Facts:

Meredith Hope Emerson, 24, of Buford, GA and her dog Ella as missing after a New Years hike in the North Georgia Mountains.

Ella's leash has been found, and a water bottle belonging to Meredith has been found.

Meredith has been missing since Tuesday.

The trail she was hiking is six miles long.

The park is 20,000 acres.

Over 100 people from N. GA have shown up to volunteer for the search, as well as the GBI and various law enforcement officials.

Other hikers reported seeing her speaking to an older man on the trail.

Supposition:

Gary Michael Hilton is wanted as a "person of interest", having been the last person to see Meredith. Where is he? If he is innocent, why hasn't he turned himself in?

Video footage has been obtained showing a man wearing a jacket identical to the one Hilton wore hiking withdrawing money from a dead couple's ATM machine weeks prior.

Other facts:

The elderly couple also liked to hike: the wife was found beaten to death after the couple was reported missing. The husband has not been found.

It pleases me that people who were just in the arena, tourists and residents and hunters and hikers alike all showed up at the park to search for Meredith. That gives me hope for humanity.

Gary Michael Hilton does not.