BRASELTON - Authorities found human remains Monday after a week of excavations on a northeast Georgia golf course searching for the body of a woman missing since July 2002.
The family of Kayla Marie Wills said investigators told them that remains had been found on the 13th fairway of the Traditions of Braselton course, but that the remains had not been identified as hers.
Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith said Robert Eugene Hill of Pendergrass, who lived with the 19-year-old Wills at the time she disappeared, claimed to have buried the body on the golf course. Hill, 47, said he did not kill the woman but woke up and found she was dead, became frightened and buried her at the golf course, where he worked during its construction.
Hill went to the GBI's Athens office March 1 after he learned authorities were investigating the woman's disappearance.
Smith reopened the case of Wills' disappearance after he took office in January. Authorities previously closed the case when it remained unsolved.
Tuesday
June 3rd, 2025
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