· Before Holly’s abduction, he knew the Bobo family.
· Karen taught him in school, and he knew of Dana.
· He has a construction business in Parsons.
· He did not know the Bobo children.
· On the day after Holly’s abduction, he had searchers come to his property.
· He personally searched the barns and sheds in the back of his property on Gibson Road.
· He was off-road the entire search.
· He approached a creek near Bible Hill Road and saw something.
· It was a square, polka-dotted lunchbox he fished out of the creek with a stick that was determined to be Holly’s monogrammed lunchbox.
· He opened the lunch box before setting it down on the bank.
· He called someone to confirm the missing girl’s name started with an “H” before calling law enforcement.
· They photographed the area after the lunchbox was removed from the creek.
· They showed the photographs in court.
· This was around 7:40 pm that evening.
· He spoke to Terry Dicus, who interviewed him on the scene.
· Jennifer Thompson states he told Terry Dicus that he never touched the lunchbox, which he denies.
· Jennifer Thompson begins, “Your son told people you had Holly Bobo locked up- “before several objections are made and the jury is escorted out.
· With the jury out of the room, Jennifer Thompson states his second-grade son stated, during a game with other children, that his uncle had Holly Bobo locked up.
· He states he does not remember this, nor does he remember TBI coming to speak to him about it.
· The jury is brought back into the courtroom.