Search continues for Texas law professor on Georgia’s Blood Mountain

The Brief

  • New K-9 indications and expanded ground teams are giving search crews fresh direction in the effort to find missing hiker and SMU law professor Charles Hosch.
  • Search operations on Blood Mountain now include drones, specialized K-9 units, and renewed calls for photos and sightings from hikers in the area.
  • Hosch’s family remains on-site in North Georgia, urging the public to assist as teams move into more remote terrain after nearly a week of exhaustive searching.

UNION COUNTY, Ga. The search for missing Texas law professor Charles Hosch, who is originally from Gainesville, has entered another day with new K-9 indications giving rescuers and family members fresh hope amid one of North Georgia’s most challenging mountain terrains.

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Hosch, 67, disappeared on Nov. 11 after setting out for what was expected to be a short solo hike near Blood Mountain, a section of the Appalachian Trail he has hiked for decades. When his wife could not reach him the next morning — something his daughter says is extremely unusual — the family immediately notified authorities.

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