· 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.