Witnesses support Autry, Dinsmore

SAVANNAH, Tenn. — Candace Wood met Holly Bobo, Drew Scott, and her boyfriend Justin Lowery on April 9, 2011, for a double date at the World’s Largest Coon Hunt at the Decatur County Fairgrounds.

While at the Fairgrounds, someone was watching them, specifically Bobo and Wood — but only Wood noticed.

“I was peoplewatching. We stood there for about five or 10 minutes and then all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw a man to my left,” Wood remembered Saturday, six years after her friend was abducted from her home.

Months later, Wood would describe the man to a sketch artist for investigators. That description matched Shayne Austin.

But four days later, Holly was gone. Three years later, her remains would be found in the woods near County Corner Road.

And two years after that, Austin would be dead after committing suicide in a Florida motel room.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Mike Frizzell, a cell phone expert, showed the cell phone locations of three others Saturday morning — Bobo, Zach Adams and Jason Autry.

The cell phone locations shown in court mapped the locations of those three phones four days after Wood saw Austin at the Coon Hunt.

At 7:42 a.m., Bobo made one last call on her cell phone, putting her near her home on Swan Johnson Road in Darden. After that, the only activity on her cell phone was a string of incoming, but unanswered, calls and text messages.

The last cell phone ping came from Bobo’s phone at 9:25 a.m. on April 13 — in the same area where her phone and SIM card would later be found.

Frizzell said after 7:42 a.m. Bobo’s phone pinged again, this time in the same area as Zach Adams’ phone would at 8:19 a.m. The phones lingered in the Yellow Springs area until 9:42 a.m.

Frizzell said that from 9:42 a.m. until after 10:30 a.m., both Autry and Adams’ phones were in Birdsong, pinging off the tower near Birdsong Road and the Tennessee River.

Frizzell’s testimony on the cell phone records backs up Autry’s account of the morning of April 13, 2011, which includes that he talked to Adams around 8:50 a.m., and the two were at the Tennessee River by around 9:30 or 9:45 a.m, only staying there around an hour.

Debbie Dorris was cleaning “Ms. Dottie’s” house on April 13, 2011, when she saw Victor Dinsmore talking to three men in Dottie’s driveway.

Dorris’ testimony supports two accounts of the afternoon of April 13, 2011 — one given by Jason Autry, and the other from Victor Dinsmore.

Both accounts say Autry, Adams, Dylan Adams, and Austin met Victor Dinsmore at the home around 2:30 p.m. that Wednesday afternoon.

Dorris said she saw Dinsmore at Dottie’s that morning, and he was there through the afternoon. She testified Saturday morning that she saw Dinsmore talking to three men in the driveway — one of whom she knew was Autry — between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. that afternoon.

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