n of many hats. i m a philoso 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 stop and think about things.
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. then on tuesday, four days after she was last seen, the cops got her bank records. something was up. we found where some atm
to help children. of course he had pocketed it. what was his job? his job was scamming. that s what he did mostly. you knew him as a con man basically? right. when he got tripped up, he d call on you? he did. he wears two hats. he s also a movie producer. not hollywood but more of the direct to video. this is a 2004 release. i can t do that. don t do it. shoot me. shoot me! horror, gory, what s the genre? try not to make it gore ri b 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
florida in the panhandle area. people are bound by their schools, by their family, by their churches. sunday schoolteachers with children and a grandchild don t go missing? exactly right. law enforcement was trying to put the pieces together. when they looked into cheryl s background, nothing jumped out at them. two sons, a long-settled divorce, no boyfriends. then on tuesday four days after she was last seen, the cops got her bank records. something was up. we found where some atm activity had occurred. that s a big break. yes, sir. upon viewing that video in leon county, it was clear it was not her. this was a male subject using her card. he was disguising his face. we knew at that point that it was probably not going to be a good outcome for ms. dunlap. the disguised man made three separate withdrawals of $700. the atm was in downtown
one that meredith was her dog 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 called her and wanted money. and she commented, don t you know the world is looking for you? and he hung up. hilton called from a pay phone at a convenience store near where meredith s dog had turned up. you have a living pet, a missing own and a phone somewhere. the agents are searching and they look in a dumpster. it was in a dumpster we found meredith s identification and