By Cristina CorbinPublished April 18, 2011 | FoxNews.com

Authorities are "not excluded anyone" in their investigation into the disappearance of a 20-year-old nursing student, last seen in the woods near her home rural Tennessee is led by a man dressed in camouflage.

A spokeswoman with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation told FoxNews.com Monday that the police are appealing for the small community of Parsons, Tenn., for help in finding Holly Bobo.

"We try to make a person of interest who may have missed from work or unexpectedly missed appointment that day," TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helmet said in an interview.

Bobo's 25-year-old brother Clint reported seeing his sister is led by a man in the woods near their home at 7: 30 p.m. Wednesday. Clint told investigators that he initially assumed Holly was with her boyfriend, but said that he grew concerned after finding blood outside, prompting him to call 911.

Clint and friend of the woman are not named as defendants in the case, but helm said Monday, not "We excluded anyone" in the investigation.

"We're trying very careful not to get tunnel vision," she said, adding that the woman's brother and friend has been "very cooperative" in the case. Helm said authorities were treating Clint as a "witness".

Helm said authorities don't believe Bobo, a nursing student at the University of Tennessee at Martin, went willingly.

"We believe that she probably was forced to," she said.

On Monday to seekers comb the area around Bobo's home for clues in the case. The researchers last week found a number of items believed to belong to Holly, was including a lunchbox Helmet said "several miles away" from the young woman found at home.

Law enforcement officials have received 250 leads so far in their research.

The hijackers, whom authorities between the 5-foot-10 describe and 6 metres high, her daily routine to have known. Holly's father, Dana Bobo, said Thursday that he believes that the man who snatched his daughter was familiar with the family routine.

"It could have been someone close that kind of our routine--knew when I left, and when she left, and when my daughter to go to school," said Dana Bobo.

Friends have called Bobo kind and loving with an "angelic voice."

Bobo's Facebook page says that her interests include Miley Cyrus and country music singer-songwriter Whitney Duncan, who is her cousin.

Friends said she loves animals, especially horses, and spends her free time to dinner and the movies--she loves "morning glory" and "the hangover 2" on Facebook--with her boyfriend.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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