Death. Could she have been the killer . Or was someone keeping a secret . I said what do you do, what did you do . I dont know. Just the truth. Hello and welcome to dateline, the stuff of nightmares, intruder comes into bedroom in middle of the night and opens fire. For patricia oxley, the bad dream was all too real. She told prosecutors she had been awakened from her sleep to find her husband ben dead from a gunshot blast. Strange that nobody else was injured even patricia, sleeping by his side. Heres Keith Morrison with while they were sleeping. It was cold the night the full moon rose, desert cold. In the moonlight, silver pale, wind worried the gray ends of the grass, whistled past the unlocked door. Something evil afoot, something here inside where the moon peered into the window, into the master broor master bedroom, a little after 3 00 in the morning. Really dead. Whats really dead . My husband. Strange the things that happen to people. Who was who . This is a case built on lies
Did you physically abuse her . Yes. Or was it another man in her life . They had been together the night she died. Did you have sex with her . No, i did not. More than 13 years would go by as hannahs family fought for justice. Two possible suspects. Did you kill hannah hill . Absolutely not. Did your kid kill hannah hill . No. Two trials. I was a wreck. It was just very intense. Would there ever be justice for hannah hill . The truth always comes out. Hello. And welcome to dateline. Hannah hill was an outgoing teenager with a future as bright as her smile. Then suddenly hannah went missing. When her body was found a week later, police zeroed in on two potential suspects, her boyfriend and another young man whod caught hannahs eye. But to crack this case detectives would have to unravel the clues held in a mysterious black bag, one that appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Heres Dennis Murphy with the night hannah hill disappeared. She was a girl who made big entrances. She could walk in
Now police said she was next. Someone in the shadows gunning for her. My suspicions are growing and growing by the minute. So, who was behind all this . Plenty of suspects and plenty of motives, anger, jealousy, greed. Someone had 10 million reasons to kill. We look back and said, my god, i couldnt believe what i saw. Youre not going to believe it either because in this case, there is a final terrifying twist. I see my mother with a crowbar. Hello and welcome to dateline. Ben novak jr. Was a successful entrepreneur and the wealthy son of a famous miami businessman. Then he was found bound and bludgeoned to death in a new york he tole room. Who wanted ben novak dead . In this case, there was no shortage of suspects or possible motives. But a mysterious letter would lead detectives in a direction no one expected. Here is Dennis Murphy with family affair. If ever there was a little girl lost, it was maya bod. From when i was little, i was always in the way. She survived a mother Daughter
I remember waking up with this eerie gut feeling something wasnt right. I paged her, no answer. She always called me back. Always. The kids relied on pagers back then. Cell phones and text messaging were off in the future for hannahs circle of friends. Her mom, kim, was a homemaker, and dad elza, was eking out a living as a boilermaker. She was a lovely, bubbly kid. She loved everybody. She liked the spice girls, and signed her letters with tiny pink hearts. A nice kid. These friends of hannah thought so. She was a very easygoing person. Someone you could be friends with very easily. She was a great friend. A great girl. Tara ferguson chls her best friend forever. Shes so fun and silly and funny. Theres no doubt she was a very pretty young girl. Yes. She was a hopeless romantic, and she was bound trying to find that prince charming. Now, not every teenage girl has the same definition of prince charming. Hannahs boyfriend, brad, for instance, was a High School Dropout with more than a f
When she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. Did she write these letters . Is this a hint . This is a message saying this is my killer. Like you would see in a movie. And the ending, that was just like a movie, too. I cant believe what people do to each other. Hello, welcome to dateline. Roc, in this case, those three letters would tell a story all their own. When Karen Pannell was found murdered in her south florida home, the letters scrawled in blood above her body seemed like a beacon that couldnt lead detectives to her killer. What did they mean . What other crucial clues were in sight . It would take dogged specialist with a keen eye to unravel this mystery. Heres Dennis Murphy with written in blood. Reporter if yearround water is on your thing, once the onetime model and Flight Attendant got sand in her shoes, she never looked back. She loved the beach, diving, boating, that life. Her friend worked the counter at American Airlines in tampa with karen. If you were a frazzled passe