Tennessee Bureau Of Investigation
One of the special agents assigned to the case, John Mehr, had shared that since her brother claimed she had ‘willingly’ walked into the woods with her captor, she must have been under distress. He says, “We feel she was in fear of her life, so she was complying with his commands.” Although her brother, Clint, and her boyfriend, Drew, had been questioned by authorities for a very long time, neither were considered suspects in the case. By finding the lunch box, they felt that they had some evidence that would lead them to Holly’s location. How very wrong they were.
