No evidence found in search for murder victim
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor

Officers searched all day for the skeletal remains of a murder victim, but found nothing.

Acting on a tip, Richmond County investigators scoured an area along Brier Creek in Keysville last Wednesday, looking for signs that the body of William "Al" Hamilton was buried there nearly a decade ago.

GBI agents and Burke County deputies joined in the search and spent the better part of the day with a backhoe just below the bridge.

Hamilton, who managed the Discotheque Night Club in Augusta, went missing exactly nine years prior to the search. Rodney Richardson, the ex-husband of Hamilton's girlfriend, was convicted of the murder, but Hamilton's body was never found.