case. this time, they would be armed with crucial, new evidence and a bombshell witness. but could they prove denny ross was the killer? here again is dennis murphy with "the night hannah hill disappeared." the trial of denny ross for rape and murder had collapsed. years passed with the akron police department getting kicked in the teeth for losing the conviction with what so many people called sloppy police work. >> people remembered the case. it went down as a police fumble. >> that's probably what most people remember the most, but defending ourselves was not what we were concerned with. solving the case is what we were concerned with. >> with police and detectives did was work on the case. >> the case went down in the state of appeals, federal and the ohio supreme court.