Published 2:01 pm Thursday, August 20, 2026 SPARTA, Ga. — The case of a missing Hancock County man is now in its third week, and local and state law enforcement authorities still have no clue about George Wayne Pailloz’s whereabouts. “Right now, we have no leads as to what happened to Mr. Pailloz,” said Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Michael Maybin, assistant agent in-charge of the GBI Region 6 Investigative Office in Milledgeville. Maybin talked exclusively on Wednesday with The Union-Recorder about the mystifying case. Maybin said Pailloz had not used his cellphone since Monday, July 27, when he was officially reported missing by a family member to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office. “His phone has had no activity since the day he was reported missing,” Maybin said, noting Pailloz’s father and sisters filed the missing person’s report. After the report was filed, Hancock County Sheriff Dr. Tomyln Primus authorized Chief Investigator Thomas Resha to call the GBI for assistance. GBI Special Agent Scott Goodwin was assigned to the case. “We all went out and started looking for this man on Wednesday, July 29,” Maybin recalled. “We tried to ping his phone to find out where he might be.” GBI agents had already discovered that Pailloz’s Ford-150 pickup truck was parked in the yard of his residence. Authorities also found a zero-turn radius riding lawnmower parked in the front yard. “We don’t know when he had been cutting his grass,” Maybin said, saying it could…
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