really involved the entire area of the pisgha national forest. >> within hours of discovering irene bryant'stives learned $300 had been withdrawn from the bryants' accounts using an atm card in duckstown, tennessee. they had a picture from the machine. >> the man that had concealed his head and face that was able to successfully use the bryants' atm. >> whoever making the withdrawal, it it wasn't 79-year-old john bryant. but time and geography were working against the lawmen. >> we spent weeks everywhere in that it entire area. we did everything from vehicle patrol, atv patrolling, horseback, on foot, everywhere. >> john bryant had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. the fbi posted a $10,000 reward for information, but the bryant case went cold. until meredith emerson loomed on the lawmen's radar. >> our lead investigator began following that case, and immediately there were some similarities that we saw between the two cases. both of these incidents occurred on forest service land. we really felt like that the two were probably connected. we may go years without a homicide. this