saw it, he only had one option, repugnant as it was with, and that was to cut a deal with gary hilton. sunday morning we got him a lawyer and i went up and had a talk with the lawyer and essentially laid out our case. hilton s lawyer then conferred with his client. the district attorney was brought into the loop and a deal went down. hilton would plead guilty to murder, because that is what it had been, and then he said he would lead investigators to meredith s body in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. nobody in law enforcement likes to make deals without holding their nose. we d to do it. you know, nto fded meredith, and given the circumstances i would do the same thing now. i m guessing, agent, the situation in your interview room is, gary, you told us what did to her. now where did you put her? yes. and he told us. hilton was loaded into a vehicle and he led lawmen down a
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murder, because that is what it had been, and then he said he would lead investigators to meredith s body in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. nobody in law enforcement likes to make deals without holding their nose. we had to do it. you know, we needed to find meredith, and given the circumstances i would do the same thing now. i m guessing, agent, the situation in your interview room is, gary, you told us what did to her. now where did you put her? yes. and he told us. hilton was loaded into a vehicle and he led lawmen down a trail in dawson forest. the body will be approximately 40 yards or 120 feet covered by leaves and brush. the head will be missing. where s the head? the only reason by the way the head was removed was forensically. yeah, right.
be. the veteran agent working his last case before retirement was talking constantly with meredith s parents. her father, dave emerson. i appeal to everyone to search their hearts and memories for anything they can remember and do to help us find meredith. after i met the emersons, 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 a little bit different, because not only me but the other investigators recognized 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 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 hot and then found out that it s the