Recent content by Alex

Thank you for showing the child to the bathroom, SS. Or is this a closet? You all have a nice forum. Bye.

I think Seriously Searching has a point about the threads thing. I think also that it was my fault that we got off topic and started getting rowdy--somewhere just after my posts about the Pink Beds and the Bryants, I got off topic and then the trial stuff started and I didn't know how to be...

Panglossian, about what happened to you at the concert--I would like to apologize for the miserable creatures in the gender I belong to, but there' no amount of words...I hope you got the guy prosecuted.

And, poor Ella!... Ella must have been with Meredith the whole time Hilton was torturing her for the PIN's. This is all so hard to take. Thanks, sweetmop, for helping straighten out the link.

Dang! Looks like the url was too long for the system, went into two lines and wouldn't wrap. Sorry. Just go to ajc.com and put Meredith Emerson in the search engine and you'll find the article dated tonight.

http://www,ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/01/31/threedays_0201.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab I got to hand it to you, Pure Maple Syrup, you've got more consistent news sources than I. I never heard any two reports that were the same about where the items were found. But...

I've begun to suspect that I know what the problem may be. You all live far away and have no inkling of how many stories we locals here were deluged with that day that Meredith was declared missing. I must have heard an on-the-scene, local TV report every hour that day. All sorts of supposed...

Pure Maple Syrup, US 19 and US 129 are routes which at that point lie on the same roadbed. Whichever number you use, it's the same road (see Google Maps.) "Seen following her on the trail" is not explicit enough since there are three separate trails in the area at the foot of the mountain...

Truly, My description of the "clerk at the store" and his/her observation was not referencing the material about the ex-cop. It was from a separate story. I am almost certain it was in a TV story very close to the event, otherwise I would have saved a link. Most likely wsbtv.com...but their...

I still don't buy the picture. Maybe I'm prejudiced, but the guy I saw in the orange jump suit wouldn't have been able to blow any smoke up my sleeve! I guess I'm just a downer, huh? I still want to know whether Winton Porter consulted with LE about the hiker complaints and what LE said in...

AlohaGal, I am intrigued by your info. I have thought about that Shenadoah case many times in all the years in between. There was also a case of fatal stabbings in Poplar Stomp on the Georgia AT which I think only slightly pre-dated them. The girls' dog running loose was so eerie then, and...

Debbie Gilbert of the Gainesville Times graciously answered my email about Pure Maple Syrup's catch on the date of Hilton's capture. She sends you her compliments and offers her apology for the erratum. The parenthetical material was hers, she says, and she feels that her informant was indeed...

Truly, ---Me, I wish law enforcement had made arrangements to warn the hikers. Did any one hear anything about this Winton fellow, owner of the store, passing along the hikers' complaints to LE? To me, creeps are more important than bears and rattlesnakes to warn folks of. A notice on the...

I saw an article, which I am pretty sure was a link on one of the posts on this forum, which had Hilton beating Dandy so savagely that a passer-by actually called 911 on his cell. As I recall, Hilton jumped in his van, enraged, and tried to run over the guy's wife. Dandy was described here or...

gardenmom and Native New Yorker, you've got my idea exactly. Some commentators have seen Meredith as too sweet and polite to make a scene, but I don't get that impression. I think she was just gritting her teeth, counting on her martial arts, and trying to suffer through it. But I do not...