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Welcome back to dateline extra. after being sentenced to life in prison in georgia for the murder of meredith emerson, gary hilton faced trial in florida for the murder of cheryl dunlap. the prosecution s case would include a wealth of forensic evidence and some chilling audio tapes. four years after her murder, would there be justice for cheryl? here again is dennis murphy. gary hilton s trial for the florida murder of cheryl dunlap began in february 2011, a little more than three years after he d pleaded and skated the death penalty in georgia. but there was no chance of a plea deal in this tallahassee courtroom. he might be doing life in georgia, but this was a capital murder case. if convicted, hilton could die by lethal injection. remember lead prosecutor georgia cap l man, couldn t tell the jury about hilton s conviction in the meredith emerson murder, or mention he was the prime suspect in that north carolina ....
Willie is going away for life, he s leaving corrections. why does florida need to go to the expense of a capital murder trial? my belief is this is an evil, bad person, and there ought to be a consequence in life to evil acts. i don t think murderers ought to be cheaper the more you do. with the dunlap case looking like a carbon copy of the meredith emerson murder, you might think the case would be a gimmee for the prosecutors. but far from it. they would not be allowed to introduce hilton s conviction in the emerson murder despite its similarity to cheryls. nor his connection with that horror movie deadly run or the fact he was the prime suspect in the murders of two elderly hikers in north carolina. florida department of law enforcement special agent annie white was part of the team charged with making the case. months earlier, the cops had developed a partial chronology for cheryl dunlap on the saturday she vanished. we started receiving calls. people saying, we saw her at w ....
Attorney willie max had heard enough and indicted hilton for the murder of cheryl dunlap. he s gone away for life. he ll be leaving georgia corrections in a pine box. why does florida need to go to the expense of a death penalty trial? my thought is this is an evil, bad person and there ought to be a consequence in life to evil acts. i don t think murderers ought to be cheaper the more you do. with the dunlap case looking like a carbon copy of the meredith emerson murder, you might think the case would be a gimme for the prosecutors, but far from it. they would not be allowed to enter hilton s conviction in the emerson murder, despite its similarity to cheryl s, nor his connection with that horror movie, deadly run or the fact that he was the prime suspect in the murders of two elderly hikers in north carolina. months earlier the cops developed a marshal chronology ....
Meredith emerson murder, you may think it would be a gimme. far from it. they could not enter the evidence about the emerson murder or the movie deadly run or that he was the prime suspect in the murders of an elderly couple in north carolina. annie white was part of the team charged with making the case. months earlier, the cops had developed a partial chronology for sheryl dunlap on the saturday she vanished. we started receiving calls, people saying we saw her at walmart, we saw her here. we started backtracking those to try to get the time line. the investigators knew that sheryl s morning had included shopping in tallahassee, cashing a check at a bank and using a library computer to send an e-mail to her son in the army. they even had a last sighting. witnesses identified sheryl as the woman peacefully reading a book here at a popular spot ....