GEORGIA
Two men claim to have Bigfoot corpse on ice
ATLANTA (AP) — Two men claim they have bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer said they stumbled on the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, far from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim to have seen the man-ape.
During a news conference Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., they presented what they called evidence supporting their Bigfoot find: an e-mail from a University of Minnesota entomologist who said that of the three DNA samples they sent him, one was human, one was likely a possum and the third could not be tested due to technical problems.
Whitton, an officer on leave from the Clayton County Police Department, and Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in July.
The picture they sent out in a news release and on their Web site — www.bigfoottracker.com — shows what appears to be a hairy corpse crammed into a chest freezer. The accompanying announcement describes the creature as a 7-foot-7 male, weighing 550 pounds with 16-inch human-like feet and reddish hair.
