00:00body kidnap people chain them up in your car you beat them to death you rape them
00:06most people would regard that as torture no no no where are we going with this well i think we're
00:13going to the mind of a psychopath a psychopath devoid of empathy mercy or decency narcissistic
00:24psychotically so you're nuts i'm nuts yes you are nuts okay all day above blood mountain the state
00:34patrol's infrared detectors scanned for body heat below the search for meredith emerson made national
00:41headlines and was a desperate race against time do everything we can do to make sure that uh if she's
00:46up there that we get her out of there get her out of there safely police now knew who took
00:50her and
00:50which way he was driving they also knew that hilton could snap at any moment it's a missing
00:55persons investigation right now and that's how we're pursuing it and the scale of the investigation
01:00had expanded to three states when police realized that meredith emerson wasn't hilton's first victim
01:06only the latest the body of 84 year old irene bryant was discovered on november 9th in the north
01:11carolina woods and her husband 80 year old john is still missing four months earlier john and irene
01:17bryant had just arrived at pisca national forest in north carolina the retired couple were 80 and 84
01:23years old but fit and avid hikers but on this day the bryant's walked onto the trailhead and into an
01:31ambush 61 year old drifter gary hilton was armed and lying in wait irene and john bryant right october
01:402007 hilton has never discussed exactly what happened to the bryant's until now
01:47the crime scene is north carolina's pisca national forest half a million acres with hundreds of miles
01:53of hiking trails at what point did you spot the two octogenarians uh when they got out of their car
02:01at the trailhead in the parking lot yeah it was just a little parking lot and why them were there
02:07no lone girls out there that day to pick on no i again i violated one of my rules i
02:13said no couples
02:14because two murders would would generate a lot of publicity i was down to one ritalin two spoons of
02:22coffee two dollars i've been living out of dumpsters from a picnic area for two weeks i lost a ton
02:31of
02:31weight i think i was probably about down to 140 and i just said hey this has got to stop
02:38and i had
02:39to take someone
02:42what do you mean when you say you had to take someone to get money for robbery purposes well yes
02:49i'm gonna stake out this trailhead and the first person that shows up goes it was the bryant's yeah
02:57okay what happens next so i kind of geared up and so i say to john bryant you know what
03:03we're gonna
03:04take your credit card and run it and he said i'll go to hell and he just brushed right past
03:10me
03:10and i deployed the baton and hit him on the back of his left knee so the guy whirls around
03:19he was a big
03:20guy a big strong man just as big as can be he whirls around he's carrying this uh trekking stick
03:28this
03:28hiking stick that they love to carry so he goes after me with that so i just brushed it away
03:35and then whack
03:36hit him on the side of the head then pulled out a pepper sprayed him in the face he steps
03:43forward a
03:44few feet and goes down where was irene she was a few feet ahead of him and then he does
03:49the craziest
03:49thing i can't believe this he said irene i can't see hit him well i just beaten him down and
04:00he's a big
04:01guy six foot plus and now he's telling his wife to fight me and bless her heart irene she was
04:09all
04:09heart she comes at you she springs right into a fencing position you know like on guard you know and
04:17and stabs me in the chest i go ah and i brush it to one side and whack hit her
04:26with the expander
04:26she goes down then i'm going to take them with me brian never gets up but he does another crazy
04:33thing while he's sitting there he pulls his wallet out and he takes his credit cards out and he throws
04:41them inexplicable did you abduct both of them at that point no no i i only abducted uh him she
04:51wouldn't get in the van so what'd you do to her well i put him in the van locked him
04:55in the van
04:56closed the door and i and i went back over to her a few feet away she knew what was
05:01coming and she
05:02said i'm not getting in the van the police always tell you don't get in the vehicle you're as good
05:07as
05:07dead and she says i'm not getting in the van i gave her my dirty harry voice i said you're
05:13not getting
05:13in the van she said no and i immediately laid into her i beat her and and her blood blew
05:22up
05:24and hit me in the eyes and i turned my vision red oh nasty nasty nasty nasty
