Trails of Death is the explosive chronicle of America’s only known national parks serial killer, Gary Michael Hilton.
Hilton struck in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina before he was finally caught. The author explores the crimes in detail with full cooperation from the victim families and brings readers into what makes a latelife serial killer through interviews with those who know him.
Readers will also hear from the lead investigator who finally tracked Hilton.
Buy now: Trails of Death by Fred Rosen on Amazon.com
Review
“Fred Rosen brings Hollywood horror to real life with the bone-chilling story of human hunting serial killer Gary Hilton”
- Kim Cantrell, True Crime Book Reviews, www.truecrimebookreviews.com/
“Rosen accomplishes the remarkable feat of merging careful detail with the immediacy of suspense. He puts you there, at the crime scene and in the courtroom. You see through the eyes of the victims, the serial killer, and the crime reporters with a front-row seat. A model of engaged journalism.”
-Katherine Ramsland, The Mind of a Murderer
I just listened to the September 8 2011, Podcast, True Murder for your book Trails of Death. What I thought might be an interview regarding your book was instead two hours of your anti-American apologies. It was embarrassing. You fell over yourself professing your love for all things Canadian and then demonstrated your callous insensitivity toward numerous Canadian victims of murder to this. “Robert Pickton blah, blah, blah, killed these people blah, blah, blah.” You insulted the American military, the state of Georgia and the United States in general. You called the F.B.I a bunch of idiots and then told the host you have an incredible respect for the Mounties from growing up watching the cartoon Dudley Do-Right. You apologized for Americans being so ignorant of countries outside of our borders, yet you repeatedly demonstrated your ignorance of Canada. Unfortunately, because of how you conducted yourself, anyone outside of the country who hear this interview is going to think less of us.
I think you misinterpreted what I told Dana Pretzer. First, the American military did not follow Mr. Hilton after he was discharged, despite a schizophrenic diagnosis and the fact that he had previously as a 14 year old shot his stepfather. In fact, they allowed him to enlist without even dealing with that violent episode. Second, Georgia passed an ex post facto law preventing anyone from gaining access to crime scene photos and other official reports. That violates the Constitution of the U.S. Third, regarding my affection for Canada, I work with AIDWYC, and have been for the last four years in trying to gain the freedom of an American who has been in jail for 39 years for a murder he did not commit.