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>> 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 sheriffs office. john kegel, just shy of retirement, was the agent in charge for the georgia bureau of investigation, the states top cops. >> we received a request from a l...

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. >> yes. >> for what reason? >> i dont know. >> hilton had confessed to killing meredith emerson. but what about those other cases in the national forest? a woman in florida, the elderly couple in north carolina. >> he would not talk about anybody to us other than meredith. >> because you have to wonder when the switch was thrown in this ...

>> merediths name was meredith hope emerson. we all hoped she was alive. but, you know, the longer these things carry on, as time passes, you continue to hope but it diminishes after time. >> as the manhunt continued, there was a glimmer of hope. friday morning, four days after meredith vanished, the u.s. marshals rvice traced activity on merediths bank cards. >> the card was used at a local bank, 15 miles from the abduction site, and then again 50 miles south of the abduction site and then the ...

Hiking by yourself twice, take a friend to be a little safer. >> the organization founded by meredith am emersons friends has sponsored events with a huge turnout of people and dogs. merediths dog ella lives today with her parents in colorado. >> any event that we ever have at right to hike, just seeing people come and say, i never met meredith, but i feel like i know her, and i wanted to come out and sue pour. that was the biggest thing, the community outreach after everything happened. >> righ...

>> dekalb, 911. >> i have the person of interest in that missing woman case is at this chevron gas station on asher dunwoody. >> the man is there? >> the van is here. the dog is here, the road dog. and i saw the mans face. ive been watching the news and i know its him. i know its him. hes emptying the stuff out of his van, looking around like hes guilty as sin. i can go take him down if you want. >> no, sir. stay right there. >> here comes the cops. yes. yes. >> police are there? >> theyve it go...

Started hearing about yet another national forest homicide, this one in north carolina. >> so theb youve got to be saying to your team of vectors, what do we have here? >> thats right. >> now were wondering who we really have here and where is he? and, more importantly, wheres meredith? do we have a killer running around loose in the national forest? >> concerned for meredith deepens, but her friends know something that man on the mountain couldnt. >> a blue belt in akeyed dough and a blue bel...

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 shed 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 its the one that mer...

There he secured her with chains in the back of his vehicle and then proceeded to steal her bank 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. >> hilt...

For him. that call was made from a 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...

Who could have been meredith easily. and they just volunteer their time. >> but the search in the national forest had become something more ominous than a lost hiker incident. meredith had been last seen in the company of an unsavory looking stranger, and law enforcement was about to identify him. the tip came from john tabor, an atlanta businessman. he was watching the continuing news coverage of missing meredith during his morning workout. >> when they started giving the description of the per...