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Jason said he went to serve as lookout so Zach could shoot her.
Jason testified it was silent at first, but then they heard a boat coming down the river, panicked, and put Holly back in the car. Jason said Zach dropped him off at his car, and then the two didn't meet again until the afternoon. He said Zach later told him that he, his brother, and Shane Austin had kidnapped and raped Holly and that Zach had disposed of her body.
Jason Autry's hours on the stand were full of colorful, shocking details. When Jennifer Thompson cross-examined Jason, She questioned his credibility. She asked him about his past statements, denying he had anything to do with Holly's kidnapping and murder.
Thompson pointed out that at the time Autry says the murder happened, he was on phone calls with his girlfriend and also his mother.
Thompson also asked Jason if he was benefiting from testifying, possibly getting a reduction in his sentence for a federal gun charge.
She also emphasized that if Zach was guilty, Jason was not some innocent bystander.
Jason's time on the stand went into the evening hours, and when the cross-examination was over, the judge dismissed everyone for the day. The prosecution's star witness had spoken, but there were still many days of testimony left. Key pieces of the investigation came up, and key names testified.
To try to answer a big question in the case, prosecutors showed the jury the alleged murder weapon, a .32 caliber revolver that witnesses claimed was owned by Zach Adams' friend, Shane Austin. It was recovered in a drainage ditch just months before the trial. The prosecution and defense each called a cell phone expert to explain what the troves of phone data did and did not show.
Both experts agreed that Adams and the other suspects' phones did not hit cell towers near the Bobo home at the time Holly was taken. The prosecution expert said it was possible Holly and Zach Adams' phones were in the same general locations later that morning. But the defense expert disagreed.
The prosecution also called to the stand convicted sex offender Terry Britt, who was in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Prosecutor Jennifer Nichols tried once and for all to show he was not the man behind Holly's kidnapping and murder. Remember, Terry Britt said he had an alibi, and the investigation into him did not find evidence linking him to Holly.
Terry Britt was asked about the thorough investigation into his life, including the wiretapping of his home and how former TBI agent Terry Dykus wanted to pursue him as a suspect. His testimony got quite heated.
Terry Britt left the stand, not a free man, but never charged in the Holly Bobo case. There are always lots of law enforcement witnesses during a criminal trial, but there was something unusual about this trial. Six current and former law enforcement witnesses were called by the defense, not the prosecution.
One of those six witnesses, Terry Dykus, the former TBI agent Britt criticized on the stand, testified just after Britt. Jennifer Thompson asked Dykus why he was so focused on Terry Britt during his time on the investigation.
Dykus said no one in the so-called A-Train matched Clint Bobo's description of Holly's abductor. On cross-examination, Prosecutor Paul Hagerman asked Dykus about that conclusion and whether Shane Austin could have fit the description.
Hagerman reminded the jury that Dykus had been removed from the case because of what his supervisor called his lack of objectivity and his tunnel vision on one suspect, Terry Britt, who was eventually cleared by TBI of having anything to do with Holly's kidnapping and murder.
Dykus admitted on the stand that he did not know what evidence investigators gathered against Zach Adams and the others after he was removed from the case.
Aside from Jason Autry's testimony, there were no big surprises, no smoking guns. But the prosecution argued they had presented all the evidence they needed to show Zach Adams was Holly's killer. And neither the defendant, Zach Adams, nor his younger brother, Dylan Adams, ended up taking the stand. The trial lasted 14 days and included dozens of witnesses and hundreds of exhibits.
When both sides rested their cases, the jury went off to deliberate. It took them 11 hours over two days to reach a verdict.
For each count, the judge read the jury's verdict.
There was no big reveal like in TV shows or movies, no booming announcement like guilty of all charges. Instead, the verdict arrived one bit at a time over the course of around five minutes. And by the end of those five minutes, everyone in the courtroom knew that Zach Adams had been found guilty of all charges. Zach stayed still and stoic as the verdict was slowly announced.
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