[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Golf Course Remains Identified

Posted: 3/9/2005 4:03:09 PM EDT

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Golf Course Remains Identified

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- Human remains found buried in a northeast Georgia golf course were identified Wednesday as those of an Oglethorpe County woman missing since July 2003, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

Dental records revealed that the remains, found Monday on the 13th fairway of Traditions of Braselton after a weeklong search, belonged to 19-year-old Kayla Marie Wills.

Wills’ former housemate, Robert Eugene Hill, 47, reportedly told authorities that he woke up and found Wills dead and buried her because he was scared he would be accused of killing her.

He has not been charged with her death. Authorities are awaiting a cause of death from Wednesday’s autopsy. He is jailed without bond on charges of concealing a death and abandoning a body.

Hill, who worked with bulldozers and other heavy equipment during construction of the golf course, went to investigators March 1 after learning the investigation into Wills’ disappearance had been reopened by Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith, who took office in January.