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Meredith Emerson Death Photos: Hustler Magazine Request Denied
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by NowPublic Staff | March 8, 2010 at 06:50 pm
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A Writer For Hustler Magazine Requested To Access Photos of a Dead Meredith Emerson
Authorities have denied Hustler Magazine's request for access to Meredith Emerson crime scene photos. The adult magazine wanted access to photos of a decaptitated, nude Meredith Emerson, the young woman who was murdered by Gary Michael Hilton while hiking in Georgia.
On February 25, Hustler reporter Fred Rosen asked for the Meredith Emerson photos as part of an open records request filed with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The GBI denied the request, saying that the Georgia Open Records Act prevents such photos from being released.
Georgia politicians were outraged by Hustler's request for Meredith Emerson photos.
"I think that the request is sickening, I think it's disgusting, I think it's vile and it's very hurtful for this family," says Ralston.
House Speaker David Ralston added that the state legislature has long banned the release of autopsy photos, but there is a small loophole regarding crime scene photos. Ralston says the House plans to create the Meredith Emerson Privacy Act to prevent requests for crime scene photos through public disclosure laws.
Fred Rosen, a true-crime writer, says he wanted to see photos and transcripts as a way to better understand the Meredith Emerson case.
"I'm trying to get to the best obtainable version of the truth," he said.
As for whether the photos would ever be published, Rosen said, "It's up to the editor to make that decision."
Emerson was abducted Jan. 1, 2008, while hiking in North Georgia. Gary Michael Hilton beat Emerson to death and cut off her head. He is now serving life in prison and is awaiting trial for the death of a Florida woman.
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at 16:42 on March 9th, 2010
I think what you are trying to do for such a piece of trash magazine is barbaric, and inhuman it makes you no different then the sick inhuman man that killed her.Stop and think if this was your daughter,wife,mother or any person in your life that you love. Why and how can you do this, to this family that lost their daughter Do you have ice in your veins or are you so poor that you need the money if you are I will send you some and I live on unempoyment for now. I am trying to get people to boygot this on facebook and my space I have blog this and sent it out and now I have sent your name out how many pills do you need to take to sleep at night. I hope God will stop you and please show my words I want people to read what I think of this Cathy Brock of Georgia
at 21:51 on March 9th, 2010
How can someone even think about such idea... There are no words to explain how I feel reading such news... I have an idea for Fred Rosen : He might kill himself the worst way possible and give authorization to his magazine to publish photos of his own mutilated corpse on the front page... People like this, living upon others pain don't deserve to live. They deserve the worst possible... and my word are gentle compared to what I really think... Nico, French tourist in USA that couldn't believe what he saw on the news tonight...
at 05:00 on March 10th, 2010
Digusting! Extremely disrespectul to both Meredith and her family - how the magazine can back up this reporter's request is beyond me. As if having a close family member die in such a way isn't bad enough, having to see - and have everyone else see - their naked and decapitated corpse is just horrific beyond imagination. Meredith deserves dignity in death, especially after the way she was horribly killed in the prime of her life. She does not deserve to be disrespected and used in a disgusting way to sell a trashy magazine.
at 21:55 on March 10th, 2010
I seriously don't get why Hustler would want photo's like that, what kind of people do they intend on viewing the magazine? Sick people who enjoy looking at a nude photo of a dead woman? I'm at a loss of words! They are very ill people themselves! I would investigate them for murders around the content with a suggestion like that! Friggin SICK! Would make me think of them as a black market seller like Faces of Evil!
at 03:38 on March 13th, 2010
im happy to hear about this law. there are times when i am watching a show like 'cold case files' on A + E, and i'll think, 'im not sure they should be showing these photo's of this victim..its too intimate, and even after death, its an invasion of privacy...and i just think, i hope at least that they have the consent of the family to show these photos.... but they probably dont.' Im in canada, and just hearing about the meredith emerson story now. its gutwrenching, it makes your spirits just sag at the futility of it all. you think, 'if only she'd gotten away'.