In this undated file photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Holly Bobo is shown.WARSAW, Ind. – An Indiana man was being held Tuesday after police said he falsely accused an area officer of killing a Tennessee woman who has been missing for two years.
Michael Roy Wiggins was being held on $100,000 bond in the Kosciusko County Jail. A jail officer said he didn’t know if the 32-year-old North Webster resident had an attorney.
Wiggins was arrested Monday on preliminary charges of obstruction of justice and false informing, The Journal Gazette reported.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations contacted North Webster Town Marshal Greg Church in May concerning an email the agency received from Wiggins. Church then contacted Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department detectives.
Police said Wiggins sent an email alleging a North Webster officer took his squad car to Tennessee in April 2011, where he used tranquilizers to incapacitate a nursing student named Holly Bobo. The email said the officer then abducted and killed Bobo and buried her body at a farm in northern Indiana.