A number of recent human-on-human crimes — including murder — have attempted to be covered up by blaming them on bear attacks. But law enforcement

October, Steven Douglas Lloyd of Knoxville was found dead in a staged bear attack that was allegedly linked to Nicholas Wayne Hamlett.

Nicholas Hamlett is charged with killing an acquaintance in October in Tennessee. Investigators say he tried to pass off the homicide as a bear attack.

A man accused of killing a person and staging it as a fatal bear attack in Tennessee was taken into custody in South Carolina over the weekend on murder charges, in what authorities described as a plot to steal the victim’s identity.