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Police were convinced the missing hiker meredith emerson was under the control of gary hilton somewhere in north georgia. the more they learned about the survivalist odds ball who was the person of interest in two murders in national forests elsewhere, the more they feared for her. a friend of merediths family appealed directly to hilton. >> i hope that if he realized that this would be helpful, that his heart would be softened and turned to come forward with information. so, please, please have...

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...

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 she will safely come home to us. >> the searchers in the field, meanwhile, shifted their foc...

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 got him now. two cruisers pulled up on him. >> ga...

>> 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. >> 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 t...

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 driving. >> the friends split up, looking for merediths car at trailhea s shed marked in her hiki...

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 meredith was -- it was her dog, you know, was a pretty big surprise and shock. >> she too...

>> i love mississippi. i love, and i respect our heritage. >> mississippi had always been just a place apart to me. it was the south africa of america. it was a place you didnt really want to put your foot. >> now, a civil rights maverick would strike at the venerable all white university of mississippi known as ole miss. >> university of mississippi had not had any black folks as students ever. an extremely single-minded young veteran, james meredith, decides hes going to go to ole miss and wil...

Hope and fear. the hope is that meredith signals the coming of the light for all of them. the fear is that the inevitable changes will bring further death, destruction and repercussions. >> go home. go home. >> reporter: what can the past tell us about the future? >> this city is run by criminal -- >> were not nonviolent, well kill these people if we have to. >> nazis, go home! nazis, go home! >> go home! >> reporter: as writer william faulkner said, "the past is never dead." >> ill shoot you! y...

From memphis, military troops coming in. >> the federal marshals had seized control of the lyceum which was the chief administrative office on campus. it was where we assumed that meredith would come to register as a student. so a crowd of several hundred it was where we assumed that meredith would come to register as a student. so a crowd of several hundred people gathered in front of the lyceum. >> the first arrival on the campus was greeted without incident, but then when word spread that neg...