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Packed up all of his belongings and moved on. >> put all of his stuff in the van and took off. >> yes. >> john tabor was relieved to see hilton in his rear-view mirror but he was nonetheless puzzled by the change that had come over the man. >> when you're around someone for nearly ten years and it's uneventful, there is nothing that ever happens that suggests a demonic, violent personality that apparently materialized somehow. >> tabor had part of the gary hit on the picture. a veteran atlanta criminal defense lawyer added more. sam rail had defended hilton years back on some minorish beefs. >...

Detectives swarmed over the filthy astro van and inventoried his possessions looking for any clue to meredith's fate. a gbi spokesman updated the media. >> it's a missing persons investigation right now, and that's how we're pursuing it. an important key might be any knowledge that mr. hilton has. >> take me inside your situation room when you get the news that atlanta's got him. >> we're very pleased with the fact that now we have this man, but we can't lose sight of the fact we don't have meredith yet. and the possibility that she, she could be alive and we just can't let up. and so we attem...

>> they now had numerous sightings around where cheryl dunlap vanished. despite the multiple work by the sheriff's offices and the fdle, no witness came forward to put him together with cheryl dunlap. the nurse's remains were in such poor condition, they told investigators nothing about how she died. but there were thousands of other pieces in the puzzle investigators were trying to solve. hilton's van jammed to the roof with hundreds of items was trucked to the florida department of law enforcement crime lab. >> our crime scene analysts spent day and night literally, weeks. >> the van was a m...

Prison. hilton admitted nothing beyond the emerson murder. >> this is the first time you've done anything like that? >> i'll let me attorney answer. >> by now, investigators from a half dozen southeastern states as well as fbi profilers were rummaging through hilton's past. by the time he was captured he wasn't more than a vague rant in a van. but his past was more complex. as an army veteran, hilton had earned an associates college degree. gotten a private pilot's license on the g.i. bill and been married three times before the wheels apparently came off. true crime author fred rosen has writ...

Mr. hilton, before he had killed miss emerson and been caught, our analysts in our lab showed us, this is the style, this is what the knife is going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techy detectives in the fdle computer lab were working overtime trying to unscramble deleted material from the evidence. and deep in their dna lab, more than 700 samples were being analyzed in an attempt to find some link between gary hilton and the late cheryl dunlap. had gary hilton managed to outsmart them all? would florida be able to make the case against him? three ye...