Hi, I'm Deborah Roberts here with another weekly episode of What Happened to Holly Bobo.

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Now, here's the episode.

In January 2017, defense attorney Jennifer Thompson was preparing for the trial of her

client, Zach Adams. She was pouring over the hundreds of pages of material in the Holly Bobo case file

and grappling with the confession of Zach's brother, Dylan.

Dylan's confession had been a big breakthrough for prosecutors.

Here was Zach's own brother, saying that the four men who made up what law enforcement called the A-train, each played a role in Holly Bobo's kidnapping, rape, and murder.

Zach and Dylan Adams and Jason Autry had been indicted in the case.

Shane Austin died by suicide in 2015 and was never charged.

Each of the three men who were charged would be tried separately.

Zach Adams had pleaded not guilty and was going to be the first to stand trial.

If Zach was convicted, he could face the death penalty.

While Jennifer Thompson was deep in her preparation for the highly publicized case,

she got a call from Jason Autry's attorney.

ABC News spoke to her about it in 2024.

And he informs us that Jason has been talking to prosecutors

and that he is going to be testifying against Zach at trial.

After nearly six years of denying he had anything to do with Holly's kidnapping and murder,

Jason Autry had completely changed his story. It was a shocking reversal. And now, Jennifer Thompson had to figure out

how to handle Jason Autry's testimony. She had about eight months to do that, to go back through

those hundreds and hundreds of pages in the case file and review them again,

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