May 16, 1999
Crime Scene
In the past few weeks, Clarke County residents have been entertained by reports of a nude man living it up next to the county’s busiest road. In one case, a caller said he was wearing a cap and sneakers. The next one said he was only wearing a fishing shirt. Local pundits have dubbed him the Naked Man, and he seems to be working his way into local legend. Many are doubting his existence, even after Deputy Larry Jay Motts claimed to have discovered the man pulling on his pants across the street from the old drive-in movie theatre on Highway 43 just before he disappeared behind the snack bar. “It doesn’t make sense,” Kristy Kelp, owner of the Walker Springs Grab & Go says. “Streaking went out thirty years ago. What could he be thinking?” Fruitlessly trailing the Naked Man down a logging road and through PeeWee Rivers’s gravel pit, Motts and his fellow deputies said they could tell from his footprints he was moving pretty fast.