FILE - Jason Autry identifies Zachery Adams during his testimony on day four of Adams’ murder trial, Sept. 14, 2017, in Savannah, Tenn. Autry, a Tennessee man who was granted his freedom after providing key trial testimony in the case of slain nursing student Holly Bobo, has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison on unrelated federal weapons charges, authorities said Tuesday, June 25, 2024. FILE - This undated photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation shows Holly Bobo.
Autry has been convicted of more than 10 prior felonies in state and federal court. He was a star witness in the 2017 trial of Zachary Adams, who was found guilty of murder, especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape of Bobo.Bobo was 20 when she vanished from her family’s home in rural Parsons in April 2011, prompting a large-scale search of woods, fields and farms.
Hardin County Judge C. Creed McGinley sentenced Autry to eight years in state prison after Autry pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and facilitation of especially aggravated kidnapping in the Bobo case. Autry was arrested on the weapons charges just two months after he was released from custody in the Bobo case.asking for his conviction to be overturned, citing statements from Autry that he is recanting what he said on the witness stand.
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