yes. did you physically abuse her? judge: you need to answer out loud, please. yes. brad testified that just days before hannah disappeared, they had had a big fight about him cheating on her and said that s when she scratched him. does that pictures fairly and accurately represent the scratches that are on your arms? yes. most painful, he said, was the fact that he had introduced hannah to denny in the first place. so but for you, hannah hill would never have met denny ross. is that what you re saying, mr. oborn? yeah. did you blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. do you still blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. did you kill hannah hill? absolutely not. the prosecutors had had their
to lie to me. correct? yeah. it was in your best interest to lie to me. correct? yes. and when it came to this woman who had electrified the court by saying denny had attacked and choked her, defense attorneys had lost the pre-trial battle to keep her off the stand. they insisted that no matter what she had to say, she couldn t tell the jurors anything about what had happened to hannah. do you know where hannah hill was between may 19, 1999 at 9:00 p.m. to may 20, 1999 at 2:00 a.m.? absolutely not. thank you. i have no further questions. defense attorneys said to focus on those other witnesses was the prosecutor s attempt to shift attention away from the true killer. the person who we still, to this day, believed killed hannah is her boyfriend. brad oborn s alibi as to where she was that night was he was at home watching television with his roommates, and they never interviewed the roommates. now denny s attorneys would have the shot at one man that could create rea
major, how could this car have sat there since wednesday and not be connected with ms. hill? well, i think that s entirely possible for a car to be parked for many days anywhere in the city. did somebody drop the ball here, captain? again, like i say, that s under investigation. was the investigation compromised horribly because of that delay? the condition of the body, the forensic results? very possible. it gave time for whoever did this to cover his tracks. who did do it? in the week after hannah had vanished, all the while her body in the trunk of her car undetected, the police were trying to make sense of her boyfriend, brad oborn. when detectives checked him out with hannah s family, they got an earful. hannah s family wasn t a fan of her boyfriend. no, they didn t like him. and her father made no bones about it. i tried to put mr. oborn out of her life. but when kids know you don t like something, the farther they get from you. i probably told her she was
13 years on, can akron residents be assured that the screw up has been rectified. i believe so. there s been a lot of changes. denny ross was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for hannah s death. he won t serve that time for years to come. what the jurors didn t know is that he is already serving a 25 year sentence for the rape and attempted murder of this woman between the two trials. he will be 67 years old before he is eligible for parole. we re disappointed. we had hoped for a different result. denny s lawyers filed a request for a new trial, which was denied. after the trial, reporter ed myers said he was still suspicious about how the bag of evidence appeared beneath denny ross s window. skeptics can still wonder, absolutely they can still wonlder. wonder. oborn was never regarded as a serious suspect by the authorities of hannah s friends and family. brad said he loved hannah and
the fact that he had introduced hannah to denny in the first place. so but for you, hannah hill would never have met denny ross. is that what you re saying, mr. oborn? yeah. did you blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. do you still blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. did you kill hannah hill? absolutely not. the prosecutors had had their chance to show brad as someone clearly not the killer. but now defense attorneys would have their crack at him. an all or nothing cross-examination. coming up, did brad have a motive for killing hannah? maybe something he had read in her secret diary. she wrote that she had gone to denny s. did you read that when you read her diary? when dateline continues. gg a lot more of him now.