Case Signal's List: Holly Bobo - News Articles & Videos

• Mrs. Bobo also revealed she had just recently even written the president for help in finding her 20-year-old daughter, missing since the morning of April 13.

   

• Karen Bobo admitted she has had a hard time understanding the TBI's initial suspicion of Clint Bobo, Holly's brother. Clint Bobo was the first to be interrogated that fateful morning, since he was the last to see her alive.

   

• Karen Bobo said she heard from the mother of Natalie Holloway just this past Sunday; she also spoke recently with the once missing Elizabeth Smart and her father, who also offered encouragement.

   

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• Officials said they could not disclose what it was that was recovered because doing so would jeopardize the integrity of the investigation.
• However, the discovery has fueled their search in Northern Decatur County and was based on a telephone tip, the sheriff said.
• Gwyn said it is possible Bobo's abductor led the woman to a vehicle parked left on a road accessible through the woods, and drove away.
• He said investigators still believe Bobo is in the state, but the FBI would get involved if there was evidence to suggest otherwise.
  
• "The person responsible for Holly's disappearance lives in the area," said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. "Because of the terrain, you have to know where you're going, entrances and exits. We feel the person is in the community. We're asking the community if you know someone who has changed their routine, please let us know."
• Police have collected several pieces of evidence in the woods near Bobo's home
• In the meantime, the only evidence police have found and made public were Bobo's lunch purse and some blood.
• Gwyn said it is possible Bobo's abductor led the woman to a vehicle left on a road, accessible through the woods, and drove away.
• He said investigators still believe Bobo is in the state, but the FBI would get involved if there was evidence to suggest otherwise.
• The officer said that neither Bobo's brother nor her boyfriend were suspects. "We are confident of that," he said.
• "What we believe, and I'll tell you he actually had an arm holding her and so we feel that she knew that she was in fear of her life so she was complying with his commands," he told a news conference.
• Mehr said investigators "did not see drag marks." He added she was "not forcefully dragged and she's like any other victim, maybe complying with her attacker, but she walked into the woods" outside her Pasrons, Tenn. home.
• Bobo's 25-year-old brother Clint watched from inside the home, but did not believe she was being abducted until later. He saw the stranger from behind and believed it was his sister's boyfriend. Her brother, said Mehr, "had reasons to believe [the man] was not an attacker," and did not call 911 until he saw blood outside.
• Investigators initially believed the young woman may have been abducted from her house in a home invasion, but John Mehr, spokesman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, told ABCNews.com that "the suspect was never inside."

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• Mehr said investigators "did not see drag marks."

• Moore said investigators do not have any evidence that links Wall to Bobo's kidnapping. But shortly after the Decatur County college student went missing, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service said the first thing local law enforcement needed to do was find all sex offenders in the area, Moore said.

  "He's one we've been unable to locate," Moore said. "He's the only one in Perry County we haven't found yet."

• The search for missing Decatur County nursing student Holly Bobo, has prompted another search in nearby Perry County. Officials said they are searching for Victor George Wall, 44, formerly of Linden.
  
• Leaders stressed that Wall has not been directly connected to Bobo, and is not officially considered a suspect in her disappearance.

• According to Special Agent Fred Moore of the Perry County Sheriff’s Department, authorities in surrounding counties began checking to verify the location of every registered sex offender in the days following the abduction of local nursing student Holly Bobo back in April.
   “Wall was one we couldn’t locate, so we put out a warrant for him,” Agent Moore said.