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Parks and lands are poems waiting to be written by each 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 he...

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 apparently had no idea.

There is a white van and red dog wandering around. >> calls lit up 911. this one lasted for 12 minutes. >> 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 wa...

>> your heart just broke. >> sheryl, then meredith. two women missing and two desperate efforts to find her. >> she he could be alive and we cant let up. >> could this old movie be the key? are there scenes reenacted? >> there are a lot of similarities. >> 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 for...

Anted up. >> mr. hilton is charged with one count of murder of meredith emerson. he has been taken into custody and brought to our detention center. >> in your decades of law enforcement, have you ever had a session of interviews like it this one. >> no. no. he was very straightforward and was very nonchalant about the whole thing. >> so you get down to the point where -- >> after his initial confession, gary hilton, the man of stony silence, became a chatter box, spilling out a story that sicke...

Mix since finding her at a rescue shelter. >> she had two dogs growing up 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 ...

All, or suggest something ominous? >> yes. we found those items in an area where the ground had appeared to have been disturbed. we became concerned that possibly a struggle took place there. >> merediths water bottles, ellas leash, and signs of a struggle. nothing about the scene looked good to the veteran lawman, especially that expandible police baton that was found. he called in help. >> we eventually partnered with over 18 or 19 police agencies to help in the search for meredith. >> had her...

He apologized at length for his past behavior and on the terms of which he left, he said that he was ill and that now he felt better and he realizeed the errors of his ways and he was ready to get back to work. >> start elled but thinking past, tabor tried to lure hilton to an agreed-upon location with the promise of money. >> i was trying to play it cool, like i didnt know anything about what was going on. i told him that i would give him a check for $800. we discussed a place to leave the chec...

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...

But where was her owner, meredith? now events were moving quickly. right away came another tip. >> we get a call from a female acquaintance of hilton stating she had just hung up the phone. he had called her and wanted money. she commented that she -- she said, dont you know the worlds looking for you? and he hung up. >> hilton called from a pay phone at a convenience store near where merediths dog had turned up. you have a living pet, a missing owner and a phone somewhere in the vicinity of thi...