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Came down the trail. it was a struggle and meredith with her martial arts 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 knife and the bat. she was real quick with her hands and had no hesitation about grabbing weapons and everything. not only that, she was hard to subdue. fought like hell, man. >> hilton said they scrapped so hard they tumbled off the trail. separated by a few yards from the dro...

Meredith to pick up those e-bay printouts was merely a ploy to get her to discover the body and find cassidy. why else would he print an e-bay auction ad leave it on the printer and hit the road where he couldnt bid during the actual auction? they called sergeant spivey to the stand. >> that auction was going to end 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time. >> what day was that? >> that was on november 2nd, 2006. >> reporter: just hours before the murder. now prosecutors tried to prove jason lied about h...

>> have you checked? >> no. shes cold. >> okay. >> reporter: as she spoke, meredith was cradling her 2 1/2-year-old niece, cassidy, i who crawled out from under the d bed clothes on her parents bed, just feet from where her mother lay. cassidys voice chattering to her aunt was caught on the recorded call. >> shes got booboos everywhere. >> had cassidy witnessed the murder, awakened alone to find this?ne >> you just picture a small child walking around in this t blood and tracking it across the h...

>> reporter: way out of bounds, said the attorney. the jury should not have been allowed to hear about any of that. outside the court, michelles sister meredith predicted the appeal would be thrown out. >> the jury came to the right verdict. we are confident it will stay. >> reporter: but she was wrong. >> a raleigh man is getting a third trial in the death of his pregnant wife. >> reporter: in april 2014 the north carolina court of appeals granted jason a new trial. but a year later the state s...

And -- and she was empty. >> what did she tell you? >> things werent working out with jason. >> reporter: two days before she was murdered, michelle phoned her sister meredith to report yet another blowup with jason. >> she was just, "ive had it." she said, "you know, more than one time, i just cant do this anymore." >> reporter: jason was telling one of his close friends the same thing. and prosecutors said just days before michelle was murdered, he had indulged in one last transgression. a cas...

Much more than anything. >> reporter: so around noon november 3rd he called his sister-in-law meredith from the car to ask if shed go to the house and get those ebay papers. >> friday november 3rd. >> he left meredith a voicemail. >> could you go over there and see if you can find them on the computer? >> reporter: then he headed to his mothers place in the mountains nearby. and it was there, he testified, hours later that he learned michelle had been murdered. >> i just fell. i just -- i just b...

Desperate efforts to find them. >> she he could be alive and we cant let up. >> could this old movie be the key to these new cases? >> a little blood, a little sex, a little violence. >> a film fantasy turns 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, it was meredith. if anybody could fight, it was meredith. >> "mystery on blood mountain." hello and welcome t...

Turned to come forward with information. so, please, please have the courage to come forward. we need you. >> their next lead, the big one, came from an unlikely source, the suspect himself. three days into merediths disappearance, gary hilton called his old boss tabor. >> i answered my cell phone, and i heard his voice. couldnt believe it. he pretended -- acted as if nothing was wrong. >> he didnt let on that he was the subject of a man hunt? >> absolutely not. he act as if he knew nothing abou...

Bank 15 miles from the abduction site and then again 50 miles south of the abduction site and then the next day 80 miles. these were attempts, where no money was taken. >> which suggests what? >> suggested that meredith wouldnt give him the right p.i.n. >> which also suggests maybe shes still alive. >> thats right. >> investigators had been able to trace the phone gary hilton used earlier to call his old boss, john tabor, who set that trap for him. that call was made from a restaurant 50 miles f...

Couldnt. >> a blue belt in akido and a blue belt in judo. >> if anyone could survive it, it was meredith. >> when "mystery on blood mountain" continues. n blood mountain" continues. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it.