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Update on Suspected Serial Killer Gary Michael Hilton

By David Lohr

Gary Michael Hilton, 61, a drifter serving a life sentence in Georgia for the decapitation murder of hiker Meredith Emerson, is fighting extradition to Florida where he has been indicted on charges of murder and kidnapping in the death of nurse Cheryl Hodges Dunlap, 46, whose body was found December 19, 2007 by a group of hunters in the Apalachicola National Forest, southwest of Tallahassee, decapitated.  Representing himself at a hearing on Friday, May 2, 2008 in Butts County, where he is imprisoned at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Hilton voiced his denials. "Your honor," Hilton told the judge, "I deny that I'm a fugitive from justice.  I deny that I'm guilty of the crimes that I have been charged with...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).