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surroundings, you just never know. >> it started with a frightening horror movie from the 80s. >> this movie is were gonna take some women into the wood and they will be hunted down. >> decades later something truly frightening it was happening for real. a strange vanishing in the forest. >> immediately, we knew something was wrong. >> then -- >> your heart just broke. >> surely, then meredith, two women missing and desperate efforts to find them. >> she could be alive and we just cant...

After a woman goes missing on Blood Mountain in the Chattahoochee National Forest, authorities suspect the man responsible was re-enacting a horror movie.

Lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victims tire. >> subjective. its based on the individual examiners training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the states expert who said hiltons bayonet had slashed sheryl dunlaps tire, and that was it for the defense. gary hilt...

Its case was brief. lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victims tire. >> subjective. its based on the individual examiners training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the states expert who said hiltons bayonet had slashed sheryl dunlaps tire, and that was it for th...

Struck a plea deal, there would be no such deal in florida. . if convicted, gary hilton faced the death penalty. the prosecutions case was strong. investigators found cheryl dunlaps dna on two of hiltons sleeping bags and on the shoe laces of his hiking boots. the defense would argue there was no direct evidence to suggest their client was guilty. once again, with "mystery on blood mountain," heres dennis murphy. >> its case was brief. lead attorney inez suber called one witness. an expert on to...

Gary hilton was already serving a life sentence in georgia for the murder of meredith emerson and then went on trial in florida for the murder of cheryl dunlap. unlike in georgia where he struck a plea deal, there would be no such deal in florida. if convicted, gary hilton faced the death penalty. the prosecutions case was strong. investigators found cheryl dunlaps dna on two of hiltons sleeping bags and on the shoe laces of his hiking boots. the defense would argue there was no direct evidence ...

Now the defense, holding a very poor hand, would have to fight for gary hiltons life. its case was brief. lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victims tire. >> subjective. its based on the individual examiners training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the states e...

Lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victims tire. >> subjective. its based on the individual examiners training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the states expert who said hiltons bayonet had slashed sheryl dunlaps tire, and that was it for the defense. gary hilt...

Sleeping bag with sheryl dunlaps blood on it and gary michael hiltons blood on it, you could just see the jurors, for them, you saw it in their eyes. they knew. >> and with that, after six days of testimony, the prosecution rested. now the defense, holding a very poor hand, would have to fight for gary hiltons life. its case was brief. lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could...

Now it was the defenses turn. its case was brief. lead attorney inez super called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by videotape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victims tire. >> subjective. its based on the individual examiners training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the states expert who said hiltons bayonet had slashed sheryl dunlaps t...