$800. you re staking out the location? he didn t show. no-show. we re still look gt and woeshing, where could this guy be? now we have this guy 50 miles from blood mountain. the veteran detective was talking constantly with meredith s parents, her father dave amor son. 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
he said he knew the dog had the identifying chip when he let the go in the supermarket parking lot. if i wanted to ensure that no one would have associated the dog with her, i would have killed the dog. there s no way i could do that. he was too much of a softy to kill the dog as he explained it. but ella s owner never had a chance. she was dead from the beginning. because i just told you, once you ve done it, you re either going to kill her or get caught. there s no other solution. that sounds cold and cruel, yeah, it was. in his unbelievable cold recollection of the crime, hilton told meredith he was going to let her go after four days of captivity. i told her i m going to take her and release her. instead, hilton went to the van, came back with a tire iron and bludgeoned meredith emerson to death. in an attempt to thwart investigators, he decapitated and poured bleach over the body. this is gruesome beyond belief.
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?
you can see that the cleanup effort is really beginning. just about every single thing that was inside every single structure is being taken outside right now. that s homes, that solo apartments. if you look, we have a supermarket parking lot right here. this is where the air and marine operations with cbt was taking off from going to rescue people, then coming back. it looks like there s a lot of property damage. as the water levels go lower,
a battle against encryption and dark spaces where these people can communicate overseas without detection, a way that our law enforcement system the way it s set up now can respond anew with resources to these kinds of evolving threats from lone wolves anywhere in any supermarket parking lot. gun control is an appropriate topic because people who expect that majority polling in this country that we should have background checks if we re going to vet refugees more intensive intensively. we can certainly vet gun sales. but that s not going to be enough to calm people s nerves tonight. his phrasing was, we constantly re-examine our strategy but he didn t come up with anything new. i don t really know why as steve said it was more defense than it was, you know, resolve and a new plan. but it s important to put in context that a lot of americans don t pay attention to the every day, day-to-day nuance of what the president says on every