As well as the risk of blisters, exposure, getting lost on the trail, injury, attacks by wild animals, altitude sickness, and so on when venturing into the great outdoors, there is the remote chance you could be one of the unlucky ones who bumps into a serial killer.
Gary Michael Hilton, 71, the so-called "National Forest Serial Killer", is notorious for committing a series of murders in wilderness areas, some involving hikers, between 2007 and 2008. The murder of Meredith Emerson is an incredible story of a woman who bravely fought off a depraved maniac and managed to stay alive for over three days in his company. Her killing ultimately led to his arrest.
In 2007, Hilton killed John and Irene Bryant (80 and 84 years) in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, Cheryl Hodges Dunlap (46) in Florida’s Apalachicola National Forest, and in 2008 brutally murdered Meredith Hope Emerson (24) in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. Before this, he is believed to have killed Rossana Miliani, 26, and Michael Scot Louis, 27, and possibly many others.
He was sentenced to life in prison in Georgia on January 31, 2008, sentenced to death in Florida on April 21, 2011, and sentenced to four life sentences in North Carolina on April 25, 2013.
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