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."
– 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.