Missing Georgia hiker--Meredith Emerson, 24 #3

[hprofits]

I haven't seen it posted yet but local news is saying her remains were found in two different locations. There's video of it here

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15011719/detail.html

I live less than a mile from the Dawson County Jail and Courthouse and I can tell you the media are camped out.

 

[Pharlap]

If someone kidnapped me and asked for my pin number... I'd give it to them without a second thought. Take my money, but spare my dog and me!

how many of us would guard our pin number over our lives? u know what I'm saying..I dont think he kept her alive for her pin number... she would have given it to him when he asked for it.

I don't know about that.
From what I"ve heard about her, she was feisty...
I probably wouldn't, thinking he's going to kill me anyways if I can't get away from him... Not going to give him a dime.

 

[concernedperson]

I haven't seen this link posted yet (sorry if it has been and I missed it!)
Looks like GBI missed him by about an hour...during the time Meredith was likely alive.

http://www.11alive.com/news/article...=PubQmFid/i60VvFxBs1HD4DXyx6ZZMhdkAwc9qtLKoc=

.More information is emerging about how close the GBI may have been last week to capturing Gary Hilton and rescuing Meredith Emerson.

This is so horrible and chilling. If only....

 

[ipswitch]

This is the article that gets my blood boiling: (bolding mine)

http://newsherald.com/headlines/article.display.php?id=246

...snip...

Wood said the forestry officer who stopped Hilton ran a check, then released him with a warning about camping regulations when no arrest warrants turned up.​

Miami-Dade County prosecutors confirmed that, until Nov. 9, Hilton had an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to appear at his 1972 arraigment on a charge of receiving stolen property. ​

Because the case was so old and could no longer be prosecuted, the charges were dropped and the warrant quashed in a routine purging two months ago, said Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.​

...more at link...

 

[angelwngs]

I don't know about that.
From what I"ve heard about her, she was feisty...
I probably wouldn't, thinking he's going to kill me anyways if I can't get away from him... Not going to give him a dime.

I agree...it is possible that the pin number might have bought her time...IMO, as well.

 

[LionRun]

On occasion a killer will remove the head or hands of his victims and dispose of them in a different location to delay or hamper identification of the body. But, I get the impression that Meredith's remains were both found near to each other. If this is true, than it seems more like some twisted, macabre need has been fulfilled and/or maybe it was his bizarre signature. If Cheryl Dunlap's remains were all found near to each other as opposed to having been disposed of in separate areas, that may be a unique aspect of an MO that may further indicate Hilton as a suspect, perhaps.

Lion

 

[angelwngs]

It is ironic that he did not kill her dog and that it actually helped somewhat in his capture...

If she had not given up her pin number, would he not have thought to torture her dog to obtain it?

Why couldn't he access her ATM? Do you think he had her pin number? Has this been stated/reported or not?

(And... how could someone be so callous as to brutally murder 'people', yet go to the trouble and take the chance of getting caught by not killing the dog???)

 

[hprofits]

On occasion a killer will remove the head or hands of his victims and dispose of them in a different location to delay or hamper identification of the body. But, I get the impression that Meredith's remains were both found near to each other. If this is true, than it seems more like some twisted, macabre need has been fulfilled and/or maybe it was his bizarre signature. If Cheryl Dunlap's remains were all found near to each other as opposed to having been disposed of in separate areas, that may be a unique aspect of an MO that may further indicate Hilton as a suspect, perhaps.

Lion

See the newest video here

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15011719/detail.html

They are saying her remains were found in two different places in Dawson Forest.

 

[concernedperson]

It is ironic that he did not kill her dog and that it actually helped somewhat in his capture...

If she had not given up her pin number, would he not have thought to torture her dog to obtain it?

Why couldn't he access her ATM? Do you think he had her pin number? Has this been stated/reported or not?

(And... how could someone be so callous as to brutally murder 'people', yet go to the trouble and take the chance of getting caught by not killing the dog???)

She probably gave him the wrong pin number as she knew he would kill her if he accessed her account. She was buying time I imagine.

 

[angelwngs]

On occasion a killer will remove the head or hands of his victims and dispose of them in a different location to delay or hamper identification of the body. But, I get the impression that Meredith's remains were both found near to each other. If this is true, than it seems more like some twisted, macabre need has been fulfilled and/or maybe it was his bizarre signature. If Cheryl Dunlap's remains were all found near to each other as opposed to having been disposed of in separate areas, that may be a unique aspect of an MO that may further indicate Hilton as a suspect, perhaps.

Lion

I agree, Lion. This is what makes me think that the still unidentified body located in Franklin County, Ga late last Spring which was recovered without a head might be connected to him as well...

 

[angelwngs]

She probably gave him the wrong pin number as she knew he would kill her if he accessed her account. She was buying time I imagine.

You are probably right... CP...

 

[DeltaDawn]

If you were going to outside ATM's at banks..but the bank card wasn't from that bank..would the ATM still work? I didn't think that it would. I am thinking that this man has it togather in some aspects and not in others. Like he thinks every bank ATM will accept every card, yet knows to change car plates and dismember bodies to throw off ID. He really is a very scary person, half sane and half very insane.

I think he simply didn't kill the dog because he likes dogs that are well mannered and thought that dog would not betray him.. Again I don't think he realized the extent to which people were looking for him..the time spent in the Huddle House, the time spent at the gas station/convenience store.

He just isn't all there and so he in no way thinks like we think.

 

[SuziQ]

Well, he tried unsuccessfully to use her card @ the ATM's 3 times...

I'm pretty sure it was two times at two different ATM's on the same day. I think 3 times is coming from the Dunlap case. He used her card succesfully 3 times, On dec 2,3,4.

 

[DeltaDawn]

I'm pretty sure it was two times at two different ATM's on the same day. I think 3 times is coming from the Dunlap case. He used her card succesfully 3 times, On dec 2,3,4.

Thanks SuziQ..I was the one that said 3x..so I must have confused this with the Dunlap info.

 

[SuziQ]

If you were going to outside ATM's at banks..but the bank card wasn't from that bank..would the ATM still work? I didn't think that it would. I am thinking that this man has it togather in some aspects and not in others. Like he thinks every bank ATM will accept every card, yet knows to change car plates and dismember bodies to throw off ID. He really is a very scary person, half sane and half very insane.

That might explain why he went to a second ATM. I'm pretty sure it's been reported that he was not able to withdraw money. And the media keeps referring to her card as a credit card. I know I have a pin for my credit cards. But I never activated the pin. So if someone wanted the pin for those cards, I would be SOL. However, was her card a Visa debit card she used to access her bank account? Who knows?

 

[Angelray]

so far all I have found is ss number issued in Flordia.. checking somemore things

 

[SuziQ]

The Leon County, Florida, sheriff's office said the man charged with murder in the death of 24-year-old hiker Meredith Emerson can be considered a prime suspect in the death of Cheryl Hodges Dunlap.

Her body was found December 19th in the Apalachicola National Forest, southwest of Tallahassee. Sheriff's Major Mike Wood said today that authorities have confirmed that Gary Michael Hilton was in the area at the time of Dunlap's disappearance.

Authorities also confirmed the body of Dunlap was decapitated just like Emerson.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15011719/detail.html

 

[DeltaDawn]

I thought they said cc and bank card..I never have activated the pins to my cc either..maybe he is so out of it he thinks all cards at any location with the right pin will give him money..esspecially if they did in the past.

 

[concernedperson]

That might explain why he went to a second ATM. I'm pretty sure it's been reported that he was not able to withdraw money. And the media keeps referring to her card as a credit card. I know I have a pin for my credit cards. But I never activated the pin. So if someone wanted the pin for those cards, I would be SOL. However, was her card a Visa debit card she used to access her bank account? Who knows?

Good point. I don't use my credit cards either as a resource for obtaining cash and I know I have never activated a PIN for them. I only use a debit card for that.

 

[SuziQ]

Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead told Channel 2 the GBI Crime Lab is awaiting the results of a rape kit administered during the autopsy of Meredith Emerson to confirm or refute suspicions she was sexually assaulted.

The GBI has asked other law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to assist in putting together a timeline of suspect Gary Hilton's whereabouts in recent years.

Also, Channel 2 has been told human remains identified as those of Emerson were found in two different locations -- each off a different road in Dawson County. Both scenes have been completely processed by GBI crime specialists.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15011719/detail.html