released direct to video school. his low-budget titles are more common seen in asian stalls than in your multiplex. this is his latest release. i can t do that! don t do it. shoot me! horror, gory? what s the genre? try not to make it gory, but at the end of the day a little blood, a little sex, a little violence can t hurt. as it turned out, cops on the meredith emerson case were particularly interested in rail s first movie, deadly run. he made it back in 1985 with the assistance of his scam artist clienlt gary hilton. the premise of the movie is we re going to take some women into the woods and then we re going to defend those women and the poof, they ll be hunted down and killed. is gary involved in this, as a script writer or anything that
volunteers began fanning out into the adjacent 57,000 acre appalachia national forest. all of them with dread in their heart. i would be devastated if this happened to my family. i want to help. there were massive searches in town, thousands of people showed up to comb the woods looking for her. it was clear very early on that this was unusual for her. she would not have gotten in the car with someone. she just wasn t the person who would have disappeared. tallahassee democrat senior writer jennifer portman covered the story. we re talking about north florida in the panhandle area. people are bound by their schools, by their it family, their churches. and sunday school teachers with children and a grandchild don t go missing. that s exactly right. her friends and family were as baffld as the police. law enforcement was trying to put the pieces together. when they looked into sheryl s background, nothing jumped out at them. two sons, a long settled divorce, no boyfriends.
i m a philosopher, i m a scientist and i m an artist. what do you mean artist? my art is my life and my art is weird. he s kind of a philosopher king. i m an artist. and you poor dumb cops don t have the luxury of being able to think the big cosmic thoughts i do. he almost feels sorry for them that they can t keep up with him when he starts going about this, that and the other thing. hoping for crumbs of clues in those other open cases, murders in the national forests, the agents wanted to keep hilton talking. where all have you hiked? where all have you been in all over the united states? oh, i know what you re getting at, the unsolved murders. gary hilton thinks he s smart. is he? gary has an iq of 120, and that s considered to be way above average. the reason i m so seemingly intelligent is that i alone amongst almost anyone, including you dudes, have time to actually
family and tell them everything, even though what we were telling them was not good news. hilton, meredith, her lab ella. the tip line kept ringing with leads good and bad. then four days in, a friday afternoon, a shopper called to say that she d found a black lab mix wandering around a supermarket parking lot. surprised to see any dog running loose in the parking lot. then to find out it s the one that meredith was it was her dog, you know, was a pretty big surprise and shock. she took the dog to an animal clinic where the vet was able to read an identity chip implanted in her. sure enough, it was ella. but where was her owner, meredith? now events were moving quickly. right away came another tip. we get a call from a female acquaintance of hilton stating she had just hung up the phone. he had called her and wanted money. she commented that she she said, don t you know the world s looking for you? and he hung up.
stop and think about things. he ll rattle on as long as someone will listen to him. yes, on any topic under the sun virtually, huh? yes. pick a topic. any topic. how about volcanology? don t you know the super volcano under yellowstone, there are over 70 super volcanoes? when it erupts it basically blankets in a cone the whole eastern seaboard of the u.s. under several feet of ash and would just destroy any civilization in that area. the fast-talking flimflam man was on display in some of hilton s home videos found in his van. here is hilton giving a cop that stopped him some lip. you tell me he you re the lawman. you re the law. i m going to check it out. if it ain t the law and you re wrong come talk to me. i m not talking to nobody. i m filing and suing because you re interrupting my work. you hear gary bragging about how smart he is, how well he does his job. but at the same time what you hear is an incredible