Authorities say a body has been discovered in an area near where a University of Georgia professor’s Jeep was found.
The professor, George Zinkhan, is accused of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater last month.
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said in a news release Saturday that the body is being taken to a state crime lab for positive identification.
—————————
Update: Cadaver dogs
found the body. Did you
know about cadaver dogs?
UD didn’t. Here’s
cadaverdog.com.
They offer a course called
Advanced Cadaver.
—————————
Another Update:
Fugitive murder suspect George Martin Zinkhan III dug his own grave and covered himself with debris before firing a single bullet into his head, investigators said Saturday.
“A person not accustomed to the woods would not have found it,” Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Jack Lumpkin said. “The body was beneath the earth… The body was purposely concealed in a manner not to be discovered.”
Searchers found two handguns in the grave.
Zinkhan’s well-hidden body was discovered Saturday by cadaver dogs — an Australian shepherd and a German shepherd — at 9:50 a.m. Saturday. The civilian Alpha Search and Rescue Team was working woods beyond the initial search area. Zinkhan’s temporary grave was in thick woods about 1,000 yards from an elementary school and about a mile from where his red Jeep Liberty was recovered more than a week ago. Zinkhan’s home in Bogart in Clarke County is not far away.
The police chief said this was the second time in his 35 years in law enforcement that he had encountered a suicide victim who buried himself first…
May 9th, 2009 at 4:48PM
I found a nice human tibia in the woods once–way too clean to have eroded out from the dirt. It turned out the local search/rescue agency had been training their cadaver dogs, and they forgot a training bone. The people, that is, not the dogs. Also, the dogs are very much alive, not zombies. They don’t get to chew the bones, either.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:32PM
Just like I thought. Suicide.
Zombie dogs are a menace. My ex-girlfriend’s twin sister is a Sasquatch hunter. She runs into them dawgs quite a bit.
May 10th, 2009 at 6:51AM
Sasquatchi, zombie dogs, and Killer Weed, eh?
May 10th, 2009 at 10:37AM
Sasquatchi? Actually it’s Sasquatches. They don’t like all that plural Latin crap. Don’t ask about Linnaean taxonomy.