Experienced hiker Meredith Emerson goes missing on Blood Mountain, Georgia and a massive search begins. Investigators soon learn of two other missing hiker cases that have ended in murder.

Serial killer Gary Hilton has killed two women in National Forests; now he’s taken Meredith Emerson. So far he’s escaped twice, but as police search a dumpster full of bloody clothes, Hilton is sighted nearby.

Hilton is caught, but where’s Meredith? Bloody clothes and Hilton’s confession confirm that she’s dead. Investigators make a deal with the devil, offering no death penalty if he takes them to her body.

Georgia sentences Hilton to life; now Florida tries him for killing Cheryl Dunlap. We reveal his childhood and meet others who vanished; are they his victims too?