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JACKSON, Tenn. — A man who authorities had threatened to indict in the Holly Bobo case has been found dead, his attorney told WSMV-TV today.
Shayne Austin reportedly took his own life out of state, Austin's attorney Luke Evans told the Nashville TV station.
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Austin signed an immunity agreement in March with prosecutors in the Holly Bobo murder and kidnapping case in Decatur County. Austin was never indicted, but according to court documents, prosecutors revoked his immunity agreement and told Evans they planned to indict Austin because he had not been truthful with investigators.
Holly Bobo went missing April 13, 2011.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)
"It's unfortunate the government came in and made allegations without basis," Evans told WSMV-TV. "People had to live with those allegations ... under the cloud of those allegations."
Austin signed the immunity agreement after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation indicted Zach Adams on charges of the murder and kidnapping of Bobo. A second man, Jason Autry, was indicted on the same charges in April.
After prosecutors revoked Austin's immunity agreement, Evans filed a lawsuit trying to prevent the state from indicting Austin. A chancery court judge decided she did not have jurisdiction over the suit in May and referred it to circuit court. Further court proceedings on the suit have not been held.
Bobo, 20, was abducted from outside her Decatur County home in April 2011. Her partial remains, including her skull, were found in September 2014, the TBI has said.
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