found became a place to honor her brief life. we put ribbons around the tree in remembrance. for the detective, the heat was on to find her killer. the akron police department was already facing intense scrutiny for taking a full week to find hannah s car. there it had sat, abandoned in the night on cain road, where just hours after hannah had disappeared, residents were calling police to come take a look. at least five neighbors called police and said, we have a car in our neighborhood that s totally unexplained, and you need to come out here. ed meyer is a reporter for the akron beacon journal. he says the neighbors saw car keys on the dashboard and hannah s name written in two places. in a black eye for the department that lingers to this day, police came and ticketed the car but failed to make the connection.
i m calling the hills. i m paging her. she s not calling. that wasn t like her. we re freaking out now. so we make out thousands of flyers and we re passing them out. have you seen my sister? has anyone seen my sister? and you re hearing no, no, no, no. nothing. brad, the boyfriend, took it a step further. he went to the police station to confront the cops. my girlfriend was missing. it seemed to be too long. by tuesday she was missing more than a week. the police finally turned to the media. an 18-year-old girl has vanished, and tonight police are asking for your help. when it came across the cb that she was missing, it got really real. the very next morning, a breakthrough. news that police had located hannah s car. it was parked on a quiet dead-end street called cain
the very next morning, a breakthrough. news that police had located hannah s car. it was parked on a quiet dead-end street called cain road. detectives popped the trunk. it was worse than he had expected. you ve seen a lot of stuff in a lot of years. how does this fit in the awful things that cops encounter? it s sickening. it s something you can t unsee. you will see that for the rest of your life. the body of hannah hill had been found naked from the waist down, posed, her shirt pulled up. at approximately 7:30 this morning, the auto belonging to missing person hannah hill was found on the side of the road. pictures of her car made the evening news. devastated. how could this happen? i just totally blacked out. every emotion hit me at once. what had happened to hannah? and why?
hannah hill was buried in a family plot in kentucky the day after what would have been her 19th birthday. for her friends in akron, the place where her car had been found became a place to honor her brief life. we put ribbons around the tree in remembrance. for the detective, the heat was on to find her killer. the akron police department was already facing intense scrutiny for taking a full week to find hannah s car. there it had sat, abandoned in the night on cain road, where just hours after hannah had disappeared, residents were calling police to come take a look. at least five neighbors called police and said, we have a car in our neighborhood that s totally unexplained, and you need to come out here. ed meyer is a reporter for the akron beacon journal. he says the neighbors saw car keys on the dashboard and hannah s name written in two places. in a black eye for the department that lingers to this
family plot in kentucky the day after what would have been her 19th birthday. for her friends in akron, the place where her car had been found became a place to honor her brief life. we put ribbons around the tree in remembrance. for the detective, the heat was on to find her killer. the akron police department was already facing intense scrutiny for taking a full week to find hannah s car. there it had sat, abandoned in the night on cain road, where just hours after hannah had disappeared, residents were calling police to come take a look. at least five neighbors called police and said, we have a car in our neighborhood that s totally unexplained, and you need to come out here. ed meyer is a reporter for the akron beacon journal. he says the neighbors saw car keys on the dashboard and hannah s name written in two places. in a black eye for the department that lingers to this day, police came and ticketed