GA Man's Body Found Wrapped In Rug; Police Say No Sign Of Foul Play

BATON ROUGE, LA — Nathan Millard, the 42-year-old missing Georgia man who was found dead in Baton Rouge Monday, was seen at multiple downtown businesses in the hours before he was reported missing and his body was likely dumped where it was found, Baton Rouge Police said Tuesday at a news conference.

Police said they didn't have any indication of foul play and a preliminary autopsy showed no signs of external or internal trauma. The Advocate, a Louisiana-based newspaper, reported Millard's body was found wrapped in a rug and plastic and had been left near fast-food restaurants.

"First, I want to start by asking our community to lift the family of Nathan Millard up in prayer," Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy J. Paul Jr. said. "And that we're sorry for their loss and we understand the emotions and the trauma that this tragedy has presented to the family."

Millard, who was in Baton Rouge on a business trip, was reported missing on Feb. 23, and police used video surveillance to track his movements. Police said he was seen leaving a downtown business around 10:30 p.m., Feb. 22, and went to a Greyhound station about an hour later.

At the station, a security guard offered to call him an Uber or call the police for him but Millard declined, Captain Kevin Heinz, the captain of the department's violent crimes unit, said at the news conference.

Heinz said he did not appear to be in distress but "appeared to be out of place." He later left the station.

He was seen over the next several hours at different businesses in Baton Rouge and police tracked his last location at 4:30 a.m. Police are talking to anyone who has had contact with Millard and are asking anyone who interacted with him during that time to come forward.

Police stressed that throughout the night, Millard did not appear to be in distress.

"At this time we don't have any indication that there was any foul play involved," Heinz said. "We are looking into how he ended up where he was."

Asked at the news conference what police were doing to find the person or persons who appear to have dumped Millard's body where it was found, Heinz said that was not most likely where he died.

"Efforts are underway to locate and to talk to whoever may have put him there," Heinz said.

"If something happened and there was a moment of panic, come forward, we just want to know what happened to him," he said.

The coroner's office said Millard's body showed no external or internal signs of trauma but a final autopsy result was pending further study, including a toxicology test. A cause and manner of death are pending the final autopsy results.

Police are asking for anyone who may have information regarding Millard's whereabouts to call Baton Rouge Police Department or Capitol Region Crime Stoppers at (225) 344-7867. Police are particularly interested in speaking with whoever placed Millard's body in a rug and near restaurants.