from people who had hiked the trails that it day. right. and remembered her? right. we got news of a strange looking individual with meredith who also had a dog. thumbnail description of this other person. what were you hearing? strange looking, just a wiry kind of guy. older guy. older guy. we even developed a vehicle description, light van. the lead on the van came from this photo taken on a hiker in the blood mountain parking lot the night before meredith emerson went missing. a be on the lookout advisory went out for the guy driving a white van accompanied by his reddish dog. it is going to be a white male between the ages of 50 and 60 years old, approximately 160 pounds. it was described as he has bad dental, he had a dark reddish colored retriever. we put out that information through the media in atlanta and actually got a call from somebody who said, i think i know who this is.
i knew that was a place he liked to hang out, that he had a dog with him. and most importantly was the evidence that they had found at the scene. i knew hilton always had an expandible police baton with him. the tip and a name quickly led to a georgia driver s license for 61-year-old gary michael hilton. investigators showed the photo to hikers who i.d. d him as the scruffy mystery man meredith was seen. the man hunt was on. we put the face out. it s plastered all over the atlanta area. yes. the apb went well past the georgia border. hilton s name and picture were all over the regional news. light bulbs began going off to the south around tallahassee, florida s capital, when people saw the photo on tv. the search for gary hilton was about to widen. the person of interest in the meredith emerson case looked familiar to people who think they saw him about the time they learned of the sad case of another woman who had gone miss being, sheryl dunlap, a nurse and mother.
michael hilton s blood on it, you could just see the jurors, for them, you saw it in their eyes. they knew. and with that, after six days of testimony, the prosecution rested. now the defense, holding a very poor hand, would have to fight for gary hilton s life. its case was brief. lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. too many people in pain settle for a restless night s sleep. there s a better choice. aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid and the 12-hour pain-relieving strength of aleve. that dares to last into the morning. so you feel refreshed. aleve pm.
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 voluntarily convictology? 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 braking about how smart he is, how well he does his job. but at the same time what you hear is an incredible narcissistic personality, which
phone at a convenience store near where meredith s dog had turned up. you have a living pet, a missing owner and a phone somewhere in the vicinity of this guy you believe is her abductor. yes. while the agents are searching in the area of the convenience store, they look in a dumpster. it was in the dumpster we found meredith s identification, her purse, bags of bloody clothing. at that point, we felt that this was not going to turn out as we had hoped. the purse, three bloody fleece tops. agent kegel and his boss gave meredith s parents the grim update. then, around 8:00 that night, still friday, not far from where tabor had set the trap for hilton, more than one elle-eyed citizen noticed a man emptying a white van. at the gas station up here, there is a white van and red dog wandering around. calls lit up 911. this one lasted for 12 minutes. dekalb, 911. i have the person of interest in that missing woman case is at this chevron gas station on asher dunwoody.