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Meredith during his morning workout. >> when they started giving the description of a person of interest my ears perked up. i think i just turned white at one point. >> tabor thought this has got to be gary hilton. hilton was a guy who worked on and off for him as years, first as a telemarketer, then as an independent contractor in a siding business. he even lived for a while in a house that tabor owned. >> the first thing that got my attention was where the event happened, where she went missing. blood mountain, i knew that was a place he liked to hang out, that he had a dog with him. most im...

Murders. john tabor, hilton's former boss, gave investigators what background he had on his eccentric employee. >> the only interest that 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. >> he often told stories of going to parks with his dog. he would end up in altercations with other pet owners. it was always the same story. he would reprimand the other dog owner's behavior and he was always the victim. ...

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 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 volunteered their time. >> but the search in the national forest had become something more ominous than a lost ...

Tabor recall add hed him as a g employee until something snapped. >> i decided to go and see what was going on over there. it was a very bizarre scene. >> how so? >> his physical appearance was quite different. he went onto smile and show that he was missing several teeth. he said he had taken a pair of pliers and removed several of his teeth. he said he enjoyed doing that because it frightened people. he was very animated, he was very talkative. >> tabor fired hilton, who then claimed tabor owed him money. >> he finally threatened to kill me. >> the tabor took those threats seriously. >> i im...

>> when the former boss finally went to 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 his stuff in the van and took off. >> yes. >> john tabor was relieved to see hilton in his rear-view mirror. but he was puzzled by the change that had come over the man. >> a demonic violent personality had materialized somehow. >> tabor had part of the dparga hilton picture. sam rail had defended hilton years back on some minor beevef >> he was accused on a misdemeanor of acting like a charity and he had raised mon...