Glad to be here with others that seek truth and justice. Tabor should be running for the hills big time cause we are aiming a great big spotlight on his many deceits. His web of deceit is a big part of what has got him in the predicament he finds himself in. There is not an ounce of difference between the two of them, Tabor and Hilton, both proficient at being Con-Men and both of them messed with the wrong ladies! Those neighbors who were paying attention played such a big role! I really don't think Hilton came for the "check". He came back "home" to be caught and to terrorize the neighbors one last time.

There are many who attend law school for nefarious reasons.

Georgia Peach - Do you know anything about the camo truck?

TallySleuth.....I just went back onto the original TDO forum and searched for that entry about Hilton and TJMaxx. It was posted on February 3rd at 3:58 p.m. It's on page 292 of the original forum:

http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=46432&start=0

It wasn't my comment to copy and paste so I felt I shouldn't. You can go back and read it though.

I am working on that one still. I don't know enough facts about it and its connection to Cheryl's case. I am concerned like everyone that others may have been involved in her murder and in Jim's murder. Hilton is by far not the only murderer walking amoung us.

I really hate that the Police down there are so tight lipped. The community awareness and involvment here made a difference. In Florida they are wasting that valuable resource. People need to know more in order to protect themselves and each other. Most of all the clear lesson is protect your own back because no one else is doing it for you. Keep your eyes wide open!

It is a lesson I definitely learned from my experience with the Drug Dealing/Pit Bull Dog Breeders who set up shop next to me, written about in my other journal. Getting it out of my life was definitely being left up to me! If I have to hear Tabor say that argon gas in windows is meaningless again, I might just have to bring in some of that dog barking video!

Hiker never gave up fight, Hilton said

By RHONDA COOK, CHRISTIAN BOONE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 03/23/08

Gary Michael Hilton acknowledged that the petite woman nearly overpowered him when he first accosted her. As they struggled near the Appalachian Trail, Meredith Emerson disarmed her attacker of a knife and baton.

Hilton eventually subdued Emerson, kidnapped her and later killed her. She did not make it easy for him, according to interviews Hilton gave to investigators that were obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


Speaking to Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Clay Bridges only days after killing the young woman, Hilton said: "I think it was you probably, or one of the GBIs, said 'That little 120-pound-girl about probably came close to whipping your ass.' She about did."

Her life in danger, Emerson fought back using her strength, her wits and a large measure of courage and determination. In the four days after she disappeared on a Blood Mountain hiking trail in Union County, investigators said, Emerson never gave up.

Bridges said he talked with the South Florida-born vagrant as authorities drove him from the Union County Jail to the Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area, where Hilton killed Emerson. Hilton made a deal with prosecutors that he would lead investigators to her remains, if they would not seek the death penalty.

As they descended the winding North Georgia mountain roads, the Army veteran casually detailed the abduction and slaying of the 24-year-old University of Georgia graduate.

Bridges said Hilton clearly relished the attention, and authorities described his account as "self-serving."

Still, Emerson's tenacity and smarts are evident throughout, and, despite Hilton's best attempts, her actions overwhelm the one-sided narrative.

"She was doing everything she could to stay alive," GBI Director Vernon Keenan said. "It's not something you can train for. Instinct kicks in. ... She nearly got the best of him. ... She's very much a hero."

Meredith Emerson was described as "feisty" by her roommate and close friend. Her Judo teacher said at 5 feet 4 inches and 120 pounds, she "trained with us like she lived every day — hard and with everything she had."

Hilton, 61, told investigators he abducted her because she was a woman.

Easy prey, he figured.


'Wouldn't stop fighting'

Both were with their dogs when they met near the Appalachian Trail in Union County on New Year's Day. For a time they walked together, but, as Hilton later admitted, he couldn't keep up with her and fell behind. He intercepted her on her way down, producing a military-style knife and demanding her ATM card.

Without pause, Emerson fought back.

"The bayonet is probably still up there," Hilton told Bridges. "I lost control, and ... she fought. And as I read in the paper, she's a martial artist."

Emerson, who held a green belt and a blue belt in two different martial arts, grabbed the blade.

He countered with a baton. She grabbed it, too. They stepped off the trail and fell down a slope, leaving the weapons behind.

"I had to hand-fight her," Hilton said. "She wouldn't stop. She wouldn't stop fighting," he said. "And yelling at the same time. ... So I needed to both control her and silence her."

He kept punching her, so hard it left both her eyes black and may have fractured her nose. Hilton said his hand was broken by the blows. He figured she had worn down, and they moved farther off the trail.

Then Emerson started fighting again. He finally got her to stop by telling her all he wanted was her credit card and PIN. He then restrained her hands with a zip tie.

Then, Hilton told Bridges, "I had to go back and clean the crime scene."

But he couldn't find any of his weapons. He said he spotted three hikers nearby and assumed they had found the knife and baton.

It was one of several close calls that continue to haunt Hilton's captors. On at least three other occasions before he killed Emerson, Hilton crossed paths or was in the vicinity of law-enforcement officials.

On the day he abducted her, he was worried police officers might be waiting for him in the parking lot as he led Emerson back down the mountain, staying off the established trails. He assumed whoever retrieved his baton and knives had called police, or perhaps they had heard Emerson's cries for help.

Apparently no one did.

Without incident, Hilton placed Emerson and her dog, Ella, in his van and secured his victim with a padlocked chain.


Chained or bound

In the following hours and days, Emerson kept Hilton off-balance by repeatedly giving him the wrong PIN for her ATM card but assuring each time that this time the numbers were correct.

She bought time with that ploy. Three days.

"That's one thing that broke my heart in this case," Bridges said. "She was doing everything she was supposed to do to stay alive, and we didn't get there in time."

In recounting conversations with Emerson, Hilton revealed himself as a killer without shame or remorse — and unwittingly provided testament to her resolve.

Hilton said he and Emerson camped all three nights during a spell of bitter cold.

To keep her from running away, he usually kept a chain or nylon rope around her neck and she was often tethered to a tree or inside the van. When they slept, Emerson was tied to him so he would know if she tried to escape.

Hilton claimed he tried to make Emerson comfortable, at one point saying he gave her the warmer sleeping bag because temperatures had dropped to 4 degrees. He offered her aspirin for a lingering headache that followed their fight the first day.

"I was solicitous of her ... comfort and everything else," said Hilton, seemingly oblivious to the contradiction.

Perhaps one of the most chilling details followed, as Hilton nonchalantly told Bridges, he raped Emerson that first night. He was angry she'd made him drive around from bank to bank and still had nothing to show for it.

Their second day together, Hilton set up camp in Dawson Forest, where they hiked for several hours. He insisted she was free, but he also said he told her he would shoot her and anyone around if she tried to get away.

"We took both dogs and went hiking along Shoal Creek," Hilton said. He said she was not bound while they hiked.

If she appeared to be going along with her abductor, as Hilton described, Keenan said it was only to survive. "She struggled to live," the GBI director said.

Hilton knew he was a wanted man, telling investigators he had followed the AJC's coverage of Emerson's abduction. On the day she died, Jan. 4, he was pictured on the newspaper's front page alongside a story in which police named him a "person of interest" in the Buford hiker's disappearance.

That day, Hilton said that he told Emerson "she was going home."

"I said, 'I'm giving you all your stuff back.' I had all her stuff bagged up together. I made a point of showing her."

They drove to the spot where he would kill her. On the way, they passed a law-enforcement officer.

"I waved at him," Hilton said. "It was that close."

Though a police bulletin had been issued for Hilton's van with a DeKalb County license plate, by then he had switched that tag for a stolen North Carolina tag.

"I walked her into the woods," Hilton said. He carried two sleeping bags, an air mattress "for her to sit on," two bags and a chain.

"Secured her to a tree. Walked back to the van. Kinda got myself together. Made some coffee."


Killing was difficult

When he came back to her, Hilton said with a little laugh, Emerson told him, " 'I was afraid you weren't coming back.' "

He gave her a book to read, "Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures" by Marvin Harris, walked behind her as if he were going to remove the chains holding her to the tree and hit her several times with the handle from a tire jack.

Hilton both killed and decapitated Emerson in a vain effort to destroy evidence that might incriminate him.

Hilton was worried about another piece of evidence that might link him to the slaying — Emerson's dog. She had told him the Lab-mix carried a microchip identifying it as her pet.

"If I wanted to ensure that no one would associate the dog with her, I would've killed the dog," Hilton said. "But there's no way I could do that."

He had no such reservations about killing Emerson.

"Was it difficult for you at all?" GBI agent Bridges asked after Hilton finished his account of the murder.

"It was like an out-of-body experience. It was surreal. ... You look back on it, and you say 'That wasn't even real.' You might say it was an altered state. ...

"It was hard," Hilton continued. "You gotta remember we had spent several good days together."

Bandmom,
Here is that post. I remembered it too.

Isolte39



Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: I think Hilton stalked me!
I could not believe my eyes when I saw the pictures of this guy, and it could have possibly been somebody else but I don't believe so! The only reason I'm writing about this is because I know there're more stories like mine. I've been glued to this forum since they found Ms. Dunlap. God rest her soul and her children have peace.

My first encounter with him was approximately 2 yrs ago at TJ Max off of Thomasville Road. He followed me into the store and followed me around the store while I was shopping. It just felt creepy and he stayed very aloof and distant. I remained in the store for quite a while until he finally left because of my suspicion and the attention he was paying to me. He was an older man with an average/slight build and I thought he was a drifter since TJ Max is right there next to I-10 where they tend to hang out and pander.

I didn't go back to the store for at least 2 months because I was so weirded out by that encounter. So I eventually went back and unfortunately, I had the distinct displeasure of encountering him again outside TJ MAX. He yet again followed me into the store, almost as if he knew me. The hairs on the nape of my neck stood at attention. He followed me throughout the store 4-5 feet behind me. And, he was pretending to be shopping for his girlfriend, asking for assistance from one of the clerks in the same area. As I was getting ready to make my purchase (2 belts), he jumped in front of me in the line at the cashier and inquired, "Can I possibly get a job washing the windows?" So he wasn't really shopping after all. As I left, he was hovering around outside and I walked with purpose to my car.

I suspect he was looking for sympathy as well as stalking the women that frequented the store. Both of the occasions occurred during my lunch hour on business days. I believe this man has been hunting/stalking women in this area for a number of years and preyed upon those that showed some sort of kindliness toward him. I sensed a disturbing person and regret not following my intuition and reporting him to the authorities.

Ladies, if you have a story similar to this, you've seen him, he hung out at that store for a long time...please contribute your experience, and for chrisakes, be careful and report this type of behavior.

My husband was adamant that I tell my experience and that we as women have to be vigilant, careful and trust our intuition!!!! My only regret is that I may have been able to stop this monster had I reported these stalking encounters. I am soooooo sorry!!!!!!

... I am about 95% sure that it was him. And, it was not that so very long ago that a prominent bus. man was brutally stabbed by a drifter within half a mile of TJ Max. So, we are not living in a bubble up on this side of town. Be careful!

I don't know if the cashiers still work there but, I'm sure that they would be able to identify Hilton as well.

I am glad he's caught, I just wish that I had been able to prevent it if that guy was actually Hilton. I am going to be a hell of a lot more vigilant and aware of my surroundings, and I'm going to be less reluctant to call the authorities.

Thank you for sharing this article. Unfortunately most of it is as I expected, except for the part about the book "Canibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures". Only a bullet or two would have stopped this monster. My thoughts and prayers are with Meredith and Cheryl's families.

Daffodil thanks for copying the TJMaxx Post.

I have some comments on what GA (Wolfscratch) was saying in the quoted post, since I have been reading his posts since early January. Wolfscratch is the region where he lives, part of the former Cherokee tribal land. LB is Little Brother, GA's son Roman. That was explained on one of the topix forums for wxia, but those posts have probably been deleted. I am glad to hear that LE is looking all over Wolfscratch, and I hope they have cadaver dogs with them. Glenn said that he discovered several camp areas, a camper, and burial areas used by Gary Hilton, as well as dumping areas with lots of apparent victims clothes, some in plastic bags, and some partially burned. If LE is finally taking this evidence in, they could potentially solve many cases. Unfortunately, sleddog's excellent online map, marked to show locations more than 200 possible victims of Gary Hilton, is no longer displaying that information. The list of possible victims was created carefully by looking for evidence of Hilton's modus operandi (MO). The map was marked with 'balloons' which displayed the location, victim's name, and date when clicked. Georgia Peach saw this map. I have no idea why the map information was removed, or by whom. The comments are still on the map comment section. If any of you know how to contact sleddog, maybe you could ask what happened. Sleddog had analyzed the data and found that most of these victims went missing in fall/winter/early spring, which are the off season for Hilton's job with Tabor. However, as GA has pointed out, there are probably many innocent people in prison for murders that Hilton committed. The possibility of a 'hunt club' similar to the plot of the movie Rael produced is horrifying.

Hiker never gave up fight, Hilton said
By RHONDA COOK, CHRISTIAN BOONE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/23/08

Gary Michael Hilton acknowledged that the petite woman nearly overpowered
him when he first accosted her. As they struggled near the Appalachian
Trail, Meredith Emerson disarmed her attacker of a knife and baton.
Hilton eventually subdued Emerson, kidnapped her and later killed
her. She did not make it easy for him, according to interviews Hilton
gave to investigators that were obtained by The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.

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Speaking to Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Clay Bridges only
days after killing the young woman, Hilton said: "I think it was you
probably, or one of the GBIs, said 'That little 120-pound-girl about
probably came close to whipping your ass.' She about did."
Her life in danger, Emerson fought back using her strength, her wits
and a large measure of courage and determination. In the four days
after she disappeared on a Blood Mountain hiking trail in Union County,
investigators said, Emerson never gave up.
Bridges said he talked with the South Florida-born vagrant as
authorities drove him from the Union County Jail to the Dawson Forest
Wildlife Management Area, where Hilton killed Emerson. Hilton made a
deal with prosecutors that he would lead investigators to her remains,
if they would not seek the death penalty.
As they descended the winding North Georgia mountain roads, the Army
veteran casually detailed the abduction and slaying of the 24-year-old
University of Georgia graduate.
Bridges said Hilton clearly relished the attention, and authorities described his account as "self-serving."
Still, Emerson's tenacity and smarts are evident throughout, and,
despite Hilton's best attempts, her actions overwhelm the one-sided
narrative.
"She was doing everything she could to stay alive," GBI Director
Vernon Keenan said. "It's not something you can train for. Instinct
kicks in. ... She nearly got the best of him. ... She's very much a
hero."
Meredith Emerson was described as "feisty" by her roommate and close
friend. Her Judo teacher said at 5 feet 4 inches and 120 pounds, she
"trained with us like she lived every day — hard and with everything
she had."
Hilton, 61, told investigators he abducted her because she was a woman.
Easy prey, he figured.

'Wouldn't stop fighting'
Both were with their dogs when they met near the Appalachian Trail
in Union County on New Year's Day. For a time they walked together,
but, as Hilton later admitted, he couldn't keep up with her and fell
behind. He intercepted her on her way down, producing a military-style
knife and demanding her ATM card.
Without pause, Emerson fought back.
"The bayonet is probably still up there," Hilton told Bridges. "I
lost control, and ... she fought. And as I read in the paper, she's a
martial artist."
Emerson, who held a green belt and a blue belt in two different martial arts, grabbed the blade.
He countered with a baton. She grabbed it, too. They stepped off the trail and fell down a slope, leaving the weapons behind.
"I had to hand-fight her," Hilton said. "She wouldn't stop. She
wouldn't stop fighting," he said. "And yelling at the same time. ... So
I needed to both control her and silence her."
He kept punching her, so hard it left both her eyes black and may
have fractured her nose. Hilton said his hand was broken by the blows.
He figured she had worn down, and they moved farther off the trail.
Then Emerson started fighting again. He finally got her to stop by
telling her all he wanted was her credit card and PIN. He then
restrained her hands with a zip tie.
Then, Hilton told Bridges, "I had to go back and clean the crime scene."
But he couldn't find any of his weapons. He said he spotted three hikers nearby and assumed they had found the knife and baton.
It was one of several close calls that continue to haunt Hilton's
captors. On at least three other occasions before he killed Emerson,
Hilton crossed paths or was in the vicinity of law-enforcement
officials.
On the day he abducted her, he was worried police officers might be
waiting for him in the parking lot as he led Emerson back down the
mountain, staying off the established trails. He assumed whoever
retrieved his baton and knives had called police, or perhaps they had
heard Emerson's cries for help.
Apparently no one did.
Without incident, Hilton placed Emerson and her dog, Ella, in his van and secured his victim with a padlocked chain.

Chained or bound
In the following hours and days, Emerson kept Hilton off-balance by
repeatedly giving him the wrong PIN for her ATM card but assuring each
time that this time the numbers were correct.
She bought time with that ploy. Three days.
"That's one thing that broke my heart in this case," Bridges said.
"She was doing everything she was supposed to do to stay alive, and we
didn't get there in time."
In recounting conversations with Emerson, Hilton revealed himself as
a killer without shame or remorse — and unwittingly provided testament
to her resolve.
Hilton said he and Emerson camped all three nights during a spell of bitter cold.
To keep her from running away, he usually kept a chain or nylon rope
around her neck and she was often tethered to a tree or inside the van.
When they slept, Emerson was tied to him so he would know if she tried
to escape.
Hilton claimed he tried to make Emerson comfortable, at one point
saying he gave her the warmer sleeping bag because temperatures had
dropped to 4 degrees. He offered her aspirin for a lingering headache
that followed their fight the first day.
"I was solicitous of her ... comfort and everything else," said Hilton, seemingly oblivious to the contradiction.
Perhaps one of the most chilling details followed, as Hilton
nonchalantly told Bridges, he raped Emerson that first night. He was
angry she'd made him drive around from bank to bank and still had
nothing to show for it.
Their second day together, Hilton set up camp in Dawson Forest,
where they hiked for several hours. He insisted she was free, but he
also said he told her he would shoot her and anyone around if she tried
to get away.
"We took both dogs and went hiking along Shoal Creek," Hilton said. He said she was not bound while they hiked.
If she appeared to be going along with her abductor, as Hilton
described, Keenan said it was only to survive. "She struggled to live,"
the GBI director said.
Hilton knew he was a wanted man, telling investigators he had
followed the AJC's coverage of Emerson's abduction. On the day she
died, Jan. 4, he was pictured on the newspaper's front page alongside a
story in which police named him a "person of interest" in the Buford
hiker's disappearance.
That day, Hilton said that he told Emerson "she was going home."
"I said, 'I'm giving you all your stuff back.' I had all her stuff bagged up together. I made a point of showing her."
They drove to the spot where he would kill her. On the way, they passed a law-enforcement officer.
"I waved at him," Hilton said. "It was that close."
Though a police bulletin had been issued for Hilton's van with a
DeKalb County license plate, by then he had switched that tag for a
stolen North Carolina tag.
"I walked her into the woods," Hilton said. He carried two sleeping
bags, an air mattress "for her to sit on," two bags and a chain.
"Secured her to a tree. Walked back to the van. Kinda got myself together. Made some coffee."

Killing was difficult
When he came back to her, Hilton said with a little laugh, Emerson told him, " 'I was afraid you weren't coming back.' "
He gave her a book to read, "Cannibals and Kings: Origins of
Cultures" by Marvin Harris, walked behind her as if he were going to
remove the chains holding her to the tree and hit her several times
with the handle from a tire jack.
Hilton both killed and decapitated Emerson in a vain effort to destroy evidence that might incriminate him.
Hilton was worried about another piece of evidence that might link
him to the slaying — Emerson's dog. She had told him the Lab-mix
carried a microchip identifying it as her pet.
"If I wanted to ensure that no one would associate the dog with her,
I would've killed the dog," Hilton said. "But there's no way I could do
that."
He had no such reservations about killing Emerson.
"Was it difficult for you at all?" GBI agent Bridges asked after Hilton finished his account of the murder.
"It was like an out-of-body experience. It was surreal. ... You look
back on it, and you say 'That wasn't even real.' You might say it was
an altered state. ...
"It was hard," Hilton continued. "You gotta remember we had spent several good days together."

The map is being recreated even as I write this!
Google Maps

We are preparing for the next hearing on Tuesday in our case. Wonder if Tabor will be there this time to harass me more!? or try to anyway.

Wonderful to see the improved map sleddog created! And thanks for posting the link coffee124. I really think Glenn is a good hearted person. He doesn't know much at all about computers, and couldn't possibly actually hijack anyone's computer. I'm sure Glenn just meant he was using his son's computer to post. Could some of these victims of Hilton and his associates could possibly have been used to produce violent films? I hope the FBI is investigating. I started following this with Meredith's story on the news starting January 2nd or 3rd. Thank you all for your great insight! Marchmallow in WI

Grace removed Sleddog from BBC for good cause and he decide to remove the links to all his pictures and maps. Although many of you thought that the locations were based on fact..they were not. He took the location of every unsolved case and placed them on the map. Some if not many were out of Hiltons area and many of the bodies that were found were not in National Forests which is where Hilton thrives. To attribute 200 Killings to Hilton is going overboard. Again that is my personal opinion.