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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Police to search Georgia for missing NC man

Authorities say they’ll search in Georgia for a North Carolina man whose disappearance could be linked to Gary Michael Hilton, who is charged with murdering a Georgia hiker earlier this month. They will search Towns and Union counties for the body of 80-year-old John Bryant. He and his wife, 84-year-old Irene Bryant went missing in October after setting out for a hike in western North Carolina Irene Bryant was later found dead from multiple blows to her head. Hilton has been charged in the beating death and decapitation of 24-year-old Meredith Emerson, whose body police found Jan. 7 in a Georgia state forest with Hilton's help. Authorities also are looking at whether Hilton was involved in two murders in Florida.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Alleged murderer could be linked to NC case

The man charged in the beating death of a Georgia hiker is being looked another woman’s disappearance in North Carolina. 26-year-old Rossana Miliani was last in Bryson City on December 7th, 2005. A store clerk from Bryson City recently told a private investigator that Miliani came into her store with a man who resembled 61-year-old Gary Hilton. Hilton is charged with kidnapping 24-year-old Meredith Emerson New Year’s Day while she was hiking at north Georgia’s Blood Mountain.

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