Skip to main content
Sunday, November 15, 2026Nov 15

2nd person charged with kidnapping, murder in Holly Bobo case

2nd-person-charged-kidnapping-murder-holly-bob-cas
2nd-person-charged-kidnapping-murder-holly-bob-cas
photo Holly Bobo is seen in this undated photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
photo Jason Autry
photo Zachary Adams, center, is led into a courtroom in the Decatur Country Courthouse on Tuesday in Decaturville, Tenn. Adams, accused of abducting and killing nursing student Holly Bobo, was arraigned on charges of kidnapping and murder. He pleaded innocent. Bobo disappeared April 13, 2011, outside her home near Parsons, Tenn.

DECATURVILLE, Tenn. – A grand jury indicted a second person Tuesday on murder and kidnapping charges in the disappearance of 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo three years ago.

Jason Autry, 39, was indicted by a special grand jury on charges of first-degree murder and especially aggravated kidnapping.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said at a Tuesday news conference in Decaturville that authorities have not found Bobo’s body. However, he said they have sworn statements from witnesses who saw Bobo alive with Autry and Zachary Adams after Bobo disappeared from her home near Parsons in Decatur County on April 13, 2011.

Adams was indicted in March on the same charges that Autry now faces, and is currently being held without bond in the Chester County Jail.

Autry is currently serving a three-year sentence in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in a separate case.