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The police with his story, it seemed to do the trick. >> within a day or two, he had 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, nothing ever happens that suggests a demonic violent personality that apparently materialized somehow. >> tabor had part of the gary hilton picture. a veteran atlanta criminal defense lawyer added more....

Background he had on his eccentric loner employee. tabor had known him for nearly a decade. >> the only interests he had in life seemed to be his dog and going out camping for extended periods of time in the wilderness with his dog. he seemed to like that type of isolation. >> hilton's dog dandy had been at his side since he started working for tabor. the former boss had come to regard hilton as a hair-triggered nut case. >> he often told stories of going to parks with his dog and he would end up in altercations with other pet owners. it was always the same story. he would reprimand the other ...

Returning to our story, here again is dennis murphy. meredith emerson and her lab ella were two days missing on georgia's blood mountain early in a freezing january of 2007. her friends had alerted the authorities and people from all over the greater atlanta area were scouring the hiking trails. so many volunteers they couldn't use all of them. >> people just showed up and just said, i have a daughter who likes to hike, i have a sister who could have been meredith easily. and they just volunteer their time. >> but the search in the national forest had become something more ominous than a los...

About what was going on. i told him that i would give him a check for $800. we discussed a place to leave the check. >> were you baiting that place he knew to come and show up? >> it was certainly my objective to get him to a place where authorities could apprehend him. >> the trap was set at a building owned by tabor where hilton had lived for a while. the s.w.a.t. team was dispatched. would hilton fall for the "pick up some money" ruse? and what about the missing woman? in your gut, did you think meredith was still alive? >> meredith's name was meredith hope emerson. we all hoped she was ali...

Extra, " i'm craig melvin. police were looking for a man named gary hilton in connection with the disappearance of meredith emerson. authorities would come to believe a low budget movie may hold the clue to what happened to her. here again is dennis murphy. on blood mountain, there was still no trace of meredith emerson. her friend julia and the other searchers found no news to be good news. >> i think it might be a good thing, that she might be somewhere warm with her dog, you know, and somebody might just have her. or something like that. kind of makes me feel a little better knowing that ...