06/17/2026
Grand Jury indicts a couple on 21-counts relating to the death of Richard Cash - whose lifeless body was found by law enforcement in the woods near the Polk County line on May 27th...
Robert Anthony "Bobby" Hill and his girlfriend were taken into custody last month… and a confidential tip led investigators to the hidden body.
The Haralson County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation May 22 after Sheriff Stacy Williams received an anonymous tip about a potential killing. Investigators found no active missing persons reports at the time, but the case shifted when family members reported Richard Cash missing the next day, noting he was last seen around 8:30 p.m. on May 20.
Deputies used technology and interviews to identify Hill as the suspect.
On May 24, Tallapoosa Police officers tried to stop Hill's vehicle, but he sped away into the county onto Valley Road, abandoned his car and ran.
Just after midnight on May 25, a Cherokee Sheriff's Office deputy spotted Hill inside another vehicle. When backup arrived and signaled a traffic stop, Hill jumped out and ran, throwing a pair of gloves containing a .38 firearm over a fence before deputies used a Taser on him.
His girlfriend, Christy Nelson, was detained at the scene. Hill was taken into custody a short time later.
Multiagency teams using ATVs searched the Treat Mountain area. On May 27, Crime Suppression Unit deputies tracked an odor in a remote area, and a sergeant found the hidden body 15 feet inside the woods.
According to the Haralson County Grand Jury indictment released this week: Hill is alleged to have shot Cash with a .38 caliber firearm, resulting in Cash's death.
Hill is also accused of concealing the death of Cash by having the body moved from Seabreeze Road to Treat mountain.
Hill is accused of flushing the shell casings down a toilet.
Nelson was indicted for Hindering Apprehension or Punishment of a Criminal when she was allegedly present during the shooting and being with Hill as he fled from police. Nelson also allegedly provided a trash can to move Cash's body from her residence in Buchanan to Treat Mountain.
Nelson is also accused of requesting that Cash travel to her house so that she could sell him Adderall pills.
