Holly was kidnapped on a Wednesday morning. My question is did those people not have jobs or school to go to? How does one just drop what they're doing at 8 am based on limited details go to someone's home? I could understand a neighbour in the immediate area or family, friends of Holly but there were apparently a 100 people there within minutes. I'm just trying to understand the timeline here. I think it's incredible that all these people knew within minutes. Also interesting to note there were all these other people but we don't know (it was never mentioned in any of the media reports or by family) that Drew was one of them. Also, noteworthy is Mr. Bobo arrived at 8:30. Much later than most of these other folks and he took it upon himself to secure the crime scene (according to the Jackson Sun report).
BTW, chances are the kidnapper could have been amongst them.
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Good thoughts! I don't think I have seen another case in a very long time where so many things that supposedly happened defy logic! I think there was also some incredibly sloppy news reporting going on. (IMO)
In my catch-up reading of the case facts, I came across a piece (I believe it was in the Examiner) that said Holly was in a one year nursing program (possibly to get a CNA degree.) She apparently only went to class on Wednesday and Thursday.
This leads me to believe that either the abductor got incredibly lucky, or he had researched enough that he knew her schedule, or he was close enough to Holly that he knew her schedule. Think about how many things had to happen for him to be in the right place at the right time. If Holly only went two days a week, what did she do on the other days?
If he planned to abduct her, he had to pick a time she would be alone. Dana, Karen, and , ideally, Clint, should not be home. Did the abductor think Clint was somewhere else? Would he have been so bold as to go right up to the house if he thought big brother could come out with a gun in defense of his sister? Was Clint usually out of the house in the morning by this time, too?
I feel like the abductor's "casual" attitude about getting Holly and get away at least suggests that he did not think anyone else was in the home. By Clint's accounts and a best guess estimate of the times, Clint observed Holly and this man outside for about 10 minutes. What abductor who is going to remove someone from the scene takes his time if he thinks anyone else is around?
If this theory is correct, then the abductor was likely not emotionally close enough to the Bobo family to know everything about their schedules. If he was watching the parents leave (and I think that there was about an hour's difference in Dana's departure time and Karen's), why did he not just go ahead and come for Holly as soon as her parents were both gone? He could have knocked on the door, made up an excuse for being there, and snatched her!
For some reason, he waited, apparently, several more minutes until Holly exited the house, and then he did not have much fear, if any, about spending some time talking to Holly before they disappeared into the woods some 10 minutes (roughly) later. He did not take Holly's vehicle as a means of getting out of there, and he marched a girl wearing only light clothing and flip flops off into dense brush in 40 degree temperatures, signifying to me that other transportation was waiting, or he didn't plan to keep her alive long enough for the temperature to matter to her.
JMHO, as always