Circumstances: The details surrounding her disappearance remain uncertain, as she seemingly vanished without a trace. Reports indicate she was living with an older man, possibly in his 50s, on Bell Ridge Drive—a man whom locals claim had physically abused her. Her mother’s last known contact with her was over the phone. While the exact date of her disappearance is unclear, it is believed to have occurred on or after October 5, 2023. She has distinguishing features, including a tattoo on her right arm depicting a blue pyramid with an eye in the center, positioned atop a circle.

A timeline of events related to the disappearance of 19-year-old Hollynn Snapp from Kingsport, Tennessee:

Hollynn Snapp, born Erika Bilhommer on August 24, 2004, faced early hardships in her childhood. Her biological parents names have not been publicly disclosed, but in 2013 by the age of 8, she was placed in foster care due to possible neglect. 2015, Two years later, at the age of 10, she was adopted by Heather and Steven Snapp, who gave her a new home and a fresh start.

Early Life (2004–2022)

• August 24, 2004: Hollynn Snapp is born as Erika Bilhommer. Her biological parents’ names have not been publicly disclosed.
• 2013 (Age 8): Hollynn is placed in foster care due to possible neglect.
• 2014 (Age 9): Hollynn is adopted by Heather and Steven Snapp, who provide her with a new home.
• 2013–2022:Maintains frequent contact with her foster family, messaging them multiple times a week.
• Develops a trusting nature, believing others have her best interests at heart.
• Diagnosed with an IQ of 64 and a mental age of 10 or 11, making her extremely vulnerable.

Events Leading Up to Her Disappearance (2023)

• July 2023 (Age 18):
• Hollynn begins dating a much older man.
• She experiences homelessness and starts using methamphetamine.
• Struggles with her living situation while staying at her aunt’s house in Kingsport, Tennessee.
• August 24, 2023: Hollynn turns 19 years old.
• September 19, 2023: Hollynn was in outpatient rehab treatment center and was trying to get to inpatient rehab center at the same facility. Hollynn Post on Facebook: “Well y’all wish me luck tomorrow going to rehab!!” Link
• September 23, 2023:
• Hollynn is kicked out of her aunt’s house.
• She spends the next several days couch surfing.
• September 26, 2023:
• Hollynn is taken to Johnson City Medical Center for mental health concerns.
• 12:05 AM: Posts on Facebook: “Why am I still waiting for a ride?” Link
  
• 2:42 AM: Posts again on Facebook, asking if anyone can pick her up. Link
  
• She calls her foster family, asking them to pick her up, but Heather and Steven decide she needs inpatient treatment.
• September 27, 2023:
• Hollynn is still in the hospital for mental health concerns.
• Continues calling her foster family, requesting to be picked up.
• Her family insists she stay and receive inpatient treatment.
• September 28, 2023 (Last Confirmed Family Contact):
• 4:30 AM and 6:00 AM: Hollynn calls her foster family, again asking for help.
• Last conversation with family: Heather recalls telling Hollynn she should go to inpatient treatment. This was their last known contact.
• Hollynn posts again on Facebook, asking if anyone can pick her up.
• She is discharged from the hospital and picked up by an unknown individual.
• Hollynn is taken back to Kingsport, where she stays with a cousin.
• October 5, 2023 (Last Known Communication):
• Hollynn’s family last spoke to her.
• She sends her last known message to her mother, Heather, providing an address: 1315 B Ridge Drive, Kingsport, TN.
• She states she is with a man named Steven Linkous.
• Heather later states that Hollynn was involved in a fight at a party that night before she disappeared.
• October 9, 2023 (Approximate):
• A witness later reports that Steven Linkous brutally assaulted Hollynn, leaving her unconscious.
• Multiple witnesses confirm this account.
• Hollynn was reportedly unable to speak properly afterward.
• October 15, 2023 (Last Known Sighting):
• Per TBI:: Hollynn was last seen in the Bell Ridge Drive area of Kingsport, TN.
• Her Foster mother notices she has not heard from Hollynn in several days and grows concerned.

Disappearance & Investigation (October–December 2023)

• October 18, 2023: Heather posts on Facebook, stating:
• “My 19-year-old daughter Hollynn Snapp has been missing for about a week. Please pray that she is found. She is in a super unsafe state of mind and could be in danger.” Link
  
• October 19, 2023:
• Heather attempts to file a missing persons report with Kingsport police but faces delays.
• The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office officially takes the case.
• Authorities initially downplay the situation, assuming she will turn up.
• October 20, 2023:
• Heather posts another update on Facebook:
• “The police have investigated the two properties she was potentially at and wasn’t found. I am filing a missing person’s report now that those places have been ruled out.” Post
  
• October 22, 2023: Hollynn’s family officially reports her missing to the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office. Link
  
• October 23, 2023: Law enforcement issues a statement:
• Hollynn’s family last spoke with her on October 5.
• Authorities release a missing persons alert, describing her as 4’10”, 110 pounds, brown hair, and hazel eyes.
• October 24, 2023: Hollynn is added to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).
• October 26, 2023: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) issues an Endangered Young Adult Alert, confirming that Hollynn was last seen on October 15.
• Late October 2023:
• Witnesses confirm Hollynn was last seen at Linkous’ residence.
• Authorities execute search warrants on the property and electronic devices.
• Law enforcement attempts to recover deleted surveillance footage from the property.
• November 2023:
• Steven Linkous flees to Georgia after seeing missing person flyers.
• He is arrested in Bartow County, GA, on unrelated drug charges.
• Linkous is extradited back to Sullivan County, TN.
• Despite evidence linking him to Hollynn, he is not charged in connection with her disappearance.
• December 2023:
• Another resident of the property where Hollynn was last seen takes a sudden vacation.
• Authorities interview multiple individuals, but details remain unclear.
• Hollynn remains missing.
• Heather, battling a chronic illness, continues advocating for answers.

Ongoing Efforts (2024–Present)

• January 2024:
• A prayer vigil is held for Hollynn Snapp and another missing woman, Layla Santanello.
• February 28, 2024:
• A witness confirms that Hollynn was severely beaten and left barely breathing in a basement.
• It remains unclear whether she survived the assault.
• The man who assaulted her fled to Georgia after she was reported missing.
• March 4, 2024:
• Kingsport Police state that Hollynn’s case is unrelated to the disappearance of Layla Santanello.
• Heather posts an update:
• “A large 51-year-old man is responsible for my daughter’s disappearance. Hollynn had the mentality of a 10-year-old, was 4’9″ and 80 lbs. It’s unlikely she survived, and he was aided in disposing of her body.” Post
  
• July 10, 2024:
• The family reiterates that Hollynn was last seen with 52-year-old Steven Linkous.
• Linkous took his mother’s car and fled to Georgia after the missing persons report was filed.
• August 24, 2024:
• Hollynn’s 20th birthday passes with no new developments.

Current Status

• Hollynn remains missing.
• Her family continues pushing for justice and answers.
• Steven Linkous, the last known person with her, remains free.
• Law enforcement continues investigating, but no arrests have been made.
• Authorities urge anyone with information to contact the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.

(00:01) Video of Hollynn playing: CU I can’t help it you can’t help it yeah I actually about to cry that’s how bad I’ve been laughing inside.

Heather: Several eyewitnesses know um Steve Link beat Hollynn and we know that she was pretty much unconscious, not able to articulate, not able to form sentences or anything like that after he beat her. From there, I have no idea where she could be or what happened. Lots of theories but nothing that’s really panned out.

(01:21) Hollynn was around nine when she, no, I’m sorry, eight when she came to live with us around 2013. She was here on and off for right around a year before she was adopted in 2014 by Heather and Steven Snapp, who are her parents for all intents and purposes. We have always, my family and I, stayed in touch with them. You know, just attended things that we could that Hollynn would have, like choir. I still, myself, would go see her, talk to her all the time on the phone. She would message me two or three times a week, and if I didn’t hear from her, I was like, oh, what’s going on, and we would reconnect.

(02:04) When Hollynn lived with us and the last time I saw her, she very much had a very country accent. She’s very, um, just the sweetest little accent. I think that’s one of her characteristics that people would definitely know her by. She is very small, I mean strikingly small. She’s the size of my 11-year-old daughter. She’s about 4’9″ and weighs about 90 lbs, the last time I saw her. She had lost weight. I don’t think I have said this anywhere else, but I do feel like it is really important that people might know that her actual name is Erika Bilhommer. That was her name before she was adopted. Hollynn got a new start, and that was a very good thing for her. She likes being called Hollynn.

(03:23) Hollynn is very impulsive. She’s very trusting of people that she definitely should not be trusting of. She’s never met a stranger, and everybody, according to her, loves her and has her best interest at heart. Unfortunately, today’s 460 days that she’s been missing. We know now that she was wrong about that. People do not always have your best interest at heart, and I wish that we could have instilled that in her a little bit more. Hollynn has the IQ of 64 and has the mentality of a 10 or an 11-year-old, making her extremely vulnerable and easier to take advantage of.

(04:45) Around the time that Hollynn disappeared, there were so many big things happening in her family and in Heather’s family. Heather’s family suffered a loss of a loved one, and that put Heather in a bad spot with being able to have Hollynn at her home. Hollynn had been living with her aunt in Kingsport. That got a little rocky, and it was apparent that Hollynn needed to go to inpatient rehab. She was doing outpatient but needed inpatient. Hollynn went to Heather’s home, but Heather couldn’t let her stay due to everything going on. So, Hollynn went to Johnson City Medical Center. Starting the night of the 27th, she started calling me, “Hey, can you come get me?” I already knew what was going on and knew that she needed to go inpatient.

(06:39) I talked to Hollynn until about 4:30 that morning and then again around 6. That was the last time I ever talked to Hollynn. That was September 28th. I remember that because it’s my birthday. My daughter got married September 30th. Hollynn had asked if she could be at the wedding, and we were like, “Sure!” She said, “I’m so afraid that I will mess something up.” I said, “Hollynn, what could you mess up?” Of course, she wasn’t at the wedding. I assumed that she had gone inpatient from the hospital.

(07:42) She was last known to be in Kingsport. She texted Heather an address and said, “Hey, this is where I am and who I am with.” She also told Heather his name, which is very much like her. His name was Steven Linkus. He lives at the address provided to Heather, 1315 B Ridge Drive in Kingsport, Tennessee. That area has multiple residences at one address—a few campers, a trailer, and a house.

(08:52) Kingsport City was difficult to work with when we tried to report her missing. Heather started calling them, and they gave her a runaround. On the 19th, I called, and they said the detective was on vacation. Finally, I told Heather to come to me, and we went to Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office. They took a report but initially downplayed the situation. But I knew something was wrong. Hollynn messaged us every day, and all communication stopped on October 5th.

(10:42) Several witnesses have come forward. We know she was taken to Steven Linkus’ house by a mutual friend. She thought she was going to a party, but it was not what she expected. Several witnesses say that at some point, Steve Linkus beat Hollynn, and she was unconscious, unable to speak or form sentences. From there, we have no idea where she could be.

(12:47) There have been multiple search warrants issued for the residence and electronics. However, there was a gap in time between when we believe the beating happened and when she was formally reported missing, giving him time to dispose of evidence. He had surveillance cameras, and some of that footage was deleted, though parts were recovered.

(14:01) After Hollynn was reported missing, Linkus fled to Georgia, where he was arrested on drug charges. He was later extradited back to Sullivan County. He has never been charged in connection with Hollynn’s disappearance.

(16:48) Another person living on the property took a sudden “vacation” during the same time period. There were several adults at the property, and one has since passed away from an overdose. Police have interviewed some individuals, but there’s a lot that remains uncertain.

(28:26) We will never stop searching for Hollynn. Heather, her mother, has a chronic disease. It would be kind and gracious for someone to tell her what happened. We pray daily for answers. If anyone has information, we beg you to come forward.