Authorities searching for man accused of murder, in bizarre case [Video]

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. — UPDATE (Oct. 31): A police department in South Carolina said it is using helicopters and K-9s to search for a man wanted for murder in Monroe County, Tennessee.

The Chapin Police Department said it is searching in the area around Lake Murray, South Carolina, for Nicholas Wayne Hamlett. There was a confirmed sighting of him near Chapin High School. 

Hamlett is suspected of killing a yet-to-be-identified man. 

During the press conference on Wednesday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said dispatchers received a call on Oct. 18 claiming a hiker was injured after running from a bear and falling off a cliff, and the hiker said he was partially in the water. The hiker claimed to be Brandon Andrade.

Investigators found a body with the identification of Brandon Andrade nearby. They later determined that the body found was not Andrade and …