holly Bobo -TN-/car.jpg

 

[BeanE]

Has there been any mention of which school the mother works at? The link you've provided gives the distance from the house to nearby schools.

Scotts Hill elementary school

http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20110423/NEWS25/110423004

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[falconsfan]

I am new to WS and this is my first post. I've been following for this thread for a couple of weeks now, and I had a thought today that I had not heard discussed yet. I wonder if anyone local is aware of any new construction before or after Holly's disappearance?

It seems if this was a planned abduction (which IMO it was) whoever did it would have planned what to do after the adbuction. New construction could have been a way to dispose of her body (I remember a case not too long ago where someone was killed and put under concrete for a new patio). It could also be a way to hold her captive (obviously I hope it's this option) i.e. some sort of cage being built in a house/garage/shed.

It seems in a small community, someone would know of a person buying this material or working in their yard on something. I know construction projects are common, especially in rural areas, but this could be a red flag for residents.

In addition, in response to the "game changing" item, what if it was a receipt for construction materials pointing towards some sort of confinment structure? I seem to remember the family was optimistic about the find, so if LE had evidence that the abductor was building a place to hold her, wouldn't that give the family hope that she is alive?

My other thought on the game changing item would be a receipt for a large supply of food/water/supplies, pointing to a plan for keeping her alive as well.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!

BeanE posted several links here, but I used only 1 of them as it pertains to what you mentioned could be the "game changing" item. If it indeed was a receipt for an item used in construction/concrete work, it would definitely explain why searchers were at the concrete plant in the pic/link BeanE provided.

A couple old tweets with pics from Natasha Chen of WREG I hadn't seen before:

*snipped to include the 1 of 4 links

http://yfrog.com/h8jyvrij

 

[Carla Lashelle]

If thats a chrome bumper in the garage its not Hollys car. It looks wide to be a mustang too. Not sure its a car at all. But its hard to say for sure.

 

[not_my_kids]

Something is very odd here. I, and others, are still wondering why(and who) ask all middle Tennessee farmers to 'check their farms' in relation to this case. The TBI nor the TFB would never issue a public statement like that. I don't see anything about it in the posts here-I can't read them all-however if anyone else has heard this please clue me in. I got a e-mail snippet from other concerned land owners who had seen it posted on other missing persons forums.
I, most assuredly, don't need anyone telling me to check my land for a crime scene and nothing as large as a human body is going to stay on the ground very long in Tennessee this time of year without discovery. As a large land owner I have always had a good relationship with law enforcement and know this is not how cases-even one with all the oddities this one has-are handled.
Who could have issued a -somewhat insulting- request like this?

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I've seen it issued in a few cases, and the request was issued for people to inspect their own land at the beginning of the case and again a few days ago, as far as I can remember. The same request was issued in Lindsey Baum's case (Washington), Nevaeh Buchanan's case (Michigan) and Joshua Davis (Texas). I'm sorry if you see it as insulting or out of the ordinary, but it really is quite ordinary and sensible to remind people to look closer to home than they may want to. Some people can go out and search riverbeds for a body, but can't process that one would ever be found on their own property. And with the density of the woods, I'm sure there are areas that are much easier to navigate by the owner, as opposed to a searcher that is not familiar with that particular piece of property. JMO.

 

[SNOWINMEMPHIS]

Scotts Hill elementary school

http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20110423/NEWS25/110423004

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My 1st husband went to school there.
He now lives in Lexington but we spent a lot of time around Scott's Hill and Parsons.
So sad to see such good people hurt so bad.

 

[CHARLISA]

This came to me in a dream last night. Yeah, I know, I am obsessing over this case but I can't help it. Holly needs to come home. Has there ever been positive proof that she ever entered the woods with her captor? Did Clint actually see her go "into" the woods or did he see her being "led" toward the woods? I ask this because looking at the pics you guys are posting it seems possible that a vehicle could have been parked behind the house over to the left. It would make sense to lead Holly in that direction and then veer left to the vehicle. Perhaps this is why dogs didn't pick up a scent going into the woods. BTW, great pictures BeanE

 

[JenniferTx]

This came to me in a dream last night. Yeah, I know, I am obsessing over this case but I can't help it. Holly needs to come home. Has there ever been positive proof that she ever entered the woods with her captor? Did Clint actually see her go "into" the woods or did he see her being "led" toward the woods? I ask this because looking at the pics you guys are posting it seems possible that a vehicle could have been parked behind the house over to the left. It would make sense to lead Holly in that direction and then veer left to the vehicle. Perhaps this is why dogs didn't pick up a scent going into the woods. BTW, great pictures BeanE

Good point or good dream should I say. Makes sense that the dogs wouldn't have pick-up on her scent.

 

[lishac23]

Scotts Hill elementary school

http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20110423/NEWS25/110423004

Page 2 of the article

Sorry if this has been touched on already but that would put Mom about 30 minutes away from home. Has there been any confirmation on what time LE arrived at the home?

 

[Some Beach]

Sorry if this has been touched on already but that would put Mom about 30 minutes away from home. Has there been any confirmation on what time LE arrived at the home?

I'm not sure what time LE arrived onsite, but it has been reported that the mother was already at the home.

 

[lishac23]

I'm not sure what time LE arrived onsite, but it has been reported that the mother was already at the home.

Thanks. That's what I thought. Both Parson Police Dept. Offices are within 15 minutes of the Bobo home. Mom got called first and left work heading home and would have had to have at least a 15 minute head start before LE was called...giving the abductor at least an hour before LE got involved.

 

[mrsu]

I'm not sure there's more than one carport, or I think, just based on the natural use of language, that we'd have seen some references to "one of the carports", rather than consistently just "the carport", which indicates there's only one. I dunno.

ETA: MIL's posts for reference:

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - TN TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden, believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #20


Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - TN TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden, believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #20

I'm not so sure. I think the use of the word "carport" is just semantics at this point. I personally wouldn't refer to either of the areas as a carport. I would simply say garage even if it didn't have a door. I have also seen others say they reference a carport as what I would refer to as a "driveway". The area where you would park outside of the garage. I think the terminology varies greatly by where one lives. To me, a carport has a covered top with 4 legs coming down, open air on the sides. Not saying it's right or wrong, again semantics.

In both the photos I'm referring to, both structures seem to be without a garage door, so according to MIL info, either would be consistent with what she was told by her daughter in law. Both of the areas as well seem to have gravel up to them.

Here's a photo where you can see there is also gravel up to what might be the carport on the back side of the house. The white car would be sitting in front of the carport.

Here's the other photo that I believe also shows a "carport" (garage) on the backside of the house, in addition to the building at the property line. If you look closely, you can see the frame of the carport on the right hand side, inside appears to be black which one could assume means that it did not have a garage door either.

Photos from here: http://s296.photobucket.com/albums/mm166/crankycrankerson/Holly Bobo -TN-/