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Monday, October 6, 2008
9:04:28 PM EDT
What is up with John Tabor and the IWS house where Hilton lived now?
Tabor is obviously no longer doing any business out of this location. Through the windows, one can see it is trashed inside, like the inside is just as it was left by Hilton. There was a FOR RENT sign in the window. The upstairs that was added in Nov.-Dec. 2007 still is not finished. The parking area is littered with leaves, trash and fallen branches, so obviously no one has been coming there. The front porch door is blocked with a junk desk and other stuff. The old car that was there is now gone.
It was truly a weird and eerie feeling being there, knowing this is where Hilton spent the last 9 years of his life in freedom doing god only knows what with Tabor in that house. It sure would be interesting to know the names of those people who engaged in sex acts with them in this house. I can not imagine just how terrifying it must be to them now knowing in whose presence they were in. Do you think they will ever surface and reveal what really went on there? Or did they end up missing too?
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
6:08:52 PM EDT
http://www.kimberlyboydlegacy.org
Put pressure on your own legislators in Georgia and everywhere. Contact Mike Boyd first. http://www.kimberlyboydlegacy.org Mike's email is info@kimberlyboydlegacy.com
What an absolute total shame that the bankers have been standing in the way of this legislation! People we need to join in support of this anti crime initiative. It could very well have made a difference in these cases of murder charged to Gary Michael Hilton.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2005_06/search/sr1183.htm
Contact your local senators and congressmen and express the urgency in getting our objectives passed through as law.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/leg/legislation.htm
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
These are the House and Senate Bills that are dealing with sex offenders and ATM safety respectively:
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/fulltext/hb1059.htm HB1059
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/fulltext/hb1059.htm SB379
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
12:51:52 PM EDT
AOL will be closing AOL Journals as of Oct. 31
If you would like to copy any information I have here please feel free to do so. I will be moving the journal to another location and will continue to post and follow this ongoing investigation and the coming trials of Gary Michael Hilton for the murders. I will also be having to move all the lawsuit docket and the documents to a new location by Oct. 31. I plan to keep all this information on Insulated Wall Systems and the misdeeds of John J. Tabor and his wife Jana B. Tabor public for those who wish to know the truth behind our horrible experience involving these corrupt unethical professional liars. I will be documenting all the events as they occur throughout this continuing 3 plus year nightmare lawsuit, along with all of our experiences dealing with a broken and unjust legal system that seems to care nothing about the actual facts in a case but only about protecting their own kind, the lawyers!
I have no faith whatsoever that the truth will be allowed to prevail in a court of law when all the legal machinations are done purely for the personal amusement and unjust gain of the lawyers while at the expense of the truth and the lives of ordinary folks like us.
Please email me at rmckin2146@aol.com to obtain the new location where this information will continue to be available as of Oct. 31.
New Location for the Journal files has not be determined as of yet.
New Location for the Lawsuit files is: http://insulatedwallsystems.info/
I was asked what is my interest in Gary Michael Hilton? Below is my response.
GMH was a man working at our home in Oct. and Nov. 2004 for John Tabor and his company, Insulated Wall Systems. We are in the middle of a lawsuit with them for the defective work that was done (which we had to have all replaced) and have been for 3 years.
GMH is a witness named in our case. GMH is the person John Tabor claims was responsible for any fraudulent statements that may have been made or relied on by us, even though the statements were in fact written in the personal handwriting of John Tabor, and were in fact made in person by John Tabor. The two of them are just a like, proficient con men, who have worked together very closely for 10 years. John Tabor provided GMH a house to live in, at his house/business office in Dekalb at 4169 Clairmont Rd. (with no rent being paid) for the past 9 years. The version of events and his relationship with this killer given by John Tabor is not entirely accurate.
In a notarized statement from GMH he outlines how the Tabor's have been coning customers for years and then delivering defective work, and high pressure threats and intimidation. I am convinced that GMH was sent to our home on our job for exactly that purpose, for intimidation. Because of his being sent to our home, we have lived in fear of retaliation from Tabor and Hilton for the past 3 years for complaining about the work. A key witness in our case was a person being stalked by GMH up in the mountains during the mid Oct. 2007 time frame. I have yet to get an explanation from the Tabors of exactly how GMH came to know all the particular details of our case, (enough to write about them in his notarized letter to me) and whether or not and by who GMH was given access to the list of names and addresses of our witnesses, which would have made it possible for him to stalk and threaten this particular key witness.
GMH reveals in his letter very intimate details of his relationship with the Tabors, much more than anyone would come to know if their relationship really was as John Tabor described in his extensive 3 part WXIA TV interview. I have independent confirmation that what GMH describes in his letter about what went on in that house of Tabor's where GMH lived at is likely true. So far in this case the court system is protecting John Tabor and allowing him to hide behind his corporate facade, which is nothing but a sham alter ego. Hopefully a jury will not be so inclined once all the facts are allowed to be heard.
GMH's motivation for these current crimes he is convicted of and accused of resulted from the deep emotional and financial betrayal that he experienced at the hands of John and Jana Tabor. Our ongoing lawsuit with these people likely brought the betrayal all to a head, making it critical for the Tabors to have GMH exited from the scene and made unavailable to testify in our case. Obviously GMH did not react very nicely to being forced out in the streets penny less to become homeless at his age and with his health the way it had become, even though in all likely hood his health problems resulted from his drug abusing activities. The drug abusing activities and other perverted activities that went on in that house were NOT done without the involvement and knowledge of John Tabor.
So hopefully this explains at least in part my interest in the GMH murder investigations. I want the whole truth to come out. I am not totally convinced that GMH ever killed before, but if he did, I am convinced of one thing and that is John Tabor knows a whole lot more about things involving GMH than he willingly will tell. I believe Tabor disposed of and destroyed any evidence purposely when that house was remodeled that could link GMH to other cases and that was left behind in that house. I also believe that Law Enforcement has made a very big mistake by not looking deeper into the secret life of John Tabor and this suspected serial killer GMH.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
2:04:02 PM EDT
Macon News on the finding of John Bryant's Body
| Hiker found in Macon County was murdered |
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| Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
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John Bryant autopsy reveals single gunshot wound
By Tony Wheeler
Staff Writer
The North Carolina Medical Examiner's Office in Chapel Hill released autopsy results Thursday, May 15, for John Davis Bryant, 80, whose body was discovered by a hunter scouting the woods in an area near Standing Indian Campground in Franklin on Feb. 2, of this year. The examination revealed that Bryant died from a single gunshot wound to the head. The report stated that a deformed projectile was recovered, which left a 1/4” by 1/4” round perforation in the skull. No other definitive projectile, blunt or sharp force injuries were found.
Macon County Sheriff Robert Holland said he could not comment on the case, citing a request by Gretchen Shappert, U.S. attorney for the western district of North Carolina, not to issue statements during an open investigation. Shappert's public information officer, Sueellen Pierce, confirmed that request on Tuesday, May 20, and said the Bryant investigation is ongoing.
John Bryant and his wife, Irene, of Henderson County, went missing last October when hiking in the Pisgah National Forest. Irene Bryant’s body was founda few days later located not far from the couple’s vehicle. However, John Bryant’s body was not found until February several hundred miles away in Macon County.
On Saturday, Feb. 2, a hunter stumbled across a skull just off a Forest Service road near Standing Indian Campground. He placed a call to 9-1-1 and after authorities arrived, additional bones were found that appeared to be human. The remains were then shipped to the N.C. Medical Examiner’s Office.
Dental records, DNA and a serial number on a pacemaker found with the remains resulted in positively identifying the body as that of John Bryant.
The elderly couple’s deaths have been linked to convicted killer Gary Michael Hilton, though no formal charges have been made. Hilton confessed in January to the killing of 24- year-old Meredith Emerson whom he abducted off a North Georgia hiking trail. He is now serving a life sentence for her murder.
Since then, he has also been indicted in Florida for the abduction and murder of 46- year-old Cheryl Dunlap, a nurse whose decapitated body was found Dec. 19 in the Apalachicola National Forest, southwest of Tallahassee. Authorities there are seeking the death penalty. Hilton is fighting extradition to face those charges.
On Feb. 12, the U.S. Department of Justice took over the North Carolina investigation, stating that Georgia, Florida and North Carolina were working together in cooperation to examine all evidence. A police-style baton was entered into evidence against Hilton in the Emerson case, but there have been no reports of a gun being linked to him.
If charged in the Bryant murders, Hilton could face federal charges because the bodies were found on federal land.
Hilton has denied any link to the Bryants’ murders in Western North Carolina, but witnesses have identified a man fitting Hilton’s description in the area. |
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By D. Linsey Wisdom
News Editor
A team of forensic anthropologists join forces with Macon County Sheriff’s Office, Forest Service and Wildlife officials to uncover additional human bones or any evidence that could link convicted murderer Gary Michael Hilton to John Bryant. The discovery of Bryant’s body on Saturday ended a four-month search for the man after his wife’s body was discovered on a trail in Transylvania County. The Macon County Sheriff’s Office is asking the community for information after the discovery of missing hiker John Bryant’s body was found on Saturday.
Bryant had been missing since last October, when he and his wife were reported as missing from a hiking trip in Brevard. Irene Bryant’s body was found only 30 yards from their SUV found in the Pisgah National Forest.
Both are believed to be victims of Gary Michael Hilton, 61, a drifter recently convicted in the killing of a North Georgia hiker. Hilton is the prime suspect in at least one other case.
“We know he was in this area,” said Sheriff Robbie Holland. “We have had calls reporting he was here. We need the help of the people here. If anyone remembers seeing him or the van, maybe asking for work from local churches or residents – or looking for food – we need those witnesses to contact us.”
Gary Michael Hilton in court where he was convicted for the murder of 24-year-old Meredith Emerson. Holland is asking for anyone who has seen Hilton, remembering his appearance may have been rougher than the clean-shaven Hilton seen in court, or a man who looks like Hilton driving a white van to call the Macon County Sherrif’s Office or CrimeStoppers.
Forest Service official Brian Southard said earlier claims that Hilton had received a citation on forest service land about a year and a half ago were untrue.
“That’s what we thought initially. He has received a citation, but that was in Georgia, not North Carolina,” he said.
An unidentified man reported to the Spartanburg Herald Journal that Hilton was asked to leave the Rock Gap Shelter area three months ago, but Holland said he could not confirm that, and forest officials said they had no record indicating that event took place.
Reports across the county continue to come in as residents claim to have seen Hilton in the area.
Hilton was arrested last month in the disappearance of Meredith Emerson, who was hiking in the North Georgia Mountains on New Year’s Day. He pleaded guilty to the 24-year-old’s murder after leading investigators to the body of the young woman.
Becky Shropshire and her Springer Spaniel, Jake, arrive at the scene to help in tracking at the West Old Murphy Road location. When Hilton was arrested, newspapers reported that his white Chevrolet Astro van had stolen plates from Brevard, N.C., where the Bryants were reported missing. Hilton had another white van that he had disposed of earlier, Holland said.
Both Irene Bryant’s and Meredith Emerson’s remains indicate dismemberment. Holland could not speak to the condition of John Bryant’s body, or whether or not he believed his death took place in Macon County.
“We are treating this like a homicide, and we have since the body was found,” Holland said.
On Tuesday, Holland was with a team of forensic anthropologists, Forest Service and wildlife officials and North Carolina search and rescue K-9 units searching through the debris just off of West Old Murphy Road, about one mile outside of Standing Indian Campground.
The Macon County courthouse was bombarded by media Monday afternoon at a press conference where Sheriff Robbie Hollandannounced the identification of the remains found on Saturday. The team systematically sifted through the leaf litter looking for additional remains or any other evidence, Holland said.
“At the top of the area, it is a place where it is common to clean deer and dump deer carcasses. I can say the forensic anthropologists have been brought in to determine animal versus human bones,” he said.
Because this is an ongoing investigation, little else could be said.
John “Jack” Bryant, 79, and Irene, 84, were avid hikers. The two disappeared on Oct. 20 though authorities later traced a 9-1-1 call made from Irene Bryant’s cell phone the following day.
An unidentified man in a yellow windbreaker, which authorities believe belonged to John Bryant, was seen on a bank surveillance camera trying to use the Bryant’s ATM card in Ducktown, Tenn. John Bryant’s body was found just off Highway 64, almost directly half-way along the route from Brevard, N.C. to Ducktown, Tenn.
One of the white vans Hilton was driving when the body of Georgia resident Meredith Emerson was discovered. On Saturday, a hunter stumbled across a skull just off the forest service road near Standing Indian Campground. He placed a call to 9-1-1 and after authorities arrived, additional bones were found that appeared to be human. The remains were shipped to the N.C. Medical Examiner’s Office in Chapel Hill.
Dental records, DNA and a serial number on a pacemaker found with the remains resulted in positively identifying the body as that of John Bryant.
Transylvania County authorities hadalready been speaking with Hilton in the Bryants disappearance, but he remained quiet. He pleaded guilty to the Emerson murder and led authorities to her body in exchange for not seeking the death penalty. Hilton was sentenced to life in prison with possible parole in 30 years.
No charges have been filed at this time against Hilton in the Bryants’ case.
“We have an abduction that happened in [Transylvania] county, a murder in our county and a possible murder in Macon. And then there is the use of the ATM in Tennessee,” Transylvania County Chief Detective Brian Kriegsman said. He said the next step would be determining who had rights to prosecute the case – whether the U.S. Attorney General’s office would make this a federal case or whether District Attorney Mike Bonfoey would keep the case in North Carolina.
Hilton’s public defender in Georgia, Brad Morris, could not be reached for comment. Florida officials are also working on tying Hilton to a fourth possible murder.
Cheryl Dunlap, 46, was found in the Apalachicola National Forest after she did not show up to teach Sunday School on Dec. 2. Like Emerson, Dunlap’s body was also decapitated. |
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
1:23:11 PM EDT
NO GAG ORDER! Surely There are 12 Fair Minded Citizens in Tallahassee?
Leon Circuit Judge Lewis seals evidence in Gary Michael Hilton murder case for 90 days
by nic corbett • democrat staff writer• September 16, 2008
Evidence in the Gary Michael Hilton case will remain sealed for atleast 90 days, according to a court order signed today by Circuit JudgeTerry Lewis.
Hilton, 61, a suspected serial killer, is charged with murderingCrawfordville resident and Florida State University nurse Cheryl Dunlapin December 2007.
“The publicity surrounding this case has beenextensive, widespread and hostile or adverse to the defendant,” Lewiswrote in the order. “Speculation and conjecture about the case aboundsthroughout the main source news media and the Internet.
"If thepast is any indication of what to expect in the future, each newrelease of information concerning the case will generate not onlyadditional ‘news’ articles but will increase exponentially the Internetchatter about the case.”
During the 90 days, the prosecutors andHilton's defense attorneys can file motions requesting certain piecesof evidence remain sealed "until some future date." Lewis will theninspect the evidence in his chambers.
Lewis requests the motionsbe as specific as possible without revealing what's inside theevidence. This is to give local-media lawyers an idea of which motionsto contest, since they will not be able to see the evidence themselves.
Lewis also denied a request for a gag order. He insteadadmonished the State Attorney's Office, the Public Defender's Officeand state and local law-enforcement agencies to not make comments thatcould make it difficult to select an impartial jury in Leon County.
Lastweek, defense attorneys for Hilton and prosecuting attorneys askedLewis for at least a partial closure of evidence in the case to avoidgenerating more publicity and possibly tainting the jury pool.
Attorneysfor the Tallahassee Democrat and WCTV argued that the evidence shouldbe released. They said releasing the information wouldn't make itharder to seat an impartial jury.
Check Tallahassee.com for updates.
 Bob Gabordi's blog
Bob Gabordi is executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and Tallahassee.com. He can be reached through this blog, at bgabordi@tallahassee.com or (850) 599-2177
Surely we can find 12 fair-minded citizens in Hilton casePosted 9/11/2008 8:47 AM EDT on tallahassee.com
Look, I know a lot has been written, broadcast and said in the Gary Michael Hilton case, and some of it by me. But as much as I hate to concede this, somewhere out there in Leon County are 12 potential jurors who A) haven’t read my blog and/or B) don’t mistake my opinion for the gospel.
Yet there they were in BIG TYPE yesterday in a Leon County courtroom: two installments of this blog. They were presented as part of the argument on why Circuit Judge Terry Lewis should override the will of the Legislature and close what are normally public records to the public.
There ought to be a very high standard for doing that, in my opinion, in the Hilton case or any other. History is replete with examples of how– when the system is allowed to operate in the dark – justice has not been served. That is why evidence must be open to public examination. Just look at what we've learned about the justice handed out in civil-rights cases in the 1950s and 1960s.
And there ought to be proof, not supposition, about the public’s ability to be fair in serving on a jury.
Simply showing that the public has access to information and opinion is not enough. There is nothing that says an ignorant public makes for a fair jury. The reality is that in a murder case this horrific, the media will write about it, and people will talk about it.
And that will continue, no matter what the judge does.
There are about 194,000 adults in Leon County, according to 2006 census estimates. We need to find only 12 qualified and fair-minded ones to make up a jury. I’m not sure I understand the logic in suggesting that, no matter what the media say or do, we can’t find them.
But if Lewis does close the evidence to public review, don’t blame the media alone: The fact that YOU have been digitally talking about the case is further evidence, according to the Public Defender’s Office and prosecutors, that the public should be denied access to the facts in this case.
Again, in a case like this, the public has always had opinions; closing access to facts ONLY means those opinions will be based on conjecture and supposition.
I’ll admit I’ve offered strong opinion in my blogs. That’s what a blog or column should do. One of the two blogs in question was written after Hilton was indicted by a grand jury here in the murder of Cheryl Dunlap – and after he confessed and was convicted of killing another woman and cutting up her body in Georgia. What I said in that blog was for doing that – and for what he was accused of doing to Cheryl Dunlap – hehad a certain date in hell.
The second blog linked to a public record, meaning a record the public is entitled to see: Hilton’s confession in Georgia. The argument is that hisGeorgiaconfession may not be admissible as evidence in his murder case in Florida.
I will again submit that it's entirely possible there are 12 otherwise responsible people in Leon County who did not click through from my blog to read that confession who could populate a jury.
A lot of articles have been written on the disappearance and murder of Cheryl Dunlap, the massive search for her and then for her killer.Once Hilton was arrested and extradited, more was written. The Tallahassee Democrat posted 74 articles, as did WCTV. WTXL posted 32 to its Web site, defense research shows.
Personally, I wonder why the public is paying someone to investigate how many articles have been in the media. We actually compiled a list and sent it to them. It’s been a lot. In a case like this in a close-knit community like ours, what else would you expect?
Our attorney, Mike Glazer, argued that access to factual information slows speculation and helps reporters be more precise. He’s absolutely right. Why can’t an informed juror be impartial and fair?
The defense said it was concerned that articles have been written about this all over the world, citing some from England and Taiwan. I suppose that is relevant; it is possible there were potential jurors from Leon County in England or Taiwan at the time those articles were published or who went looking for local news from those news Web sites overseas.
In either case, I go back to this: The Legislature knew that access to such documents would cause the media to write about cases like this and the public to talk about those stories and opinion pieces. Yet it decided to make such records open to the media and public.
At some point it must have considered whether an informed public was good or bad policy in protecting a fair trial. The burden of proof in arguing that the law is wrong ought to be very great and go beyond counting articles or focusing on a relatively small number of stated opinions.
And included in the proof ought to be evidence that there aren’t 12 people in Leon County able to fairly judge the guilt or innocence of Hilton, and not just that it would be inconvenient to sort through the jury pool.
Wonder how Ms. Suber is feeling right about now?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
2:25:06 PM EDT
Stop Playing Games, Hand over the evidence, and lets get on with it!
http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/NEWS01/809080313
Will there be a Change of Venue for Hilton's murder case of Cheryl Dunlap?
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/NEWS01/809030351&s=d&page=2#pluckcomments Judge refuses to dismiss charges against Hilton
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080731/NEWS01/807310332&s=d&page=3#pluckcomments
Updated: State prosecutors say charges against Hilton can't be dismissed
By Nic Corbett • DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER• July 31, 2008
Hilton Dismissal Date
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/25827999.html
Posted: 6:14 PM Jul 23, 2008
Last Updated: 6:14 PM Jul 23, 2008
Reporter: Blaine Tolison
Email Address: Blaine.Tolison@wctv.tv
A judge is set to hear arguments from Gary Hilton's defense attorney on a motion to dismiss his murder charges in Leon County.
Hilton was indicted for the murder of Crawfordville Sunday school teacher, Cheryl Dunlap, in February.
Hilton's public defender says before he was extradited from Georgia he was not given counsel to file an appeal for his Florida case.
Because he was not given that right his attorney says his case in Leon County should be dropped.
A judge will hear that, as well as a gag order motion August first.
Hilton Status Hearing
Posted: 6:29 AM Jul 28, 2008
Last Updated: 6:15 PM Jul 28, 2008 Uupdated at 6:06 p.m.
Gary Hilton, the man accused of killing a Crawfordville Sunday schoolteacher sat in a Leon County courtroom for the first time Monday. And,he has waived his right to a speedy trial--meaning it could be sometime before this murder case goes to trial.
At the court proceeding--Hilton's public defender requested more time before his case goes to trial. Hilton sat in the courtroom quietly while his public defender, Ines Suber, spoke on his behalf. However, he talked with Suber quite a bit before the proceeding. Judge Terry Lewis decided to postpone the trial to give Suber more time to make her case. Suber says all the evidence associated with this case has not been shared with her. The state attorney's office says it expected the judge's decision to give her more time.
Jackie Fulford, Chief Assistant State Attorney said, "She does not have all of the discovery yet, but she has a lot. I believe we've provided over 300 witness names to them and I anticipate that probably by the end of next week, they will have all of the discovery material."
Another case management meeting is scheduled for September 12 to hear the status of the case from both the prosecutor and the defense. This Friday a judge will hear a motion for a gag order in the case and will review the state attorney's extradition procedures and whether they were carried out correctly.
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Updated at 2:26 p.m.
The State Attorney requested for a jury to be picked on September 1st. But that request was denied because Hilton waived his right to a speedy trial. Another case management hearing in the Hilton case is scheduled for September 12th to review the prosecution's and defense's case.
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A hearing was held Monday to discuss the status of a man accused of killing Crawfordville woman Cheryl Dunlap. This is following a motion by his defense attorney to dismiss his murder charges.
Gary Michael Hilton was indicted for the murder of Crawfordville Sunday school teacher, Cheryl Dunlap, in February. Hilton, who appeared in court on Monday, looked nervous as prosecutors said they wanted a trial scheduled for September. Another case management hearing is set for September 12.
Hilton's public defender says before he was extradited from Georgia, he was not given counsel to file an appeal for his Florida case. Because he was not given that right, his attorney says his case in Leon County should be dropped.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/25562419.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/25721049.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/26095519.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/25900079.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/19793694.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/19621609.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/21643549.html
http://www.wctv.tv/gms/headlines/25979389.html
Community Speaks Out on Hilton Extradition
Posted: 10:26 PM Jun 6, 2008
Last Updated: 11:12 PM Jun 6, 2008
Posted by: Linda Location: Tallahassee on Jun 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM
I heard on a news report yesterday that N.C.has decided to not seek the death penalty (made an agreement)...is this so? Also, if there is no agreement (N.C.) will they want Hilton after Florida's trial and if so, would they be allowed to try him? I still find it hard to believe that FL, GA, NC (even TN, SC) have not found more murders they can link to Hilton...I still do not believe he started a "spree" in October 2007...I still believe he's been at this for many years. I do hope more "looking" into Hilton's past (where he traveled and lived) will be done...and more cases solved. I really hurt over Ms. Cheryl's death and what she probably went through at the hands of Hilton...Probably Cheryl was just walking to her car after shopping for Christmas gifts for her family when the monster struck....I don't think his only prey were hapless individuals out for a hike in the forests.
http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2007/12/body-found-but-not-sure-yet-if-it-is.html
http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot.com/2007/12/sheriffs-office-identifies-body-as.html
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080729/NEWS01/807290330&s=d&page=2#pluckcomments
Hilton's attorney tells judge she needs more time to prepare his murder defense
By Tabitha Yang • DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER • July 29, 2008
Gary Hilton, charged in the murder of Crawfordville resident Cheryl Dunlap, waived his right to a speedy trial Monday during his first Leon County Courthouse appearance.
Assistant Public Defender Ines Suber told Circuit Judge Terry Lewis she needs more time to prepare the defense and that prosecutors still haven't turned over all the evidence.
Assistant State Attorney Jackie Fulford responded by saying prosecutors have turned over a long list of people interviewed in the case, along with other documents. She said Suber should have all the evidence by the end of next week.
When Lewis asked whether Suber would be ready if all the evidence were turned over the next day, she said, "That would be a surprise, judge, since I've been asking for it almost every day through e-mails, and I have not gotten any discovery. I would not be ready."
Lewis didn't set a trial date. He set a Sept. 12 date for Hilton's next court hearing.
Hilton didn't speak during the appearance. His hands were shackled. Extra deputies were assigned to keep him secure.
Dunlap went missing Dec. 1. Her body was found about twoweeks later in the Apalachicola National Forest. Hilton is already serving a life sentence in the killing of Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson. Gary Hilton July 28, 2008  Beil/Democrat
Defense Attorney Ines Suber and her client Gary Hilton were in court on Monday for a case-management conference with Judge Terry Lewis. The hearing is to decide on when to set the trial/other hearings.
Click above for links to contact sheriff offices in Florida
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Friday, June 27, 2008
4:33:47 PM EDT
List of evidence in Gary Hilton case revealed
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080717/BREAKINGNEWS/80717014/0/NEWS01
Hilton's other audio interview.
http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/16060914/detail.html
http://www.foxcarolina.com/download/2008/0429/16063171.mp3
http://corp.sos.state.ga.us/corp/soskb/Corp.asp?1037143
According to Hilton's interview with SC Investigators regarding Jason Knapp, Hilton's former employer in 1997 before IWS and John Tabor in 1998, was AMERICA'S HOME REMODELERS OF GEORGIA, L.L.C.
#432,120 INTERSTATE NORTH PKWY
ATLANTA GA 30339
Entity Creation Date: 9/17/1997
Hilton names the supervisor as JC Hudson, a women he says is well known in the siding business.
America's Home Remodelers became Rembrandt Remodeling around 1999 and is still in business. Associated names are Skip Frink AKA H.E. Frink III, Kathy Frink, and James B. Bishop, Lori Childress, Michael Shawn Shelton.
http://www.crimeandjustice.us/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t11648.html
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080625/BREAKINGNEWS/80625012
Updated: List of evidence in Gary Hilton case revealed
by nic corbett • democrat staff writer • June 25, 2008
State prosecutors this week have filed a list of evidence in the Gary Michael Hilton case at the Leon County courthouse.
Hilton, 61, was indicted on charges of murder, kidnapping and grand theft in the death of 46-year-old Cheryl Dunlap, a Crawfordville resident who disappeared Dec. 1, 2007. Her body was found in the Apalachicola National Forest about two weeks later.
The list of evidence includes a surveillance video from Hancock Bank, bank records, DNA samples, Cheryl Dunlap’s driver’s license, a security tape from Wayside Farm General Store and other assorted items, according to court records.
The StateAttorney’s Office also included a list of 384 witnesses interviewed in connection with the case.
Patty McCord, owner of Wayside General Store, 6310 Blountstown Highway, is listed as a witness, and her store’s security tape and a breakfast order form is on the evidence list. But she said Hilton did not pass through her store.
“There was nothing they got off any of our tapes,” she said.
Michael Hunter, a local alligator trapper whose name is on the witness list, said he was contacted by law enforcement after a tip was phoned in that he owned a camouflage pickup truck. But he hasn't owned one for six to eight years, he said.
Leon County Sheriff's Office investigators were looking for the owner of a camouflage truck seen in a surveillance video that showed a man using Dunlap's ATM card at an undisclosed location on West Tennessee Street.
Delbert Redditt, a pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Madison, said Hilton showed up at his church around November 2007 to sit in the sanctuary during services. A church member gave Hilton leftovers from the church supper that night.
“He showed up and acted kind of weird,” Redditt said.
One of the deacons later noticed Hilton’s picture in the newspaper and recognized him.
Another witness on the list, Samuel Rael, is a lawyer and the producer of the 1995 independent movie “Deadly Run." According to media reports, Rael said Hilton, a former legal client of his, came up with the plot of the movie, which is about a serial killer who holds women captive in the woods.
Hilton was was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson after he pleaded guilty Jan. 31. He is also a suspect in the deaths of an elderly couple in North Carolina.
He was extradited to Florida earlier this month and is in the Leon County Jail awaiting trial.
Check Tallahassee.com for updates.
Link to the "Cheryl Dunlap Case" forum from the old TDO format, 329 pages (started Dec 28).
http://forums.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45694&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Other TDO comment links, old TDO format:
Started Jan 8 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=46432&start=0
Started Dec 27 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45578&start=0
Started Dec 26 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45524&start=0
Started Dec 25 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45493&start=0
Started Dec 24 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45448&start=0
Started Dec 22 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45325&start=0
Started Dec 21 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45258&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Started Dec 20 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45168&start=0
Started Dec19 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=45071&start=0
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Started Dec 17 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=44911&start=0
Started Dec 16 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=44860&start=0
Started Dec 15 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=44839&start=0
Started Dec 12 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=44598&start=0
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Started Dec 6 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=44189&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Started Dec 6 http://forum.tallahassee.com/viewtopic.php?t=44199&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Shame, shame on you John Tabor, if you had not run interference for Hilton, possibly none of these killings would have occurred! You knew darn well that Hilton lived on your property and could be arrested on these charges when you claim you complained to Fulton County Police about harassing phone calls and threats against your life. Why did you NOT do the right thing to stop a crazy man that YOU enraged with your deceit and betrayal?
It would have been so much better to let Judge Cole's warrant be placed in the database so a decision could be made at the time of any arrest. Who is responsible for making that decision? Who is responsible for Georgia not entering it in the Georgia database? What is the point of even issuing a warrant if nothing was going to be entered anywhere? Someone needs to be held accountable for this interference which kept law enforcement from doing the job they are paid to do! Shame on you too Richard Mecum, the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia for making such excuses.
Hilton warrant wasn’t in database (Archives)
Hilton warrant wasn’t in database
He could have been jailed in November
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/archive/2823/
By Stephen Gurr sgurr@gainesvilletimes.com
Posted: Jan. 19, 2008 7:03 p.m.
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A federal judge in Gainesville signed a warrant for Gary Hilton's arrest last February, but when U.S. Forest officials in Florida stopped his van in November, they found no record of the warrant.Within two weeks of that traffic stop in the Apalachicola National Forest, a woman Hilton is suspected of killing vanished, later turning up decapitated.
Hilton was stopped at least twice by authorities last year, but never arrested, because the warrant U.S. Magistrate Susan Cole signed was considered so minor it was never entered into a national database.
Now Hilton, 61, is charged in the abduction and murder of 24-year-old Meredith Emerson and a suspect in similar cases in Leon County, Fla., and Transylvania County, N.C.
The only outstanding warrant Hilton had prior to his arrest this month stemmed from his failure to move an abandoned Chevy Astro van that was parked at the end of a wilderness road at the base of Tray Mountain in White County.
White County Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Dalenberg said his office got complaints in December 2005 about the broken-down van. After running the tag on the van, Dalenberg tracked down Hilton through his employer at a Chamblee siding business, who gave the deputy Hilton's cell phone number.
Dalenberg said Hilton was told to move the van or an arrest warrant would be issued for abandoned personal property.
"He said he was going to make an agreement with a towing company, and was going to give them the title," Dalenberg said. "It just never happened."
On Nov. 13, 2006, U.S. Forest Service Ranger Jimmy Allen wrote the ticket for abandoned property, which was mailed to the only address authorities had on record, Hilton's work place.
When Hilton, who authorities say lived mostly out of his cars, did not answer the citation, Cole signed a bench warrant for failure to appear in court on Feb. 8, 2007.
The standard language of the form reads, "to any United States Marshal or other authorized officers: you are hereby commanded to arrest and bring the above named defendant forthwith before the nearest available United States Magistrate Judge to answer to the above stated charge."
Yet, because the underlying offense was a federal misdemeanor, the warrant was not entered into the National Crime Information Center, a law enforcement database that tracks outstanding state and federal arrest warrants. Law officers routinely run a person's information through NCIC in any traffic stop. Georgia officers also run the information through the state database, GCIC.
Hilton had two encounters late last year with law enforcement: the first in Cherokee County in October, when a deputy responded to a complaint of Hilton squatting in a private hunting preserve; the second on Nov. 17, when U.S. Forest officials stopped his van in the Apalachicola National Forest.
Hilton's name was cleared through the databases each time.
Someone wearing a mask used the ATM card of 46-year-old Cheryl Dunlap three times between Dec. 1 and Dec. 4, Leon County, Fla., sheriff's officials said. They consider Hilton the prime suspect in Dunlap's abduction and murder Her body was discovered in the Apalachicola National Forest on Dec. 15.
Richard Mecum, the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia, said the warrant signed by Cole was not entered into NCIC because it was too minor. The offense would have to be something that would make the government willing to extradite a defendant if he were stopped in another state, Mecum said.
"I don't know that the federal government would extradite on a misdemeanor," Mecum said. "In NCIC,you're looking primarily at felonies, or cases in which sheriffs are willing to extradite."
The federal warrant system stands in contrast to the state system. Anyone who has an outstanding bench warrant in Georgia, regardless of the underlying offense, would be in the GCIC system, said Hall County Sheriff's Maj. Jeff Strickland. If the warrant showed up during a traffic stop, they would be arrested, he said.
But Strickland noted that in some minor offenses, defendants can post a nominal bond amount and be out of jail within a day.
Mecum said he has no problem with the way NCIC excludes some federal offenses.
"You can burden the system with all kinds of warrants," Mecum said, adding, "you could have 20-20 hindsight."
When Hilton was the subject of an intense manhunt earlier this month in Emerson's disappearance, it was the federal warrant that Cole signed in February that authorities used to hold him until more serious charges could be brought. The warrant may never be disposed of now.
"I think there's some things with a lot more priority ahead of it," Mecum said.
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Faces of Victims and Possible Victims of Gary Hilton
Meredith Hope Emerson, Cayle Bywater, Cheryl Dunlap, John and Irene Bryant, Michael Scott Louis, Rossana Miliani, Levi Frady, Jason Knapp, Patrice Endres,
James Wagner Beale (Jimbo Beale), Barney Taylor, Stacey Gage, Ali Gilmore, Tara Grinstead?
Update: Michael Gerrard, is not one of Hilton's?
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081004/NEWS01/810040336
http://www.tallahassee.com/assets/pdf/CD119306103.PDF
A former employee of Gerrard's landscaping business, Miguel Oyola, 38, was indicted on charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping to facilitate a felony, armed robbery with a deadly weapon and grand-theft auto. He is being held at a state prison in Lake Butler.
Gerrard was found dead Dec. 4, 2007, off Tram Road in a rural area of Jefferson County, less than a quarter-mile from the Leon County line. A logger driving a truck that afternoon spotted his body minutes after he had died.
Sheriff's Office investigators have said the killing appears to be over money.
Oyola was arrested three days after Gerrard's death (Dec. 7th) on charges including giving a false name to a law-enforcement officer and driving with an expired license. He was held without bail on those charges in the Leon County Jail until September, when he was transferred to the state prison. He'd been sentenced to five years for violating his probation for 2004 convictions on grand-theft auto and grand theft.
Other Names and Photo's To Be Added
Is Hilton responsible for any of these other unsolved cases in Florida?http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/OSI/unsolved/
http://bigbendcrimes.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=5i8c1osc7mbn45lfic429p7tp5&topic=259.0
http://bigbendcrimes.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=5i8c1osc7mbn45lfic429p7tp5&topic=135.0
http://largemammalband.blogspot.com/
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/12803102.html
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/15401566.html
The death of a man whose body was found in a camper on the side of Highway 98 in Franklin County just before the 2007 holidays has just been ruled a suicide. (Oh Really?)
48 year old James Wagner Beale of Sarasota was found dead back on December 21st.
Thursday, Franklin County Sheriff's investigators said he committed suicide by stabbing himself in the chest.
Major Chester Creamer says investigators suspected suicide all along, but because Beale's body was found so soon after Cheryl Dunlap's, they wanted to make sure they weren't missing anything and weren't jumping to any conclusions.
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/archive/2676/
http://hamptonroads.com/node/305921
http://bigbendcrimes.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=5i8c1osc7mbn45lfic429p7tp5&topic=181.0
Michael Lee Gerrard was murdered December 4th, 2007 here in LeonCounty. While at work Lee was attacked from behind, violently stabbed,thrown in the back of his landscaping business trailer, driven to Tram Road in Jefferson county and was left to bleed to death.
Lee wasa well known, and much loved person in Tallahassee and a close friend of my mothers. Anyone who knew him could tell you millions of stories about him, his big heart, or just the crazy things he was never afraidto do.
I received the e-mail attached from my mother, as aforward from Lee’s wife asking for help. We’re trying to circulate this as much as possible. If you by chance know ANYTHING at all about this case PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE tell Law Enforcement. The Jefferson County Sheriff Office number is 997-2523.
New page at Tallahassee Democrat has links to all stories covered and consolidated on GMH and Cheryl Dunlap onto one page:
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs...e&theme=hilton
Residents, friends help search for missing Crawfordville woman
About 180 people walked in a line Saturday as they combed the dense woods west
 Updated: Sheriff Campbell says it's Florida's turn to prosecute Hilton
“We have sat patiently waiting for him to go through the legal processes in North Carolina and Georgia,” Sheriff Larry Campbell said. “And it’s now our turn.”
 Hilton to be held in Leon County Jail when extradited
Gary Michael Hilton could be sent to Florida this week to face charges of murder, kidnapping and grand theft in the death of Cheryl Dunlap, authorities said Tuesday.
Hilton can appeal extradition to Florida
Leon County prosecutors were hoping to have Gary Michael Hilton extradited Friday, but their plans were thwarted when a Georgia judge gave Hilton 30 days to appeal the order.
 Cheryl Dunlap honored in Crawfordville ceremony
Family and friends of Cheryl Dunlap gathered Saturday in Crawfordville to remember the late Sunday School teacher, nurse and mother of two.
Gary Hilton fights extradition to Florida in Cheryl Dunlap murder case
Gary Michael Hilton, who pleaded guilty to the murder of hiker Meredith Emerson in December, told a Lamar County, Ga., Superior Court judge Thursday that he would fight extradition to Florida. He faces murder charges in the death of Crawfordville resident Cheryl Hodges Dunlap. Her body was found late last year in the Apalachicola National Forest in Leon County.
Man charged in Dunlap's death details killing of Georgia woman
ATLANTA - Meredith Emerson used her wits and martial arts training when she was attacked in the north Georgia mountains by a drifter who eventually killed and decapitated her, the convicted killer told investigators.
Lawyers appointed to represent Hilton
Two assistant public defenders have been appointed to represent the man indicted in the Decemberkilling of Crawfordville resident Cheryl Dunlap. Ines Suber, chief of the capital murder division, and Steve Been were appointed to represent Gary Michael Hilton, 61, who is currently in a Georgia prison.
Hilton indicted in Dunlap slaying
A Leon County grand jury indicted Gary Michael Hilton on Thursday in connection with the murder of Cheryl Dunlap.
A glimpse into Hilton's history
Gary Michael Hilton, the prime suspect in the death of Crawfordville nurse Cheryl Dunlap, was an unkempt recluse who seemed to care about no one but his dog, former neighbors and co-workers say.
Officials collect Hilton evidence
Hilton pleads guilty to death of Georgia hiker
Gary Michael Hilton was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murder in the beating-death of a young woman hiker in the north Georgia mountains.
Hilton sightings reported
More people have come forward with sightings of Gary Michael Hilton, the drifter who is the prime suspect in the killing of Cheryl Dunlap, Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell said Wednesday.
LCSO assays Hilton, Dunlap link
Leon County investigators in the Cheryl Dunlap killing studied more than 500 pieces of evidence taken from crime scenes in three states during their trip to north Georgia.
Hilton may figure in 2005 disappearance
North Carolina authorities are looking into the possibility that drifter Gary Michael Hilton was connected to the 2005 disappearance of another hiker.
Detectives looking for Dunlap links in Ga.
Detectives from Florida left for Georgia on Monday to look into similarities between the deaths of Cheryl Dunlap and the slaying of Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson.
Police reports link Hilton to violence
Dunlap case leaves questions
The arrest of Gary Michael Hilton in the death of a Georgia hiker and news that he's a prime suspect in Cheryl Dunlap's killing has brought cautious relief to the community.
Hilton investigated for at least five deaths
Theprime suspect in Cheryl Dunlap's death is being investigated in at least five deaths spanning three states.
Missed tip deepens tragedy of murders
I'm not expert enough to know whether the Leon County Sheriff's Office properly handled a tip from a local hunter Dec. 19 about a man in the Apalachicola National Forest, which came in the midst of its investigation into the murder of Cheryl Dunlap.
Dunlap details not confirmed
CNN and its affiliates, citing an anonymous source, are reporting that Cheryl Dunlap, a 46-year-old nurse from Crawfordville, was decapitated, which could further connect her case to that of a Georgia hiker, who was found dead Monday.
'WE HAVE A PRIME SUSPECT' : Suspect in hiker's murder connected to Dunlap case
Gary Michael Hilton, who's been charged in connection with the murder of a Georgia hiker, is believed to have been in the Tallahassee area at least two weeks before Cheryl Dunlap went missing.
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