State and federal investigators were searching in Walton County on Monday and Tuesday for clues to solve a 62-year-old lynching on the Moore's Ford bridge.

FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents unearthed several items related to the investigation of the 1946 broad-daylight deaths of two African-American couples on the Moore's Ford bridge over the Apalachee River.

"Agents located several items at the property that were taken to be processed for further analysis," GBI spokesman John Bankhead said in a statement. He would not give more details on what was found at the site.

He said the residents of the property — located on Michael Road — weren't implicated in the investigation.

On July 25, 1946, George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom were lined up on that bridge and shot hundreds of times. Authorities believe the lynching was in retaliation for a fight that Roger Malcom had with brothers Barney and Bob Hester on their farm 10 days before the murders.

Barney Hester, a white man, was stabbed during the struggle and Roger Malcom was arrested. He was released from jail a day before the shootings.

Although dozens of people may have participated in or seen the lynching, no one was ever prosecuted.

Gov. Roy Barnes ordered the GBI to reopen the case in 2000 and the agency began looking for clues tying any of the five suspects still living to the murders.