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>> of course. and part of it is -- do you pray for them at night when you think about what happened? >> yes, i do. >> thats wonderful. >> shes been there from day one working and helping. yesterday he was playing with friends that she goes to school to thats been affected. she has a servants heart. >> meredith, keep listening to your mom, okay? she know what is shes talking about. and enjoy that bible. and its very cool. you dont don get to meet the president very often. remember that and enjoy ...

Bursts into flames and people with cook over it. >> 10-year-old meredith pike had her bible joined and she joins us now with her mother. welcome. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> emily administratio and meres perng for you. 23 people of your community lost their lives and the president came down and signed bibles. share with our viewers what that meant for you. >> it was nice, a refreshing sense of hope that he came to the community to reach out to the ones that lost so much. as far...

New visit aror. from the cathedrals of the rockies to the quiet glades in old growth of the appalachians. its here in the parks we have the promise of stepping out of the hubbub of our chattering daily routine. that was the kind of serenity meredith sought in the north georgia mountains, not more than foothills for a woman who loved to trail-climb her native rockies. it was 2008 when she sat out with her dog ella. her roommate julia from her college days had slept in that morning. >> she had lef...

Sickened detectives who thought theyd heard everything. he began with merediths abduction here on a hiking trail on blood mountainment he said that he ambushed meredith and her dog ella as she came down the trail. it was a struggle and meredith with her martial artsz skills, as hilton tells it, nearly got the best of his. she disarmed him, taking away his knife and the police baton. >> i lost control of both the bat and the knife. she was real quick with her hands and had no hesitation about gra...

And she called me and said, meredith didnt show to work. mare tij always went to work. >> reliable meredith wasnt where she was supposed to be. she called the sheriffs office and then she and other meredith friends assembled a search party. maybe she got hurt. do you know where eye im going hiking" would be? >> we had a few ideas. we had books she had, places she highlighted and kind of just started driving. >> the friends split up, looking for merediths car at trailhea s shed marked in her hiki...

Police were convinced the missing hiker meredith emerson was under the control of gary hilton somewhere in north georgia. the more they learned about the survivalist odds ball who was the person of interest in two murders in national forests elsewhere, the more they feared for her. a friend of merediths family appealed directly to hilton. >> i hope that if he realized that this would be helpful, that his heart would be softened and turned to come forward with information. so, please, please have...

And one of her own. so we talked about it and she decided what she wanted, definitely wanted to rescue a doeg. finally found one loved her and brought her home. really it was the light of her life. >> julia the roommate didnt know meredith and ella were going 40 miles away to blood mountain. despite the creepy teen slasher movie name, blood mountain is a popular place to hike in the southeast. the famous appalachian trail to maine takes off from just south of here. back in buford, the roommate s...

Saturday morning, five days after meredith emerson vanished on blood mountain, gary hilton was charged with a crime against her, kidnapping with bodily injury. hilton was in custody but he was uncooperative, zipped up, giving his interrogators nothing on merediths whereabouts or what he had done with her. >> merediths middle name is hope and thats exactly what the lord gives us for her. so we are hoping that were talking of meredith in the present tense and that we will be finding her and that s...

Someone who loved her friends, loved the beach, and died too young. >> thats all for this edition > you have to be aware of your surroundings because you just never know. >> it started with a frightening horror flick from the 80s. >> the movie is were going to take some women into the woods and then poof, theyre going to be hunted down. >> then decades later, something truly frightening. it it was happening for real. a strange vanishing in the forest. >> immediately we knew something was wrong. ...

>> a fantasy turned chilling reality. >> if someone has her, shes afraid. >> who could be behind this, and how would this real-life story end? >> she was a blue belt in judo. if anybody could survive or fight, it was meredith. >> our national forests are places of refuge for folks that want to get away from the city and have a sense of peace, commune with nature. but you have to be aware of your surroundings all the time because you just never know. >> the splendor of national parks and lands ar...