Police in Tennessee are investigating whether a similar attack in a nearby town is related to the disappearance of 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo from her home in Parsons, Tenn.Heather Sullivan, 31, lives in Centerville, about 45 minutes from Parsons. She told NBC News she was approached by a "tall, skinny man" outside her home at around 5:30 one morning in January. She said he grabbed her arm as she was getting out of her car, causing her to drop a lamp she was carrying. She said her boyfriend heard the lamp break, came rushing out and apparently frightened the man away.Bobo, a cousin of country music singer Whitney Duncan , was taken away by a man dressed in camouflage clothing about 7:30 in the morning on April 13, according to her brother, Clint Bobo. Both homes were close to wooded areas.Asked if she thought Bobo's abduction was related, Sullivan told NBC, "When I heard about it, that's what I thought."Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said he was not ruling out a connection. "We're looking at all possibilities," he said in a press conference.A reward of $80,000 has been offered for information about the case, including $50,000 put up by the state.Hundreds of area residents have searched the woods near the home. A blood sample found nearby has been tested, but the results are not being released, NBC reported.Meanwhile, Bobo's family continues to hold out hope that she is alive."Holly, I love you," her mother, Karen Bobo, said during a tearful plea in front of TV cameras. "Please help her come home to us." ||||| Holly Bobo (Credit: Personal Photo) 
 
 (CBS/WTVF/AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The family of missing 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo, a west Tennessee woman who was reportedly last seen being dragged from her home by a man dressed in camouflage, pleaded for help finding her as the community offered a $25,000 reward in the case. 
 
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 "Please help us find her, she's just so precious, you don't even know," said her mother, Karen Bobo, at a press conference Thursday. 
 
 
 
 "I would tell her I love her and tell her to call us," said her father, Dana Bobo, when asked what he would say to his daughter. 
 
 "We are hopeful she's gonna be brought back soon," her father went on to say. 
 
 "I just want her back," her mother said in tears as she was carried away from the microphone, reports CBS affiliate WTVF. 
 
 "We just send a plea out to whomever might be watching to help this family, We can only imagine what they go through, they need your help," said Decatur County Sheriff Roy Wyatt. 
 
 The reward was announced by Wyatt, according to Midsouthnewz.com. Wyatt also said that blood had been found at the carport where Bobo was seen being dragged away from her family home and toward a wooded area. 
 
 According to CBS affiliate WTVF, investigators believe Bobo may have been abducted in a home invasion on Wednesday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says that her 25-year-old brother told investigators that he saw her abduction. 
 
 
 
 Volunteers searched for her today on horseback, on four wheelers and on foot. 
 
 
 
 Bobo is 5-feet-3-inches tall and weighs 110 pounds. She was seen around 7:30 a.m. wearing a pink shirt and light blue jeans. Officials ask that if you see Holly or anything suspicious contact the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND. ||||| Decatur County Sheriff Keith Byrd speaks Monday night at the press conference where the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that the partial remains found Sunday in Decatur County belonged to Holly Bobo. (Photo: MEGAN SMITH/The Jackson Sun) 
 
 Holly Bobo's family is expected to speak out this afternoon, just a day after the TBI confirmed her remains had been found in Decatur County. 
 
 Hunters found a skull Sunday in a wooded area that had already been the site of several searches. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn confirmed Monday night that it matched Bobo's DNA. 
 
 The discovery capped a 3 1/2-year search that captivated Tennesseans and the nation. Crews will scour the area for more remains later this morning. 
 
 Bobo, 20, was abducted from outside her Decatur County home in April 2011. 
 
 The community rose up to bring her home. They covered gas station windows with fliers, stamped posters onto light poles and drove 18-wheelers on cross-country journeys carrying the message "Bring Holly Home." 
 
 On Monday night, many members of the community turned out at the press conference, desperate for any relieving news, praying for something to bring peace. 
 
 Earlier this year, Zach Adams and Jason Autry were indicted on charges that they kidnapped and murdered Bobo. They have pledged their innocence in court. 
 
 Bobo's brother Clint said he saw her being led into the woods by a masked man dressed in camouflage. 
 
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 CLOSE Tennessee authorities confirmed late Monday that the remains of Holly Bobo, a nursing student missing since April 2011, have been found in the woods in Decatur County, Tennessee. Two men have been charged with her murder. 
 
 On Monday morning, Cory Tubbs, on whose family's land the remains were found Sunday, said he could not believe the search has taken so long and that some of the remains were found on his property, where numerous searches had previously been conducted. 
 
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 Zach Adams, of Holladay, was charged with Bobo's murder and kidnapping after investigators searched his property in February and early March. 
 
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 On April 29, Autry was indicted on the same charges. 
 
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 On May 29, Brothers Mark Pearcy and Jeffrey Pearcy were charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact in the case. 
 
 All four men have pleaded not guilty. 
 
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– A potential new lead in the kidnapping of Holly Bobo: MSNBC reports that Heather Sullivan, who lives about 45 minutes from where Bobo was abducted, found herself nearly kidnapped in January. A "tall, skinny man" accosted her outside her home around 5:30am, grabbing her arm. But she dropped a lamp and her boyfriend, hearing the crash, came out of the house and scared the man away. Bobo was dragged off by a man dressed in camouflage clothing on April 13 around 7:30am, and Sullivan thinks the two events could be related: "When I heard about it, that's what I thought," she says. Click for more, including a video report.