In this 2014 file photo, a poster with pictures of missing Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo hangs on a fence in front of her house in Parsons, Tenn.Correction
This story was updated at 10 p.m. to correct a grammatical error.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been kicked out of the Holly Bobo murder investigation, the agency said Wednesday night.
TBI Director Mark Gwyn said in an emailed statement that 24th Judicial District Attorney General Matthew Stowe “made allegations of misconduct by TBI and other law enforcement agencies, both local and federal,” in a meeting last week and asked the TBI to withdraw from the case.
WSMV-Channel 4 television quoted Stowe as saying he and Gwyn were arguing and Gwyn walked out, but he didn’t ask TBI to leave the case.
“We need to air our grievances together without affecting the people of the district,” Stowe told Channel 4.
Meanwhile, attorneys for two men charged with kidnapping and murdering the 20-year-old Tennessee nursing student, their attorneys say they have not seen any evidence linking their clients to the crime, according to The Associated Press.
No arrests were made in the case until nearly three years after Bobo disappeared from her home in the small West Tennessee community of Parsons in April 2011. Her brother told police he saw a man dressed in camouflage leading her into the woods, but despite numerous searches of the area, Bobo’s remains were not discovered until September, when ginseng hunters accidentally stumbled across them, the AP reported.
Zachary Adams was indicted in March and Jason Autry in April in Bobo’s slaying Holly Bobo. In court on Wednesday, Adams’ attorney, Jennifer Lynn Thompson told the judge, “I still have very little understanding of what he’s accused of doing.”
Autry’s attorney, Fletcher Long, was even more direct. Speaking to reporters after the hearing, he said of Autry, “I’m at a loss as to why he was even charged,” the AP reported.