Gary Hilton's boss used to be a friend of mine. I've not seen him in several years, but he told me that Gary had worked for him for about 10 years, and he had no idea what an evil man he was. You just never know that a serial killer may be in your midst. I consider myself fortunate that I never ran up against him. I especially enjoyed hearing that they took the death penalty off the table to get Meredith's remains recovered, then they gave him the death penalty for Sherry's murder. Excellent outcome there.
tricking people shouldn't be a part of the "justice" system because there are edge cases like this guy where it works out now I remember why I stopped wathcing true crime on here
Anybody with the slightest hint of intuition and/or situational awareness could tell by looking this man in the eye that he's missing a few peices upstairs and is potentially a murderous psychopath.
I have hiked Pisgah forest several times. I would never do it alone or without something to protect myself. It’s very remote, vast and scary. The rise of murderers in national forests is what stopped me from hiking national forests. Sad, but true. RIP to all his victims.
I used to walk all over in my area all the woods, and creeks I would explore with my kids. For years we explored all over. This particular day was hot as blazes, and so I took my labs along, two of them, they both weighed about 100 lbs. In all our forays we had never once seen a single person. Here I gathered nuts and acorns from some particular tree, it was about 2 miles into a little woodland , I had explored before. Way back in there we are doing our typical chattering and running around, and .....boom!! I run into 3 drunk rednecks, camping way back out there. I smiled and said hi, but I had a bad feeling and so did my kids. My dogs came running up and stood by. I said I had to get home and cook dinner for my husband, and we hiked back out of there. I did make some idle chit chat, I acted like there was nothing strange at all, about meeting 3 middle aged day drunks, camping way out in the woods. Happens everyday. Wished them good luck, they just laughed. Creepy, this encounter weighed on my mind, my gut never lies, I trust it and the boys felt it too, That I had put my boys at risk, it hurt my heart, I felt very stupid and blessed to get out of that situation, . I never took my boys any further than my back woods after that. I feel like my dogs made a difference.. It makes me really angry women cant do this, I know i cant. It's not safe anymore. I could take my dog, and nothing says i wont hike again anyway, if I am able. At a certain point somethings gonna get me. But I know the risks. Now there's Coyotes too. I am old and stubborn. But the danger is real. Every mom ought to be able to do this with their kids. Sure you can have a big dog and carry a gun. But I don't want to kill anyone. But those were good years I cherish now. I dont know what I would be willing to do, to have that with my kids. These evil monsters shouldn't be able to rule our forests and woods .
@@lukelee8934it's a fools mindset IMHO. It's like "I've lived here my entire life and nothing happens to me" as a means to insist somewhere like Chicago is safe. Then again, Chicagoans voted away all their defense rights
I live in north GA and we use to go up to a little town called Helen and spend the day by the river my husband would trout fish and me and our two boys would look for adventure and cool rocks, I was seated with my back to wooden steps that took u from the road downtown the river my boys were out of site and I was reading when my oldest son yelled for me and was running to show me a rock he found and the moment my son yelled mom a older man bald step around me from the steps and jumped into the river. It scared me because I did not hear him and I should have. It was so unsettling that It stuck in my mind. That was summer of 07 and then January 08 is when Meredith got murdered and when I saw this man I knew immediately it was this man I believe my son saved me that day.
I have a very similar story with a serial killer not him but another one . Luckily your son came along at the right time ❤ My encounter was intuition. A few months later I was watching the news and it was 💯 the guy that stalker me in his car to give me a lift home . That was 30 years ago .he’s dead now he got life in prison and died in prison from old age . ❤he has murdered over 10 women
I have a very similar story with a serial killer not him but another one . Luckily your son came along at the right time ❤ My encounter was intuition. A few months later I was watching the news and it was 💯 the guy that stalker me in his car to give me a lift home . That’s as 30 years ago and he’s dead now/ he got life in prison and died in prison from old age . ❤
I solo road tripped 49 states, prior to it being cool, and my friends always ask how I didn't run into a serial killer. I wonder myself as I was out there alone with just a tent and my dog and the basics. People I'd meet would tell me I'm brave and I never understood. (The beauty of youth)...now I fully understand how dangerous it was. I wouldn't do that now. I'm happy I did all that, and I am grateful I never met a dangerous person out there on the road.
Yep, I met this dude at Justus Creek on the A.T. in 2005. He had been parked and camping in his van at the Cooper's Gap road crossing on the A.T. He totally stalked my cousin and I to the Gooch Mtn shelter and used his dog as interference to get close to us. After talking to us for about 10 minutes at the shelter, including mentioning how he disliked other hikers who hiked with dogs, because they don't properly protect their dog's feet, he pulled out a knife and cleaned his dog's paws with the knife about 5 feet from me. It was creepy and my cousin and I both read his vibes like a book and were on high alert. He then turned and left quickly after he mentioned that we would not be alone in the shelter for the night and that 8 guys hiking would soon be there. While we were trying to figure out how he knew that info, not a mere five minutes after he left, those 8 guys showed up and that probably saved our lives or at least from a possible attack. He knew the lay of the land and all the other game trails in the area and had totally stalked all of us. Including timing our progress through the area. Except none of us knew it at the time. It wasn't until he used his dog to get close to Meredith in 2008 and his picture came out that I made the connection. Chilling. I think about Meredith all the time and pray she has peace.
The DEVIL is in the DETAILS. Sheesh! You can't even enjoy life anymore without keeping in the back of your mind that there are an ocean of two-legged monsters lurking in the shadows patiently waiting for that window of opportunity to stealthily strike, and evilly snuff out a human being. This is why I kinda enjoy being an introvert.
@paIt may not be their fault that they incurred the injury, but thhaving lived next to someone who had a horrendous TBI becayse of a car wreck, I can tell you that many of these people lose all sense of right ir wrong, and any empathy towards both animals or other people. Yes, it's really sad what happens to their brai s, but they need to be supervised all the time. They can seem as normal as you, me, or the local store Clerk, until they are NOT. I felt sad for his family, but felt great relief when I got the phone e call that he'd died. He had some crazy idea that he was going to take me to a cabin and I would be his wife. When I said No, Im happily married,and that wasnt going to happen, he started watching me constantly. It got really out of hand, until he was put into a Care Center. dirulharrisonadventuregearm5457
@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457no it's not a illness it's just an injury or that part of the brain isn't fully functioning. This kind of injury is what makes psychopaths. It just a matter of what type of psychopath they are; factors 1or 2
@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457Not their fault ? They still know right from wrong otherwise why hide it ? You don't understand mental health or brain injuries well. If you have insight to hide your behaviour, then you are aware enough to control it. You choose not to.
My partner and I live extremely close to the appalachian trail in TN and NC, and we hike it often. For the most part I can say it's safe, even more so when thru hikers begin the journey in March. But we have experienced one scary encounter, a couple of meth heads set up camp near the trail head and decided to steal equipment from a day hiker truck. The day hiker returned that night and shot into their tent with a handgun. We didn't know about any of this until we heard the gunshots from our tent less than a quarter of a mile away. Needless to say, we hiked out that same night. We are both licensed handgun carriers now, and refuse to hike without them.
I actually walked by one of the dump sites where this guy dumped a body hunting while that person was laying there and didnt know it multiple times before a bird hunter found the remains. Sick bastard.
This is perhaps the most powerful, the most shocking, the most disturbing true crime video I've ever seen. I am still in a state of shock. It really is like coming face to face with pure evil.
I am so utterly fed up with ignorant people! The word evil is a human construct! Serial Killers are BORN with the Anterior Insular Cortex part of their brain undeveloped to the extent that they are INCAPABLE of feeling empathy or compassion, combined with the fact that they are psychologically and uncontrollably driven to murder! Psychopathy is a most terrible mental illness. Is it not time we all expanded our knowledge from the ignorance of the 14th century????????????
So he killed his stepfather at the age of 13y/o? He should have been watched very closely after this incident for the rest of his useless life. So very sorry for all his innocent victims, may they RIP. Also his boss is a beautiful man and most certainly lucky to still be alive after what he went thru with him.
This is WHY capital murder carreid the dealtn penalty most places when I was a child in the 50s. I am Texan....I saw eletrocution press coverings in the 50s on B&W TV...they didnt show the gorey details of course, but my grandfather told me what was happening. My grandfather apparently loved true crime because he kept a stash of detective magazines under his bed....black and white photos on the cover of bloody scenes mostly Italian gangsters shot on the street I would sneak a peak whenever I could...they were scary. Fast forward to grad school in the 70s and there I was at the most prestigious university in the midwest studying clinical psych and personality theory of killers. I read every single book Ann Rule wrote as she wrote them. Fast forward to the 1990s and there I am in a southern state teaching Behavioral Psych on contract from my university at the largest Federal training facility for national law enforcement in the world....I was a professor at the state flagship university. The facility was just like a large state university campus, but with shooting ranges,car tracks to teach high speed driving skills, mock cities to teach building clearance etc. I was a friend of the director of the facility...his wife was a former military officer amd I was president of the board of the nonprofit organization she served on. My daughter had a crush on his son in high school. Amazing where life takes you. This man was very scary....severe blows to the head can cause personality change. The most important area of your head to protect in a fall is the lower back of your skull just before your spine that is where your breathing is controlled. Swelling in that part of the brain is fatal , a closed head injury there creates bleeding and swelling thereby closing off blood supply to the area eventually...you are going to die your breathung will stop and with no circulating oxygented blood you heart willl stop. If you can think fast enough falling down the stairs throw a hand up there to the lower back of you skull to protect the area and you will likely live, You will end up with a broken hand but that is better than being dead. Blows in different areas create different results....your skull is precious...take care of it..... Frankly I believe in the death penalty... there are far too many "deals" . Apparently many murderers DO value life....THEIRS. Take it from them if they deserve it ...if they took someone else's life, perfectly fine with me. The GBI did an increible job here, theybare good guys....that man could have gone on and on ...like so mamy California serial killers have done...I KNOW there is a correlation between numbers of serial killers operating in a state and the attitude via the legal system re punishment for murder...there certainly IS correlation but causation????Who knows? Seems to be a possibility to me...but then Im a scientist of human behavior, so I ponder weird things like that. I know it is said the death penalty isnt a deterrent that has always been the argutment to eliminate it but you hear of very FEW murderers who refuse to appeal a death pemalty verdict in a state that DOES enact the penalty...very VERY few murderers want to die....those that do manage to accomplish it...and that DOES happen...but it is rare. So Im not so sure it ISNT a deterrent.
My daughter went hiking alone last weekend on the Appalachian Trail, but in Pennsylvania. And all I could think was this creepy guy the whole time she was gone and I was worried even though she’s 36.
@@JohnnyDanger36963 she camped for the whole three days. I said to my husband, no matter how old out children get we never stop worrying. I worry about creeps like this
@@sistersarahc this guy is a " hilton", which sounds like he waa mkultra-ed by his larger Hilton( illumanati) to be a long term sacrifice in the " flower of life" black magic pgm.
This is why the 2nd Amendment is so important. To deprive women, the elderly, etc. the ability to protect themselves is absolute wickedness, and I give every dollar I have available to organizations like GOA and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
I agree with you. Throughout history there have been horrible people and there will continue to be. I used to study murderers looking for the "reason" but sometimes people kill others for something so minor you wouldn't think it possible. There was a football player who killed two people because one accidently spilled a drink on him. Or another who killed a man's mother over a disagreement over a parking space (because it would make him feel bad is the reason the killer gave) Beyond comprehension. Hilton $300? It makes you wonder how many more there are like him out there.
The demons themselves do not walk the earth. They exist in other planes but one of their purposes usually is to possess a human being and use that human body for the earthly pleasures that it would rather have than the freedom and boundlessness of being in heaven.. but there's usually something wrong with the person who's chosen to be mounted as we call it by a demonic Spirit or a demon himself for the spirit of a human being that worshiped the darkest deities in the end it is not frightening it's just like there are people from the most horrible to the most angelic it's the same in the spirit world but demons are on a level of size and consciousness and power that exceeds ours and it is a bad Tuesday for an exorcist if he finds out that a person possess has a true demon inside them. I am not crazy I am a high priest a spiritist religion a godly Christ loving religion that enables us to hook up with the very best souls in the spirit world these things truly exist it's not a fantasy No lie
It was not accurate to say that Danny's demon spirits are inside the body of a person possess no the latch onto a certain spot where your neck and back join that is a spot on the body that's recognizes super important in many parts of the world. They basically hang on to your back and steàr you threw a bad life this can be a bad Spirit to if you ever suspect that you have a bad energy attached to your aura or hanging on your back you will have a feeling of heaviness brain fog and weird types of pain and negative things will occur in your life one after the other it is possible to get virtually anything removed and have you walk out fresh and clean with that thing in the garbage essentially so there's always total hope if you're willing to take the steps you need to to clean every invading bit of energy off your astral body.
Everything a video on serial killer or similar pops up, guaranteed this is someone's comment. BUT if that were true these people would not get to the point they do. You cannot see that in a strangers eyes, it's easy to say after the fact, but truth is. No. You can't see evil in a strangers eyes
God bless this mental health clinician. She tries to break down his motives like they are all deep and complicated. Going as far to say "he couldnt bring himself to kill the dog, which is very significant". While i do agree its significant but it has nothing to do with his inability to blah blah blah. Its because the dog cant tell on him. He isnt killing people for these complex deep reasons. Hes doing it to simply eliminate witnesses. If he thought the dog could tell on him i promise he would have no issue whatsoever killing it as well.
About the rape; I'd say he didn't actually calculate that she owed him 'sex', but that was sadism, to claim she OWED that, blames her and humiliates her. No doubt.
Ella was looking for help for her sweet Meredith. That poor girl & Her Dog. Hilton is a sick guy he deserves the death penalty. Decapitating the women was senseless due to DNA. The fact that Gary k!lled the women in Apalachicola National forest at Leon Sink - I cant believe He did that to Cheryl Dunlap only 25mins from where i live!
It is so curious to me that he could love dogs [couldn't kill Meridith's dog and dropped it off at a safe place where it would be found] but coldly callously kill people. The psychiatrist said that goes to show how unemotionally he was detached from humans but the fact that he was emotionally attached to anything, especially a living breathing warm loving creature such as a dog is as I said....such a curiosity to me
There was a similar situation in England, but it was a pair of killers. The authorities had their dog put down in order to emotionally & mentally hurt them once caught.
Well id never kill anybody. But i didn't shed a tear when my pop died and then 2 years ago when my mom passed. But i cry like a baby when i have to put on one of my dogs down. I wished i didn't get emotional then. But I'll take a dog over 99%percent of humanity. Because dogs are the only truely loyal things there. People are not loyal
@@dianasoto7011 I have a friend who's brother is schizophrenic. I remember meeting his brother one day and noticing his eyes were just idk.... Something was missing behind those eyes, it was like there was a touch of evil sprinkled in there. He also didn't look at people the way normal people do. Living next to one is scary, they're so unpredictable.
Come on lets be honest. Isnt it in reality very exciting for you ? Otherwise you wouldnt name yourself Dangergirl ! How about a hiking trip together and marry me on top of Blood Moutnain ?
When hiking treat everyone you come in contact with as a threat. Look them in the eyes and make eye contact. Remember everything, clothing, color of shoes, hair color, height, and weight. This will come in handy if you have to report to the authorities.
Good idea. Provided you survive the meeting to tell authorities. Write all that down in a journal. Killers rarely bother with personal effects. They only want you!
30 years for the horror she went thru and thr torture and the horrific nature of that specific crime feels disrespectful and disgusting honestly. I get he got the death penalty anyways but it still feels messed up.
My father once did the Applation trail with a couple buddy’s with him, and his friend brought a strong well mannered dog, whilst on the 3rd day, he was hiking up blood mountain and walked past Gary Hilton, he told them “get that dog away from me! If I ever see that dog again, I will kill it” they had a really weird feeling about Hilton and knew something was off, they later found out that they had walked past him beetween his killing spree
Anything but call these males out. Women and males both do this. Call them monsters, animals,,perverts, etc, anything but what they are. Wouldn't want to offend them now, would you? @rachelburton8689
@@TS-rd7oyHow many women do you suppose you’ve run across who’ve killed &/or kidnaped someone? Five women have been murdered by their husbands within a 5 mile radius of each other, in a town of less than 6k. None of which made the news nor the newspaper (other than their obituaries). Then there’s the Killing Fields of TX, that’s 15 miles down the road from them, a ring of males responsible for the murder of all those girls. Total murderers I’ve been face to face with is 6, prior to their convictions, non of which are female.
I'm from Maine but moved to N.C as a kid then bk to Maine as an adult. I lived in Swannanoa. U could literally walk the woods from Pisgah National forest to my back yard. It would be a long walk but still doable. N why ain't he dead yet exactly?
most criminals on death row are there for 1-2 decades (or more) before they are executed. hilton has been there since 2011, so 13 years now. the legal procedures for KILLING somebody, no matter their crimes, is a lengthy one and cannot be done very quickly. not only that but there's a long line of criminals on death row in front of him who get first dibs on dying.
So he only got 30 yrs for Meredith. The one he r@ped and tortured. But gets life for quickly shooting the other? Someone make that make sense. Had he been in his early 20s or 30s and only caught for Meredith, he would be out in plenty of time to do more evil. Our society needs to learn and stop failing victims bc the scenario I just laid out happens all the time. Smh. Glad he is behind bars for life now. RIP to his victims (if that is possible) and my condolences to their families and friends and to the ppl who caught him and now live with those images daily.
Simply he was duped by the investigators to get him to disclose where her body was. The deal was he wouldn't face the death penalty for the killing of Meredith. And he agreed not being bright or coherent enough to understand he was still going to recieve it for his other killings. If they gave him no prison time for The murder of Meredith it wouldn't matter in the overall sense because he's still going to die for his other murders. Sure her murder definitely deserved to land him a date with Dr Death through lethal injection or riding the lightning in ole Sparky . The Game was Chess and not Checkers.
I served on the Grand Jury that indicted Him. We weren't aware that they had offered him a"deal" until after we issued a true bill to move forward with prosecution. We were informed that as soon as we indicted he took the deal without any knowledge that they had the proof of the Florida and North Carolina murders. He passed away if I remember correctly after around 4 years of being incarcerated...
People disappear from occupied areas just as much. Watch Steve Stocktons stories about people that have disappeared in National Forests, hundreds disappear every year, never to be seen again.
Solo traveler here as well and I too have the same characteristics and ran across many fearful and jumpy travelers scream at the top of their lungs, and couldn't help but chuckle and laugh out, 'City folk?' I've seen many travelers along my ways, and it's always in their eyes and demeanor. I've learned to camp in less popular places.
I've hiked numerous times where the girl on Blood Mountain was taken. There's Blood Mountain and Slaughter Mountain and then a town named Suches I would hike from a little cabin there that was right on the trail. I remember going shortly after this happened and feeling an errie feeling the whole time and every time after that.
calling people evil is a cop-out and a sign of weakness. stare the horror down and face it, it's in all of us (whether you admit it or not it doesn't matter in the slightest.)
Everyone is "capable" of evil. Some people are literally overcome by evil and allow evil to be their compass and they carry it out. Others, who have a proper moral compass, don't give in to the temptation and desire to do evil. So don't lump us all together and say we're all the same in such a sense. We're not.
Had the bank given this detective the proper details of his attempts to get Merediths money While she was hanging on hoping they would find her would it have been in time to save her???
you know that man killed many more than he was charged with. He's an old dude, that's years and years of living off victims. He has traveled been all over. Just for a couple of bucks and whatever he wanted from them.
Who is this psychologist? I wish you’d leave them out. He didn’t seem like he was losing his mind at that moment, he was actually using oodles of charm and has TOTAL AWARENESS of how he’s coming across, which is a psychopath ability. Where do you get these people?
Well that was chilling, gripping. My heart breaks for his victims. This is horrifying to someone who lives in the north GA mountains, to whom mountains and trees represent safety.
It’s not ok that the bank didn’t help the way the should have. What a shame they didn’t take action on the lifeline innately created by how tethered we are to these companies. It should require a team trained to help find solutions when time means everything. Different jurisdictions or break downs in communication or just plain bad employees and a beautiful person could be saved. We should sign a waiver with these companies to find us. Especially when we are out of routine and our loved ones know something is wrong. You track my flipping farts to sell toilet paper…track my whole body down and tell everyone I need help big business- I don’t want to be murdered by some smelly psychopath for 300$.
@@kellymurphy6642 are you serious RN? What makes you want to ask Me that question? I’m not even the OP . You obviously have no Commonsense if you don’t even know what you just watched nor how banking works . Which is extremely common knowledge this day & age.
@kellymurphy6642 they told the officer her accounts had not been used which was true but they failed to tell the officers there were failed ATTEMPTS at using her account. This is something they would be able to see and at the time they spoke with law enforcement, he had already been trying to use her cards. So yes, they dropped the ball. They probably saw no change in the amounts and said oh there been nothing but had they really looked they would have seen someone tried. Ex bank employee speaking.
@@kellymurphy6642 - because her family knew it wasn’t right. I know if I went missing my people would know immediately I wasn’t where I should be. It was a very noteworthy thing that should have been taken seriously. Investigating something doesn’t mean a crime took place.
Good video, ty for sharing this information, it's eye opening to see what they find important verses what ppl as a collective find important. Interesting topic ❤ hope everyone here is having a good day! ❤😊
That psychologist's assessment was worthless -- basically he's a sociopath at least since the age of 13 when he murdered his stepfather. No excuses for his crimes, many of which no doubt remain undiscovered.
Understanding and explaining how brain injury affects behavior is very different than excusing that behavior. I believe the brain injury did cause the total lack of empathy.
In the moment of hearing the horrific assaults- it should be kept private of what happened. But at the same time, the public needs awareness that evil exists.
Ive had great times hiking alone. Lots of wonderful solo experiences- it takes a lot of letting go. Letting go of fear abd being present- especially on aparse trails. I lived in N.C. And loved to hike and camp. Im glad i hiked and challenged my fear. You cant think about these stories when you are out in the wilds.
Had the female friend of his not said the whole world was looking for him, instead contacted the police and had him meet her, maybe the woman would have still been alive at that point. That was pretty foolish of her, not thinking. Has she just said yes let’s meet and then called the police.
I would like to think that, but I believe no matter what, his plan was to kill her before he left to meet anyone. That's why he didn't meet his former boss immediately, he wanted to kill her and dispose of her body first. He's a disgusting excuse for a human being.
@PlanetaryHealer-in2sf Sorry that you’ve suffered a life altering traumatic brain injury. What was the nature of that injury if you don’t mind? I mean clearly you had one since you’re an authority on the consequences of them.
No it isn't a excuse. But it is a reason behind his issues. There is several reports of folks like preachers having a frontal lobe injury going from god loving Peaceful folks to hateful violent people. So yeah its could be a huge factor but no it isn't a excuse.
The citizens of Georgia should get to decide this man’s fate within 30 days. The justice system is a joke. I’m tired of paying $50-$100,000 a year to house one inmate especially at the inmate is on death row.
I did 45 day's solitary in Leon Co Jail with the only other inmate in solitary was Gary Hilton because I grew up in the same neighborhood and went to school with the under Sheriff (head jailor) who was less than straight in his dealings with anyone he percieved as not friendly with his authority. I had stopped by a club to give a ride to a friend home at 2:00 a.m. Two drunken women fighting in the parking lot as I watched brought the T.P.D. and after being beaten by a rookie cop for refusing to get on the ground, with 6 other uniformed cop's laughing and encouraging him the truck I was driving was searched and a supposed roach was found in a cigarette package crumpled up on the floor, I don't smoke. Set up. Tallahassee is corrupt with power. And yes my schoolmate who became the appointed head Sheriff was not reelected.
I’m never impressed when someone tells me how they love animals, especially if they say they love them more than they love people. This man was evil but he was a dog lover. It’s natural to love animals but it doesn’t mean you’re a good person. Hitler was an animal lover but he had no problem with murdering millions of people.
I have been in manic/psychosis states many times first starting at age 20 and i would even begin to have homicidal dreams of strangling women, after being cheated on by a bf i also had much adolescent trauma built up over the years i guess the cheating on me etc and my mind just snapped tge stress started this bipolar manic depressive disorder, mone comes with psychosis hallucinations homicidal thoughts and urges back then i was very manic but it got bad to the point of trying to really hurt myself and fantasized and wanted to get back at the woman who got with my bf I was very sick mentally spiritually opressed demonically suffering with sleep Demoniac paralysis for a long time, fear like you wouldn't believe. Im definitely not a serial killer im saved from that inner rage that surfaces from my past, could he also have bipolar manic depressive episodes not that everyone with bipolar could kill. Looking back at this im like what the hell that wasn't me im too nice im not a hateful person however that bipolar manic episode psychosis really i was not in reality i was straddling in and out of this world if you know what i mean. I do think that people can definitely be demonically possessed and opressed as i was in a long spiritual battle within that nearly took my life forever. However i got free through the love and grace and mercy of the lord Jesus Christ who saved me from the pits of hell id created for myself and wow .....i think many of these serial killers would be demonically opressed or possessed by Demoniac darkness and evil has overcome them by then. God is real and so is SATAN who comes to steal and kill and destroy. The human mind and human extent of evil is fascinating yet frightening to me.
Microchips are meant to be scanned with a scanner over the dog's shoulder area. They only contain information about the dog and owner. There is no tracking involved, like gps or something like an apple air tag.
you can thank John Cagle for letting Meredith Emerson die at the hands of a monster cause if he didn't catch him for a murder John Cagle would not have gotten recognition that's all that was about is looking like a good guy
@@TimeMariner genetics, honey. I'm actually related to quite a few serial killers through my puritan ancestors. It does seem that more psychopaths have reproduced than ever before.
130,000 came into Maryland as well. Heck the Puritans weren't wanted either, especially after their participation in an English Civil war. In fact, many of the common immigrants to the American colonies were in debtor prisons or beholden to indentured servitude. That changed in 1783, when the revolution was won. Britain turned to Australia after that.
I remember when i was a kid walking down my gravel road. A man drove by me and asked me if i needed a ride. I said no and ran off. You just can't trust people anymore.
Bushwalking alone makes you very vulnerable. When you able to be followed and spied on from afar. Human animal or native animal, beware before you put down your swag for the night. So my go to is, if you have settled your hooch for the night and see you have been spotted, get the hell out of there just in case.
Gary Hilton's boss used to be a friend of mine. I've not seen him in several years, but he told me that Gary had worked for him for about 10 years, and he had no idea what an evil man he was. You just never know that a serial killer may be in your midst. I consider myself fortunate that I never ran up against him. I especially enjoyed hearing that they took the death penalty off the table to get Meredith's remains recovered, then they gave him the death penalty for Sherry's murder. Excellent outcome there.
tricking people shouldn't be a part of the "justice" system because there are edge cases like this guy where it works out
now I remember why I stopped wathcing true crime on here
He's lucky he wasn't a victim
Anybody with the slightest hint of intuition and/or situational awareness could tell by looking this man in the eye that he's missing a few peices upstairs and is potentially a murderous psychopath.
What's not good about the outcome is how long he'll get to sit there, alive, filing appeals. Justice takes too long.
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And if he dies before ,
"Before justice" finally happens, then what ??? 😢
I have hiked Pisgah forest several times. I would never do it alone or without something to protect myself. It’s very remote, vast and scary. The rise of murderers in national forests is what stopped me from hiking national forests. Sad, but true. RIP to all his victims.
I don't even walk out of my yard without atleast my dog! Lol!
Smart move! I wouldn't go running or hiking alone or without protection.
I don't understand hikers not carrying firearms with them for protection from 2 and 4 legged predators
I used to walk all over in my area all the woods, and creeks I would explore with my kids. For years we explored all over. This particular day was hot as blazes, and so I took my labs along, two of them, they both weighed about 100 lbs. In all our forays we had never once seen a single person. Here I gathered nuts and acorns from some particular tree, it was about 2 miles into a little woodland , I had explored before. Way back in there we are doing our typical chattering and running around, and .....boom!! I run into 3 drunk rednecks, camping way back out there.
I smiled and said hi, but I had a bad feeling and so did my kids. My dogs came running up and stood by. I said I had to get home and cook dinner for my husband, and we hiked back out of there. I did make some idle chit chat, I acted like there was nothing strange at all, about meeting 3 middle aged day drunks, camping way out in the woods. Happens everyday. Wished them good luck, they just laughed. Creepy, this encounter weighed on my mind, my gut never lies, I trust it and the boys felt it too, That I had put my boys at risk, it hurt my heart, I felt very stupid and blessed to get out of that situation, . I never took my boys any further than my back woods after that. I feel like my dogs made a difference..
It makes me really angry women cant do this, I know i cant. It's not safe anymore. I could take my dog, and nothing says i wont hike again anyway, if I am able. At a certain point somethings gonna get me. But I know the risks. Now there's Coyotes too. I am old and stubborn. But the danger is real.
Every mom ought to be able to do this with their kids. Sure you can have a big dog and carry a gun. But I don't want to kill anyone. But those were good years I cherish now. I dont know what I would be willing to do, to have that with my kids.
These evil monsters shouldn't be able to rule our forests and woods .
@@lukelee8934it's a fools mindset IMHO. It's like "I've lived here my entire life and nothing happens to me" as a means to insist somewhere like Chicago is safe. Then again, Chicagoans voted away all their defense rights
😳this is my worst nightmare. This is horrific.
Bless the families and friends of those who lost their lives. 🙏
I live in north GA and we use to go up to a little town called Helen and spend the day by the river my husband would trout fish and me and our two boys would look for adventure and cool rocks, I was seated with my back to wooden steps that took u from the road downtown the river my boys were out of site and I was reading when my oldest son yelled for me and was running to show me a rock he found and the moment my son yelled mom a older man bald step around me from the steps and jumped into the river. It scared me because I did not hear him and I should have. It was so unsettling that It stuck in my mind. That was summer of 07 and then January 08 is when Meredith got murdered and when I saw this man I knew immediately it was this man I believe my son saved me that day.
I've been to Helen many times. I'm glad your son was there to warn you!
wow, God was looking out for you that day, in the rock, your little boy had to show you, and in other ways we will never know!
👵Give praise 2 God 4 ur son intervening just then. There is no such thing as coincidences, it's God driven and a miracle. 👍❤️🙏
I have a very similar story with a serial killer not him but another one .
Luckily your son came along at the right time ❤
My encounter was intuition.
A few months later I was watching the news and it was 💯 the guy that stalker me in his car to give me a lift home . That was 30 years ago .he’s dead now he got life in prison and died in prison from old age . ❤he has murdered over 10 women
I have a very similar story with a serial killer not him but another one .
Luckily your son came along at the right time ❤
My encounter was intuition.
A few months later I was watching the news and it was 💯 the guy that stalker me in his car to give me a lift home . That’s as 30 years ago and he’s dead now/ he got life in prison and died in prison from old age . ❤
I solo road tripped 49 states, prior to it being cool, and my friends always ask how I didn't run into a serial killer.
I wonder myself as I was out there alone with just a tent and my dog and the basics. People I'd meet would tell me I'm brave and I never understood. (The beauty of youth)...now I fully understand how dangerous it was.
I wouldn't do that now.
I'm happy I did all that, and I am grateful I never met a dangerous person out there on the road.
Where was your gun?
Lol ‘before it was cool’ as if that shit hasn’t been hyped since the highways were built.
Thanks pac feel that 😅@@WolfPackM98c
Yep, I met this dude at Justus Creek on the A.T. in 2005. He had been parked and camping in his van at the Cooper's Gap road crossing on the A.T.
He totally stalked my cousin and I to the Gooch Mtn shelter and used his dog as interference to get close to us.
After talking to us for about 10 minutes at the shelter, including mentioning how he disliked other hikers who hiked with dogs, because they don't properly protect their dog's feet,
he pulled out a knife and cleaned his dog's paws with the knife about 5 feet from me. It was creepy and my cousin and I both read his vibes like a book and were on high alert.
He then turned and left quickly after he mentioned that we would not be alone in the shelter for the night and that 8 guys hiking would soon be there. While we were trying to figure out how he knew that info, not a mere five minutes after he left, those 8 guys showed up and that probably saved our lives or at least from a possible attack.
He knew the lay of the land and all the other game trails in the area and had totally stalked all of us. Including timing our progress through the area.
Except none of us knew it at the time.
It wasn't until he used his dog to get close to Meredith in 2008 and his picture came out that I made the connection. Chilling.
I think about Meredith all the time and pray she has peace.
I had a close encounter also in Tallahassee....he exuded evil
crazy!!! good thing you got out of there
His accurate, unapologetic recollection of the details of the crime is the scariest thing about this episode.
It's like he's ordering something from a menu, giving someone directions to a nearby gas station, or recollecting a high school memory. It _is_ scary.
Horrific evilness. Healing to his ex boss. May the victims rest peacefully 🕊.
what absolutely groundbreaking analysis susan please leave more comments
The DEVIL is in the DETAILS. Sheesh! You can't even enjoy life anymore without keeping in the back of your mind that there are an ocean of two-legged monsters lurking in the shadows patiently waiting for that window of opportunity to stealthily strike, and evilly snuff out a human being. This is why I kinda enjoy being an introvert.
Anymore? 😂 When has existing in earth ever been safe? Golden age of serial killers was 50 years ago
@@TingTingalingy
settle down Beavis..
@@words4dyslexicon what're you gonna do about it?
Sure you can. Try focusing on something positive and you won’t attract dark energy
@@words4dyslexicon still waiting... Coward
Serious Frontal lobe injury & shooting his stepfather were huge warning signs for trouble ahead. An evil creepy monster. RIP all the innocent victims.
Shooting his stepfather was a huge warning sign that when he gets angry he’s capable of shooting his stepfather , according to that lady
Frontal lobe injuries are common amongst criminals and murderers. It's actually not their fault ....it's an illness like anything else
@paIt may not be their fault that they incurred the injury, but thhaving lived next to someone who had a horrendous TBI becayse of a car wreck, I can tell you that many of these people lose all sense of right ir wrong, and any empathy towards both animals or other people. Yes, it's really sad what happens to their brai s, but they need to be supervised all the time. They can seem as normal as you, me, or the local store Clerk, until they are NOT. I felt sad for his family, but felt great relief when I got the phone e call that he'd died. He had some crazy idea that he was going to take me to a cabin and I would be his wife. When I said No, Im happily married,and that wasnt going to happen, he started watching me constantly. It got really out of hand, until he was put into a Care Center. dirulharrisonadventuregearm5457
@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457no it's not a illness it's just an injury or that part of the brain isn't fully functioning. This kind of injury is what makes psychopaths. It just a matter of what type of psychopath they are; factors 1or 2
@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457Not their fault ? They still know right from wrong otherwise why hide it ? You don't understand mental health or brain injuries well. If you have insight to hide your behaviour, then you are aware enough to control it. You choose not to.
My partner and I live extremely close to the appalachian trail in TN and NC, and we hike it often. For the most part I can say it's safe, even more so when thru hikers begin the journey in March. But we have experienced one scary encounter, a couple of meth heads set up camp near the trail head and decided to steal equipment from a day hiker truck. The day hiker returned that night and shot into their tent with a handgun. We didn't know about any of this until we heard the gunshots from our tent less than a quarter of a mile away. Needless to say, we hiked out that same night. We are both licensed handgun carriers now, and refuse to hike without them.
very smart to have you firearms
Sounds like that day hiker saved you guys a LOT of trouble from those addicts.
IN THE COUNTRY OF TEXAS CC AND OC IS NOT NECESSARY IF , IF , YOUR GUN IS REGISTERED TO YOU AND IN YOUR NAME ,
@@PrinceOreoTheSavage
NEVER GO WITH OUT IT
Every hiker should follow your example. People who hike without protection are just being foolish.
I actually walked by one of the dump sites where this guy dumped a body hunting while that person was laying there and didnt know it multiple times before a bird hunter found the remains. Sick bastard.
Same
Me too...
What in the punctuation?!
@@REDDeadFishy
Who cares man,
did you take any body parts?( for study and preservation?)
This is perhaps the most powerful, the most shocking, the most disturbing true crime video I've ever seen. I am still in a state of shock. It really is like coming face to face with pure evil.
Your clearly new to serial killers then
I am so utterly fed up with ignorant people! The word evil is a human construct!
Serial Killers are BORN with the Anterior Insular Cortex part of their brain undeveloped to the extent that they are INCAPABLE of feeling empathy or compassion, combined with the fact that they are psychologically and uncontrollably driven to murder! Psychopathy is a most terrible mental illness. Is it not time we all expanded our knowledge from the ignorance of the 14th century????????????
You haven't watched many then.
Go to Crime TV Monster In The Woods! You ain’t seen nothing yet! 😱
Check out Israel Keyes
So he killed his stepfather at the age of 13y/o? He should have been watched very closely after this incident for the rest of his useless life.
So very sorry for all his innocent victims, may they RIP.
Also his boss is a beautiful man and most certainly lucky to still be alive after what he went thru with him.
This is WHY capital murder carreid the dealtn penalty most places when I was a child in the 50s. I am Texan....I saw eletrocution press coverings in the 50s on B&W TV...they didnt show the gorey details of course, but my grandfather told me what was happening.
My grandfather apparently loved true crime because he kept a stash of detective magazines under his bed....black and white photos on the cover of bloody scenes mostly Italian gangsters shot on the street I would sneak a peak whenever I could...they were scary.
Fast forward to grad school in the 70s and there I was at the most prestigious university in the midwest studying clinical psych and personality theory of killers.
I read every single book Ann Rule wrote as she wrote them. Fast forward to the 1990s and there I am in a southern state teaching Behavioral Psych on contract from my university at the largest Federal training facility for national law enforcement in the world....I was a professor at the state flagship university.
The facility was just like a large state university campus, but with shooting ranges,car tracks to teach high speed driving skills, mock cities to teach building clearance etc.
I was a friend of the director of the facility...his wife was a former military officer amd I was president of the board of the nonprofit organization she served on. My daughter had a crush on his son in high school. Amazing where life takes you.
This man was very scary....severe blows to the head can cause personality change.
The most important area of your head to protect in a fall is the lower back of your skull just before your spine that is where your breathing is controlled. Swelling in that part of the brain is fatal , a closed head injury there creates bleeding and swelling thereby closing off blood supply to the area eventually...you are going to die your breathung will stop and with no circulating oxygented blood you heart willl stop.
If you can think fast enough falling down the stairs throw a hand up there to the lower back of you skull to protect the area and you will likely live, You will end up with a broken hand but that is better than being dead. Blows in different areas create different results....your skull is precious...take care of it.....
Frankly I believe in the death penalty... there are far too many "deals" . Apparently many murderers DO value life....THEIRS. Take it from them if they deserve it ...if they took someone else's life, perfectly fine with me.
The GBI did an increible job here, theybare good guys....that man could have gone on and on ...like so mamy California serial killers have done...I KNOW there is a correlation between numbers of serial killers operating in a state and the attitude via the legal system re punishment for murder...there certainly IS correlation but causation????Who knows? Seems to be a possibility to me...but then Im a scientist of human behavior, so I ponder weird things like that. I know it is said the death penalty isnt a deterrent that has always been the argutment to eliminate it but you hear of very FEW murderers who refuse to appeal a death pemalty verdict in a state that DOES enact the penalty...very VERY few murderers want to die....those that do manage to accomplish it...and that DOES happen...but it is rare. So Im not so sure it ISNT a deterrent.
My daughter went hiking alone last weekend on the Appalachian Trail, but in Pennsylvania. And all I could think was this creepy guy the whole time she was gone and I was worried even though she’s 36.
36 is the safe age. don't worry.
@@JohnnyDanger36963 she camped for the whole three days. I said to my husband, no matter how old out children get we never stop worrying. I worry about creeps like this
Johnny Danger doesn’t really mean that. No age is safe hiking alone.
never take a long hike on the AT without a gun.
@@sistersarahc this guy is a " hilton", which sounds like he waa mkultra-ed by his larger Hilton( illumanati) to be a long term sacrifice in the " flower of life" black magic pgm.
I live in GA and went to college in that area. I remember this case well. It was horrific!
This is why women should never go unarmed.
And with several friends, also armed.
This is why the 2nd Amendment is so important. To deprive women, the elderly, etc. the ability to protect themselves is absolute wickedness, and I give every dollar I have available to organizations like GOA and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Lol😂
@@Sicxestsixc600 people like you.
I think no one should go unarmed
My condolences to the families and friends 🙏🏼🕊️🙏🏼
My condolences go out to the victim's families, and the impact on them for the rest of their lives 🙏
Ppl who say they can’t imagine how anyone could be so cruel, so callous, so blah blah blah blah blah, have apparently never bothered to learn history
I agree with you. Throughout history there have been horrible people and there will continue to be. I used to study murderers looking for the "reason" but sometimes people kill others for something so minor you wouldn't think it possible. There was a football player who killed two people because one accidently spilled a drink on him. Or another who killed a man's mother over a disagreement over a parking space (because it would make him feel bad is the reason the killer gave) Beyond comprehension. Hilton $300? It makes you wonder how many more there are like him out there.
You should take that anger and use it to hug, love and be compassionate towards other people. Build connections. Be happy.
Why didn’t his boss call the police when he was threatened?
Most certainly the cops would have not protected him, Hilton would have gotten to him first.
Same question here. The crazy guy threatened his family. Why didn't he go to the police?
Soft on crime.
You don't understand how useless cops are, do you? Look at laws regarding stalking for example. It's a complete joke.
Hilton diffently makes me believe that demons walk this earth.
The demons themselves do not walk the earth. They exist in other planes but one of their purposes usually is to possess a human being and use that human body for the earthly pleasures that it would rather have than the freedom and boundlessness of being in heaven.. but there's usually something wrong with the person who's chosen to be mounted as we call it by a demonic Spirit or a demon himself for the spirit of a human being that worshiped the darkest deities in the end it is not frightening it's just like there are people from the most horrible to the most angelic it's the same in the spirit world but demons are on a level of size and consciousness and power that exceeds ours and it is a bad Tuesday for an exorcist if he finds out that a person possess has a true demon inside them. I am not crazy I am a high priest a spiritist religion a godly Christ loving religion that enables us to hook up with the very best souls in the spirit world these things truly exist it's not a fantasy No lie
It was not accurate to say that Danny's demon spirits are inside the body of a person possess no the latch onto a certain spot where your neck and back join that is a spot on the body that's recognizes super important in many parts of the world. They basically hang on to your back and steàr you threw a bad life this can be a bad Spirit to if you ever suspect that you have a bad energy attached to your aura or hanging on your back you will have a feeling of heaviness brain fog and weird types of pain and negative things will occur in your life one after the other it is possible to get virtually anything removed and have you walk out fresh and clean with that thing in the garbage essentially so there's always total hope if you're willing to take the steps you need to to clean every invading bit of energy off your astral body.
Same. I see it and can't and have not ever been able to look directly at any of his pictures because of it.
@@LuisGonzales-ry3yiI believe what you’re saying for sure. What steps should one take to shake off the evil spirit?
@@LuisGonzales-ry3yiThanks for any advice / insight
Never hike alone. Never hike without bear spray. Never hike without a gun.
I'll NEVER go into the woods without a gun.
Several guns & dogs
Facts 💯 @@SharpTac
@@SharpTachow you plan to carry several guns? How do you plan to use them all at once? You don't leave your home so just say that
@@cornell833how are you going to carry and use several guns? Guns aren't light. You don't hike anyways
@@TingTingalingy 🤣 1 of the best hikers in the US go ask Floyd Mayweather 🤞
You can definitely see the evil in his eyes 👹
Of course. This is the FACE of EVIL.
Everything a video on serial killer or similar pops up, guaranteed this is someone's comment. BUT if that were true these people would not get to the point they do. You cannot see that in a strangers eyes, it's easy to say after the fact, but truth is. No. You can't see evil in a strangers eyes
The music in this is fabulous. I'm actually scared in my own yard. Love these, but hate the circumstances. Kudos to the music peeps
God bless this mental health clinician. She tries to break down his motives like they are all deep and complicated. Going as far to say "he couldnt bring himself to kill the dog, which is very significant". While i do agree its significant but it has nothing to do with his inability to blah blah blah. Its because the dog cant tell on him. He isnt killing people for these complex deep reasons. Hes doing it to simply eliminate witnesses. If he thought the dog could tell on him i promise he would have no issue whatsoever killing it as well.
About the rape; I'd say he didn't actually calculate that she owed him 'sex', but that was sadism, to claim she OWED that, blames her and humiliates her. No doubt.
I believed he raped her because his masculinity was hurt when she was able to fight him successfully at one point….sick man.
Ella was looking for help for her sweet Meredith. That poor girl & Her Dog.
Hilton is a sick guy he deserves the death penalty. Decapitating the women was senseless due to DNA. The fact that Gary k!lled the women in Apalachicola National forest at Leon Sink - I cant believe He did that to Cheryl Dunlap only 25mins from where i live!
It is so curious to me that he could love dogs [couldn't kill Meridith's dog and dropped it off at a safe place where it would be found] but coldly callously kill people.
The psychiatrist said that goes to show how unemotionally he was detached from humans but the fact that he was emotionally attached to anything, especially a living breathing warm loving creature such as a dog is as I said....such a curiosity to me
There was a similar situation in England, but it was a pair of killers. The authorities had their dog put down in order to emotionally & mentally hurt them once caught.
@@TingTingalingythey had the dog put down to hurt its owners? That’s horrible. A lack of empathy is a lack of empathy…
@@chatterbugmm don't be a serial killer and your dogs won't be used against you, it's simple really.
They should have just lied about it, not the poor dogs fault. Unless he socialized it in some weird way.
Well id never kill anybody. But i didn't shed a tear when my pop died and then 2 years ago when my mom passed. But i cry like a baby when i have to put on one of my dogs down. I wished i didn't get emotional then. But I'll take a dog over 99%percent of humanity. Because dogs are the only truely loyal things there. People are not loyal
He is an evil monster. Scary these types of folks live among us.
Always have and always will
Yah, I have one living next door to me as we speak, paranoid schizophrenic, I stay away from him, smh...but he still scares me, its in the eyes.
@@dianasoto7011 I have a friend who's brother is schizophrenic. I remember meeting his brother one day and noticing his eyes were just idk.... Something was missing behind those eyes, it was like there was a touch of evil sprinkled in there. He also didn't look at people the way normal people do. Living next to one is scary, they're so unpredictable.
Come on lets be honest. Isnt it in reality very exciting for you ? Otherwise you wouldnt name yourself Dangergirl ! How about a hiking trip together and marry me on top of Blood Moutnain ?
you are secretly attracted to him Dangergirl... admit it!
When hiking treat everyone you come in contact with as a threat. Look them in the eyes and make eye contact. Remember everything, clothing, color of shoes, hair color, height, and weight. This will come in handy if you have to report to the authorities.
Good idea. Provided you survive the meeting to tell authorities. Write all that down in a journal. Killers rarely bother with personal effects. They only want you!
@@aking3751they say we come across at least 30 killers in our lifetimes, every one. Just be careful
You really can see it in his eyes. Damn
Creepy eyes
Seriously, please give your brain a chance!
30 years for the horror she went thru and thr torture and the horrific nature of that specific crime feels disrespectful and disgusting honestly. I get he got the death penalty anyways but it still feels messed up.
So very true.
this is why I always pack heat when hiking, even on just day trips you never know who can be lerking in the shadows
My father once did the Applation trail with a couple buddy’s with him, and his friend brought a strong well mannered dog, whilst on the 3rd day, he was hiking up blood mountain and walked past Gary Hilton, he told them “get that dog away from me! If I ever see that dog again, I will kill it” they had a really weird feeling about Hilton and knew something was off, they later found out that they had walked past him beetween his killing spree
Feral people are also out there. Many dont believe it, but their out there.
a documentary bout that would be very interesting
Why in the heck would you have him come to your house to pick up the check?
Weren't they trying to bring him in and a swat team was waiting? But he never came
He was trying to lure him in for the police is what I got from it.
@@jakethesnake1023 I thought he invited him before the police were involved.
Thanks for the upload!
He’s a monster
Not a monster. Monsters are imaginary creatures in children's books. He is a male.
@@TS-rd7oy standby my comment and I’m not arguing with you
Anything but call these males out. Women and males both do this. Call them monsters, animals,,perverts, etc, anything but what they are. Wouldn't want to offend them now, would you? @rachelburton8689
@@TS-rd7oya male ? 🤣
WTF
@@TS-rd7oyHow many women do you suppose you’ve run across who’ve killed &/or kidnaped someone?
Five women have been murdered by their husbands within a 5 mile radius of each other, in a town of less than 6k. None of which made the news nor the newspaper (other than their obituaries). Then there’s the Killing Fields of TX, that’s 15 miles down the road from them, a ring of males responsible for the murder of all those girls.
Total murderers I’ve been face to face with is 6, prior to their convictions, non of which are female.
Only getting 30 years with aggravated circumstances regardless of cooperation is a crime in itself.
I'm from Maine but moved to N.C as a kid then bk to Maine as an adult. I lived in Swannanoa. U could literally walk the woods from Pisgah National forest to my back yard. It would be a long walk but still doable. N why ain't he dead yet exactly?
most criminals on death row are there for 1-2 decades (or more) before they are executed. hilton has been there since 2011, so 13 years now. the legal procedures for KILLING somebody, no matter their crimes, is a lengthy one and cannot be done very quickly. not only that but there's a long line of criminals on death row in front of him who get first dibs on dying.
I went Owen! Lived in Black mountain. Not many places there that aren’t woods
This is the reason why citizens need to carry a firearm. There is evil out there and they are armed.
So he only got 30 yrs for Meredith. The one he r@ped and tortured. But gets life for quickly shooting the other?
Someone make that make sense.
Had he been in his early 20s or 30s and only caught for Meredith, he would be out in plenty of time to do more evil.
Our society needs to learn and stop failing victims bc the scenario I just laid out happens all the time. Smh.
Glad he is behind bars for life now. RIP to his victims (if that is possible) and my condolences to their families and friends and to the ppl who caught him and now live with those images daily.
Simply he was duped by the investigators to get him to disclose where her body was. The deal was he wouldn't face the death penalty for the killing of Meredith. And he agreed not being bright or coherent enough to understand he was still going to recieve it for his other killings. If they gave him no prison time for The murder of Meredith it wouldn't matter in the overall sense because he's still going to die for his other murders. Sure her murder definitely deserved to land him a date with Dr Death through lethal injection or riding the lightning in ole Sparky . The Game was Chess and not Checkers.
@@GorillaCookies it'll take thirty years for the govt to make good on their sentence
They explained their thought process in the video. They knew they had enough evidence for the other murders to give him the death penalty
I served on the Grand Jury that indicted Him. We weren't aware that they had offered him a"deal" until after we issued a true bill to move forward with prosecution. We were informed that as soon as we indicted he took the deal without any knowledge that they had the proof of the Florida and North Carolina murders.
He passed away if I remember correctly after around 4 years of being incarcerated...
@@emmanuealloggins2878
Hinton is still on death row
If someone told me they pulled out their own teeth, Id be gone too; thats fcking crazy😬
He should've been locked up for that alone.
Just heartbreaking😢
Dr. Johnston looks very much like an older version of Ashley Judd.
Oh wow she does!
In thought the same thing! I had to take a double take
I was thinking that also!
True. I like Dr. Johnston, she is down to earth.
Wow, yea she sure does, good observation!
...and that's why I would never go into any remote area
Solitary places are the best. You're missing out, SharpTac.
People disappear from occupied areas just as much. Watch Steve Stocktons stories about people that have disappeared in National Forests, hundreds disappear every year, never to be seen again.
41:34 - This guy looks emotionally destroyed by this… 😢
Funny that a call center job turned himintoa serial killer. I can believe that.
No kidding
Jeeze first thing I thought of seeing the picture of this man in the video freaks me out . Imagine going into forest & coming across this psycho 😢😢
Solo traveler here as well and I too have the same characteristics and ran across many fearful and jumpy travelers scream at the top of their lungs, and couldn't help but chuckle and laugh out, 'City folk?'
I've seen many travelers along my ways, and it's always in their eyes and demeanor. I've learned to camp in less popular places.
No it is not safe for a women to walk alone really anywhere especially hiking trails etc...night time walking home you best be armed
A quarter of serial killers have had a brain injury!
I've hiked numerous times where the girl on Blood Mountain was taken. There's Blood Mountain and Slaughter Mountain and then a town named Suches I would hike from a little cabin there that was right on the trail. I remember going shortly after this happened and feeling an errie feeling the whole time and every time after that.
I would feel eerie too hiking something called blood and slaughter mountain wtf 😹
Those weren’t the only murders I bet
Thats a freaking stud..
The brain injury very likely changed his behavior. The frontal lobe trauma damages people throughout their lives. May his victims rest in peace. 🙏❤️🕊️
Protect yourself at all times.
calling people evil is a cop-out and a sign of weakness. stare the horror down and face it, it's in all of us (whether you admit it or not it doesn't matter in the slightest.)
People do evil things. Just because you're capable of doing evil things doesn't mean you can't also call out people's actions as evil.
Everyone is "capable" of evil. Some people are literally overcome by evil and allow evil to be their compass and they carry it out. Others, who have a proper moral compass, don't give in to the temptation and desire to do evil. So don't lump us all together and say we're all the same in such a sense. We're not.
Excellent documentary
✌🏾🩷🇦🇺🙃
Had the bank given this detective the proper details of his attempts to get Merediths money
While she was hanging on hoping they would find her would it have been in time to save her???
They call it 'Blood Mountain' for a reason.
you know that man killed many more than he was charged with. He's an old dude, that's years and years of living off victims. He has traveled been all over. Just for a couple of bucks and whatever he wanted from them.
Agree. There are several victims in Georgia who remain cold cases and Hilton should certainly be considered the perp.
Who is this psychologist? I wish you’d leave them out. He didn’t seem like he was losing his mind at that moment, he was actually using oodles of charm and has TOTAL AWARENESS of how he’s coming across, which is a psychopath ability. Where do you get these people?
Well that was chilling, gripping. My heart breaks for his victims. This is horrifying to someone who lives in the north GA mountains, to whom mountains and trees represent safety.
It truly is terrifying. I routinely ride my motorcycle up in that area, but this is a good reminder that I keep rolling.
It’s not ok that the bank didn’t help the way the should have. What a shame they didn’t take action on the lifeline innately created by how tethered we are to these companies. It should require a team trained to help find solutions when time means everything. Different jurisdictions or break downs in communication or just plain bad employees and a beautiful person could be saved. We should sign a waiver with these companies to find us. Especially when we are out of routine and our loved ones know something is wrong. You track my flipping farts to sell toilet paper…track my whole body down and tell everyone I need help big business- I don’t want to be murdered by some smelly psychopath for 300$.
Facts
How did they not immediately take & give not that someone was trying to use her card
WTH
I’d like to know what crappy co that was
@@CSDonohue11how would they know when it’s literally just happening? No crime had been reported yet
@@kellymurphy6642 are you serious RN?
What makes you want to ask Me that question?
I’m not even the OP .
You obviously have no Commonsense if you don’t even know what you just watched nor how banking works .
Which is extremely common knowledge this day & age.
@kellymurphy6642 they told the officer her accounts had not been used which was true but they failed to tell the officers there were failed ATTEMPTS at using her account. This is something they would be able to see and at the time they spoke with law enforcement, he had already been trying to use her cards. So yes, they dropped the ball. They probably saw no change in the amounts and said oh there been nothing but had they really looked they would have seen someone tried. Ex bank employee speaking.
@@kellymurphy6642 - because her family knew it wasn’t right. I know if I went missing my people would know immediately I wasn’t where I should be. It was a very noteworthy thing that should have been taken seriously. Investigating something doesn’t mean a crime took place.
Monsters walk amongst us. Gary was one of them .
The really bad part about it is that he made it to tv and all the really good people didn't.
There are monsters out there I truly believe it
Especially if you got something 2 hide..
C'mon now
I just know what it takes to stop , I've been 6yrs clean from herion
What grabs your attention more; Calm traffic rolling down the interstate, or a ten car pile up and half the cars are crushed and on fire?
Good video, ty for sharing this information, it's eye opening to see what they find important verses what ppl as a collective find important. Interesting topic ❤ hope everyone here is having a good day! ❤😊
That was so cool seeing one of my old professors in here! Everett Penn was a teacher of mine. His class was hard as hell but I learned alot◡̈
Always carry a gun when hiking 23:11 Understand !
When that detective said that he started crying after hearing all that horrible stuff.I started crying Oh it's terrible to think about.
Whatever happened to "take a life ; give your life.
Super smart writing a check for this killer and telling him to come to your HOUSE to get it.
That psychologist's assessment was worthless -- basically he's a sociopath at least since the age of 13 when he murdered his stepfather. No excuses for his crimes, many of which no doubt remain undiscovered.
Understanding and explaining how brain injury affects behavior is very different than excusing that behavior. I believe the brain injury did cause the total lack of empathy.
In the moment of hearing the horrific assaults- it should be kept private of what happened. But at the same time, the public needs awareness that evil exists.
Thank you. Totally new to me . This story.
Ive had great times hiking alone. Lots of wonderful solo experiences- it takes a lot of letting go. Letting go of fear abd being present- especially on aparse trails. I lived in N.C. And loved to hike and camp. Im glad i hiked and challenged my fear. You cant think about these stories when you are out in the wilds.
Had the female friend of his not said the whole world was looking for him, instead contacted the police and had him meet her, maybe the woman would have still been alive at that point. That was pretty foolish of her, not thinking. Has she just said yes let’s meet and then called the police.
Yes.
I would like to think that, but I believe no matter what, his plan was to kill her before he left to meet anyone. That's why he didn't meet his former boss immediately, he wanted to kill her and dispose of her body first. He's a disgusting excuse for a human being.
@@chrisblevins5143 oh, I didn’t think of that.
Brain injuries are no excuse for murder. 😢😢😢
@PlanetaryHealer-in2sf Sorry that you’ve suffered a life altering traumatic brain injury. What was the nature of that injury if you don’t mind? I mean clearly you had one since you’re an authority on the consequences of them.
No it isn't a excuse. But it is a reason behind his issues. There is several reports of folks like preachers having a frontal lobe injury going from god loving Peaceful folks to hateful violent people. So yeah its could be a huge factor but no it isn't a excuse.
Not so sure about that. Chris Benoit is a good example. Unless you can experience what they're going through, we don't enough to make that call.
It’s not an excuse, but is a potential contributing factor.
Ppl like u probably think everything an excuse u say it's a excuse been never walked those shoes.
The eyes they never lie. Im glad this sicko is behind bars.
How tf did the bank drop the ball like that 😡???
The family should sue the bank
imagine if police prevented crime instead of responding or reacting to it
Thats pretty impressive that you can make a serial killer. Congrats!
a confession shouldnt remove the death penalty
The citizens of Georgia should get to decide this man’s fate within 30 days. The justice system is a joke. I’m tired of paying $50-$100,000 a year to house one inmate especially at the inmate is on death row.
I did 45 day's solitary in Leon Co Jail with the only other inmate in solitary was Gary Hilton because I grew up in the same neighborhood and went to school with the under Sheriff (head jailor) who was less than straight in his dealings with anyone he percieved as not friendly with his authority. I had stopped by a club to give a ride to a friend home at 2:00 a.m. Two drunken women fighting in the parking lot as I watched brought the T.P.D. and after being beaten by a rookie cop for refusing to get on the ground, with 6 other uniformed cop's laughing and encouraging him the truck I was driving was searched and a supposed roach was found in a cigarette package crumpled up on the floor, I don't smoke. Set up. Tallahassee is corrupt with power. And yes my schoolmate who became the appointed head Sheriff was not reelected.
How is it solitary of someone else is there with you? Good try though.
@@PULAG 12 cells on the block 2 men in cell block solitary confinement out 1 hour supposedly daily for shower.
@@jonnycarroll6676 supposedly?
Monster!
You left out the part with the guy on the phone offering to take him down..
I’m never impressed when someone tells me how they love animals, especially if they say they love them more than they love people. This man was evil but he was a dog lover. It’s natural to love animals but it doesn’t mean you’re a good person. Hitler was an animal lover but he had no problem with murdering millions of people.
I totally agree with you 👍 💯.
It upsets me how many people put dogs' lives over human beings' lives.
you are both way more evil than any dog. get long with it !
I have been in manic/psychosis states many times first starting at age 20 and i would even begin to have homicidal dreams of strangling women, after being cheated on by a bf i also had much adolescent trauma built up over the years i guess the cheating on me etc and my mind just snapped tge stress started this bipolar manic depressive disorder, mone comes with psychosis hallucinations homicidal thoughts and urges back then i was very manic but it got bad to the point of trying to really hurt myself and fantasized and wanted to get back at the woman who got with my bf
I was very sick mentally spiritually opressed demonically suffering with sleep Demoniac paralysis for a long time, fear like you wouldn't believe. Im definitely not a serial killer im saved from that inner rage that surfaces from my past, could he also have bipolar manic depressive episodes not that everyone with bipolar could kill. Looking back at this im like what the hell that wasn't me im too nice im not a hateful person however that bipolar manic episode psychosis really i was not in reality i was straddling in and out of this world if you know what i mean.
I do think that people can definitely be demonically possessed and opressed as i was in a long spiritual battle within that nearly took my life forever. However i got free through the love and grace and mercy of the lord Jesus Christ who saved me from the pits of hell id created for myself and wow .....i think many of these serial killers would be demonically opressed or possessed by Demoniac darkness and evil has overcome them by then.
God is real and so is SATAN who comes to steal and kill and destroy.
The human mind and human extent of evil is fascinating yet frightening to me.
The dog had an ID chip inserted , why couldn't they have tracked that ? Wtf ?
Microchips are meant to be scanned with a scanner over the dog's shoulder area. They only contain information about the dog and owner. There is no tracking involved, like gps or something like an apple air tag.
you can thank John Cagle for letting Meredith Emerson die at the hands of a monster cause if he didn't catch him for a murder John Cagle would not have gotten recognition that's all that was about is looking like a good guy
Would be interested to see his genealogy researched. Georgia was originally a penal colony.
Atlanta is a penis colony
Really what does this mean? I have never heard of this before
Lol why?
@@TimeMariner genetics, honey. I'm actually related to quite a few serial killers through my puritan ancestors. It does seem that more psychopaths have reproduced than ever before.
130,000 came into Maryland as well. Heck the Puritans weren't wanted either, especially after their participation in an English Civil war. In fact, many of the common immigrants to the American colonies were in debtor prisons or beholden to indentured servitude. That changed in 1783, when the revolution was won. Britain turned to Australia after that.
Never ever go our in the wilderness by yourself, especially, without protection.
It's not the animals to worry about it's people
I remember when i was a kid walking down my gravel road. A man drove by me and asked me if i needed a ride. I said no and ran off. You just can't trust people anymore.
Gary's boss is a weird guy himself.. why didn't he contact the police?
Maybe Gary was blackmailing him?
Homo relationship
Bushwalking alone makes you very vulnerable. When you able to be followed and spied on from afar. Human animal or native animal, beware before you put down your swag for the night. So my go to is, if you have settled your hooch for the night and see you have been spotted, get the hell out of there just in case.
Why I always pack a heater while hiking.
Why is he still as live?