<p>Clay Bryant digs up old mysteries and tries to crack them.</p><p>In the last year, the investigations of "Cold Case Clay" have led to arrests in cases from 1970, 1987 and 1990.</p><p>"How many chances would a man get to right wrongs that occurred 33 years ago or 17 years ago or 14 years ago?" he said.</p><p>Bryant, now a district attorney's investigator in the Coweta Judicial Circuit, connects his search for justice back to 1970, when he saw the body of Gwendolyn Moore being lifted from a well by a tow truck.</p><p>"She was spinning around in a circle. It was the most macabre thing you ever saw," said Bryant, who was 15 years old at the time and tagging along with his father, the Hogansville police chief.</p><p>Moore, a 30-year-old mother of four, had been savagely beaten and dumped in the well. No one was arrested until Bryant got on the case a couple of years ago.</p><p>Moore's grandniece contacted the sheriff's department to see what had ever become of the case, and that's how she reached Bryant. She had found a death certificate that indicated a bottle was broken over Moore's head in July 1970, and she was punched in the face repeatedly a week later, the day she died.</p><p>Moore's husband, Marshall Moore, was arrested. Moore, 67, who has throat cancer and is out on bond, denies killing his wife.</p><p>"My daddy often said she never had justice in this case," Bryant said. "It was like my father handed me this case and said, 'This ain't right, fix it.'"</p><p>Marshall Moore's lawyer is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to throw out the case, claiming it violates his client's right to a speedy trial.</p><p>"They made a decision not to prosecute. Now anything or anyone supporting that decision is gone," said attorney William Stemberger.</p><p>After Moore's arrest, Bryant took on the case of Fred Wilkerson, who disappeared in November 1987. Two months later, authorities found Wilkerson's bones buried 18-feet deep on the property of his former girlfriend.</p><p>Connie King Quedens, 59, was arrested and faces trial in August. She denies the charges.</p><p>Bryant's work also led to charges against four men accused of assaulting a man at a pub in 1990 and then driving him to the top of Pine Mountain and throwing him from the vehicle.</p><p>Allen Moore, Marshall and Gwendolyn Moore's oldest son, called Bryant a "bloodhound" as he steadily builds a case.</p><p>"He has a taste of the bone," Allen Moore said.</p><p>Bryant said he may solve more unsolved crimes. He's working on two more cold cases.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x28659e4)</p>
