September 23, 2012 was a rather temperate Sunday in Georgia. It was the second day of

fall, and temperatures rested in the mid-60s for most of the day, providing a nice respite

for those that had been enduring a particularly hot and humid summer. In a small county in

northern Georgia, church goers and morning employees began to stir for the day, but several

officials with the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office were already awake. Hours beforehand,

they had been joined by members of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the GBI, and the Georgia

State Patrol, the GSP, in searching for a hunter who had gone missing in the woods, and for hours

had been making repeated phone calls 2-9-1-1, claiming to be lost. Earlier that morning,

several hours before sunrise, officials had unsuccessfully dispatched several search and rescue

teams to find this man. It wasn't until a helicopter from the GSP set out with heat-seeking technology

that the missing hunter was found, or rather, his body was found. This discovery that morning would

set off a roughly year-long investigation, which led to the convening of a grand jury,

and ultimately, a number of unanswered questions. This is the story of Jeffrey Gebhardt.

Jeffrey Sean Gebhardt, who was later nicknamed Poo by those that knew him, like Winnie the Poo,

was born on October 27th, 1976, in Winter Haven, Florida. Not much is known about Jeffrey's

early life, as his family have tried to remain out of the spotlight over the past few years.

But by all accounts, Jeffrey became a pretty normal guy who lived in Georgia,

and he loved to do all kinds of outdoor activities. In addition to being an avid runner,

who kept himself in great shape, he loved to hunt fish and camp. He did not seem to partake in any

drug or alcohol consumption, and he never married or had any children. By 2012, Jeffrey was 35 years

old and living in Blaire'sville, Georgia, a small town near the South Carolina Tennessee border.

He was a regular churchgoer who attended the St. Francis Catholic Church in Blaire'sville. He was

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