Art Viveros (FBI Agent)
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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TBI agents saw Zach's arrest as a chance to question him again about Holly Bobo. While being questioned, Zach said he knew nothing about Holly and was innocent.
Zach went through what he did the day Holly was kidnapped, which matched what his brother Dylan had told the FBI agent years before. He said that when Holly was abducted, he and his brother were sleeping. Then they spent the morning trying to buy drugs with their friend Shane Austin.
He said they heard about what happened to Holly when they stopped at a gas station and then spent the next few hours just driving around. But TBI agents pushed him. They said if he was hiding anything, they would know very soon. They were going to search his home and send what they found to a crime lab.
Over the course of more than two hours, all the suspicions about Zach that had built up for years were laid out. Investigators pointed to Zach's history of drug use and suggested that maybe, while he was high, he did something he didn't mean to do.
Investigators also told Zach that people were telling them about things he'd said around town about Holly's disappearance.
The investigators also told him they were going to question people in his life again, including his brother Dylan and his friend Jason Autry.
Zach had a consistent response. He knew nothing about Holly's disappearance and was innocent. By the end of the interview, he asked for a lawyer. Zach was transferred to a jail in a nearby county on that pending unrelated charge of assault, which was eventually dismissed.
But about a week after that long interview, the same TBI agents showed up again to tell him that a grand jury had indicted him on aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder in the Holly Bobo case. That second charge was significant. It meant that investigators believed Holly had been killed during the kidnapping, even though her body had not been found.
In the TBI press conference about Zach's arrest, law enforcement agents said they would not give details on what led to Zach's indictment. They added that the investigation was still active and ongoing and more suspects could be indicted. But Zach's indictment was a breakthrough in and of itself. At last, nearly three years after Holly's disappearance, the case had momentum.
Cindy Adams, Zach's mom, watched her son become the center of a national story. She spoke to Elizabeth Vargas in 2017 about what Zach was like as a kid.
She says Zach ended up dropping out of high school just a few months before his graduation.
Cindy says he went through drug treatment programs several times, but kept using.
His drug use seemed to lead him to erratic and even criminal behavior. Cindy says one time he demanded money from her, and when she refused, he pulled a gun on her.
Cindy points out that most of the crimes Zach committed were related to his drug use, like drug possession and theft, so that he could have money to buy drugs.
This time, with the kidnapping and murder charges Zach faced, it looked like he might never be free again. Prosecutors were talking about pursuing the death penalty against him if he was found guilty. When his mom visited him in jail, she says Zach insisted he was innocent.
But the case against Zach was about to get stronger. TBI agents had been talking with his younger brother, Dylan. And this time, the story Dylan shared was very different from what he told an FBI agent years earlier. It was a shocking shift in his account of the day Holly was kidnapped. And it marked another major moment in this investigation.
That's next time on What Happened to Holly Bobo. What Happened to Holly Bobo is a production of ABC Audio and 2020. Hosted by me, Eva Pilgrim, the series was produced by Camille Peterson, Julia Nutter, Kiara Powell, Nora Hanna, and Meg Fierro, with help from Audrey Mostek and Amira Williams. Our supervising producer is Susie Liu. Music and mixing by Evan Viola.
Special thanks to Liz Alessi, Janice Johnston, Michelle Margulies, Sean Dooley, Christina Corbin, Kieran McGurl, Andrew Paparella, and Emma Pescia. Josh Cohan is our director of podcast programming. Laura Mayer is our executive producer.
Terry Britt, right away, He fit the description that Clint gave.
It was about 5, 10, 11. He had the gravelly voice. And he looked like to be in his early 50s. It looked like he had had a build at one time. He had a little belly there.
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