Kelly
01-08-2008, 12:04 PM
You may have already heard about this, but here it is anyway.
So basically this 24 year old girl went hiking with her black lab at Vogel Park in North Ga on New Years Day and ended up missing. Witnesses gave a description of a conspicious older white headed man with 'bad teeth' walking behind her. The man was eventually identified and a lady that knew of him said he lived out of his white Astro Van. She said "he seemed to be a friendly man, I could see someone trusting him".
They put out several search and rescue teams covering several counties. Last Friday, a lady was watching a black lab run around in a parking lot in Cumming. She said she was waiting to see if someone was coming to get it, but eventually realized it was lost. She took it to the vet across the road to see if it had just escaped. Turned out, the dog had a microchip that identified him as this missing girl's dog. Then her clothes, wallet, and UGA ID were discovered in a dumpster, covered in blood. Close by, some people spotted the guy cleaning out his white van at a car wash and reported it. When the police showed up, the 61 year old man was bleaching out the back of the van. They arrested him, obviously, but the guy wouldn't give them any information.
Until yesterday, when he finally told them where to look. Her body was discovered in the Dawson Forest of Blood Mountain shortly after 7:30pm.
I tried to sum it up as best as possible but here are more detailed sources.
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/news.apx.-content-articles-SPA-2008-01-07-0014.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/08/america/Missing-Hiker.php
I don't know about you, but this is a little too close for comfort... And sad :(
So basically this 24 year old girl went hiking with her black lab at Vogel Park in North Ga on New Years Day and ended up missing. Witnesses gave a description of a conspicious older white headed man with 'bad teeth' walking behind her. The man was eventually identified and a lady that knew of him said he lived out of his white Astro Van. She said "he seemed to be a friendly man, I could see someone trusting him".
They put out several search and rescue teams covering several counties. Last Friday, a lady was watching a black lab run around in a parking lot in Cumming. She said she was waiting to see if someone was coming to get it, but eventually realized it was lost. She took it to the vet across the road to see if it had just escaped. Turned out, the dog had a microchip that identified him as this missing girl's dog. Then her clothes, wallet, and UGA ID were discovered in a dumpster, covered in blood. Close by, some people spotted the guy cleaning out his white van at a car wash and reported it. When the police showed up, the 61 year old man was bleaching out the back of the van. They arrested him, obviously, but the guy wouldn't give them any information.
Until yesterday, when he finally told them where to look. Her body was discovered in the Dawson Forest of Blood Mountain shortly after 7:30pm.
I tried to sum it up as best as possible but here are more detailed sources.
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/news.apx.-content-articles-SPA-2008-01-07-0014.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/08/america/Missing-Hiker.php
I don't know about you, but this is a little too close for comfort... And sad :(