COLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio - A Columbiana County man's home is raided after what some are calling an unhealthy interest in the case of a missing Tennessee nursing student.

It has been nearly 10-months since 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo disappeared. She was last seen in April walking into the woods near her home with a man in camouflage.

The missing woman's mother, Karen Bobo, made a plea to the public asking for help in finding her daughter, and hundreds of people responded to her cries for help searching the wooded area along with police.

Thousands of miles from Tennessee, here in the Mahoning Valley, a laid-off home builder with no connection to Holly Bobo also wanted to help.

Tony Calabrese of East Liverpool set up a website that featured photos of the missing young woman and solicited leads, saying he would pass the information on to investigators.

Calabrese says, "I'm just your average normal guy that got intrigued by a case." Calabrese says he specifically organized a tactical search and rescue team to assist in the case, but the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tells 21 News the search team does not exist.

The East Liverpool man says by soliciting information on the case he received what he perceives as a confession from the man who possibly abducted Holly.

He doesn't want to provide any further information to reporters on that person saying he doesn't want to jeopardize the case.

But he tells 21 News when he forwarded the information to the Tennessee governor, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, that's also referred to as TBI, felt threatened.

Calabrese says TBI accused him of interfering in the Holly Bobo case.

Tennessee authorities subsequently raided his East Liverpool home in January confiscating computers and other items. According to Calabrese, "It has literally ruined my life. I have literally been harassed online because of it."

Internet posts on websites make it clear some members of the community where Holly Bobo lives are also not interested in the Ohio man's help on the case. One person referred to Calabrese as a "scary person." Another person wrote, "I don't believe anything that man says."

When asked if he has an unhealthy interest in the case, Calabrese admits that normally he would agree with that. However, he says if Tennessee investigators check the facts they would see that his own children were kidnapped in 1999 and that's a major reason he has an interest in the case.

Calabrese's children were found with family members unharmed, no charges were ever filed.

As for Holly Bobo's case, Kristin Helm with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says, "Anytime there is a lot of reward money at stake in a high profile case it is not unusual for people to try and monopolize on the money trying to ‘help.' Instead it can create rumor and speculation and not result in the evidence and facts needed by law enforcement to solve a case."

In this case the state has put up a $85,000 reward, and just recently an anonymous donation came in raising the reward to $250,000.

The TBI goes on to tell 21 News that Calabrese is not a suspect in Holly's disappearance, but the TBI does believe he obstructed it's investigation and a case on Calabrese is open and ongoing as the evidence from his home is analyzed.

Calabrese says he just wants to help a mother find her missing daughter and he does not accept donations or rewards for any help that is offered.