it was very intense. i remember thinking, thank you god, a sense of relief, in one fell swoop. those long years of work for prosecutors, detectives, had paid off. jurors told us that in the end, it all came down to the blood evidence on hannah s clothes. well, the dna outweighed a lot of unknowns for us. it said that denny ross was their. as a result of the hannah hill, case, lieutenant hughes says the akron police department made many changes throughout the years, especially in the communications department, to make sure mistakes like the failure to locate hannah s car never happened again. 13 years on, can akron residents be sure 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 hanna s death. he will not serve that time for years to come, but the jurors did not know is that he is already serving a 25 year sentence for the rape and attempted murder of this woman between the t
so denny ross was framed by the true killer? that is what you are saying? that is pretty obvious. that means the theory, defense attorney and dominic took to court. preparing for denny s trial number two is a daunting task. it turned out to be a 13 year investigation, so there was an awful lot of data. they assisted denny was innocent. the followed victim of all of that came down on the akron pd, when they feel defined hannah s car. once they found the bag of her, clearly outside the window, the case turned from an investigation into the death of hannah hill, into an investigation of denny ross. denny s lawyers told the police on all the things they feel to do, like chuck hanna s pager records, or do a luminol test at denny s place. they question how denny possibly could ve killed hannah in his apartment and left no trace of the murder. no blood? no excrement?
good morning ladies and gentlemen despite the ambiguous evidence, in october, 2000, 21-year-old denny ross stood trial for the rape and murder of hannah hill. he pleaded not guilty and faced the death penalty if convicted. he beat her into submission so that he could reap her. two young prosecutors argued their theory of the case. that inside the apartment, denny had raped and killed hannah. they faced off against what the papers were calling 1 million dollar defense dream team hired by denny s father. the league defense attorney was david from las vegas. the police rushed to denny and ignored everything else. the girl s mother was called to the stand but not video. those were her favorite pants. it all came down to the contents of the trash bag found beneath the window. of all the dna test bra on hannah s clothing spotted with blood, only one came back to denny. a small semen stain on the girls under. their kids. they re fooling around. that doesn t mean he raped h
the magic bag. critics of the police work in the case, like local journalist admire, were skeptical. we didn t buy it. why would he keep a potential bag of evidence that could hang him inside his apartment for a full week? denny insisted he did not toss the bag out the window. his fingerprints weren t found on it. and it didn t match any of the garbage bags he had at home. the officers didn t take the temperature of the bag and couldn t see it had been