DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. — Defense attorneys involved in the Holly Bobo case are asking a judge to remove newly assigned prosecutor Jennifer Nichols. Nichols, who works in the Shelby County District Attorney's Office,
DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. — A man linked to the kidnapping and murder of Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo has committed suicide. On Monday, an attorney confirmed that his client, Shayne Austin, took his own life.
the TBI stopped its investigation. But shortly afterward, the TBI resumed its work on the Bobo case after the district attorney took himself off the case and appointed a special prosecutor to handle it, according to The Jackson Sun. CNN's Holly Yan
The investigation into the killing of Holly Bobo has not been smooth. The suicide of Shayne Austin is the latest twist. Bobo, a 20-year-old nursing student, disappeared in April 2011. Her remains were not found until last
A Tennessee man who was a key witness in the Holly Bobo murder case has been found dead in an apparent suicide — and in a perverse twist, he went to elementary school with her cousin, country singer Whitney Duncan. Bobo, a 20-year-old nursing