computer lab were working overtime trying to unscramble deleted material from the evidence. and deep in their dna lab more than 700 samples were being analyzed in an attempt to find some link between gary hilton and the late cheryl dunlap. had gary hilton managed to outsmart them all? would florida be able to make the case against him? three years after cheryl dunlap s death it was finally going to trial. coming up. palms are sweaty on your heart is beating. the traumatic case begins. how about it and? you could just see the jurors sudden their eyes, they knew. when mystery on blood mountain continues. mountain continues eak into the opening so your baby can hear you better. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit-now.
as a hair trigger not case. he often told stories of going to parks with his dog and he would end up in altercations with other pet owners. it was always the same story he would represent the other dog owner s behavior and then the other dog owner would get angry at him and for bleeder physically assault him. so he was always the victim. for the first nine years, hilton worked at his citing business, taper recalled him as a good employee, then something seem to snap. things started to change dramatically, starting in 2007. what happened then? he just wasn t doing any work. i decided to go and see what was happening over there. it was a bizarre scene. how so? his physical appearance was quite different, he immediately smiled to show that he was missing several teeth and he went on to explain that he had actually taken a pair of pliers and removed some of his teeth. and he said he enjoyed doing that because it frightened people. he seemed to enjoy showing himself in that
themselves in and near tapers building, it was the drop point that you stake out the location you re surveilling and? no-show. he didn t show? no-show, we re looking and wondering where could this guy be, we have him 50 miles from blood mountain. the veteran agents working as lack last case before retirement was talking constantly with meredith s parent. her father, dave emmerson. i appealed to everyone to search their hearts and memories for anything they can remember and do to help us find meridith. after i met the emerson s i knew that i had to tell them everything, i couldn t hold back any information from these two people, they were terrified. why did you take it personally? this case was different because not only me but the other investigators recognize the fact early on that we have to embrace this family and tell them everything even though what we were telling them was not good news. hilton, meredith, her lab
hilton did not want the world to hear. and with good reason. this is gary hilton two days after cheryl dunlap s disappearance, singing into the camera microphone and dancing with his dog dan. my dan, dan, dan we re doing it boy. it sounded as if he was confessing to the dog. i killed him with it. a hush courtroom listen to hilton s monologue. just killed those [bleep] go to the park, yeah. but first i gotta go hide it somewhere else. the states friends of people introduce evidence about cheryl slash tire, a two mark expert said that bayonet recovered on blood mountain in georgia was an exact match for the sharp object that caused the puncture down in florida. but the state goodnight evidence was without evidence the dna. genetic expert joel and brown spent two years testing more than 750 pieces of evidence in the case.
from the local sheriff s office. john, just shy of retirement was the agent in charge for the georgia bureau of investigation states top cop. we received a request from the agency to help with a missing hiker. the case of the hiker missing for two days didn t look good to the season detective because of some disturbing items that had been recovered on the trail. what were the things that were found on the trail area that you thought were alarming? a couple of water bottles, a dog leash and a police expandable baton. this is a piece of professional gear? it is. a metal pipe that is expandable. you see almost every uniformed police officer carrying these things. those artifacts, the water bottle, the baton found together tell you a story at all or suggest something ominous? yes, we found those items in an area where the ground had appeared to have been disturbed and we became concerned that possibly a struggle to place their. meredith s water bottle,