Detective Daniel Hayes

The Georgia Guidestones may be America's answer to Stonehenge.

It's a real-life soap opera.

How big was the fire when he lit it?

Give me a sense of how this story started for you.

It was a typical day at the office for me.

We had just finished lunch.

I believe I was in the car with Detective Kuykendall and we heard the radio call.

What did it say?

That a body was found in a fire.

The family had called 911 and said they had just found their father and his remains in the fire.

It was a hot day in July.

We thought, from what it sounded like, sometimes it happens.

Somebody's by a fire.

It's already 90-something degrees outside.

A medical episode happened, and he fell into the fire.

Detective Kuykendall and I both were, you know, let's go up here and get this knocked out so we can get home in time for dinner.

You went past their three-car garage and a big chicken coop, and we walked through the backyard.

It was wooded.

You know, the trees, there was no grass or anything like that, and it was a gradual downhill slope.

And we were taken to this very large pile of debris that was still smoldering.