Remains Are That of John Bryant *merged threads*

[DeltaDawn]

Do we know who the woman is from Bryson City?

Authorities are investigating ties between Hilton and a woman missing from Bryson City since 2005.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NEWS01/80212041

SS, I think they are referring to Rosanna Miliani. Your link on her below:

http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58555

 

[Hiker]

So it WAS Hilton wearing John's yellow windbreaker in the ATM photos?

Sad to hear that he was found dead, but at least it's a little closure for the family. The "not knowing" whether they are dead or alive would tear me up.

A clerk in a store in Ducktown TN says she saw Hilton on the day John Bryant's ATM card was used. I'm still not convinced that the yellow jacket in the ATM photo was John Bryant's yellow jacket because the jacket had such an unusual design and I would think that the family or friends would have been able to say immediately if John Bryant owned a jacket with this design. Yellow is a fairly popular color for rain jackets.

 

[Native New Yorker]

But the children of the Bryants were all grown, and did not live near them...seemed as though the parents were pretty independent, too.
I have a mother in her 80's and I do not live near her...I cannot honestly say that I "know" all of her raincoats, jackets, etc.
I would not rule out this being John's jacket......

 

[Hiker]

But the children of the Bryants were all grown, and did not live near them...seemed as though the parents were pretty independent, too.
I have a mother in her 80's and I do not live near her...I cannot honestly say that I "know" all of her raincoats, jackets, etc.
I would not rule out this being John's jacket......

The evidence list from the search warrant lists two yellow jackets - one with blood on it and one without. My guess is that the one with blood will turn out to be John Bryant's jacket and the one without will turn out to be the one in the ATM photos.

 

[indigomood]

MILLS RIVER -- Two local residents say they saw confessed killer Gary Michael Hilton in Mills River before he was arrested in Georgia and named as a suspect in the murders of local retirees John and Irene Bryant.

Arthur Collan Riddle of Mills River said Friday he saw Hilton in November at Hyder's Kountry Kubbard, the BP gas station on N.C. 280.

"He was kind of weird," Riddle said of his encounter with Hilton.

"He just stood there staring at us," said Riddle, who was visiting the gas station with his wife and baby. "Then he said, 'I ain't got nothing on me except this baton ... you could use it for a lot of things even as a weapon.'"

Riddle said at first he thought Hilton was walking, but later saw him get in a van.

"I had a bad feeling about that van," Riddle said. "I wish I would have called in something to the police. It seemed like he (Hilton) was watching my wife and baby. I just can't explain how weird he was."

*more at link*
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080216/NEWS/802160328/0/OPINION02

 

[panglossian]

Thanks indigomood. I hope more people come forward with their experiences with Hilton. I know that the guy you quoted must feel terrible, but how could he have known? Hilton just has touched so many lives in his path of destruction, it seems.

 

[indigomood]

Thanks indigomood. I hope more people come forward with their experiences with Hilton. I know that the guy you quoted must feel terrible, but how could he have known? Hilton just has touched so many lives in his path of destruction, it seems.

you're welcome panglossian

Yes, he must feel terrible indeed but should forgive himself. Many of us have been guilty of ignoring our gut instincts when perhaps we should have acted. We are human. In our journeys we cross paths with many people who we deem "creepy", who's to know what another human is capable of? Stay safe in this sometimes world gone mad :blowkiss: