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Her purse and bags of bloody clothing. >> the purse, three bloody fleece tops. still friday, not far from where tabor had set the trap for hilton, more than one elle-eyed citizen noticed a man emptying a white van. >> at the gas station up here, there is a white van and red dog wandering around. >> calls lit up 911. this one lasted for 12 minutes. >> dekalb, 911. >> i have the person of interest in that missing woman case is at this chevron gas station on asher dunwoody. >> the man is there? >> the van is here. the dog is here, the road dog. and i saw the man's face. i've been watching the new...

Tabor tried to lure him to a location with a promise of money. >> i told him that i would give him a check for $800. >> were you baiting that place that 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 swat team was dispatched. would hilton fall for the ruse? what about the missing woman? >> meredith's name was meredith hope emerson and we all hoped she was alive. but the longer these things carry on and time passes, you continue to ...

>> 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 suggests maybe she's still alive. >> that's right. >> investigators had been able to trace the phone gary hilton used e...

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...

>> he often told stories of going to parks with his dog and he would end up in altercations with other pet owners. it it was always the same story. he would reprimand the other dog owners' behavior, then the other dog owner would get angry at him and verbally or physically assault him. so he was always the victim. >> for the first nine years hilton worked at his siding business. tabor recalled him as a good employee. thingomething seemed to snap. 2007. >> what happened then? >> he just wasn't doing any work. i decided to go and just see what was going on over there. it was a very bizarre scene...