Zach Adams

I needed more time to prepare in this case. I never felt that I was ready, especially after Jason Autry had changed his whole story.

You said, no, sir, right hand before God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I did not bother that girl in no form or no fashion, didn't you?

And you were asked, do you know who did? You said, no, sir.

But didn't you say that?

In the middle of all this, you were able to take a telephone call from your mother, Shirley King, that morning at 9.42, weren't you?

Are you familiar with the fact that if you testify in a beneficial way to the state, that they could make a request that your federal sentence be reduced?

So you're testifying here today. You're telling the jury today that you have absolutely no knowledge that what you do here might affect the federal sentence that you have to serve of 100 months.

Right, but there's a potential deal. It remains out there.

When you thought that she had heard your name, you knew Zach Adams, according to your story, was getting ready to shoot her. You never said, stop, don't do it, did you?

You said, wait a minute, let me make sure nobody's coming.

So you did something to help him kill her, according to your story, didn't you?

because I reminded him this jury's gonna decide tomorrow whether he lives or dies. And that it was really important that he be quiet and respectful. I could tell he was trembling and he went white, but I think he took it like a champ sitting there and gave the reaction I'd hoped for him.

that we just cannot help but be just heartbrokenly disappointed in the verdict in this case. We knew going in it was going to be a very hard case to win because you have this beautiful young woman who had been taken from her home. And those facts balanced against my client who had had a tough, kind of a tough background. He'd been involved in drugs. He'd been a drug addict.

I'm concerned that the jury might go for death.

They had nothing. They had a great big goose egg. They paid all this money and they had absolutely nothing to show for it. And the citizens of Decatur County, the family of Holly Bobo, and the public at large all wanted answers to how such a crime could happen, how the police could be involved right away.

And still, after all the resources and all the information they had, they could have absolutely nobody charged by that point.

They went through Zach Adams' house and they took over 500 items out of that house. They took all the material off of all the mattresses. They took giant chunks of carpeting out of that house. They took whole pieces of furniture, upholstered chairs, leather couches, all kinds of ottomans and pillows and blankets and shelving. They cut a hole in the floor that's as big as a car.

They searched through Dick Adams' house. They seized four cars from the Adams family and went through all the cars. After they finished going through that whole house, there's no DNA that matches Holly to the house. There are no fingerprints that match Holly to the house or to the cars. There's no hair. from Holly that matches Holly to Mr. Adams' house.

All the evidence will show that Zach Adams is not guilty.