that search really involved the entire area of the pisgh national forest. >> within hours of discovering irene bryant's body, detectives learned $300 had been withdrawn from the bryants' accounts using an atm card in duckstown, tennessee. they had a picture from the machine. >> the man that had concealed his head and face that was able to successfully use the brients' atm. >> whoever making the withdrawal, it it wasn't 79-year-old john bryant. but time and geography were working against the lawmen. >> we spent weeks everywhere in that it entire area. we did everything from vehicle patrol, atv patrolling, horseback, on foot, everywhere. >> john bryant had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. the fbi posted a $10,000 reward for information, but the bryant case went cold. until meredith emerson loomed on the lawmen's radar.