"Mountain Devil: The Hiker Hunter Gary Hilton Who Made National Parks His Personal Killing Fields"
Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers - A podcast by Charlie Outback

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In the serene wilderness where families go to escape civilization and find peace, Gary Hilton transformed hiking trails into hunting grounds, turning America's most beautiful national parks into graveyards where innocent nature lovers met unthinkable deaths at the hands of a survivalist killer who knew every cave, every ravine, and every place to hide a body where it would never be found. Tonight, we present the explosive jailhouse interview with the Mountain Devil himself, where Hilton reveals the twisted psychology that drove him to stalk hikers for sport, describing in chilling detail how he selected victims, hunted them through the wilderness like animals, and disposed of their remains in locations so remote that some bodies may never be recovered. This isn't just another serial killer interview – this is a journey into the mind of a predator who weaponized nature itself, using his decades of wilderness survival skills to become the apex predator in environments where his victims thought they were safest, turning family camping trips into nightmares that ended in torture and death. You'll hear Hilton's own voice describing the moment he realized he enjoyed hunting humans more than animals, his methodical planning of each attack, and his complete lack of remorse for destroying families whose only crime was seeking the peace and beauty of America's national treasures. We've enhanced the audio from his prison interviews, consulted with wilderness survival experts to understand his methods, and spoken with the families of victims who still can't bear to enter the parks where their loved ones were murdered by a monster who turned paradise into hell. The most terrifying revelation isn't just his knowledge of human anatomy and torture techniques – it's how many other victims he hints at, describing kills in parks across multiple states that investigators never connected to him, suggesting that his confirmed murders are just the tip of an iceberg that could span decades of hunting in America's wilderness. Tonight, we honor the memory of Meredith Emerson, Cheryl Dunlap, and all the nature lovers whose final moments were spent in terror at the hands of a killer who understood that screams echo differently in the mountains, and that some places are so isolated that evil can flourish without witnesses. His confession will make you terrified of every hiking trail while exposing the horrifying reality that even our most protected natural spaces aren't safe from predators who understand that the wilderness keeps its secrets forever.