Agent Terry Dykus (TBI)
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first heard May 2025
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Because I'm not gonna sit in here You have been in here, Dylan, for hours with me tonight. Do you realize how many hours you've been in here? You got here at 5 o'clock. It is 9.30 at night. Why are you making this this way? I'm through. I'm sick of it.
Early on, just days into the search for Holly, police had looked into four men with a history of drug use who were all friends. Zach Adams, his brother Dylan Adams, Shane Austin, and Jason Autry. Karen Bobo had heard about those men, too, and ended up talking to all four of them. In 2017, she told ABC News why she did her own interviews as the search for Holly continued.
Karen Bobo had actually been Zach Adams' fourth grade teacher, and she told ABC News that her visit to him stood out to her.
To her, that was a bizarre thing to say. So Zach Adams and those three other men would stay on her mind.
As police searches and interviews continued for years, the public's attention on the case did not fade. Decatur County kept holding vigils and events for Holly. Developments in the case were covered by news outlets across Tennessee. People even posted comments in response to articles like, this has all dragged out too long.
The case would even become a major campaign issue in the local sheriff and district attorney races. Amidst all that attention, law enforcement began to put those four men they had looked into early on at the center of their investigation.
So the full power of a multi-agency investigation, an investigation watched closely by a grieving family and a community starving for answers, started to focus intensely on those four men, and one of them in particular. I'm ABC News Senior National Correspondent Eva Pilgrim. From ABC Audio in 2020, this is What Happened to Holly Bobo? Episode 3, Lion in a Cage.
Since April 2011, Terry Dykus had been the lead TBI agent working on Holly's case. He spoke with ABC News in 2017.
It was a case where you have a nightmare every single night. And every day when you get up, you run as fast as you can and run into a brick wall.
For the first couple of years of the investigation, Dykus continued to believe the strongest lead in Holly's disappearance was Terry Britt. Retired FBI agent Art Viveros worked on the case as well. In 2024, he told ABC News that the FBI created a profile of Holly's kidnapper.
Dykus interviewed Britt a few times. Britt continued to deny any involvement in Holly's disappearance and had an alibi. But some of the things Britt said concerned Dykus. During an interview with Dykus while in jail for an unrelated charge, Britt seemed to speculate about how someone might have committed this crime.
But searching Terry Britt's home and car and even bugging his home hadn't led to any evidence connecting him to Holly's kidnapping.
And I think a lot of people looked at that as exoneration.
But Terry Dykus, who was still the lead agent on the case at the time, insisted on looking further into Britt. He says other TBI agents told him he didn't have evidence against Britt and shouldn't keep pursuing him.
You don't have enough proof for it. You can't prove that he did it.
Terry Dykus' supervisor said Agent Dykus had tunnel vision and was not objective about all of the facts coming into the case. In June 2013, Dykus was removed from the Holly Bobo case. Soon after, he left TBI entirely. Terry Britt was eventually cleared by investigators in the Holly Bobo case.
At the time Dykus was taken off the case, there were no named suspects and everything about the case, where Holly was taken, who kidnapped her, how and why, remained unanswered. Investigators had determined that the blood in the carport found on the day of her disappearance was Holly's. But they were never able to find a match for the handprint or shoe print they found.
They didn't have any other physical evidence from the scene to analyze for clues. But investigators kept hearing from Decatur County residents about those same four young men from the area. The two brothers, Zach and Dylan Adams, and their redheaded friend, Shane Austin, were all in their 20s when Holly was kidnapped. Their older friend, Jason Autry, was in his mid-30s.
During the investigation into Holly's kidnapping, they came to be known as the A-Train because they all had last names starting with A. All four of them struggled with substance use and had criminal records, and they had been viewed with suspicion by authorities since the very beginning of the investigation.
Just weeks into the investigation, Agent Dykus and other investigators had looked into them. Dykus says they were seen in the community, basically, as bad guys.
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