{"id":445316,"date":"2026-09-23T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445316\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:04:08","slug":"tip-leading-to-location-of-missing-mans-body-turns-out-false-houston-county-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445316\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip leading to location of missing man’s body turns out false, Houston County Sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) \u2014 A tip informing Houston County authorities about the location of the body of a missing man turned out to be false.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Houston County Sheriff Matt Moulton said his investigators and agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) began excavating areas of the backyard of a home along the 1100 block of Collins Avenue on Monday after his office received a tip about the location of Dustin Wallace’s body two weeks prior. <\/p>\n

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Wallace, 37, has been missing since Sept. 3, 2021. His mother, Connie Wallace, spoke with WGXA<\/a> more than two years after his disappearance.<\/p>\n

“Someone knows something about my son. I will keep his memory alive. I will not stop I’m going to keep searching. I’m not going to give up. I will never give up,” Connie Wallace then told WGXA.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office recently renewed its pleas for tips<\/a> in Dec. 2025 that would lead authorities to find Wallace, offering a $15,000 reward to anyone with tips that could lead to finding him.<\/p>\n

But on Monday, after authorities dug up beneath a storage shed behind a home on Collins Avenue, Sheriff Moulton confirmed no human remains were found, nor was any evidence discovered that a body had been buried in the area.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the sheriff’s office is still offering that $15,000 reward to anyone with information that would help find Wallace. Tips can be made by calling (478) 542-2085 or the Macon Regional Crimestoppers.<\/p>\n

Stick with WGXA, where we’re keeping you ready for what’s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) \u2014 A tip informing Houston County authorities about the location of the body of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-445316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}