Missing Georgian body found in Louisiana: authorities

The body of a Georgia man who went missing during a business trip in Louisiana was found rolled in a carpet in a vacant lot in Baton Rouge, an official said.

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Nathan Millard, 42, was last seen at around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 23 in downtown Baton Rouge, according to the city’s police department.

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He was found dead at around 3:30 a.m. on March 6, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page. The cause of death is pending autopsy results.

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Millard’s body was found after someone in the area noticed a “foul odor” coming from the vacant lot, Tim Miller, founder of Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit search and recovery organization, told McClatchy News.

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The lot is about 3 miles from a pub where Millard was spotted the night he disappeared. The pub is less than two blocks from the Marriott where he was staying, WBRZ reported.

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After Millard disappeared, his phone was found a few blocks from his hotel and his debit card had been used, McClatchy News reported.

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Millard was in Baton Rouge to meet with a client at a site for his job with a construction company, according to 13 WMAZ. Millard went to Happy’s Irish Pub with the client at around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 23 and left to go back to his hotel at around 11:30 p.m., the outlet reported.

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After he left the bar, surveillance video shows someone using his debit card to withdraw money from an ATM near a Greyhound bus station, according to the outlet. Someone also made a withdrawal from a different ATM and multiple small charges from a nearby Chevron gas station between 1 and 2 a.m. on Feb. 24.

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Millard had a wife and a 7-year-old daughter, according to The Advocate. He also had two teenage sons from a previous marriage and two teenage stepsons, the outlet reported.

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He was from Walton County, about 45 miles east of Atlanta, McClatchy News reported.

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Madeleine List is a reporter for McClatchy National Real-Time. She reports to the Cape Cod Times and Providence Journal.