trace of meredith or ella. so by night itfall the search became all the more urgent as a cold front moved in and temperatures on the mountain plunged below zero. at daybreak, thursday now, the friends were joined by deputies from the local sheriff s office. john kegel, just shy of retirement, was the agent in charge for the georgia bureau of investigation, the state s top cops. we received a request from a local agency to help with a missing hiker. the case of the hiker missing for two days didn t look good to the seasoned detective because of some disturbing items that had been recovered on the trail. what were the things found out on the trail area that you thought were alarming? a couple of water bottles, a dog leash and a police expandible baton. this is a piece of professional gear. it is. you see almost every police officer in the nation carrying these things. did those artifacts, the water bottle, baton, found
the friends raced up the blood mountain feeder path to the appalachian trail, but no trace of meredith or ella. so by night itfall the search became all the more urgent as a cold front moved in and temperatures on the mountain plunged below zero. at daybreak, thursday now, the friends were joined by deputies from the local sheriff s office. john kegel, just shy of retirement, was the agent in charge for the georgia bureau of investigation, the state s top cops. we received a request from a local agency to help with a missing hiker. the case of the hiker missing for two days didn t look good to the seasoned detective because of some disturbing items that had been recovered on the trail. what were the things found out on the trail area that you thought were alarming? a couple of water bottles, a dog leash and a police expandible baton. this is a piece of professional gear. it is. you see almost every police
had been recovered on the trail. what were the things found out on the trail area that you thought were alarming? a couple of water bottles, a dog leash and a police expandible baton. this is a piece of professional gear. it is. it s just a metal pipe that is expandible. you see almost every uniformed police officer in the nation carrying these things. did those artifacts, the water bottle, baton, found together tell you a story at all, or suggest something ominous? yes. we found those items in an area where the ground had appeared to have been disturbed. we became concerned that possibly a struggle took place there. meredith s water bottles, ella s leash, and signs of a struggle. nothing about the scene looked good to the veteran lawman, especially that expandible police baton that was found. he called in help. we eventually partnered with over 18 or 19 police agencies to help in the search for meredith.
for two days didn t look good to the seasoned detective because of some disturbing items that had been recovered on the trail. what were the things found out on the trail area that you thought were alarming? a couple of water bottles, a dog leash and a police expandible baton. this is a piece of professional gear. it is. it s just a metal pipe that is expandsable. you see almost every police officer in the nation carrying these things. did those artifacts, the water bottle, baton, found together tell you a story at all, or suggest something ominous? yes. we found those items in an area where the ground had appeared to have been disturbed. we became concerned that possibly a struggle took place there. meredith s water bottles, ella s leash, and signs of a struggle. nothing about the scene looked good to the veteran lawman, especially that expandible police baton that was found. he called in help.
thought were alarming? a couple of water bottles, a dog leash and a police expandible baton. this is a piece of professional gear. it is. you see almost every police officer in the nation carrying these things. did those artifacts, the water bottle, baton, found together tell you a story at