TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The drifter convicted of killing and beheading a Florida woman has been sentenced to death.
Gary Michael Hilton was sentenced on Thursday morning. He was convicted in February of the death of 46-year-old Cheryl Dunlap. A jury unanimously recommended a death sentence for the Crawfordville woman's murder.
Dunlap a nurse and Sunday school teacher was found dead in north Florida's Apalachicola National Forest.
Hilton already has been sentenced to life in prison in Georgia after pleading guilty to killing 24-year-old hiker Meredith Emerson. The headless bodies of both victims were found in wooded areas where Hilton had camped in Georgia and
Florida.
He still is a suspect in three other killings in Florida and North Carolina.
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