have meredith yet. and the possibility that she could be alive and we just can let up. we attempt to interview him. he refuseds. i m waiving no rights. i want an attorney appointed to represent me. i want to speak with that attorney and i want that attorney present during questioning. cops had their man but not meredith. could they crack him, get from him the story of what had happened in the national forest? in your decades of law enforcement agent, have you ever had a session of interviews like this one? no. he was very straightforward and was very nonchalant. when mystery on blood mountain continues. beep goes off ]
going out camping for extended periods of time in the wildernesses with his dog. he seemed to like that type of isolation. hilton s dog dandy had been at his side since he started working for tabor. the former boss had come to regard hilton as a hair-triggered nut case. he often told stories of going to parks with his dog and he would end up in altercations with other pet owners. it it was always the same story. he would reprimand the other dog owners behavior, then the other dog owner would get angry at him and verbally or physically assault him. so he was always the victim. for the first nine years hilton worked at his siding business. tabor recalled him as a good employee. then something seemed to snap. things started to change quite dramatically starting in 2007. what happened then? he just wasn t doing any work. i decided to go and just see what was going on over there. it was a very bizarre scene. how so? his physical appearance was quite different. he immediatel
and what nature of man is gary hilton? listen to the confession tapes about what he says about meredith s dog ella. 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
out training dogs in the national forest noticed a vulture circling in the sky above them. and they went to check it out and discovered the body. a female body missing its head and hands, a grisly fact not released at the time. you think this is someone trying to conceal the identity. very much. it took a dna sample from her toothbrush to identify the remains as those of sheryl dunlap. someone called and said, laura, they found a body. we pulled over on the side of the road and just that was it, huh? yeah p. the awareness was there. it was surreal, the thing you hear about in movies. it it was so close to home that in our small community that something like this could happen. now, with cops in florida looking hard at gary hilton in the dunlap murder, and counterparts in georgia convinced that he had taken meredith emerson, authorities started hearing about yet
cards. hilton drove off to an atm in blairsville, georgia. he told detectives meredith had given him her p.i.n. numbers back on blood mountain. did meredith expect it would be all over for her if she gave him the correct numbers? in any case, she had given him bad information. and did didn t work? it didn t work. she s still telling me, it s it will work. must be a problem with the bank. hilton next tried to use meredith s cards a a bank 50 miles south in gainesville, georgia. again, no dice. he made camp that night with his captive in a remote spot in the forest. the next morning, hilton attempted to use meredith s bank card still again at an atm in canton, georgia. nothing. they returned to his hidden campsite. he held meredith altogether for four days in the woods.