~4:00 AM: Holly Bobo, 20, a nursing student at UT Martin, Parsons campus, is up.

The Bobos livedin an unincorporated area south of Parsons, TN surrounded by woods, farms and quiet two-lane Rds.

~4:30 AM: Holly is in the kitchen studying for a test while her mother, Karen Bobo, makes strawberry muffins and packs her lunch.

Holly and her classmate Emily Pratt, whose husband is related to Dana Bobo, are both due at UT Martin's Parsons campus at 8 AM for a nursing school exam.

~5:03 AM: Holly texts her boyfriend, Drew Scott, "No i swear 2 god." Her phone registers on the home tower sector.

~5:20 AM: Drew texts Holly "Me n dad headed huntn."

His phone is on his home sector—Cell 10513 in Decaturville.

~5:40 AM: Hunter Bo Brasher is moving through the pre-dawn woods on Holly's grandmother's Bath Springs property when he comes across two men in camouflage still sitting in their truck.

• He recognizes one as Harold "Boo" Scott, who had umpired some of his high school baseball games. The other introduces himself as "Boo's" son, Drew, and explains he's dating the landowner's granddaughter and has permission to hunt there.
• When Brasher circles back later, the "Boo" and Drew's truck is gone. This is the last confirmed placement of Drew Scott in Bath Springs.
• Per TBI report 98 (Walker), Drew and "Boo" were "essentially run off" the property. The record does not establish where they went next.

~5:54 AM: Zach Adam's phone is active. He lives with his girlfriend, Rebecca Earp, next door to his grandfather, John "Dick" Adams.

• Zach had talked Rebecca into spending the night the night before.
• Sometime between 6:00 and 7:30 AM, he wakes her to say he is heading out to haul scrap. She later recalls hearing his white Nissan pickup pulling a trailer full of scrap around the house before goingb ack to sleep.

~6:00 AM: Holly's father, Dana Bobo, gets up early and is out the door to be at a job site in Linden, Perry County for McKenzie Tree Service.

~6:00 AM: Camden Police Officer Brian Vitt lives on Yellow Springs Rd and returned home from his night shift at approximately 6:00 AM on the day of the abduction.

~6:20 AM: Blake Barnette is awake at home making calls—two hours before he will tell law enforcement that he woke up. Blake was Holly's high school ex who worked at Food Giant with Drew's father and brother.

• Blake's written statement: "Got up around 8 a.m., woke Brandon Singleton about 8:15. They left the house around 8:30. Arrived at work about 9:00."

Note on Autry's testimony: Jason Autry was the State's star witness. He later recanted his entire trial account, stating that his testimony was fabricated and that he was coached by the State throughout the process. He has said he eventually came forward out of guilt over the lies he told on the stand. All entries in this timeline attributed to Autry's testimony reflect what he said under oath at trial—not what he subsequently recanted to.

~6:30 AM: According to his trial testimony (later recanted), Jason wakes up at his girlfriend, Angela Scott's, house. She leaves for work and drops him off at a Quick Mart, where his PT Cruiser is parked. He drives to Camden Bottoms to look at wildlife and kill some time—his stated goal for the morning was to "establish a connection" to obtain morphine later in the day.

~6:50 AM: Jason's phone sends a text to Angela, pinging the cell tower near her home.

~6:51 AM: Jason's phone pings off a different tower—one ping, then silence. His phone goes dark for the next ninety minutes, until 8:19 AM.

~7:00 AM: Karen leaves for Scotts Hill Middle School, where she teaches. As she walks to her car, she hears a loud truck engine somewhere nearby.

~7:00 AM: Brian Vitt lives on Yellow Springs Rd. He told a TBI agent he may have been outside mowing his lawn from 7:00 to 9:00 AM.

• At trial he stated he was inside from 6:00 to 8:00 AM.
• The two accounts conflict and were not reconciled in the reviewed materials.
• His daughter knew Holly.

~7:01 AM: Karen places a call to Tina while driving to Scotts Hill Middle School. She is mobile and en route. The call runs until roughly 7:15 AM.

~7:04 AM: Two doors down from the Bobo residence, neighbor James Barnes gets a text from his friend Keith Clark.

Clark has arrived at the Barnes' house to work on Barnes' pickup.

~7:05 AM: Holly texts Drew "Let me tell u sumthin, i have studied till i cant possibly study anymore for this test!"

This is Holly's last outgoing text that appears in both carrier records and the SIM card extraction.

~7:15 AM: When Dick Adams leaves the house for work, Zach's brother, Dylan Adams, is still in bed.

• Dick has worked the day shift with his neighbor Billy Bell for years.

Karen's phone call with Tina ends around this time.

Holly and Drew trade seven failed call attempts. During all seven attempts, both phones register on the CR1257 Parsons Sector 3 Tower—Holly's home sector.

Drew's phone is not on the Bath Springs tower at this time. His home sector is Cell Tower 10513 in Decaturville, roughly ~4 miles south. The data does not establish where his phone was between Bath Springs and the Parsons tower.

The exact sequence from carrier records:

• ~7:18 AM: Drew → Holly
• ~7:19 AM: Holly → Drew
• ~7:21 AM: Drew → Holly
• ~7:21 AM: Holly → Karen—Holly calls Karen about the Bath Springs hunting property dispute. Karen, still in the school parking lot, works the phones to try to sort out the permission issue. The dispute had actually resolved at 5:40 AM when Brasher's presence caused Drew and his father to leave.
• ~7:22 AM: Holly → Drew
• ~7:23 AM: Karen → Holly—Karen calls Holly back after working out the permission issue with Holly's grandmother, Donna Goff.
• ~7:25 AM: Holly → Drew
• ~7:28 AM: Drew → Holly
• ~7:29 AM: Holly → Drew
• ~7:30 AM: Karen → Holly
• ~7:31 AM: Karen → Drew—Karen tells Drew the permission issue was cleared. She then went inside the school, a few minutes late to her class, believing she had resolved an active problem and that Drew was in Bath Springs, although his phone appears to be in Holly's home sector.

Approx ~7:30 AM: Babb had arrived at his property to go fishing. While standing at the levee of one of his lakes, approx 150 to 200 yards from Swan-Johnson Rd, he heard a motor revving loudly, then saw a white truck speeding extremely fast, heading south, right off a gravel segment of the Rd.

Babb told his friend: "Man, that white truck was flying." He thought it was an extended-cab truck, possibly a Ford, but could not be certain at that distance.

~7:33 AM: Holly places a final 0 second call to Drew. This is her last known outgoing call.

~7:33 AM: The family dog Rascal is barking. Clint's phone rings—it's his friend Chad Marshall. Clint silences it and stays in bed, assuming the barking will stop. He lies there for about ten minutes before giving up and getting up.

During the next six minutes of cell phone inactivity re: Holly and Drew, two neighbors independently report hearing a woman screaming from the direction of the Bobo property.

• James Barnes was outside loading tools into his truck, hears arguing from the direction of the Bobo house.
• Holly says: "Stop. I said stop," then "Stop, goddamnit, stop it!" The screaming lasts approximately one minute before she cuts off mid-scream.
• Barnes' dogs are barking. He walks over but sees nothing. He tells his girlfriend to get in the truck. To Barnes, it sounded like she was arguing with someone she knew.
• John Babb is a retired Assistant Surgeon General who owns 150 acres of recreational property on Swan-Johnson Rd and knew the Bobo family well. He hears a howling sound he initially attributes to cats fighting.
• His friend, who owns cats, tells him it doesn't sound like cats to him. Babb later testifies that it is possible the sounds were screaming, though he did not think so at the time.

~7:40 AM: Drew's phone dials Holly—0 seconds.

• Clint moves through the dark house without turning on any lights. He checks the front side lights first—nothing.
• Then he hears voices coming from the carport. He lifts the venetian blinds slightly: through the gap he can see the partial shoulders and arms of two people kneeling, facing each other—one male, one female.
• He recognizes Holly's voice. The male is in full camouflage, including a face covering, speaking calmly, a few words at a time—measured.
• Holly answers in single words. She sounds upset, like maybe they're breaking up.
• The male voice sounds like Drew's, specifically, the way Drew's voice came through Clint's bedroom wall at night when Drew and Holly would talk in her room. Clint assumes it's Drew.

~7:41 AM: A text appears in carrier records as sent from Holly's number to Drew "well your still gonna hunt there" (exactly as sent).

The message at 7:41 AM does not appear in the SIM card extraction from Holly's phone, which contains no data after 5:20 AM. That discrepancy was apparently never noticed or investigated.

~7:41 AM: James Barnes and his girlfriend get in the truck and drive to the Bobo home, pulling into the driveway—engine off, watching the house. There are no cars in front. Barnes had already checked the logging Rd and saw nothing. No cars left from the front of the residence while he was watching.

Tracking dogs followed Holly's scent to Barnes' residence. TBI subsequently made repeated visits to his home, which Barnes described at trial as attempts "to get him to confess." Things grew uncomfortable between his mother and the Bobo family as a result.

~7:42 AM: Drew calls Holly again—0 seconds.

~7:45 AM: After a few minutes of silence, Barnes and his girlfriend leave for work. On the way, Barnes calls his mother, Kathy Wise, who lives on the same property. This time is after Kathy calls Karen but at trial, Jennifer Thompson placed this call at 7:47 AM.

~7:45 AM: Kathy Wise calls Scotts Hill Middle School first to relay the message about the screams. Karen is in class; Kathy has to leave it with the school secretary. She does not drive over to the Bobo house yet.

The call itself is a bit unusual: Kathy and Karen had a long-running animosity. That she picks up the phone at all signals how alarmed she is. (Did Kathy call Karen after leaving a message with the school secretary?)

~7:45 AM: This is when Holly normally leaves for nursing school to arrive by 7:55 AM.

~7:50 AM: Drew's brother, Derrick Scott, worked with "Boo" at the Food Giant in Parsons. Per Derrick, when "Boo" arrived, he was still wearing his hunting camouflage, and immediately told Derrick that someone had taken Holly.

Clint had not yet reached Karen. Karen had not yet called 911. No documented account explains how "Boo" would know that Holly had been taken at that hour.

~7:51 AM: Anita Sanders Ricketts (Chad Marshall's aunt) calls Sanders' cell phone.

~7:51 AM: Clint calls Karen—no answer.

~7:52 AM: Clint calls Karen—no answer.

~7:53 AM: The Scott household phone calls Drew (41 seconds)—per Richie Pratt, Drew is already at work at this point.

~7:53 AM: Clint texts Karen "Call me ASAP."

~7:54 AM: Drew calls Holly (0 seconds).

~7:56 AM: Karen calls back, already alarmed by a message she'd received from Kathy Wise about screaming at the house.

• Clint tells Karen that Holly's car is still in the carport and that he thinks he can see Drew with Holly in the carport.
• Karen says "That's not Drew." She had just spoken to Drew less than half an hour earlier and believed him to be miles away in Bath Springs. She tells Clint to call all the neighbors and to get a gun and shoot him.
• Clint protests that it's Holly and Drew.
• Karen hangs up.

After the voices go quiet, Clint catches a glimpse through the back window and observes:

• Holly and the man in camo are walking together toward the tree line—possibly holding hands.
• Holly is not being dragged. She appears to walk voluntarily.
• The family's retriever, Champ, is walking calmly behind them, tail wagging.
• Neither figure looks back.

In the open air, the male figure's build looks different to Clint:

• Clint believes the male is heavier and stockier than Drew's lean 19-year-old frame.
• Clint thinks maybe it's his cousin Richie Pratt, who hunted the property sometimes and was built more like an older, heavier man.
• The object in the male's right hand looks like a bird call, roughly 6 to 8 inches long.

Clint notes that despite Holly having a purse, a lunchbox, and nursing notebooks with her that morning, he sees none of them. He's studying the figures closely enough to describe what's in the man's hand—he would have noticed if she were carrying anything.

~7:59 AM: While in the car, Karen uses Terry Brumley's phone to call 911 and initially reaches the wrong county's dispatcher before getting routed to Decatur County.

Karen ultimately speaks to 911 dispatcher Sanders.

Fellow teacher Terry Brumley drives Karen out of the school parking lot and heads toward the Bobo home.

~7:59 AM: Sheriff Dale King (then Parsons PD) calls Sanders' cell.

~8:00 AM: When Clint steps outside toward the carport, the cold hits harder than expected. He goes back in and changes:

• He puts on green sweatpants, a Drake waterfowl jacket, socks.
• He gets a Colt revolver from his parents' bedroom nightstand and walks out through the open garage.
• Near the passenger side of Holly's car, where the two figures had been kneeling, Clint finds blood—a small pool of low-velocity splatter, four or five drops.
• He reaches for an explanation: maybe Drew brought a turkey up for Holly to see. Then he thinks: where is the turkey? He walks toward the trail. No one. No birds. No wind.
• The blood was not there when Dana or Karen left.

Holly and her classmate Emily Pratt, whose husband is related to Dana Bobo, are both due at UT Martin's Parsons campus at 8:00 AM for a nursing school exam.

~8:05 AM: Fifteen minutes after her phone call to the school, Kathy Wise pulls into the Bobo driveway in person to check on things. She tells Clint the screams she heard were 15 to 20 minutes earlier.

~8:06 AM: Two minutes before Clint dials 911, Sheila Scott places a call to Richie Pratt (1 min 11 sec).

• Per Richie's TBI statement (Report 358, SA Brent Booth): Sheila Scott called to tell him that Clint had seen somebody take Holly and to ask whether it would be a good idea to tell Drew.
• Richie Pratt is Drew's alibi—the only person in the reviewed materials who places Drew at work before 8:00 AM.
• Richie is in a committed relationship with Lisa Douglas, Drew's maternal aunt, who lives next door to the Scotts. He is the person who got Drew his job with the city of Parsons.
• The question the timing raises is direct: how did the Scott household know Holly had been taken at 8:06 AM—before Clint called 911, before law enforcement was notified, and before Karen had reached anyone at the house?

Per Drew Scott's own account at trial: his boss told him about the abduction, he left work, went to his father's workplace, and the two of them went together to the Bobo residence.

~8:08 AM: Clint calls 911 from the yard, gun in hand, scanning the tree line.

The search for Holly Bobo begins.

~8:09 AM: Deputy Tony Weber of the Decatur County Sheriff's Department arrives at the Bobo residence one minute after Clint's 911 call, the first officer on scene.

• He finds Clint and Kathy Wise standing outside.
• He never sees Karen run into the woods.
• Clint tells Weber that someone in camouflage took his sister into the woods.
• He and Clint walk toward that area together.
• After looking for Holly, blood, or any disturbance, he exits onto Swan-Johnson Rd and finds nothing—no photos taken, no effort made to avoid leaving footprints.
• He sees blood in the carport and asks Clint to write out a statement.
• Weber is the first to put crime scene tape around the carport.
• He does not enter the residence.

This contradicts Dana Bobo's testimony that he was the first to block off the carport area.

After 8:09 AM: Deputy Jeremy Pratt and Investigator Ricky Inman arrive at some point after Weber.

After 8:09 AM: When Karen arrives, Weber speaks with her and learns Holly had her phone.

• He contacts 911 and requests they reach AT&T to track it.
• To do so, he needs a supervisor's signature on an exigent circumstances form.
• He leaves the scene to get it signed, then faxes it to AT&T.

After 8:09 AM: AT&T begins emailing Weber pings of Holly's phone.

• He relays them to TBI.
• The closest address to Holly's phone at that time comes back as within Holladay Tower; her phone is registering near I-40.
• When the pings stop coming, Weber is assigned to interview local sex offenders.
• Weber requests a helicopter from the Jackson Police Department.

At trial, it was noted that Weber requested one ping every fifteen minutes despite AT&T being capable of providing one every minute.

~8:11 AM: Holly's phone hits a new tower on CR 1253. It is already moving—away from the house, headed northeast.

~8:16 AM: The phone hits the Shiloh Rd Tower near Natchez Trace State Park, still heading north.

~8:19 AM: After ninety silent minutes, Jason's phone wakes up—a text to Zach. Both phones are on the same tower: Holladay/Yellow Springs, near Zach's residence.

At trial (in testimony he later recanted), Autry said he "started a volley of exchanges" between Shayne Austin and Zach Adams around 8:00 AM, when he "came out of the river"—consistent with the Camden Bottoms/Tennessee River area where he said he had spent the silent window.

Autry testified that cell signal is difficult to get near the river—which he offered as an explanation for the ninety-minute gap in his phone data.

~8:22 AM: Sanders takes calls from dispatcher "Petey".

~8:23 AM: Sanders takes calls from dispatcher "Petey".

~8:26 AM: Holly's phone hits on a different sector of the same Shiloh Rd Tower and then stops moving until 8:56 AM near the location her skeletal remains were ultimately discovered by “Lyin Larry” Stone.

~8:26 AM: "Petey" calls Sanders.

The 23-minute window: Verizon tower 249 / Holladay sits directly above the ground Holly’s remains were recovered in 2014.

• During this same window of time that Holly's phone was stationary (8:26–8:56 AM), a second phone was flipping between sectors at the base of the same tower.
• The phone belonged to Derrick Hall, resident of 110 Summers Rd in Camden—the same address as Amber Bray and her son Chris Bray.
• Derrick’s phone made and received five calls, including a call from Lindsey Bartlett—the neighbor of Ernest "Lyin Larry" Stone—the man who would find Holly's remains in September 2014.
• The TBI never pulled Derek Hall's phone records.

~8:30 AM: Same tower the whole time.

• Zach texts Jason back.
• Zach is also texting with Shayne Austin's phone.

~8:31 AM: Blake and Brandon Singleton were texting each other from different towers.

• Blake's written statement: "Got up around 8 a.m., woke Brandon Singleton about 8:15. They left the house around 8:30. Arrived at work about 9:00."

~8:39 AM: Facebook business records show Zach posts to his account from his grandmother's computer.

• Zach is fighting with his girlfriend in a comment thread.
• The post is timestamped 13:39 UTC / 8:39 AM CST, placing him at his grandmother's house at that moment.

~8:40 AM: Shayne was trying to arrange a morphine pill, which he intended to mix with methamphetamine.

• Zach told him he was busy and would call him back "when he got to the location."
• Autry put that call at around 8:40–8:50 AM. He then drove toward Decatur County to wait.

~8:46 AM: Derrick Hall, who is also inside Leslie Bailey Lindsey's calling circle, calls "Petey".

~8:53 AM: Zach and Jason call each other. Same tower the whole time.

~8:55 AM: Zach and Jason call each other. Same tower the whole time.

~9:00 AM: Rebecca arrives at her job at Joe's Video.

~9:00 AM:

• Dana Bobo called Babb to ask what the minimum age was to file an Amber Alert, then told him Holly had been taken.
• Babb drove back to check his property and then went to the Bobo residence, where he spoke with sheriffs from both Henderson and Decatur counties, as well as Homeland Security and FBI agents.

~9:02 AM: Holly's phone begins moving for the first time since 8:26 AM.

~9:02 AM: Derrick's phone takes its first call at tower 249 (Holladay). Over the next 23 minutes, Derrick stays on the line with Lindsey Bartlett while making additional calls—all placing him at tower 249.

Statements to law enforcement:

• Drew said he was turkey hunting 9 miles south at Bath Springs.
• Dillon Maxwell said he was on a Camden roof (15–25 miles north) working on an air conditioner compressor.
• Daniel Eason, Dillan's coworker says they were "between Jeanette Holladay Rd and I-40."

What their phones showed:

• Drew was on Holly's home sector, not 9 miles away at Bath Springs at 7:31 AM.
• When Drew called him at 9:02 AM, Dillan's phone was on the Cox Rd sector—the exact sector where Holly's phone was traveling.
• Dillan's phone never went to Camden that morning; it stayed local on Cox Rd and Darden towers.

Dillan Hunter Maxwell's TBI Interview (Sep, 3, 2013): When interviewed by TBI investigators at Parsons City Hall, Dillan stated he had known Drew Scott for five or six years and continued to be friends.

• He claimed he was working for Dunavant Heating & Air when Holly went missing.
• When asked where he was when Holly was abducted, he could not give an exact time he met the shop owner at the shop that morning.
• He said he usually left around 6:00 or 7:00 AM to go to "the shop" and went to work behind Stanfill Dollar Saver in Scotts Hill.
• The report notes Dillan's evasiveness about his precise whereabouts and timeline the morning Holly disappeared.

The state convicted Zach Adams on five minutes of cell tower overlap with Holly's phone on Cox Rd. But the phones that were actually moving with Holly's on that sector belonged to Drew's best friend Dillon Maxwell—not Zach Adams, whose phone sat parked on his own family's land the entire time.

~9:06 AM: Holly's phone pings on the Holladay tower.

The central relay phone: Chad Marshall's phone was the busiest handset in the entire case that morning—the communication hub relaying calls between Clint Bobo, Drew Scott, and the dispatchers' calling circle.

• ~9:08 AM: Chad calls 911 dispatcher Sanders.
• ~9:09 AM: Chad calls 911 dispatcher Sanders, again.

Chad's phone: When investigators asked to examine Chad's phone for forensic analysis, he refused to let them keep it. His stated reason: he needed it for work.

The busiest handset in the entire case, the one relaying between the victim's brother, the boyfriend, and the dispatcher's family all morning, was never compelled and never forensically examined.

Who he is: Chad Marshall is Clint Bobo's close friend. They were described as "best friends" in prior investigation notes. In a TBI interview dated Dec. 20, 2012 (TBI IR 2858), Special Agent Valerie Troutt interviewed Chad about his relationship with Bethany Jowers, a woman connected to Clint Bobo. Chad denied having an affair with Bethany, claiming they were just friends. He acknowledged that Bethany and Clint "had tried to stir up things" between him and Clint during the time Bethany was separated from her then-husband. Chad stated he and Clint were still friends despite the tension. The report notes that Chad admitted he and Casey Jowers had "stopped hanging out," and Chad believed this was because Bethany had tried to cause friction during her marital separation.

~9:10 AM: The prosecution's cell expert places Holly's phone at CR 3152 Section 2 at 9:10 AM, and argues all three phones—Holly's, Zach's, and Jason's—were on the same tower during this window.

The defense's cell expert says they were on different sectors, and that Zach's phone never overlapped with Holly's based on predictive server mapping data that was not available at the time of the abduction, but now significantly narrows location ranges.

This is the forensic question at the heart of the case.

~9:12 AM: Leslie Bailey Lindsey calls Derrick Hall at the grave.

~9:15 AM:

• TBI Special Agent Brent Booth arrives at the Bobo home. By then, 100–200 people are already on the property.
• Terry Dicus is securing the scene; a K-9 unit is dispatched into the woods.
• In order to trigger an Amber Alert, Karen Bobo told Booth that Holly was 17, however, Holly was 20.

~9:15 AM: Dylan wakes up and drives with Zach and Shayne to Parsons in his grey 2006 Chevy Silverado.

Around the same time, Dick Adams later says he saw Zach, Dylan, and Shayne driving south on Highway 641, in Dylan's pickup.

Billy Bell, a lifelong friend of Dick Adams who was working alongside him that day, does not remember seeing Zach, Dylan, or Shayne, although he confirms they did cross through the area Dick described. Bell also testified that Zach's white truck was parked on Bell's mother's property on Apr. 13.

9:23 AM: Shayne Austin's phone shows its first activity of the morning—texting a number confirmed to be his drug supplier.