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| Zachary Adams is a very happy man after his arrest. |
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UPDATE 3/5/14 - Zachary Rye Adams, has been charged with the aggravated kidnapping and
murder of Holly Bobo. A grand
jury returned the indictment on Wednesday. It is extremely rare for someone to be indicted for murder without a body.
Have the police found something and are waiting for DNA testing to be sure before they announce it or did Zach confess? Something very convincing must have been found or said in order for him to have been charged with murder.
UPDATE: 3/4/14 - NewsChannel 5 obtained documents that gives us more background on what happened leading up to Adams' arrest.
On Feb. 24, the Benton County Sheriff's pulled over a van. Inside was Toni Craig and Christopher Bray. NewsChannel 5 says that the van was owned by Amber Bray, the sister of Zachary's girlfriend. Although not clear, somewhere along the line the sheriff search the van and found NOT drugs, but pearls they were later identified to
belong to the Tennessee Shell Company, specifically Johnny Latendresse who died a few years ago.
A few days later authorities went to Court Street to talk to Bray and Craig about the stolen pearls. Zach opened the door and gave them more pearls and told them they were stolen. Craig and Bray were found in the house trying to flush the pearls down the toilet.
So, Zach allegedly threatens to kill Bray on Feb . 6, she reports him and then on Feb. 24 she is stopped driving her sister's van with stolen property and then on the Feb. 26, she is found in Zach's home flushing pearls down the toilet.
UPDATE: 3/3/14 - Zachary Adams was in court Monday morning for an arraignment hearing on the assault charges and was heard telling a photographer to not take his picture because he was "not the one." I find that a curious statement. Most people say, I didn't do it. My first thought was may he was not THE one, but maybe he was one of several people that had something to do with Holly's disappearance.
Also, according to a court affidavit, the assault charges were the result of Zach allegedly using a gun and holding it to a woman's head on Feb. 6 at his home and threatening to kill her. He also threatened to "gut" her with a knife.
Although we do not know who this woman is, it could be the same one that he has listed as "in a relationship" with on his Facebook page, a day after the reported assault.
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Not sure if this Amber is the same Amber
if so, she is currently in jail. |
Just found out that the woman's was Amber Bray and not the woman that Zach said he was in a relationship with, NewsChannel 5 reported that Amber Bray was the sister of Zach's girlfriend.
Surprisingly, Judge Rick Woods set bail at $1 million.
Previous story: Hope arises that information leading to the finding of Holly Bobo will be found after the police began searching the home of a man that Holly Bobo knew.
Search warrants have been
executed at a house that is located about 15 miles from where the young
Tennessee nursing student went missing in 2011.
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| Holly Bobo |
Holly Bobo,
then 20, was last seen near her car on Swan Johnson Road being escorted
into the woods by an unknown person wearing camouflage clothing, as
described by Holly's brother.
Her disappearance reached the
national level and the media all but camped out in her small town in
Decatur County for several weeks as they waited for updates from the
Tennessee Bureau of Investigations.
Evidence was found the
following weeks after she went missing. Some proved to be not connected
to the case at all. In one instant the evidence turned out to not be
blood but bird poop, but other evidence turned out to be vital. One
such item, was a white lunch box that was found about eight miles from
her home in a creek.
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| Holly's home |
Early on in the investigation the police
also were able to track Holly's phone through her cell phone records,
because it had not been turned off. The path went through Decatur and
Henderson counties. The trace shows the phone stopping for about 15
minutes at a remote cemetery. The cell phone was eventually located
along a highway north of Parsons, 8 miles from her home, and the SIM
card was found a mile from there.
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Map showing where items were found belonging
to Holly and where the cell phone was tracked |
Because the route was
winding but deliberate, "you would have to know the area to get through
the woods," said former LAPD Detective Lou Leiker told
WRCB news.
Why
a search warrant is now being served at a home on Adams Lane in Decatur
County that is owned by Zach Adams, 29, has not been answered by
authorities.
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This depicts the route from Holly's home
to Zachary Adams' home |
The FBI and TBI have worked in tangent going through the
house and the grounds and even bringing in a cadaver dog. Four vehicles
have been towed away from the home, report
The Tennessean.
The
police won't say why the arrest of Zachary Adams on drug charges
earlier in the week in Benton County and an arrest for aggravated
assault on Friday led them to search his home in connection with the
disappearance of Holly, but I do know that you have to have a strong case in order to even get a search warrant in the first case. If it possible that police were able to get his DNA when they arrested him in Benton County and with that they were able to get a search warrant? Is it possible he assaulted a police officer when they showed up with their search warrant?
We do know that the TBI has talked to Adams before. According to Danielle Darnell, Holly's
friend, the TBI had been on his property and they were aware that Adams, along with
two of his friends were following Holly around during a "coon hunt
dinner," a week before she went missing. Has the TBI been waiting patiently for Adams to slip up so they could act on their suspicions?
Danielle Darnell told the
Jackson Sun that
she had talked with the TBI about Zachary, who she had known all of her
life. It is pretty safe to guess that Holly probably knew him also.
The
description of the person that took Holly was said to have been a white
male between 5'10" tall and 6 foot and weighing between 180 to 200
pounds. There are many people that fit that description, including
Zachary Adams.
As of Saturday, authorities have not named
anyone a suspect and were quoted to have said it was premature to say
there are any suspects at this point.
"This is a very
important time in this investigation. We're not going to say or do
anything at the point to interfere with this investigation," said TBI
Director Mark Gwyn Friday afternoon. "Hopefully we'll be able to return
Holly home safely to her parents. That's our goal."
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Zachary Adam's not so happy in
this booking picture |
With Gwyn's
carefully worded statement you can't help but wonder if they know more
than what they are saying and are making sure they are handling the case
strictly by the letter of the law in case it ends up in an arrest.
On February 12, Zachary posts that someone broke into his home. Is it possible it was someone looking for evidence? Did they find something and turn it into the police, resulting in this current search?
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Was Amber Bray allegedly assaulted by Zach because he thought she was responsible
for breaking into his home? |
