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surroundings, you just never know. >> it started with a frightening horror movie from the 80s. >> this movie is we're gonna take some women into the wood and they will be hunted down. >> decades later something truly frightening it was happening for real. a strange vanishing in the forest. >> immediately, we knew something was wrong. >> then -- >> your heart just broke. >> surely, then meredith, two women missing and desperate efforts to find them. >> she could be alive and we just can't let up. >> could this old movie hold the key to these new cases? >> a little blood, sex, violence...

After a woman goes missing on Blood Mountain in the Chattahoochee National Forest, authorities suspect the man responsible was re-enacting a horror movie.

Lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victim's tire. >> subjective. it's based on the individual examiner's training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the state's expert who said hilton's bayonet had slashed sheryl dunlap's tire, and that was it for the defense. gary hilton declined to take the stand. >> do you wish to testify? >> no. >> one in 63 million -- >> in...

Its case was brief. lead attorney inez super-called only one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by video p tape, arguing that the bayonet in evidence, could not in her opinion be determined to have been what was used to slash the victim's tire. >> subjective. it's based on the individual examiner's training and experience. >> the defense was trying to impeach the testimony of the state's expert who said hilton's bayonet had slashed sheryl dunlap's tire, and that was it for the defense. gary hilton declined to take the stand. >> do you wish to testify? >> no. >> one in...

Struck a plea deal, there would be no such deal in florida. . if convicted, gary hilton faced the death penalty. the prosecution's case was strong. investigators found cheryl dunlap's dna on two of hilton's sleeping bags and on the shoe laces of his hiking boots. the defense would argue there was no direct evidence to suggest their client was guilty. once again, with "mystery on blood mountain," here's dennis murphy. >> its case was brief. lead attorney inez suber called one witness. an expert on tool mark identification who testified by videotape. arguing that the bayonette in evidence in her...