On Dec 1, 2007, nurse and Sunday-school teacher Cheryl Dunlap spent an ordinary Saturday at Leon Sinks outside Tallahassee — and never came home. We tell what happened before the widely seen woods footage, then how Gary Michael Hilton was finally named for her murder.

Half one is her last day. Half two is how they caught him.

0:00 Cold open 0:27 Frame — The Salty Files 1:16 Cheryl’s Saturday morning 2:37 Leon Sinks 3:58 The roadside 5:35 Handoff — reported missing 6:25 Half-break 6:49 The investigation begins 8:18 The break from Georgia 9:47 After the reveal 10:06 Forensics 11:19 Aftermath 12:24 Closing 12:48 Outro

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Credits Source footage we complement: EXPLORE WITH US — “Cop Interrupts Serial Killer In The Woods” → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4pEJXHvSjo Primary record: Hilton v. State (Fla. Supreme Court) Music: Mureka (theme / stings / beds) · SFX: Freesound CC0 Images: FDOC (Hilton); NARA (Leon Sinks, Apalachicola NF); CC BY-SA credits as in show notes; victim/press portraits fair-use / pending clearance

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