Indicted

Gary Hilton has been indicted in Florida.

A Florida grand jury indicted Gary Michael Hilton on Thursday on charges he killed a nurse and Sunday school teacher, beheading her as he did a young woman he met hiking in the North Georgia Mountains on New Year's Day, according to the Leon County, Fla., Sheriff's Office.

Sgt. Tony Drzewiecki of the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Tallahassee said a grand jury indicted Hilton on one count each of murder and kidnapping and two counts of grand theft. The indictment came less than a month after Hilton pleaded guilty to the murder of hiker Meredith Emerson in North Georgia.

The case against him in Florida is in the death of Cheryl Dunlap, 46, who disappeared Dec. 1. A hunter found Dunlap's decapitated body in Apalachicola National Forest near Tallahassee on Dec. 15. In the days between her disappearance and the discovery of her body, a masked person tried to use her ATM card on three separate occasions, another aspect of the case involving Dunlap that was similar to events in Emerson's abduction and death.

Florida prosecutors could not be reached Thursday evening, so it was not immediately known whether they planned to seek the death penalty against the 61-year-old transient.