Comment # 145 continued 'Huddle House' phone is displayed on caller ID: 770-894-4684, I personally verified this by physically making a phone call from the Huddle House's phone to another concerned citizen. A simple 911 call by John Tabor on 01/03/08, would have rescued Meredith Hope Emerson, and insured the capture of Gary Michael Hilton. Why wasn't the call made made? Below is the truth:
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=109373
More Info About Hilton Emerging
More information is emerging about Gary Hilton and the time he spent after allegedly kidnapping Meredith Emerson.
Thursday, while at a Pickens County Huddle House, Hilton called his former boss, John Tabor.
"He said he needed some money to get started," Tabor said. "So I told him I would leave a check for him at the office on Clairmont Road for him to retrieve the following day, Friday."
What Gary Hilton didn't know when he called Tabor was that Tabor had already called the GBI about Hilton. Tabor said he called the GBI as soon as he heard that Meredith Emerson was missing from the hiking trail on Blood Mountain in Union County. Tabor knew Hilton camped in the wilderness there, and based on what he knew of Hilton, suspected Hilton might be the one who kidnapped Emerson.
So Tabor had already given the GBI Hilton's name, van description and license tag numbers. Right after Hilton called Tabor, Tabor called the GBI again, and the GBI raced to the Huddle House, trying to catch up to Hilton and Emerson.
Hilton worked for Tabor's siding business, Insulated Wall Systems, on and off for ten years. In fact the office on Clairmont Road in DeKalb County was listed as Hilton's suspected address on his initial kidnapping warrant. at a Huddle House restaurant on Highway 53 in Pickens County.
What neither Tabor nor workers at the Huddle House restaurant on Highway 53 in Pickens County could have known when Hilton picked up the phone was that Meredith Hope Emerson, was alive and restrained inside Hilton's van in the restaurant parking lot.
The GBI said Hilton killed Emerson the next day in Dawson County, one day after calling his former boss to plan his future.
"That was the last contact I had from Gary Hilton," Tabor said. "And apparently when they picked him up, he was en-route to get that check."
Tabor said he wants Meredith Emerson's family to know that he did everything he could to help police catch Hilton and save Meredith.
Tabor is out of state and expects to return home to Metro Atlanta in a few days. He said he never really intended to re-hire Hilton, after a falling out they had last year. He is grieving along with the people at the Huddle House, wondering and agonizing over what more they could have done.
08-0093-25-08
GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REGION 8
INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY
6:30 – 7:30 pm
On Thursday, January 3,2008, ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE J. C MADDOX spoke via telephone with JOHN TABER [TABOR sic.]in reference to the missing person investigation concerning MEREDITH EMERSON. AGENT MADDOX had contacted TABER to ascertain if he was aware of any telephone numbers that GARY HILTON (suspect in this investigation) may have at this time or may have had in recent months. TABER advised AGENT MADDOX that HILTON had tried to contact TABER on this
date. TABER stated that at approximately 4:35 p.m. on this date (01-03-08) HILTON had called from what TABER believed to be a pay phone (number 770-893-9922). TABER could not hear HILTON very well. At approximately 4:40 pm., HILTON again contacted TABER on TABER's cellular telephone. This number was 770-894-4684. TABER did not know where this telephone was located. TABER just stated that the reception was much better. TABER stated that HILTON wanted to borrow money from TABER. HILTON stated that he had gotten his life in order and had turned things around and wanted to come back to work for TABER. HILTON stated he would need approximately seven hundred dollars or eight hundred dollars to get his driver's license and tags renewed. HILTON had wanted TABER to leave a check at TABER's business in Decatur. HILTON advised he would come pick it up either that evening or the next date.
TABER further advised that HILTON had used a cellular telephone that had been purchased for TABER's business. TABER's business was in construction and HILTON was a "laborer". HILTON had used the telephone up until late September or early October of 2007. The telephone number had been transferred to another telephone. That
. number was inactive on the phone that he had given HILTON. No further information was obtained at this time.
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EXHIBIT 21
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10 DATA:
TABER, JOHN JOSEPH DOB:
SEX/RACE: MALEIWHITE ADDRESS:
450 ARBORSHADE TRAIL DULUTH,GA
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES RESIDENCE:I
CELLULAR
SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, ASST JESSE C MADDOX: 1/1 ~
hb 1/22/2008 .
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Then on Jan. 18, 2008, what finally came to be admitted?
S/A HOWARD asked TABOR if he attempted to contact the GBI when HILTON had called him on January 3,2008. TABOR became visually upset and began to cry. He stated that he did not attempt to call anyone. HILTON contacted TABOR at approximately 4:41 p.m. and asked him for money. After taking the call, TABOR attended to some business requirements prior to receiving a call from ASAC JESSE MADDOX at approximately 6:30 p.m Though during the phone conversation TABOR told ASAC MADDOX that he had been trying to call, TABOR clarified to S/A HOWARD he had not actually tried to contact law enforcement. TABOR stated that "I thought we had him, the ruse was set up for tomorrow". TABOR never contacted anyone about a "ruse" or about HILTON calling him. TABOR only provided the information about HILTON's 4:41 p.m. call when he was directly asked by ASAC MADDOX (OVER THE PHONE in the late evening of Jan. 3, 2008). EXHIBIT 174 (cross ref. Exhibit 21)
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The phone call to John Tabor was made at 4:41 PM. The response time to the Huddle House; Marble Hill, GA , 30148 by the GBI on 01/03/08 was 'four hours due to Tabor's failure to dial 911. The GBI's time of arrival was 9:00PM.
Why has this been silenced by the media (Local and National)? Precious Victims Lives depend on 'Truth in the Media'. They should be ashamed...