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A Dallas-area law school instructor is missing in north Georgia, where multiple agencies are searching a Georgia trail after he failed to return from a hike earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Details of the disappearance<\/strong> <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The Union County Sheriff\u2019s Office says 67-year-old Charles Hosch, an adjunct professor at SMU\u2019s Dedman School of Law, was last seen Tuesday at the Byron Herbert Reece Trailhead, a popular entry point to the Appalachian Trail near Blairsville, Georgia. He has not been heard from since.<\/p>\n Hosch is described as 6 feet 1, about 200 pounds, and was last seen wearing khaki pants, a camel-colored sweater and a dark green jacket, according to a missing person poster from the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Deputies released an updated photo Thursday morning showing the clothing he was believed to be wearing at the time.<\/p>\n In a public alert, the sheriff\u2019s office asked anyone who was on the trail or near the Mountain Crossings store on Nov. 11 to come forward if they saw Hosch.<\/p>\n SMU confirms faculty member missing <\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n SMU confirmed Thursday that Hosch is a member of its adjunct faculty and said the university community is closely following the search.<\/p>\n “SMU is aware that Charles Hosch, an adjunct faculty member in the Dedman School of Law, was reported missing while hiking in Georgia,” the university said in a statement. “We are keeping his family and all who care about him in our thoughts and are grateful for the efforts of the agencies leading the search.”<\/p>\n Search continues <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n If you see Charles or know of his whereabouts, please contact the Emergency Operations Center at (706) 439-6091 or dial 911.<\/p>\n Search crews have been combing steep, heavily wooded terrain near the trailhead since his disappearance was reported.<\/p>\n Anyone with information is urged to contact Union County authorities immediately.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was provided by Union County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia.<\/p>\n Missing Persons<\/a>Georgia<\/a>Texas<\/a>Dallas<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A Dallas-area law school instructor is missing in north Georgia, where multiple agencies are searching a Georgia…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,407,17505,8324,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-377680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-ga","14":"tag-missing-persons","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115546581392533798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}