SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) – Lawyers are scheduled to make opening statements Monday in the trial of a man charged with killing Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo.
Zachary Adams goes to trial in Savannah, Tennessee, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) southwest of Nashville. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, rape and murder.
Security was tight at the courthouse before proceedings began. A law enforcement officer walked a bomb-sniffing dog inside and outside the courthouse and everyone who came to see the trial had to walk through metal detectors before entering the courtroom.
Bobo was 20 when she disappeared from her home in the rural Tennessee town of Parsons in April 2011. Authorities say her remains were found in September 2014 by two men in woods not far from her home in Decatur County.
Judge C. Creed McGinley moved the trial to neighboring Hardin County because of widespread attention it received closer to Bobo’s home.