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Come over the man. >> when you're around someone for nearly ten years and it's uneventful, nothing ever happens that suggests a demonic personality that apparently materialized somehow. >> tabor had part of the gary hilton picture, a criminal defense lawyer added more. sam rail had defended hilton years back on some minorish beefs. >> we did a jury trial on a drug case, possession. he was accused on a misdemeanor of acting like a charity and he really wasn't a charity. he would raise money to help the little children. of course, he pocketed it. >> did he have a job to speak of or anything he d...

>> hilton called from a pay phone at a convenience store near where meredith's dog had turned up. you have a living pet, a missing owner and a phone somewhere in the vicinity of this guy you believe is her abductor. >> yes. while the agents are searching in the area of the convenience store, they look in a dumpster. it was in the dumpster we found meredith's identification, her purse, bags of bloody clothing. at that point, we felt that this was not going to turn out as we had hoped. >> the purse, three bloody fleece tops. agent kegel and his boss gave meredith's parents the grim update. then,...

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 didn't 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 check. >> were you baiting that place he knew to come and show up? >> it was certainly my objective to ...

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 we haven't found anything here yet. >> while hundreds of volunteers and deputies scoured the forest for clues, detectives were trying to get it a handle on gary are hilton, the suspect in her disappearance and who was by now a person of interest in at least tw...

But, you know, the longer these things carry on, as time passes, you continue to hope but it diminishes after time. >> as the manhunt continued, there was a glimmer of hope. friday morning, four days after meredith vanished, the u.s. marshal's service traced activity on meredith's bank cards. >> the card was used at a local bank, 15 miles from the abduction site, and then again 50 miles south of the abduction site and then the next day 80 miles. these were attempts, where no money was taken. >> which suggests what? >> suggested that meredith wouldn't give him the right p.i.n. >> which also sug...