Man who allegedly disguised killing as bear attack captured in South Carolina

Authorities in South Carolina have captured a man who allegedly murdered a hiker in woodlands in Tennessee then attempted to disguise the killing as a bear attack. Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was arrested in Columbia on Sunday night almost one month after police found the body of the hiker, Steven Lloyd of Knoxville, Tennessee, close to the Cherahola Skyway in Monroe county, 80 miles north-east of Chattanooga. On 18 October, the Monroe sheriff's received a call from a person identifying himself as Brandon Andrade, who claimed to be injured and lying partially in water after being chased by a bear and falling over a cliff.

Rescuers found a body carrying Andrade's identification – but detectives quickly established the victim was Lloyd. Hamlett, they..



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