02/07/2008 15:13. From left, Kirklyn Dixon, vice chairman of the Moore's Ford Memorial Committee, the Rev. Carlos Thompson and Penny Young stand near the site of Tuesday's search in Walton County for evidence in the 1946 lynchings at Moore's Ford.

State and federal agents looking for evidence in the 1946 Moore's Ford lynching seized items Tuesday from a property in rural Walton County, authorities said.

Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation began their search Monday, following up on "recent information" they received about the decades-old unsolved murders, the FBI said.

The search involved extensive digging in the backyard of the home, though authorities didn't say what type of items they took.

The current residents of the home aren't suspects, the... // Online Athens