ATLANTA -- Police on Friday found a second white van belonging to murder suspect Gary Hilton that had been missing.

After seeing a television report on the van, agents received a tip from a man who had seen a flat-bed tow truck remove the vehicle from the area the van was last seen in White County.

Agents contacted the tow truck owner who told them he had taken the vehicle to a scrap metal yard in Habersham County.

Agents recovered the vehicle from the scrap metal yard and transported it to the GBI's Regional Investigative Office in Cleveland, Ga. where it will be processed for evidence next week. The van had been stripped and is in very bad condition, according to officials.

A hunter last came across the white Chevy Astro van on a rarely traveled road in the Chattahoochee National Forest in White County in December.

Hilton was ticketed in 2006 for abandoning the van along that road.

After Hilton's arrest for the kidnapping and murder of Meredith Emerson investigators went back to White County to check out the van, but it was gone. It had been towed to the Habersham storage yard.