The first body, identified as 50-year-old Al Ogletree, was discovered in the doorway of a home on Fredonia Church Road near Barnesville at 2 p.m. He suffered head trauma, according to the sheriff.

About half an hour later, deputies were called to another home a half-mile away, where the bodies of two other men were discovered. They were identified as 88-year-old Charles Sutton and 55-year-old Frenchie Fambro, White said. Investigators said the men lived together.