Daylong manhunt yields no Zinkhan, more questions

BOGART – The massive manhunt for “not your typical type of fugitive” descended on northwestern Athens-Clarke County Friday, as law enforcement hunted through a large wooded area for accused murder and University professor George Zinkhan.

Officers from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Marshals Office, FBI and ACC spent Friday on an 1,110-acre tract off Fowler Mill Road looking for Zinkhan after his maroon 2005 Jeep Liberty was discovered Thursday night in a ravine. They were joined by Department of Natural Resources rangers, riding all-terrain vehicles with rifles strapped to their backs, as the GBI told reporters 200 people were searching for Zinkhan between Cleveland Road and the Jackson County line.