SA Lawrence James

·  She works as a Special Agent Forensic Scientist for TBI at the Nashville Crime Laboratory.

·  She worked as a team leader of a violent crime response team in 2014. 

·  In 2014, her team helped in the search for Holly’s remains.

·  She was first called September the 8th and brought her team to the scene on September the 9th. 

·  She identifies photos of the area Holly’s remains were found in. Her remains were found in the woods 200-250 yards from the Interstate past a cell tower.

·  When she arrived, an area was marked off with crime scene tape. She was told a skull and bones were found there, but they had already been removed from the scene and taken to a West Tennessee forensics center. 

·  Her department was working with TBI agents and an Anthropology team to do a “line search.”

·  There were metal detectors, and dogs the second day.

·  TBI agents were already in the area before her team arrived.

·  A hand drawn map showing marker numbers and an arial view of the scene is shown in court. On the top of the map, categories are labeled “Holly Bobo,” “Zach Adams,” and “Jason Autry.”

·  Several items found are marked into evidence and shown to the jury. 

·  Six personal items of Holly’s were found parallel to the side of a ditch: an inhaler (marker one), a cloth purse strap (marker two), a small purse with pencils, pens, highlighters, a lipstick tube, and a thumb drive inside (marker three), and a larger purse found underneath leaves and twigs, containing keys, a camera, a lipstick tube, and a compact mirror (marker four).

·  A pack of gum was found near the larger purse (marker eleven).

·  They found the following items around the scene: a black hair tie (marker 34), a piece of pink fabric (marker 35), a ring (marker 36), an earring (marker 37), a tooth (marker 32), two nearby teeth (marker 29), another tooth (marker 30), a hoop earring (marker 25), a pink fiber with a label tag (marker 27), a rib bone (marker 9), a tooth (marker 26), a rib bone (marker 7), a rib bone (marker eight), a rib bone (marker 38), a tooth (marker six), a rib bone (marker five), two nearby ribs bones (marker 12), a lotion bottle (marker 28), bone (marker 16), skull (marker 17), a bone (marker 18), a piece of plastic (marker unknown), cloth material (marker 21), a wallet with Holly’s driver’s license and other cards (marker 31), and a black flip flop sole (marker 33).

·  They found a 380-auto caliber cartridge case (marker 13) and a 410-shot shell case nearby.

·  Some of the items found uphill from the ditch had teeth marks from animals, likely coyotes. They also searched for Holly’s remains in the coyote dens nearby.

·  She states the remains they found were photographed, packed into brown paper bags, and turned over to Special Agent Brent Booth, who turned them into the Memphis forensic center.

·  She states that the smaller items in the ditch were found by digging up small scoops of dirt that were placed in large buckets, where they would sift through and find the items.

·  She states she does not know who took the remains to the forensic center, just that someone did before their arrival.

·  Holly’s remains were sent to a Memphis laboratory, while Holly’s personal belongings and the gun materials were sent to the TBI Crime Laboratory.

·  On cross-examination, she elaborates on the sifting method they used to retrieve the smaller pieces of evidence. She states they were shaving dirt away one spoon at a time, and photos were taken afterwards.

·  She acknowledges a piece of fabric appears to be like burlap, like a fertilizer bag. 

·  The testimony cut out, omitting his introduction and name. 

·  He arrived at the Bobo residence at 9:15. Terry Dicus was in front of him.

·  100-200 people were at the Bobo residence.

·  He directed a K-9 unit to search the woods.

·  Terry Dicus went to secure the crime scene.

·  He spoke to Karen with Ricky Inman and spoke to those in charge of Amber Alerts.

·  He sent a SWAT team into the woods to find Holly.

·  He learned that Holly’s phone was pinged, showing her moving north toward I-40.

·  He states the phone pings “lingered” near Yellow Springs Road. 

·  He states lab personnel examined the crime scene, completing their examination at around 2 am on April 14th, 2011.

·  He states Gerald Stephens found a pair of underwear in the middle of Yellow Springs Road.

·  He spoke to him and examined the evidence. 

·  He saw Gerald pick up a piece of paper with Holly’s name on it further down the road.

·  He states he was likely 75 feet from Shayne Austin’s driveway.

·  He states they prioritized the tips they received about Holly still being alive over the tips they received about the “vague” accusations against the Adams, Autry, and Austin. 

·  He states all the sex offenders in the area were interviewed.

·  He confirms TBI focused on Terry Britt. 

·  He states Terry Britt lived around four miles away from the Yellow Springs Road area. 

·  He states wiretapping Terry Britt was unprecedented in the state of Tennessee.

·  He states the Adams’, Autry’s, and Austin’s alibis were not originally checked out due to a lack of resources/manpower. 

·  He shows on a map where Holly’s belongings were found. 

·  He was called on 02/25/2014, leading to him becoming interested in Zach and Dylan Adams, Jason Autry, and Shayne Austin.

·  He states the TBI began reinvestigating information relating to them. 

·  He discovered that their alibis had never been investigated, despite Terry Dicus saying they had been.

·  He states the TBI discovered Holly’s skull, mandible, and other remains. He participated in the search of the surrounding area.

·  He shows a map of where Holly’s remains were found, pointing out specific locations. 

·  He states that, when TBI investigated, the barn where Holly’s rape allegedly occurred was no longer standing, but there were remnants left. 

·  He confirms that Zach Adams was not at the scrapyard on the day of Holly’s abduction according to the scrapyard records.

·  He states the TBI had “self-imposed” pressure to solve this case.

·  He states he never spoke to Zach. 

·  He states that he is aware the underwear found on Yellow Springs Road is not Holly’s.

·  He gave an affidavit to apply for a warrant for the banking records of the Bobo family, in which he stated Karen, Dana, and Clint gave misleading and inaccurate statements to law enforcement. He could not remember, however, what these statements were. 

·  He admits he told Victor Dinsmore and his wife some of the facts Jason Autry was going to testify to, such as that Zach’s car was stored on Dinsmore’s property.

·  He admits Zach, Dylan, Jason, and Shayne were excluded from the palm print found on Holly’s vehicle.

·  They seized four of the Adams’ vehicles, and hundreds of other items and pieces of material, during their search of the residences. 

·  They found nail polish at the Adams’ residence matching what they found at the crime scene.

·  At first, Karen Bobo told him Holly was 17 so an Amber Alert would be issued. 

·  He is an Agent with the TBI, as well as working with the FBI.

·  He had created a report that he brought with him to testify. 

·  The phone numbers of Holly Bobo, Zach Adams, and Jason Autry were analyzed in this report. 

·  A chart is displayed detailing when, where, and how long phone calls from and to these phone numbers occurred. 

·  He describes the range of the cell towers, explaining their different sectors.

·  At the time of the abduction, there was no cell phone data (calls being received or made) for either Zach Adams or Jason Autry.

·  Holly’s phone was pinging from the tower near her residence around 7:30.

·  At 8:17 and 8:26 am, Holly’s phone begins moving north. 

·  She hits off a tower much further north around 8:57 and 9:02. The range encompasses the Yellow Springs area. 

·  At 9:10 am, Holly’s phone pinged off a tower, showing her moving back towards Parsons. 

·  Zach’s phone showed activity at 5:54 am, and again at 8:19 am, which was an incoming text message from Jason Autry. At 8:30, Zach texts Jason Autry back.

·  They called twice from 8:53 - 8:55. 

·  From 5:54 – 9:12, Zach’s phone was hitting off the Holiday/Yellow Springs tower close to his residence.

·  From 8:57 – 9:12, Holly’s phone was hitting off the same tower range that Zach’s was. 

·  At 6:50 am, Jason texts Angela Smith Scott, pinging off the Camden cell tower, within the range of Angela’s residence.

·  At 6:51 am, Jason’s cell phone pings off a different tower. After that, there is no activity until 8:19 am, where he is pinging off the Yellow Springs/Holiday tower. 

·  From 8:19 – 8:55, Jason’s phone is pinging off the same tower as Zach’s and Holly’s.

·  At 9:42 am, Jason’s phone was pinging off the tower near the Birdsong Road exit.

·  At 10:35, it moves, showing it moved West. 

·  At 9:50, Zach’s phone pings off the same area as Jason’s near the Tennessee River.

·  From 9:50 - 10:37, Zach’s phone was hitting off the Birdsong Tower near the Tennessee River.

·  Zach phone was texting with Shayne’s phone that morning. 

·  Holly’s phone pinged for the last time at 9:25, showing she had moved south from the previous pings. 

·  At this time, Zach and Jason’s phones were pinging off the Tennessee River area. 

·  Zach’s phone utilized the Parsons tower again just after 11.

·   He works as a special agent for the TBI.

·  He analyzed Terry Britt’s computer in 2012.

·  He confirmed Terry Britt was using certain search terms. 

·  A list of these searches is submitted into evidence.

·  On the site “video.xnxx.com,” Terry Britt searched the term “abducted” in January.

·  On the site “nudevista.com,” Terry Britt searched the terms “rape scene”, “anal rape”, “kidnapped and raped,” and “abducted” and “kidnapped” multiple times in January. 

·  He searched the entire history of the computer. 

·  He was the case agent with the TBI for the Holly Bobo case for just over two years. 

·  He investigated Zach Adams, whose name came up about a week after the abduction.

·  He sent investigators and dogs over to Shayne Austin’s trailer. 

·  Some of Holly’s items were found on the same road as Austin’s trailer. 

·  Joe Walker and Brent Booth and Ricky M. went to Austin’s house initially to interview him and search his trailer. 

·  One of the dogs alerted to a sock in Austin’s bedroom., but it was ruled out as evidence.

·  He was told to stay in the command center for the first few months of the investigation. 

·  A trooper spoke to Zach, and alerted law enforcement that he was acting strangely. 

·  Other law enforcement then searched Zach’s home and spoke to him.

·  Zach told Ricky Enman the same story – that he was home with his brother and girlfriend, before leaving and picking up Shayne Austin. They took Dylan’s car and left between 9 am and 10 am. After picking Shayne up, they got five dollars of gas at an interstate to drive to a cheaper gas station. They then noticed a wave of police vehicles on the interstate.

·  He spent weeks looking at Am Farm surveillance of the parking lot. 

·  A photo taken from the surveillance around 11:04 am shows a black SUV on the road outside. Another photo taken from 11:05 am shows two more black SUVs on the road. 

·  A special agent was having a retirement party, and Dicus states a lot of officers were leaving from the same location to go toward the Bobo residence.

·  Dicus states Zach had a dark-colored extended-cab Chevy Silverado with Georgia license plates.

·  At 11:07, a photo taken from the same surveillance footage shows an extended-cab pickup truck, like Zach Adam’s, driving down the same road as the earlier photos.

·  He got a tower dump for every cell phone in Decatur County, including Holly’s. 

·  They got geolocation on Holly’s phone, but it could only triangulate locations at the time. 

·  He explains that there was a map showing which location uses which cell phone tower. 

·  They confirmed that, at 8:28 am, Zach was hitting off the Northeastern tower, which is where his residence was. It was a different tower than Holly was pinging on at 8:26 am, confirming his alibi.

·  He spoke with Jason Autry, Zach and Dylan Adams, and then Rebecca Earp in July of 2011. 

·  After speaking to Rebecca Earp over the phone, he determined he was “wasting [his] time investigating these idiots.”

·  John Dodd was also a suspect in this case. He was a “troublemaker” who once tried to steal from the Bobo house and was seen in the area between 8:30 and 12:00 on the day of the abduction. A dog alerted that the scent of Holly Bobo went toward Dodd’s grandfather’s cabin. They were told the scent seemed to be about a week old. He then questioned Dodd and investigated him. He had a white Ford pickup truck. They eventually ruled him out because he had an alibi. 

·  Terry Dicus described the details/alibis of several other suspects in this case.

·  Terry Dicus states the dogs were not necessarily checked to be reliable, and “some of them absolutely had to be wrong.”

·  He states he viewed Clint as a suspect for about twelve hours. 

·  He discussed Terry Britt, and why he thinks Britt is a suspect. 

·  He was the same size as Clint’s description, and his alibi was weak.

·  His wife had been with him on occasions he had tried to assault women. 

·  Karen informed him about who Natalie calls “Chester the Molester” and described how he was staring at Holly and Natalie in a Dollar General a few weeks before the abduction.

·  Additionally, that same day, he was handling a case of a woman claiming she was being stalked by Terry Britt who looked a lot like Holly; so much so, that officers pulled her over thinking she was Holly. She was also related to Holly.

·  She stated she knew it was him because she had seen information on the sex offender registry, and previously knew him through Janet Britt when they both worked at Joe’s Video.

·  Natalie confirmed that “Chester the Molester” is Terry Britt.

·  There were several more stalking victims of his around the time of the kidnapping. 

·  He states he believed this was a planned abduction. 

·  Several ladies made allegations of him being stopped in the road staring at women. 

·  They were looking for someone brazen, and Britt had been stalking a sheriff’s wife, which is very brazen.

·  She said the majority of Britt’s victims were attractive blondes with blue eyes.

·  He states he checked Britt’s alibi, which was that he delivered newspapers with his wife Janet until 3:10 am on the morning of the kidnapping but woke up to get a replacement for their bathtub that had been leaking for weeks. According to Britt, Janet did not go to work that day.

·  On Wednesdays, Janet and one other man (a self-admitted “low-functioning alcoholic”) worked at the newspaper alone.

·  It was not a scheduled day off for her that day.

·  He states he later found out that she went to work, and Britt later called her and made her leave work.

·  Dicus states agents made contact with Britt at around 1:45 pm on the day of the abduction, and three of his vehicles were missing from the residence, which is in the report. 

·  The Britts were not home at 1:45 pm. The deputies returned around 3 – 3:30 pm and saw the Britts unloading a bathtub.

·  He interviewed Danny Haines, who was Janet’s boss at the time. Due to hearsay objections, he wasn’t allowed to say what Danny Haines told him, but he states the information he got from Danny caused him to look at Terry and Janet Britt’s phone records to see if they had spoken that day.

·  He states Britt denies having a cellphone, but they learned he had one after a wiretap was placed on his home.

·  He implies Britt regularly called Janet from the parking lot at lunch, so there was a phone record of that number.

·  He got geolocation on Terry Britt’s phone. 

·  According to telephone records, at 12:17, Terry Britt speaks on the phone with an ex-wife.

·  Britt states this is the first time he learned of Holly’s abduction.

·  After this call, according to phone records, Britt called Janet for two minutes and fifty-six seconds at 12:20 or 12:21. This was significant because it disproves his alibi that they were together all day.

·  Investigators searched Britt’s safe, finding a receipt from All Goods Salvage for the sale of a bathtub. The store did not have a matching copy, nor did any employee remember Terry Britt. No one could verify he was there. 

·  There was no receipt for the sale of a bathtub that entire week.

·  He determined from the wiretap that Janet Britt was not involved in Holly’s abduction.

·  He states Clint was 80% sure that Britt’s voice was the one he heard on the morning of the abduction. 

·  According to the Am Farm footage, he was able to match a vehicle to Britt’s likely vehicle. 

·  He states that, around the time of the kidnapping, Britt cut his hair, as he usually left it long.

·  After speaking to Britt’s “companions,” he did a search at New Prospect Cemetery.

·  When he confronted Britt with the knowledge that he was stalking women, he threatened two of them.

·  When they searched Britt’s home, they found videos on his computer. Several computers were seized and sent to a lab. Britt “couldn’t stop looking at” the videos when confronted but did not deny they were his. 

·  He confirms human decomposition dogs alerted to some of Britt’s tools: an axe, a shovel, and a hammer. Janet Britt kept requesting the items back, claiming they were “antiques.”

·  Photos of Richie Pratt and Terry Britt are compared, and they look extremely similar.

·  He recovered a binder with Holly and another girl’s photo highlighted in one of Janet’s news leaders, in Janet and Terry Britt’s shed. 

·  He states his theory on the pink underwear is that, even though it may not have been Holly’s underwear, he believes the abductor threw it out of his car.

·  He says he is unsure whether they tested Terry Britt’s palm print, and he was “not excluded from it.”

·  He found no evidence linking Zach and Clint regarding drug use. 

·  There was no evidence Clint was involved in drugs. 

·  He confirms there was information that came in about there being a link between Zach and Natalie, but he did not find any phone records of them interacting. 

·  He explains “meth bugs” that chronic meth users get that often result in scratches. 

·  He remembers agents seeing holes Shayne had dug in the backyard to allegedly hide things. 

·  He does not remember agents seeing a burn barrel.

·  He states Jason Autry’s phone records do not match up with where Holly was.

·  He states the Behavioral Analysis Unit told him that the motive of the abduction was sexual, and that sexual predators work alone. 

·  He confirms there was no activity on Terry Britt’s phone the morning of the abduction.

·  He states Dylan Adams and Corey Tubbs used to spend time at the sawmill near where Holly’s remains were found. 

·  He confirms the TBI got several of Britt’s financial records. 

·  He reviews receipts showing that the Britt’s bought a phone on March 11th , 2011, and another phone on March 12th, 2011. They also bought a thousand minutes.

·  Another receipt shows two 1,000-minutes being bought from Walmart on April 11th, 2011.

·  It also shows that Britt bought a chainsaw and motor oil on April 29th, 2011.  [1]

·  When he spoke to Zach in 2011, he observed he was about 135 pounds, and was very skinny. Dylan was slightly shorter than Zach and weighed around 165. 

·  He confirms TBI found hairs in Britt’s van in rope debris. DNA testing showed it did not match Holly’s.

·  He said the TBI received several tips of people taking credit for the abduction.

·  He says Shayne told him he went to the Coon Hunt that day. 

[1] Contradicts Britt's testimony that he did not purchase a chainsaw after Holly's disappearance.