LISTEN: In 911 audio, a man claimed to be a hiker who ran from a bear and fell off a cliff. In truth, authorities claim, he ...

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett is accused of killing Steven Douglas Lloyd, befriending him after mental health issues led him to occasionally live on the streets.

Nicholas Hamlett was arrested for fabricating a bear attack in a 911 call and plotting a murder for life insurance.

A fugitive accused of killing a man in Tennessee and trying to pass off the body as someone else’s by calling 911, ...

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office investigators said throughout the investigation that Hamlett had posed as an injured hiker, calling 911 and reporting that he was being followed by a bear.

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, was arrested on Nov. 10 after authorities located him at a South Carolina hospital. He is accused ...

A number of recent human-on-human crimes — including murder — have attempted to be covered up by blaming them on bear attacks. But law enforcement ...

An East Tennessee murder suspect appeared Tuesday morning in a Monroe County courtroom for an arraignment hearing days after ...