Meredith Emerson Blood Mountain Disappearance

Meredith Emerson On New Year's Day of 2008, 24-year-old sales manager Meredith

Emerson decided to go for a hike along the Freeman Trail on Blood Mountain, in Georgia's Vogel

State Park. She was accompanied by her black Labrador retriever, Ella,

and according to several witnesses, they had observed a mysterious older man with his dog

following her. On January 3, 2008, authorities located her 1995 Chevrolet

Cavalier, where they found various items such as her water bottle, a dog leash,

and a police baton That day, further investigation into the man seen following Emerson

revealed that he was 61-year-old Hilton, a local drifter known for his strange