GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Authorities say a man's body has been exhumed from a north Georgia grave as part of an investigation into how he was killed.
Investigators have said the man, 76-year-old Dillard Jewell Crane, died in September 2009 from gunshot wounds.
Authorities charged a neighbor, Lewis Dempsey, with murder. Dempsey's lawyer Jeff Wolff says his client is free on a $100,000 bond while awaiting trial.
Investigators have said the two men had been involved in a long-standing dispute over a property line in their neighborhood northwest of Dahlonega.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said workers at the crime lab discovered additional information about Crane's death which can only be documented by exhuming the body.
The body was exhumed Monday.