No,IMO, its your reasoning which is flawed based on all other cases like this.
I don't believe that for one second they just took the words of DA or SA. No parent is just going to take the word of anyone much less slugs with no credibility to begin with. They would have no way of knowing if SA and DA were lying trying to get a deal. Many informants will lie about someone when they are trying to get out of trouble themselves about something else and try to point fingers at someone else.
Can you cite me a case where a SW resulted in an arrest and then nothing was found at all during the search?
What SA and DA told them had nothing to do with the Bobos being convinced their daughter was dead. That came about immediately after the three day search of Adams property and home resulting in the arrest of Adams. That is when they finally were convinced she was dead. They certainly wouldn't take the mere words of meth heads who were known to lie.
I have seen many parents post on crime message sites over the years who have tragically lost their children due to them being murdered and several of them were missing before being found. Sadly, some of them are posters right here on WS,
and every one of them have consistently said they would NOT believe their child was dead until they were shown positive proof it was true. Any parent/s would also have the same sentiments, understandably so.
Even after Torres was arrested for the kidnapping, and murder of Sierra Lamar (missing), Marlene, her mom, still held out hope she was alive... hoping LE was wrong about Torres killing her but that is what parents do and how they react in this situation. They hold onto hope until they are shown concrete irrefutable proof their child is dead. There is absolutely no way that the Bobo family would have taken just the words of anyone. Words are not proof of anything. Words mean nothing to a parent with a missing child. It has to be something they can see and know it exists.
Imo, it is foolish to try and disbelieve the TBI didn't find anything of value when they did their extensive three day search of his home and property because from that search he was quickly arrested. I cant remember one case when a SW was done and resulted in the arrest of a suspect where LE found nothing. That defies commonsense and logic. The findings during search warrants are always a big part of any murder trial.
No DA goes for the death penalty if all they have is the words of someone. In fact I cant remember even one case where the entire trial for the state was based solely on what a suspect may have said or didn't say or just on the words of any witness for that matter. DP cases by nature have much more evidence entered in them than typical other cases. Every one I have seen was chocked full of compelling evidence and those cases weren't investigated nearly as much as this one has been. From what the TBI Director has said it is the most investigated case in Tennessee history. They don't have blank sheets resulting in no evidence either for the ADA wouldn't have ever gone for the DP x3 on weak evidence. Even the state witness list of 600 is very out of the ordinary when most may have less than a 100.
I truly don't understand why some seem hell bent on believing the TBI has nothing nor found anything in the search. There is absolutely nothing to support that claim either. The TBI is no different than any other law enforcement agency and they do not tell the public what their evidence entails nor does the ADA who is trying the case. It would be the first death penalty case I have ever seen where the only evidence the ADA has is words.........just words and nothing more. That is simply illogical thinking or maybe its wishful thinking.
But of course you can believe as you wish to believe and I will continue to believe that something very compelling was found at the home or/and on the property of the man accused of kidnapping, raping, and murdering Holly. I don't think the Bobo parents are any different than I would be as a parent, and I absolutely would not take the words of anyone as proof my child had been murdered. I wouldn't even take the word of LE if all they had was words telling me to believe this or that. And I don't think I am alone as a parent with that same held opinion either.
Every case I have ever kept up with where a search warrant was done which resulted in an arrest very shortly after... LE had found evidence at the scene that linked the victim to the suspect or found evidence that the crime had occurred at the property/home of the suspect. I don't think this case will be any different than all the others.
One day we will know which piece of evidence was so compelling it convinced Holly's parents she had indeed been murdered when they refused to believe it for three long years.
God bless them all as they prepare for justice to come for their beautiful daughter/sister.
IMO
