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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 didnt work? >> it didnt work. shes still telling me, its it will work. must be a problem with the bank. >> hilton next tried to use merediths cards a a bank 50 miles south in gainesville, georgia. again, no d...

The case against him? four years after sheryl dunlaps death, it was finally going to trial. coming up -- >> your palms are sweat wri and your heart is beating. >> the dramatic case begins. how would it end? >> you could just see the jurors, i saw it in theirize, they knew. >> when with "dateline" continues. summertime is grilling time. and lowes does summer right. with deals on everything you need. so, long summer days, lead to great summer nights. still nervous about buying uh-oh, la new house....

If anybody can survive this, she can. >> the missing woman was deceptively strong, not just an experienced hiker but an accomplished martial arts enthusiast as well. >> a blue belt in aikido and a blue belt in judo. >> so take you on at your peril. >> absolutely. she would fight you. she would come home and tell me, i threw this 220-pound man. beat him up today in class. >> by now, with half of georgia looking for this gary hilton, authorities outside tallahassee, florida, to the south were wond...

Unlike in the trial, prosecutors were now able to disclose to jurors that hilton murdered meredith emerson on blood mountain and states attorney willie megs did just that, calling to the stand georgia bureau of investigation agents who had worked on the emerson case. >> you indicated it that ms. emersons body was nude. did gary michael hilton tell you why it was nude? >> he did. he basically stated that he had removed the head and stripped the clothing for forensic purposes. >> megz was able to ...

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 drivers 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. >> its plastered all over the atlanta area. >>...

Restaurant 50 miles from blood mountain. hilton it seemed was moving south toward atlanta. metro pd s.w.a.t. concealed themselves in and near tabors building, the old drop point where tabor had promised him $800. >> youre staking out the location? >> he didnt show. >> no-show. >> were 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 merediths parents, her father dave amor son. >> i appeal ...

Far from it. they could not enter the evidence about the erm son murder or the movie "deadly run" or that he was the prime suspect in the murders of an elderly couple in north carolina. annie white was part of the team charged with making the case. months earlier, the cops had developed a partial chronology for sheryl dunlap on the saturday she vanished. >> we started receiving calls, we saw her at walmart, saw her here. we started backtracking those to try to get the time line. >> the investiga...

National forest. >> within hours of discovering irene bryants body, detectives learned $300 had been withdrawn from the bryants accounts using an atm card in duckstown, tennessee. they had a picture from the machine. >> the man that had concealed his head and face that was able to successfully use the brients atm. >> whoever making the withdrawal, it it wasnt 79-year-old john bryant. but time and geography were working against the lawmen. >> we spent weeks everywhere in that it entire area. we d...

Puzzled by the change that had come over the man. >> when youre around someone for nearly ten years and its uneventful, nothing ever happens that suggests a demonic personality that apparently materialized somehow. >> tabor had part of the gary hilton picture, a criminal defense lawyer added more. sam rail had defended hilton years back on some minorish beefs. >> we did a jury trial on a drug case, possession. he was accused on a misdemeanor of acting like a charity and he really wasnt a charity...

Involving a husband and wife, that the wife had been murdered in the piska national forest. >> that detective was working an unsolved case that had cops in north carolina bewildered. david mahoney, a sheriff of transylvania county, a beautiful name with an ominous name that has nothing to do with fangs dripping blood. >> we have wonderful attractions here, all of those things with the slower pace of life is brings and keeps folks here. >> folks like john and irene bryant, who after raising a fam...