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Joins me now. matt, "the new york times" today reporting that the presidents conspiracy theories erode trust in institutions including the media. t president -- catapulted him to political relevance. take a listen. >> im starting to think that he was not going there. meredith, he spent $2 million in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. and if we werent lying, why wouldnt he just solve it? i wish he would, because if he doesnt, its one of the greatest scams in the history of politics, i...

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 spent the day with fr...

He held meredith altogether in the woods for four days. and what nature of man is gary hilton? listen to the confession tapes about what he says about merediths dog ella. he said he knew the dog had the identifying chip when he let the dog go in the supermarket parking lot. >> if i wanted to ensure that no one would have associated the dog with her, i would have killed the dog. theres no way i could do that. he was too much of a softy to kill the dog as he explained it. but poor meredith, ellas ...

In the back of his vehicle and then proceeded to steal her bank cards. from beneath the front seat of her car. hilton drove off heading 12 miles north to an atm in blairsville, georgia. he told detectives meredith had given him her p.i.n. numbers back on blood mountain. did meredith suspect it would be all over for her if she gave him the correct numbers? in any case, she had given him bad information. >> and it done work? >> it didnt work. shes still telling me its going to work. must be a prob...

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 man. >> i know. how many decades does this...

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 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 t...

Where was meredith hope emerson? could she still be alive somewhere out there in georgias chattahoochee national forest? and did the 24-year-old hiker have a prayer if she were indeed in the clutches of mystery man gary hilton? the search on blood mountain went into a third day. >> we had the hope. i mean, we were there from sunup to sundown, plus. we were there through the night in the cold and all the searchers. but if anyone could survive, it was meredith. and if anybody could fight somebody ...

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 father dave amor son. >> i appeal to everyone to search their hea...

Minutes sooner, i would have beat those people that found the bat and i would have picked it up. >> he talks about fighting. >> yes. >> with meredith. that she almost took him. >> i dont really believe everything he says, but that part i believe. theres no doubt that she fought. you know, maybe its a little bit that kind of gives you a little smirk to know she almost got him. she gave him a run for his money and im sure that he may have thought, i maybe should have chosen somebody else. >> event...

>> 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 this guy you believe is her abductor. >> yes. while the agents are searching in the area of the convenience store, they look in a dumpster. it was in the dumpster we found merediths identification, her purse, bags of bloody clothing. at that point, we felt that this was not going to turn out as we had hoped. >> the purse,...