TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden, believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #26

[OldSteve]

Well if they were in the garage what about FINGERPRINTS? FOOTPRINTS?

I have a sad feeling that the crime scene was all lost because remember it was mentioned how LE setup at/near the house and didn't go out searching for a time... doesn't anyone remember the entire area around the house being cordoned off as a crime scene?

 

[Whisperer]

How many versions of that morning are out there? If the brother ran in the driveway and saw the blood and the coke can, LE would have had a crime scene and there would be no way of contaminating it. That is crazy insane.

I should just lay off these cases that are so rural. They never make any sense and they never catch the perp either....maybe I should say they never name the perp for I am sure they have a good idea of who it is.

It's always the rural areas that choose to keep everything soooo close to the vest too for fear of destroying an ongoing investigation. gettin a little tired of this song and dance routine!

When somebody sees a puddle of blood, she certainly didn't get very far on her own. I hardly see anyone wanting to take a bleeding victim in their car alive.

 

[wfgodot]

Holly Bobo search joined by paragliders

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The group is working directly with Bobo's family, who pointed them to areas they wanted the paragliders to focus on, such as trailers hidden back in the woods. Dubin said the paragliders recorded their aerial flights with high-definition cameras and covered about 10 square miles during the two days of searching.

The challenge was the thick foliage of the wooded areas around Bobo's home, Dubin said, but they might have better luck when the leaves start to drop in the fall. His group relies on volunteers across the country and is a nonprofit that doesn't charge for missing persons cases.
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more at CBS News/Crimesider link above

 

[Eileen730]

Yeah this is like some alternate reality zone where people do and say the exact opposite of what any normal person would do.

If I saw my sister in the garage with someone I'd say hey whats up? If I heard people talking outside, I'd go outside to see who it was... not call someone 20 miles away to say hey who is outside the house?

Clint isnt 5 hes what 18-20? Come on... Something here isn't right.

He is 25 or 26.

and i think they had a lawyer there and thats where the shhhhhh came from

 

[mountainguy777]

Wow....so strange.

- I kept hearing "SHHHHHH" during the interview when Dad was talking. Then, commercial, and Dad is replaced by the Pastor. ?????

- SO if Clint called mom and was asking who was outside (As if she would know from work?), at what point did mom scream about Holly being led into the woods, and why?

- when JVM asked if there was a "blood trail", mom answered no. Clint said the blood led to a logging road?

-4 months in...and the story is still not clear. I wish JVM had really pushed for some more clear answers. I wish they had come out in week ONE with an interview like this.

 

[mountainguy777]

CLint said the man he saw was about 5'10'' 200 hundred pounds, and JVM kept saying "6'0" man." even after he said what he saw.

 

[who knew?]

I watched the family interview on JVM tonight, and like some of the rest of you, didn't think things seemed right. I got on Websleuths to see if it was just me or if anyone else felt the same way. Glad to see I'm not totally off-base.

My question - and it may have been answered a long time ago - did Clint take a lie detector test? His story has varied a few times, and something is not sitting right with him in my eyes. Mom seemed very uncomfortable and afraid to answer questions. Also - I didn't realize Clint was 26 - I thought he was around 17 or so. Don't most 26 yr old boys live on their own - and work??? And if he saw his sister going into the woods, he didn't think something was weird about that - especially if he didn't recognize the man with her. And finally, he said he saw drops of blood in the garage - While this is possible, I know that when I walk into the garage, I rarely notice drops of anything since the cars drag things in on the tires. There's always something laying on the floor.

Clint heard voices in the garage? Did he see Holly's car in the driveway or garage? Was she dressed for walking in the woods, or for going to school? In my mind, you wouldn't wear hiking gear to school - or school clothes to walk in the woods.

I might be completely wrong, but I just haven't seen anything on the news regarding the family dynamics, le questioning family, or even much about this case.

 

[Whisperer]

According to the wordpress article above, he took a poly the first day.

Today, finally, they confirmed the blood belonged to Holly.

I could have gone all day w/o hearing they have an attorney...rut roh! Not again..why would they need an attorney? If true, here we go again!

 

[Whisperer]

So the brother is a psychology student. Does anyone have info on how far along he is and is there a University in the area?

 

[wfgodot]

My question - and it may have been answered a long time ago - did Clint take a lie detector test?

It has never been revealed. One of the many, many, MANY things LE has not divulged. A Bobo cousin said that he had taken one and passed.

Clint heard voices in the garage? Did he see Holly's car in the driveway or garage? Was she dressed for walking in the woods, or for going to school?

(See post #77 below)

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[Whisperer]

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You are correct wfg..

That link I posted said he took a poly the first day according to his cousin.

Holly was wearing a pink shirt and light blue jeans...according to alert.

...ETA: can't find flip flops...thought I just read it but don't have link.

 

[wfgodot]

CLint said the man he saw was about 5'10'' 200 hundred pounds, and JVM kept saying "6'0" man." even after he said what he saw.

The FBI missing poster lists the person seen as 5'8"-6'0" tall. The NCMEC poster, which I thought had contained similar info, now lists no height/weight; it does say that Holly "may be in the company of an adult male."

 

[Chili Fries]

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My question - and it may have been answered a long time ago - did Clint take a lie detector test? <snipped>

This is the most relevant info I know about that, maybe somebody else can find more about it. This is from Nancy Grace 4/20. Deborah Norville was filling in for Nancy. She's talking to family spokesman Kevin Bromley:


NORVILLE: As you know, we have spoken off-camera with other family members, and Natalie (ph) Bobo, who`s a cousin of Holly who`s gone missing, said to us that Clint had indicated that he had taken a polygraph test and passed it. Can you confirm that?

BROMLEY: I don`t know that to be sure. Has the investigators said anything about that?

NORVILLE: Well, this is a family member who has told us, and we`re trying to confirm that with you as the family spokesperson.

BROMLEY: Right. I don`t know that to be factual. That would be something you`d have to talk with the investigators about.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/20/ng.01.html


Also, regarding the logging road...often old logging roads don't mainly have dirt surface like you would think of. Because they don't get used anymore they are covered with years of fallen leaves and pine needles and usually have fallen trees across them at different points. May make it very hard to get a good tire print if an ATV was used. But the logging road could have been just used by the perp as access to the property on foot. I have an old logging road that leads about 100 feet from the woods at the front of my property to the road (although in Holly's case this obviously depends on where Clint saw them enter the woods). Also, these old logging roads are often under the canopy of trees so they might be hid from satellite or aerial views even in winter.

There was a poster on Topix who mentioned a logging road in late April. Yeah, I know it's Topix but here is the link if anyone is interested. It's post 15.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/parsons-tn/TI7U08I5JC4PDC39V

 

[Lovejac]

You are correct wfg..

That link I posted said he took a poly the first day according to his cousin.

Holly was wearing a pink shirt and light blue jeans...according to alert.

...ETA: can't find flip flops...thought I just read it but don't have link.

I remember reading flip flops, too.

ETA: Can I just say how happy I am to see Holly's thread at the top of the page?!

 

[wfgodot]

You are correct wfg..

That link I posted said he took a poly the first day according to his cousin.

Holly was wearing a pink shirt and light blue jeans...according to alert.

...ETA: can't find flip flops...thought I just read it but don't have link.

I remember the flip flops from someplace, can't find a link yet, either. The FBI and NCMEC posters list no footwear.

 

[cluciano63]

I got the impression that when JVM asked about a "blood trail" Clint only heard the "trail" part and started going on about a logging trail...and of course both JVM and NG are famous for never following up on questions...

(Not that I have any idea where "blood trail" came, from "flecks", "drops" and "small amount" as has been printed elsewhere...)

 

[wfgodot]

Flip-flops, from BeanE's Case Signal timeline:

The day she went missing Bobo put on her bright pink shirt, jeans and black flip-flops and packed her lunch for another day of nursing school at the nearby UT-Martin campus.

 

[Eileen730]

So the brother is a psychology student. Does anyone have info on how far along he is and is there a University in the area?

Hes 25 shouldnt he be done school?

 

[Whisperer]

Here's BeanE's great Case Signal covering the Bobo case.

*bumping*

Such a good reference..

 

[mountainguy777]

I know it's not a popular thing to say around here, but everytime I hear the family speak, and things change.....I focus on thier behavior....and I wonder.....