TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden, believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #31

[officer'swife 2010]

Ive been trying to wrap my mind around the whole disapperance of Holly Bobo, reading every article I can find been on forums.....so long and nothing really has been told to the public. Being married to a cop, I've seen him really get involved in cases esp. when it has to do with kids. Most cops have a no sense of feeling towards anybody well at least the ones I know but after working hours upon hours and putting your everything into a case I can bet he's invovled emitonally.....he would have to be right? maybe i'm wrong...[/QUOTE]

I'm a little confused by the part I bolded... who is the 'he' you are referring to? Or do you mean your hubby?
My son is also in LE and they usually try not to get too emotionally involved in these cases, but sometimes they can't help it. Small town LE often know just about everybody in the area, and it makes it hard when it's someone you know and like.
Several years ago, my son helped in a case of a mother killing her children, and it about did him in, he got very, very upset. When it's a young child, it's very hard to remain detached and not get emotional. Most agencies offer counseling, too.

I'm sorry, I'm just now learning how to use this site...I was actually referring to the post somebody said that the Sheriff was crying on an interview, I can totally seeing the Sheriff getting emitonally attached to this case, not crying because he knows something but crying because of emitions.....

 

[mountainguy777]

I was hoping we would not get to a point in this case where there was no new news, no new theories, and no new pleas. But here we are.

*crickets* *crickets*

 

[Carla Lashelle]

I was hoping we would not get to a point in this case where there was no new news, no new theories, and no new pleas. But here we are.

*crickets* *crickets*

Thats just it... we have had no real info since the first couple of weeks. Everything "else" learned since then has actually just muddled the case up more. Now, eight months later everyone has pretty much worked through every scenario from the reasonable and logical to the absurd and inane. Its been beat to death... There really is not anything much more that can be said that has not been said in the last 8 months.

 

[Oriah]

Website for the parasearchers:
http://www.davedubin.com/parasearchers/default.asp

 

[mountainguy777]

Thats just it... we have had no real info since the first couple of weeks. Everything "else" learned since then has actually just muddled the case up more. Now, eight months later everyone has pretty much worked through every scenario from the reasonable and logical to the absurd and inane. Its been beat to death... There really is not anything much more that can be said that has not been said in the last 8 months.

I agree. I dont know of any case quite like this one. So little info. Not the panic you would think. Almost a "hurry up and wait" attutide. Frankly i cant see the point in not sharing any and all info at this point.

 

[Plumeria5]

I agree. I dont know of any case quite like this one. So little info. Not the panic you would think. Almost a "hurry up and wait" attutide. Frankly i cant see the point in not sharing any and all info at this point.

I agree. Really makes no sense to me. I would guess that a very high percentage of the time it is the public that gives the tip or solves the case with information or even finding the body. In Joselys's case one of the residents had spoken to the killer and called the police about what he had said. The public can't help if they don't know what clues to look for. If not for anything else there is power in numbers. Millions in the public versus how many on the case in LE or the TBI? :banghead: Seriously...what is the point???

 

[nosyone]

I agree. I dont know of any case quite like this one. So little info. Not the panic you would think. Almost a "hurry up and wait" attutide. Frankly i cant see the point in not sharing any and all info at this point.

You are so right, I don't understand anything in this case. If it were my daughter, I would be standing on the courthouse steps trying to get her case in the public eye everyday! Her parents are not acting like any normal parents of a missing child that I've ever seen and Law Enforcement isn't acting like any agencies that I've ever heard of. Why the silence? I can't imagine any reason not to release the 911 tapes! It has been 8 months and anything said on those tapes is old news, how can it effect the investigation now? Is withholding them helping the investigation, if so, how? I have followed this case from Day 1 and I don't know anymore today than I did on April 13th. Very frustrating!
:banghead:

 

[wfgodot]

With such a dearth of information given to the public, we're far enough along in this case to entertain "law enforcement protecting someone, or protecting its own" scenarios.

And Mrs. B. did ask for more help, once - she asked for President Obama, which was basically, I think, a plea for federal intervention in this case. The family seems almost afraid to speak out further.

The silence is deafening.

 

[nosyone]

With such a dearth of information given to the public, we're far enough along in this case to entertain "law enforcement protecting someone, or protecting its own" scenarios.

And Mrs. B. did ask for more help, once - she asked for President Obama, which was basically, I think, a plea for federal intervention in this case. The family seems almost afraid to speak out further.

The silence is deafening.

I cannot help but think that KB's plea for help from President Obama was to scare someone into thinking that the big guns were coming. I read in the news release yesterday about the Paragliders that Karen asked them to search an area that had not been searched. Now I ask you, why would KB be asking them to search that area and not LE? Do you think that she suspects her body is up there? I KNOW something is wrong, wrong, wrong with this whole scenario from day 1!

 

[wfgodot]

I cannot help but think that KB's plea for help from President Obama was to scare someone into thinking that the big guns were coming. I read in the news release yesterday about the Paragliders that Karen asked them to search an area that had not been searched. Now I ask you, why would KB be asking them to search that area and not LE? Do you think that she suspects her body is up there? I KNOW something is wrong, wrong, wrong with this whole scenario from day 1!

Me too on the "hinky since day one" thing. The current TBI director was spokesperson back in the bad old days maybe ten years ago when TBI was under attack for being inept (had a large amount of cocaine stolen from their new "tamper free" evidence vault, for one thing, if memory serves), so it didn't sound like they'd cleaned much house between now and then; plus, the lead agent working this case did not impress me a bit. I am not nor have I ever been with those who think that "LE has much more info than we know about, but they're just keeping quiet till the right time." Usually, what it means is, I think, that they don't know much more than the general public, or else they would use what they know to gain more information from the general public.

 

[cluciano63]

I do agree that LE is way behind in this case, probably too much so to ever catch up and I don't believe for a second that they know lots of things we don't know. Too much time has passed with no action for that to be true. I think Holly was taken away from the immediate area even before LE arrived on the scene, and that the location of items that may have been found have little value at this point. What does it matter now where a lunch bag was found, if Holly is still missing and no other clues were gleaned from it? Especially with the passage of time and the weakened memories of anyone who may have had something to contribute at one point, but with LE saying so very little and only coming out with feeble requests for the public to keep their eyes open from time to time, I think they've pretty much lost any good info from the day in question, if it was ever available. Holly may be only 10 or 20 miles away from home, who knows, but that is still too far unless someone happens upon her by accident. But she could be anywhere...

 

[~n/t~]

What area are the paragliders searching and why do you all think KB decided to use paragliders again rather than the usual ground searches?

From what I understand, this is another team? Is that right? Did the first ones find anything?

 

[~n/t~]

After 8 months, if Holly is dead, all that would be found would be her skeletal remains. Paragliders makes no sense to me.

 

[TxLady2]

Well much of my comment is meant to be in general and not necessarily referring to Holly.

We do NOT KNOW if any other DNA was found. We know blood was found and it was Holly's, but was another unknown DNA found anywhere? That is not uncommon when suspects get scratched, cut themself, etc. Perhaps a hair was found somewhere. Thats how they convicted Anne Pressly's killer... one single hair. Yes you might find the mailman's DNA (in theory) but if you found say, his semen in the garage, that would be odd. You do not have to have a known suspect to have DNA or to try to narrow the focus down by using such DNA

Ok, got it.
But I don't think they would have found semen in the garage, if this all took place within a few minutes. Just guessing, but I figure he didn't rape her and THEN lead her off into the woods.

 

[Carla Lashelle]

After 8 months, if Holly is dead, all that would be found would be her skeletal remains. Paragliders makes no sense to me.

No exact area was given but it has been said there is a lot of private property where ground searchers have not been alowed to go onto.

Clothing and bones could be spotted in a field that has died back with the onset of winter.

 

[TxLady2]

I'm sorry, I'm just now learning how to use this site...I was actually referring to the post somebody said that the Sheriff was crying on an interview, I can totally seeing the Sheriff getting emitonally attached to this case, not crying because he knows something but crying because of emitions.....

No problem... I just wasn't clear on who you meant.
I could never be in LE, just from seeing things they have to see. I have seen them get emotional in a press conference, though, and sometimes break down, especially if it's a little child. A lot of these cops have kids, too, and it gets personal for them, I imagine.
The job is rewarding in some ways, though, as your hubby will probably tell you. When they catch the bad guys and get to help put a murderer away, it makes them proud of the job they do. Give your hubby a pat on the back from me!!

 

[TxLady2]

After 8 months, if Holly is dead, all that would be found would be her skeletal remains. Paragliders makes no sense to me.

Me, either, but I guess it does to them. Maybe they hope they can spot some clothing articles from above the ground. Something out of place that wouldn't normally be there.

As to somebody's comment about being at the courthouse every day demanding answers, IMO, what good would that do? Either LE is doing their jobs or they're not. At this point, it's going to take some luck to find her body, just some hunter stumbling across it, or some guy out checking his property. Whoever took her is probably miles away somewhere, OR he's sitting comfortably in his easy chair knowing they haven't connected the dots yet.

 

[~n/t~]

No exact area was given but it has been said there is a lot of private property where ground searchers have not been alowed to go onto.

Clothing and bones could be spotted in a field that has died back with the onset of winter.

I don't get that. Who's private property and why would they refuse LE to go on to the property to look for a missing person? I thought Darden was a tight knit community (per the Sheriff). Why in the world would anyone not allow the searches? And if that's the case, LE should do whatever necessary to get a search warrant.

It sounds like the Bobos want a particular area searched so they have suspicion as to why that area.

 

[~n/t~]

Me, either, but I guess it does to them. Maybe they hope they can spot some clothing articles from above the ground. Something out of place that wouldn't normally be there.

As to somebody's comment about being at the courthouse every day demanding answers, IMO, what good would that do? Either LE is doing their jobs or they're not. At this point, it's going to take some luck to find her body, just some hunter stumbling across it, or some guy out checking his property. Whoever took her is probably miles away somewhere, OR he's sitting comfortably in his easy chair knowing they haven't connected the dots yet.

IMO, ground searches would be more effective than someone gliding in the sky hundreds of feet up.

 

[Oriah]

IMO, ground searches would be more effective than someone gliding in the sky hundreds of feet up.

I agree that ground searches would be more effective- but they are very challenging when it comes to grids that are so dense. Sometimes air searches can provide a tighter grid, and a possible search area can be narrowed down for future ground search efforts.

I think maybe the parasearch folk were just planning on being up in the air anyway, and thought to offer to keep an eye out for anything unusual?