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Gary Michael Hilton (born November 22, 1946), [1] known as The National Forest Serial Killer, is an American serial killer responsible for four known homicides between 2007 and 2008 committed in three states, all of which occurred within the premises of national forests.
In the first week of December 2007, Hilton targeted 46-year-old Cheryl Hodges Dunlap, who was also on a hiking expedition. A hunter found a body on December 15, 2007, in the Apalachicola National Forest and it was identified as that of Cheryl’s with her DNA as she had been decapitated.
Gary Hilton killed at least four people in U.S. national forests, including 24-year-old Meredith Emerson, who he abducted from Georgia's Blood Mountain in January 2008.
The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Gary Michael Hilton, who was sentenced to death for the 2007 kidnapping and murder of nurse and Sunday school teacher Cheryl Dunlap.
Meredith Hope Emerson (June 20, 1983 – January 4, 2008) was a 24-year-old woman who was murdered in January 2008 by drifter Gary Michael Hilton. She was last seen alive hiking with her dog on Blood Mountain in northern Georgia on New Year's Day 2008.
Gary Michael Hilton, left, glances up while talking to to his public defender Neil Smith, right, following a first appearance in Union County Magistrate Court in Blairsville, Ga. on Monday,...
In the late 2010s, Gary Hilton committed a series of murders in state parks and national forests. How was he caught, and where is he now?
Hilton, now 75, is on Florida's death row for the murder of Dunlap. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Emerson and the Bryants.
Who were the National Forest Serial Killer Gary Hilton's victims? Investigators had their first inkling that something sinister was afoot when avid hikers John, 80, and Irene Bryant, 84, failed to return after hiking the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina on Oct. 21, 2007.
Hilton was found guilty last week of killing 46-year-old Cheryl Dunlap, a Sunday School teacher and Florida State University nurse, who was found dismembered in a national forest in the...