GEORGIA: DID GARY HILTON KILL ALL THESE PEOPLE?

Forsyth County Sheriffs Department
Patrice Endres

Suspect in hiker's disappearance may be linked to 3 other cases

By MIKE MORRIS, NANCY BADERTSCHER

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 01/07/08

Authorities Monday were checking to see whether three North Georgia missing persons cases — two from recent weeks and one from nearly four years ago — are linked.

Forsyth County officials are investigating the possibility that the man suspected of kidnapping hiker Meredith Emerson may be linked to the disappearance and murder of a Forsyth County hairdresser nearly four years ago, and police in Athens are trying to determine whether he could be connected to the case of a 29-year-old woman who disappeared in late December.

"We're not leaving any stone unturned," said Capt. Frank Huggins, spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff's Department.

Huggins said investigators want to look into similarities in Emerson's kidnapping and the unsolved murder of Patrice Endres, who disappeared from her beauty salon north of Cumming on April 15, 2004.

Both cases involved a missing woman, and clues to their disappearance were found in Forsyth County, the spokesman said.

Authorities already have said they believe there could be a connection between the Emerson case and the disappearance and presumed slayings last October of John and Irene Bryant, an elderly couple from North Carolina.

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