Hiker Meredith Emerson fought to stay alive
Hilton forced Meredith Emerson to camp three nights in the cold, then eventually killed her. His description: "It was like an out of body experience. It was surreal... You look back on it and you say 'that wasn't even real.' "You might say it was an altered state..."It was hard," Hilton continued, reframing a brutal murder into a twisted fantasy. "You gotta remember we had spent several good days together." Phil Skinner / AJC
