it matched what the prosecutors had also. >> reporter: zack adams' defense attorney says it's a pack jason autry's gonna be rewarded for his story. i think he's gonna be released. i think he'll be released fairly soon. >> reporter: she points out phone records show autry takes time out from allegedly participating in this murder to chat on the phone with his girlfriend, and his mother. >> in the middle of all this, you were able to take a telephone call from your mother shirley king that morning, at 9:42, weren't you? >> if your records reflect that, that's true. >> reporter: but prosecutors point to their own phone records, bringing on a tbi expert who tells the jury that autry's story of meeting up with zach adams before traveling to the tennessee river is backed up by the movements of their cellphones. but the prosecution isn't finished. they call to the witness stand a rogues gallery of walking, talking, testifying mugshots. cons and ex-cons who say they heard zach adams bragging about what he had done to holly bobo. >> he said, "i'll kill you like i did holly bobo." >> i couldn'