unlike in the trial, prosecutors were now able to disclose to jurors that hilton murdered meredith emerson on blood mountain and state s attorney willie megs did just that, calling to the stand georgia bureau of investigation agents who had worked on the emerson case. you indicated that ms. emerson s body was nude. did gary michael hilton tell you why it was nude? he did. he basically stated that he had removed the head and stripped the clothing for forensic purposes. he was able to introduce portions of those chilling interviews that hilton gave the authorities in georgia. once you ve taken someone, you re either going to kill them or you re going to get caught. it s as simple as that. penalty phase was one of the more interesting parts of the trial. that s where you started getting this information about emerson that s the first time the georgia information was allowed in. correct. that s when you really start seeing the jurors taking in the enormity. then you really
he s probably smarter than everybody sitting in this room. there were different rulz in this it the penalty phase. unlike in the trial, prosecutors were now able to disclose to jurors that hilton murdered meredith emerson on blood mountain and state s attorney willie megs did just that, calling to the stand georgia bureau of investigation agents who had worked on the emerson case. you indicated it that ms. emerson s body was nude. did gary michael hilton tell you why it was nude? he did. he basically stated that he had removed the head and stripped the clothing for forensic purposes. megz was able to introduce portions of those chilling interviews that hilton gave the authorities in georgia. once you ve taken someone, you re either going to kill them or you re going to get caught. it s as simple as that. that s where you started getting the information about
go ahead, shoot me! i dare you to shoot me. gary shot him. in the legs or the lower part of his stomach. a junior high girlfriend testified that gary wasn t a bad guy back in the day. he was funny and outgoing and smart. the defense rests. once the defense rested, willie megs called his rebuttal witness, a clinical psychologist to revisit the essential issues. did mr. gary hilton know right from wrong? my opinion is, yes, he clearly knew right from wrong and clearly he knew the criminal nature of conduct. in my opinion, he is a psychopath. that s what generated the murders and nothing else. the attorneys made their final appeal to the jurors. i m going to ask every one of you individually to go back in that jury room and vote to recommend that gary hilton be put to it death. on behalf of mr. hilton, i m asking all of you collectively and individually to recommend a life sentence in this case.
there were different rulz in this it the penalty phase. unlike in the trial, prosecutors were now able to disclose to jurors that hilton murdered meredith emerson on blood mountain and state s attorney willie megs did just that, calling to the stand georgia bureau of investigation agents who had worked on the emerson case. you indicated it that ms. emerson s body was nude. did gary michael hilton tell you why it was nude? he did. he basically stated that he had removed the head and stripped the clothing for forensic purposes. megz was able to introduce portions of those chilling interviews that hilton gave the authorities in georgia. once you ve taken someone, you re either going to kill them or you re going to get caught. it s as simple as that. that s where you started getting the information about emerson that s the first time the georgia information was allowed in.
once the defense rested, willie megs called his rebuttal witness, a clinical psychologist to revisit the essential issues. did mr. gary hilton know right from wrong? my opinion is, yes, he clearly knew right from wrong and clearly he knew the criminal nature of conduct. in my opinion, he is a psychopath. that s what generated the murders and nothing else. the attorneys made their final appeal to the jurors. i m going to ask every one of you individually to go back in that jury room and vote to recommend that gary hilton be put to it death. on behalf of mr. hilton, i m asking all of you collectively and individually to recommend a life sentence in this case. the jurors then retired to deliberate nothing less than whether gary hilton should live or die. coming up another haunting question