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.DECATURVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation resumed investigations Thursday in the five-county judicial district where the high-profile death of a 20-year-old nursing student is being prosecuted, a day after saying it was suspending activities there.
The TBI announced Wednesday it was suspending investigations in the 24th Judicial District as the result of a disagreement with District Attorney General Matt Stowe.
But Thursday night, the agency issued a release saying it was resuming work in the district and that Stowe has requested a special prosecutor to handle Holly Bobo’s case.
“We are committed to our relationship with those local law enforcement agencies and hope to do what we can to provide the excellent investigative and forensic resources to which they’re accustomed,” TBI Director Mark Gwyn said in the release.
The TBI said Stowe asked the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference to appoint a prosecutor to handle the Bobo case.