Holly Bobo murder case returns to court, seven years after a US man's conviction

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Nursing student Holly Bobo, 20, was kidnapped, raped and killed after disappearing from her rural home in 2011.

Seven years after a man was convicted of killing nursing student Holly Bobo, the case has returned to the Tennessee courtroom where his intense, highly publicised murder trial unfolded.

During the trial, Autry spoke in a calm, deliberative manner as an attentive trial jury listened to him recreate the day Bobo was kidnapped, raped, wrapped in a blanket, placed in the back of a pickup truck, driven to a river and killed.“It sounded like, boom, boom, boom, underneath that bridge. It was just one shot but it echoed,” Autry testified. “Birds went everywhere, all up under that bridge. Then just dead silence for just a second.

Adams' brother, John Dylan Adams, also pleaded guilty to charges in the Bobo killing and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Autry claims he concocted the entire story in his jail cell before the trial while reviewing discovery evidence. Autry used extensive cellphone data to create a story, the petition says.Nationwide outage affecting airport e-gates, border force says

 

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