Dorchester County State’s Attorney William Jones announced Friday a Dorchester County grand jury has indicted William Stevens Hamilton of Hurlock, charging him with first- and second-degree murder in connection with the August 2009 disappearance of another Hurlock man.
Jones said Craig Junior Parker disappeared in August 2009 and was an employee on Hamilton’s farm during that period.
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The state’s attorney said Hamilton, 66, was arrested Tuesday, April 1, after an investigation by the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit. Hamilton also is charged with first-degree assault.
He is being held at the Dorchester County Detention Center without bond.
“We have not found the body,” Jones said. “I am not able to disclose any additional information about the case with the investigation ongoing. We are still asking the public for information about the case. Anyone with information about the case can call Maryland State Police Sgt. Steve Hall at 410-822-3101.”
Parker lived alone in the 4900-block of Williamsburg Church Road, Hurlock. Parker was reported missing in October 2011, though he was last seen in Dorchester County in summer 2009, according to the Maryland State Police in October 2011.
The Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office and Natural Resources Police joined state troopers in the search. A week after Parker was reported missing, police searched a Williamsburg Church Road farm for several days. Nothing substantial apparently was found during the initial search in 2011, police said.
