TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden, believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #31

cluciano63 said:

I think it is POSSIBLE that Holly was mistaken for Whitney, that's all. Aapparently one of the videos she posted had info about thier homes, etc...or that Holly encountered someone who was after WD and decided to go through Holly to get to her...just an option that cannot be dismissed with what we know.

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Oriah said:

I can see how someone may have been drawn to Holly through her close affiliation with Whitney- and it is so easy to 'find' someone these days- you don't have to put yourself on youTube to make that possible, that's for sure.

That's why I suggested we look at venues where Whitney and Holly may have connected prior to Holly's abduction. A list of public performances, shows, auditions, recordings, tapings, etc that Holly may have attended? Holiday functions, parties- anything. And locations of those?

These are all things we can sleuth out, I think.

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cluciano63 said:

But how to know or determine where Holly may have gone? Even if we had a list of where WD performed, we wouldn't know if Holly attended, or who they may have seen or encountered...If WD was being "stalked" she may not have even known it.

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Plumeria5 said:

I was just going back over videos to see if anything stood out.
This one with Pat Brown was interesting to listen to but even
more than that, one thing that stood out to me in the video was
seeing the Bobo residence and the surrounding woods. I was expecting
the woods to appear much denser than what I see in video.
Even from an overhead shot and one down lower I would think
you would be able to see Holly and her abductor not just as they
entered the woods but also as they were walking farther into the woods.

Criminal Profiler Pat Brown discusses missing girl Holly Bobo on MSNBC Live - YouTube

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Eileen730 said:

I have a question! I hope someone might have an ans cause i cant find the ans anywhere.

when you look up Holly bobo on pplfinders or tennessee publice records she is
no where to be found. No birth records nada clint shows up Karen and Dana never a Holly! Im baffled!
Why would that be?

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Carla Lashelle said:

Doesnt a lot of that stuff in public records come from property records, titles etc . that someone of her age would not have?

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Carla Lashelle said:

And yes WD could have her own stalker... I never said she didn't or couldnt.

But I doubt that if she had a stalker that the stalker would be dumb enough to follow the wrong mom home and then kidnap the wrong girl. And stalkers usually fixate on one person in particular. I do not know of any stalker that has fixated on one person then switched over and comitted a crime against someone else because they couldn't get their intended target.

I would think also that stalkers for the most part sort of escalate their stalking. They are rarely if ever just unknown. They contact their target, send them letters, call them, hang out at their house, etc. It is after the initial contacts etc are rebuffed that they become more dangerous.

So if WD ever had a stalker she has apparently never mentioned it to anyone including LE or at least there has been no public mention of it. Same with Holly. If someone was pestering Holly it has not come up.

I think the suspect while maybe similar to a stalker is someone who has targeted Holly. I don't think he had any prior contact with her or direct contact of any meaning or significance.

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Wonless said:

I just keep coming back to the way the crime went down, from the limited facts that we know, that this crime could have been caused by HB happening upon the perp by accident. I mean, assuming that the perp was targeting HB, I just seems like he/she/they would have had to know that Clint was home..and if that was known, why spend so long at the crime scene. The blood and the spilled coke make it seem like HB's encounter with the perp was a suprise. I keep thinking maybe a suprise to both of them. But if this person or people, happen to be there on the property for whatever reason, be it stalking, or robbery, or some other reason, and HB walks into him/her/them, then the evidence seems to make more sense. I don't know..its easy to come up with a million different senerio's that could have happened when there is so little known about what actually happened.

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Mr. Noatak said:

My opinions only, no facts here:

First, to Eileen730. What you say is interesting. When this case first broke, I did my "reverse search" involving Holly Bobo and other names in this case. What I did was, use advanced search on Google in a fashion as to see hits only PRIOR to Holly's disappearance (there are too many hits for this search strategy to work now). What I found, was that this family is much like mine, almost invisible on the internet. If you want to see a few additional crumbs about Holly Bobo, type in her name as an EXACT phrase and search only within PDF files with 2009 and 2010 as an "all these words" phrase. She appears to have been an exceptional high school student, bright and motivated.

To Wonless: I have heard two stories. One story makes it sound like Holly's brother was home for an extended period of time; the other version is that he was only visiting for a few days. Obviously, clearing up which of these versions is reality could help you better analyze what the perpetrator could have known about the presence of people at Holly's house.

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Wonless said:

That is exactly my point, I can't understand why nobody wants to talk about this..I mean litterally, celebrity stalking happenes all the time. I think it could be a legitimate motive to this crime. I shouldn't have ventured an opinion about anyones personal or professional choices, I get that, it won't happen again..but I think the evidence points to this as something within the realm of possiblity. This is a part of the country where people don't even lock there doors at night, and all of a sudden, bang, Holly Bobo is gone and the headline for months is "Country Singer Whitney Duncan's cousin abducted". What changed, the 20th annual coon hunt? Everyone says think out of the box:banghead:

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Wonless said:

Another thought is that IMO the $75000 reward offered by the Gov. of TN, when compared to the $10000 reward offered in the Karen Johnson Swift case could be explained by the family relation to WD and the albeit brief and short lived National exposure that connection brought. Although most of the articles have disappear now, during the first weeks of the investigation, MSM routinely was printing headlines to the effect "Whitney Duncan's Cousin abducted". To a Govoner, 75k is probably a cheat price for positive national publicity.
I think another interesting aspect to the WD connection is that IMO she is a much more well known name in TN than she is everywhere else...so just by law of large numbers, IMO it would be more likely that an obcessed fan/stalker would be from the local TN area, maybe even the parsons/scotts hill area itself.

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Wonless said:

Actually it wasn't my theory at all that the perp was dumb. I was thinking that, if you don't know exactly which teacher is WD's mom, or you mistake WD's mom for her sister KB, and you follow her home hoping to do some "investigation", but instead while you are on the property, you accidentally encounter HB walking to her car, and all of a sudden your plans change and you need to get rid of a witness..I think thats more likely than the perp targets HB intentionally, but I wouldn't say that possiblity could be totally dismissed either.

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