MISSING HOLLY BOBO'S MOM BEGS: 'PLEASE HELP US'

IT HAS almost been four months since a camo-clad man dragged a terrified Holly Bobo into the Tennessee woods. Since then, there have been few traces and few clues as to her whereabouts. Now, her family are desperate to find her. The 20-year-old Tennessee nursing student's disappearance has stymied cops and despite thousands of volunteer hours, her fate remains a mystery.
Her mother Karen Bobo told NewsChannel5: "I'm just doing what any loving parent would do and that is pleading and begging for anyone to come in and help."

On the openline show with hubby Dana and son Clint, Karen Bobo said she has had a hard time understanding the TBI's initial suspicion of Holly's brother. He was the first to be interrogated and the last to see her alive.
Clint Bobo said:  "I spend every day and some effort to try to bring Holly home and I either search or I go around a different local businesses and towns and distribute fliers."
Several callers offered hope and support to the family, including Bo Tuders, the father of still missing Tabitha Tuders. Karen Bobo added Natalie Holloway's mom called Sunday. EXCLUSIVE BOBO FAMILY INTERVIEW

HOLLY BOBO, CELINA CASS, LAUREN SPIERER UPDATES!

* HOLLY BOBO DISAPPEARANCE MOVING SLOWLY: The pace of the investigation into the mysterious April disappearance of 20-year-old Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo continues to move at a snail's pace. Detectives are now questioning convicted fuguitive sex offender George Wall, 43, who was busted as his girlfriend's house in Duluth, Minn. MORE FROM CRIME SCENE USA
* CELINA CASS LIVED IN A PARTY HOUSE: As more information is revealed, it appears poor Celina Cass, the 11-year-old New Hampshire girl, found murdered a week ago lived in a party house and her body was found wrapped in a blanket. Her stepfather
has faced a slew of mental issues and his pickup truck has been examined. She disappeared two weeks ago. Meanwhile, her funeral will be held today in Vermont. MORE IN THE UNION-LEADER
* LAUREN SPIERER PROBE DRAGS ON: In the other high-profile missing person's case, there still has been no sign of Lauren Spierer and now investigators are searching an Indiana land fill in hopes of finding something. It appears that her friends are being less than forthcoming on the pretty blonde 20-year-old co-ed's June 3 disappearance. MORE ON LAUREN SPIERER

TENN. POOL PARTY ENDS IN BEATDOWNS, STABBING

WELL, WE'VE never had stabbings at any of our pool parties but to each his or her own we say. Cops in Murfreesboro, Tennessee are now probing a stabbings and assaults that occurred at a pool party on the weekend.  Cops say a group of men, including Pectic Webster, 21; Terry Braxton; and Christopher Morant, told them a man, later identified as Justin Hughes, 23, of Murfreesboro, came up to them and started yelling racial slurs at them. Hughes is white and the other men are black. Bad news.

3 MONTHS AFTER KIDNAPPING: WHERE'S HOLLY BOBO?

THREE MONTHS. That's what Wednesday will mark. Three months since pretty blonde Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo, 20, was snatched from her rural home by a man dressed in camouflage. So far, cops from the TBI appear to have run up against a series of brick walls and the trail--if not frozen--is ice cold. Despite thousands of volunteers scouring the woods near her home, clues have been few. For the family of Holly, the last three months have been agonzing and has also left her famous cousin, country star Whitney Duncan, in pieces as well.
Holly's mom Karen said: "Sundays are the hardest days because we were together, our whole family, all day long. Usually on Sunday we were doing things."

Her brother Clint had witnessed the abduction.
TBI Agent John Mehr said: "He actually had an arm holding her, so we feel she knew she was in fear of her life, so she was compliant with his commands."
Cops say Clint Bobo thought the camouflaged man was her boyfriend.  Investigators were initially not clear about how long it took her brother to realize something was wrong, but said said it did not take long. "A very, very short time," one law enforcement official said.
Aside from some items belonging to Holly that were discovered nearby, they have found nothing. And now hope has given way to terror. The next act in the friendly Tennessee woman's disappearance too terrible to contemplate. Detectives believe her abductor knew her and the area.
There is an $85,000 reward for information leading to Holly Bobo's location and the arrest of her abductor.  She is 5-3 and weighs 110 pounds with blonde, shoulder length hair and blue eyes.  Holly Bobo was last seen wearing a pink shirt and light blue jeans. Anyone with information should call the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND. MORE ON HOLLY BOBO DISAPPEARANCE

HOLLY BOBO, LAUREN SPIERER: CHILLING SIMILARITIES

TWO STUDENTS. Two blondes. Both petite. Both 20-years-old. Two young women in the prime of their lives. Two victims? The disappearance of Indiana University student Lauren Spierer on June 3 has chilling similarities to the mysterious April kidnapping of Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo. They look eerily the same and it is raising frightening questions.
Lauren's mom Charlene said: "I can't even tell you what it's like to get that phone call that your daughter is missing." Holly's mom
Karen adds: "I think of her. I love her."
Despite intense efforts in Tennessee and Indiana for the recovery of both young women, cops appear to have hit brick walls despite hundreds of man hours and  hundreds of volunteer searchers. There has been no arrest in either case, although persons of interest have been questioned.
The similarities between the two are so great that many have mistaken the photo of Bobo for Spierer and vice versa. More frightening: it's not just these two women, other students missing around the country fit the same description.
Information leading to the discovery of Spierer, the daughter of a prominent New York family, could bring a $100,000 reward. Bobo's cousin is country singer Whitney Duncan. There is an $85,000 reward offered in her case.

CRIME BRIEFS: HOLLY BOBO SEARCH; LI VICTIM BURIED

* HOLLY BOBO'S MOM BEGS FOR HER RELEASE: It's been more than two months now and still no sign of pretty blonde Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo. Have the cops dropped the ball? The TBI says no but there has been NOTHING new in weeks. Yesterday, a motorcycle run in the 20-year-old's honor was held. Her heartbroken mom said: "To whoever has our daughter, I'm asking you to please do the right thing and let her come home." STILL NO SIGN OF HOLLY BOBO.
* VICTIM OF PILLHEAD DAVID LAFFER BURIED IN WEDDING DRESS: In a Long Island church Saturday hundreds sobbed for Jaime Taccetta--buried in her wedding dress. The pretty young mom, 33, was one of four victims executed in cold blood last Sunday in a Medford, New York pharmacy. The mom of
two had found new love when she was killed. Pillheads David Laffer and his scary looking bride, Melinda Brady are the accused killers. MORE ON THE LONG ISLAND PHARMACY MURDERS IN THE NY POST

* FORMER DETROIT MAYOR ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG: Dirty Kwame Kilpatrick--another in the lone line of rogue Motown mayors is about to be sprung from the Big House. A Michigan parole board voted to release the disgraced pol who violated probation in relation to a 2008 case where he pleaded guilty obstructing justice in an effort to cover up an extramarital affair. He has served 14 months of a 5 year sentence. KINKY KWAME ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG

MOLLY JANE ROE RAPED, MURDERED BEAU'S BABY: COPS

MEET Molly Jane Roe: possibly the sickest woman in America if what cops are saying is true. According to detectives in Tennessee, Molly Jane Roe, 24, threw her boyfriend's 17-month-old baby, Maleeya Marie Murley, against a wall and the child hit her head. She later died of a severe brain injury last week in Bells, Tennessee.
Monster Molly was was originally busted for aggravated child abuse then upped to murder. She also faces a charge of aggravated rape of a child, who had bruising in her vaginal area, hip, stomach and a bite mark on her back. Cops don't believe the baby's dad, Phillip Murley Jr. had anything to
do with the sinister crime.
A friend of Murley's parents said: "I don't understand how anyone could even think about doing such a crime to a child. They all broke down crying." MORE IN THE JACKSON SUN

"SOME PEOPLE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HOLLY BOBO"

 TENNESSEE cops are still refusing to call the Holly Bobo case a homicide and it remains classified as a missing persons investigation.  It’s now two months since the 20-year-old nursing student was abducted from her Decatur County home and cops are still no closer to finding her kidnappers.
Authorities are still searching local areas every week and receive tips every day but so far nothing substantial enough to break the case.  Despite the lack of progress, TBI agent John Mehr insists that the investigation is still a missing persons case and
not a homicide.  While the local community has been helpful, Mehr believes that there are individuals deliberately withholding information that could bring Holly home safely.
 He said: “We know people have that information. Just please call us. There's no doubt in my mind.  There are people who know what happened to Holly, and there may be more than one person involved."
The continued effort has exhausted locals and police alike yet all continue to search.  Members of the small community continually revisit areas of interest in the case in the hope of finding some small clue or lead. Like members of the local community, worn out from anxiety, Highway Patrol officer Lt. Brad Wilbanks hasn’t given up hope.
"We're still waiting on that tip. We're one tip away from finding her," Wilbanks said.

RETIRED G-MAN NAMES KILLER IN 1951 TENN. COLD CASE

A NEW book by a retired FBI agent hopes to finally name a killer in a notorious unsolved Tennessee homicide. Murder in Harrill Hills by Bob Allen explores the 1951 slaying of Mary Tabler Hankins, 27, shot to death in her home. She was found by her husband Fred, her life hanging by a thread. She later died and for 60 years the files have gathered dust.

But in an interview with the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Allen names the killer and defends the cop, Sheriff Buddy Jones, who he believes has been unfairly hammered all these years. He told the paper: "This crime could have been solved. But so many things were done different then."
The recently married Hankins' had designed and built a new house about six months before she was killed. The book cites a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to longtime career burglar James William "Bill" Luallen as the murderer. The ex-G-Man believes what began as a robbery spiraled out of control into a sex attack, and finally, murder. Luallen told cops he had stolen the murder weapon, a .32 Colt revolver, then sold it before the killing. Without a confession or further evidence against Luallen, prosecutors declined to bring charges.
The book is $10.95 and can be ordered online at http://www.murderinharrillhills.com. Copies can be ordered through Allen with $13.50 payable to R.S. Allen, P.O. Box 34016, Knoxville, TN 37930.
MORE IN THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL

HOLLY BOBO'S FAMILY: 'EVERY DAY IS MORE DIFFICULT'

IT'S BEEN six weeks since Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo, cousin of country star Whitney Duncan, was kidnapped by a mysterious man in camouflage and there is no sign of her--anywhere. As the trail grows colder and colder her parents Dana and Karen can barely eat and are fighting to keep their spirits up. And their mood is not helped by the fact that county wide searches have stopped.
Family spokesman Kevin Bromley said: “Every passing day that we don’t find Holly is more difficult for the family. But they have not lost hope. They believe their daughter is alive.”
Here's what cops think happened, according to THE TENNESSEAN:
 The day she went missing Bobo put on her bright pink shirt, jeans and black flip-flops and packed her lunch for another day of nursing school at the nearby UT-Martin campus. Her brother, Clint, was still asleep. Their parents had already left for work. At 7:40 a.m., Holly walked to her black Ford Mustang on the long, winding driveway leading to the Bobo family’s rural Decatur County home.

Minutes later, the family’s dog barked, waking Clint. He walked to the kitchen window that faces the expansive, treelined backyard to see what the ruckus was about. A man dressed in camouflage had his sister by the arm, leading her into the woods, he later told the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
The psychology student went out to his sister’s Mustang. She was supposed to be on her way to school, he knew. Next to her car, pooled a small puddle of blood and a spilled Coke can.
Wide awake now, Clint Bobo ran into his house and called 911. He called his mother, Karen, a second-grade teacher who usually chatted by text with Holly several times a day. Panicked now, he ran into the woods where he had last seen his sister.
Nothing. She was nowhere. No more blood.
The next day, Holly Bobo’s packed lunch was found about six miles north of her home toward Interstate 40. More of Holly’s belongings were found. Investigators with the TBI aren’t saying how many, or what the items are. They’re also not saying whose blood was next to Holly’s Mustang.

MUGSHOTS FROM TENNESSEE DRUG ROUND-UP

 OK, WE admit it. We find rural drug busts irresistible, particularly when they are accompanied by mug shots. It was a dope bust in Grainger County, Tennessee. We don't really know anything about it and couldn't be bothered to look but the mugshots are great.
MUGSHOTS FROM KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL

INSANE CLOWN POSSE FAN GUILTY IN HATCHET SLAYING

WHAT IS it about the notorious Insane Clown Posse? Another fan of the bizarro band has been convicted of murder. Robert Edward "Fritter" Fritts, 27, of Knoxville, Tennessee who had written Lennon-esque lyrics about "murder, blood, murder" was convicted of first-degree murder in the bloody hatchet slaying of his
mother-in-law. He dabbed away tears when the verdict was read.

Court was told that "Fritter" chopped and bludgeoned Teresa Anne Busler's head a whopping 11 times in March 2007. It splintered her skull into a million pieces.
Prosecutor Sandra Donaghy said: "He wasn't going to just kill her. He mutilated her skull."
During the trial, Fritter was also of a gang, called: Insane Clown Posse. Members have tattoos of the horrorcore duo's logo, "Running Hatchet Man," on their right forearm. Weapon of choice? Hatchets, natch. There was no motive for the murder and now, "Fritter" faces the sunny options of 51 years in jail... or life behind bars.


INSANE CLOWN POSSE MURDER

FBI HUNTS SCAM ARTIST PARTY MOM LESLIE JANOUS

PARTY MOM

WANTED! PARTY MOM! Meet Leslie Janous, aka Leslie Gibbs. She is the notorious Party Mom of Knoxville, Tennessee. She's frumpy, likes gay bars, luxury items and is a Miss Bossyguts. Now, the FBI is cranking up their efforts to capture the 36-year-old scam artist. Janous, a bookkeeper admitted stealing millions of dollars from her former employer and living the high life.
According to AMW: "The FBI needs your help finding Leslie Janous, a woman who stole upwards of $6 million as a bookkeeper for a company dealing in precious metals. She fled before her sentencing date, and the FBI believes she's on the run with loads of cash." She is described as 5' 6", a hefty 200 lbs. with brown hair and hazel eyes. She split April 18th when the alarm on her ankle bracelet went off while she awaited sentencing.


Janous flaunted her wealth on the Internet, in a court filing and in a "Sweet 15" birthday gala for her daughter that she tried to get MTV to film. In February, she pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. WANTED: PARTY MOM