Agent Terry Dykus (TBI)
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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They were always into trouble, always getting arrested for, I believe, Zach stole a deer stand, always into meth. They were brought up by people that know that they're into drugs.
Dykus says he interviewed all of them.
They appeared believable to me with the information they gave. They were always freely, you know, willing to talk anytime I wanted to talk to them.
Dykus says he ruled them out as leads for two reasons. First, he believed their alibis.
They were supposedly asleep at a time when Holly's cell phone was moving through the county.
At the time, Dykus says this was corroborated by Zach Adams' then-girlfriend. And second, Dykus says none of them fit the description Clint had given of Holly's kidnapper. Clint said he was a man around 5'11", 200 pounds, long dark hair, gravelly voice.
Jason Autry is 6'5", 220 pounds. Zachary Adams at the time was 6'2", 170 pounds, maybe. Shane Austin was reddish blonde hair, about 5'10", 200 pounds. Dylan Adams, 6'1", 180 pounds, 170 pounds.
Terry Dykus asked FBI agent Art Viveros to talk with Zach's brother, Dylan Adams, to see if he heard anything that raised alarm bells. Viveros says he went to Dylan Adams' home and interviewed him in the front seat of his car.
But Dykus says Dylan's brother, Zach, kept saying things around town that made it sound like he had been involved in Holly's abduction.
Zach would tell people, you're going to end up in a hole just like Holly.
Someone reported to authorities that they were in a bar with Zach, and when he got in an argument with the bartender, he said, you'll end up like Holly Bobo. Investigators followed up by interviewing those witnesses to see whether they had any information tying Zach Adams to Holly Bobo's kidnapping. They also did several additional interviews with Zach Adams himself.
Investigators also heard another story, this one about Shane Austin. He was the one with the red hair. Investigators were told that Shane had crossed paths with Holly Bobo at the raccoon hunt held days before Holly disappeared. They were told that Shane had been staring at Holly and her friend. There was also a rumor that he was trying to take a photo of them.
Agent Dykus followed up with Shane about the raccoon hunt. Shane said he was there, but did not remember seeing Holly. He said he was out of his mind on drugs at the time and that he didn't have anything to do with Holly's disappearance. Dykus also obtained a search warrant for Shane Austin's phone and investigators searched his trailer.
But despite those interviews and the searches of Shane's phone and trailer, investigators did not find any evidence linking Zach Adams or Shane Austin to Holly's kidnapping. About two years into the case, as people were hungry for answers about what happened to Holly, a Nashville TV station aired a series of stories about a group of private investigators who were looking into Holly's kidnapping.
The investigators identified someone they described as a suspect, and they alleged that the TBI had tried to stop them from pursuing the case further. The stories created so much controversy that the TBI had to put out a statement.
The statement said the private investigator's information seemed to mostly come from social media and posts on websites and alleged that many of the private investigator's claims were inaccurate and misleading.
The TBI went on to emphasize just how big of an effort the agency was making to find Holly and her abductor, and that their efforts were built on solid investigative work, not gossip and rumors. The statement said the Holly Bobo case file is currently 27 volumes and contains more than 1,500 investigative reports. The TV station that aired the stories responded to the TBI's criticism.
They said they simply reported on the findings of the private investigators and claimed that until their statement, TBI had been unwilling to comment on the record about the private investigators' findings. Through subpoenas, TBI obtained the information collected by those investigators as well as footage from the station and claimed they didn't have any new evidence in the case.
Around this time, Agent Dykus was taken off the case because of what his supervisor called his tunnel vision. Now, a new lead agent was in charge. As the tension between TBI, the local TV station, and the private investigators looking into Holly's disappearance indicates, there was pressure for the TBI to come up with answers.
And investigators were about to get another chance to see if one of the four men they dubbed the A-Train had something to do with what happened to Holly Bobo.
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