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Her as now. >> skirting the main trail, he led meredith to his van in the trailhead parking area. 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? >...

Were scouring the hiking trails. so many volunteers they couldnt use all of them. >> people just showed up and just said, i have a daughter who likes to hike, i have a sister 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 tab...

Silence, became a chatter box, spilling out a story that sickened detectives who thought theyd heard everything. he began with merediths abduction here on a hiking trail on blood mountain. 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 rea...

>> when did you become anxious? >> when i got to work, she worked with a good friend of ours. 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 dri...

Morphed into real life. do you think thats the template for what he does, decades later? >> thats whats so chilling. meredith emerson went missing new years day. less than a month later, gary michael hilton appeared in a georgia courtroom and pleaded guilty to her murder. merediths parents were there. her mother susan addressed hilton. >> i believe you have nothing more than a bully and a weak-minded coward who preys on others. he fancies himself a survivalist. well, anyone can see hes a scare...

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 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 to set that trap for him. that call...

>> after i met the emersons, i knew that i had to tell them everything. i couldnt hold back any information from these two people. they were terrified. >> why did you take it personally? >> this case was a little bit different because not only me 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 ...

>> it was surreal, the thing you hear about in movies. it it was so close to home that in our small community that something like this could happen. >> now, with cops in florida looking hard at gary hilton in the dunlap murder, and counterparts in georgia convinced that he had taken meredith emerson, authorities 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. >...

Administration. it is a meaningful distinction. anderson, thank you very much. appreciate the coverage. i am chris cuomo, and welcome to "prime time". when melania says you got ago, you go. kind of. whats the real reason that the first lady went public with her feelings about a deputy national security advisor? and what happens now? despite the latest white house horror show, potus had time to cook up yet another goofy voter fraud story. is the white house getting its alternative facts from info...

Right now, want to hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. chris? >> presidents obama and bush did use the d.o.d. for support, but they used the national guard. its exempt from a law that doesnt be allow the use of active duty troops for law enforcement mechanism. they also were willing to work with governors. both of those boxes are not checked right now by this administration. it is a meaningful distinction. anderson, thank you very much. appreciate the coverage. i am chris cuomo, and welco...