{"id":42750,"date":"2022-10-30T17:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=42750"},"modified":"2022-10-30T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:45:09","slug":"a-deer-hunter-discovered-a-missing-georgia-mans-car-then-aw-enforcement-uncovered-remains-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=42750","title":{"rendered":"A deer hunter discovered a missing Georgia man&#8217;s car, then aw enforcement uncovered remains nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A deer hunter in <a href=\"\/tag\/Laurens-County\">Laurens County<\/a> discovered a vehicle resembling that of a <a href=\"\/tag\/Johnson-County\">Johnson County<\/a> man who has been missing for one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This car was discovered at a location off of Highway 319 in eastern Laurens County at about 5 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hunter contacted 911 and the tag of the vehicle came back to that of Don Hightower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurens County Deputies, with the assistance of the GBI, Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and volunteers, initiated a grid search Saturday morning morning at first daylight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remains were discovered during this search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remains are being transported to the State Crime Lab for identification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is still an ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=20]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deer hunter in Laurens County discovered a vehicle resembling that of a Johnson County man who has been missing for one year. This car was discovered at a location off of Highway 319 in eastern Laurens County at about 5 p.m. Friday. The hunter contacted 911 and the tag of the vehicle came back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827],"tags":[9745,10731,10038],"class_list":["post-42750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missing","tag-johnson-county","tag-laurens-county","tag-south-georgia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}