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Filename: JH1-HNSIDE-HZON0110-NSIDE created: Jan 9 2008 Username: SPEED11 Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 HNSIDE 1JH HZON 1 JH Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 1 JH Cyan Magenta Yellow Black HZON File name: JH1-HNSIDE-HZON0110-NSIDE created: Jan 9 2008 Username: SPEED11 HNSIDE Thursday On ajc.com: Best of the Big A reader picks for the best of everything North Side JH THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CHECK FOR BREAKING NEWS UPDATES AT AJC.COM NORTH FULTON, EAST COBB, DUNWOODY, FORSYTH THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 2008 Newsroom Customer Care 404-526-7003 IN HOMESTYLE Texture, layers set right mood A palette of browns and white in soft textures can offer tranquility in the bedroom, says designer Debbie Travis. HS3 Killings may be linked, police say By NANCY BADERTSCHER Richard Tamber heard the news in a telephone call Monday from one of his children. Authorities in Forsyth County plan to investigate possible links between Gary Michael Hilton, a suspect in the disappearance and slaying of hiker Meredith Emerson, and killing nearly four years ago. thing that came to my mind was I hope we can put an ending on whoever did Tamber said from his business in Birmingham.

daughter, Patrice Endres, was 38 when she disappeared from her beauty salon north of Cumming on April 15, 2004. Her remains were found in a wooded area of nearby Dawson County on Dec. 6, 2005. Hilton has been charged with kidnapping Emerson, who vanished New Day while hiking on the Freeman Trail in Vogel State Park. Authorities have said there also could be a connection between the Emerson case and the disappearance and presumed slayings last October of John and Irene Bryant, an elderly couple from North Carolina as well as disappearance and death.

Capt. Frank Huggins, spokesman for the Forsyth County said the common links in the Emerson and Endres cases include the fact that clues to both deaths were found in Forsyth County. Late last week, police found three bloody garments and wallet and ID in a parking lot trash receptacle near a Cumming QuikTrip. Across the street from the trash bin they found dog, Ella, wandering in a Kroger parking lot. body was found Monday night in Dawson County.

Tamber said his family longs to see the person responsible for his death arrested. we nitely want he said. He said he thinks of his daughter every day and still frets over unanswered questions about how long she lived and how much she suffered. just Tamber said. Patrice Endres (left) was killed almost four years ago.

Investigators are turning their attention to the suspect in the slaying of Meredith Emerson ON AJC.COM Check online for updates on this story. ROSWELL Winter Starlab planetarium teaches about stars in the winter sky. Recommended for ages 5 and older. 11 a.m.-noon Sunday. $4 senior citizens; $3 ages 3-12; ages 2 and younger free.

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