used to visit her. when she was bored, you would come in about twice a week and hang out. she remembers you used to wear tight abercrombie shirts and pants a little bit saggy you know with your underwear hanging down. hansen said he d come by gonterman s office after speaking with his mom, but he never showed up. so, gonterman gave him a call to see what was going on. [phone ringing] hello? hi, justin. hello. hi, it s detective jodi gonterman with the apd. how are you? i m doing okay. how about yourself? good. the call started off well enough, but the tone quickly changed. hansen said he felt targeted and outright refused to give a dna sample. i felt like the way you guys were coming at me was like no matter what i said. i was the person you were looking for and no one wants to be that. hansen ended the call demanding an apology. i d appreciate a call to hear an apology i ll apologize after i get your direct dna. detective gonterman had been investigating just
what they normally do, type thing, and just come and see you guys? absolutely. is that okay? yeah. what did you make of his demeanor that first time when you went to go see him? well, you know, he was friendly. he was acting like he was concerned, but it was almost an act. but then he wouldn t give his dna. we thought it was odd for a man of that age to say they wanted to talk to their mom. his wife is right there. he s, what, in his thirties and suddenly he s wantin to talk to his mom. and so we re like, is his mom a lawyer? and you know, just the whole thing seemed suddenly very odd and a big red flag, yeah. and he seemed like a bad actor yeah. when i spoke with him. it seemed like he was putting on an act. it wasn t genuine to me. before she left hansen s house, gonterman decided to rattle his cage by telling him, brittani s memory was finally starting to return. your statement doesn t match what she remembers. she remembers very well that you
the scientific way of working the case through dna and fingerprints was a bust. and so was gonterman s old knocking on doors approach. did you ever say to jodi, you know what, i think we need to stop folks on this case so much? oh no. oh, good heavens no. we just hadn t found this person or this person was deceased and we just needed to figure out who they were and get their dna and solve it that way. but no, yeah, we just have to keep plugging away at it. there was no doubt brittani was improving dramatically, but she still had no recollection of the attack. no one knew if her memory of that day was gone forever or would eventually emerge from the haze. detective gonterman thought if they re ever going to solve this case, they had to do something radical. possibly even dramatic. to get brittney to relive the attack that nearly killed her
the attention of prosecutor david waymire and detective jodi gonterman, after brittani remembered his name, hansen was able to keep them at bay by simply refusing a dna test. so our district attorney suggested having him followed and getting his dna. and one of the main ways that that can be done is through things that a subject throws away. on april 3, 2017, six months after brittani told police about hansen, detective gonterman requested a couple of undercover officers to tail him. but by the time the request was approved, two months later, hansen had both moved and quit his job. police didn t know where he was. two more months passed before the surveillance team tracked hansen to his new job at this this body shop in north albuquerque. and they followed him to a mcdonalds. and they watched him eat. and he took the lid off of
for sergeant liz thomson and detective jodi gonterman, calling brittani s case cold was an admission of defeat. but 8 years after the attack, the investigation had clearly stalled. so this new name from brittani justin hansen didn t look to be any kind of case-changer. she gave me so many names names of people, but nothing was really significant to her and all along justin s name never came up. did she have any reason why his name, of all people, was popping into her head? she didn t know. it just popped into her head one day. hansen didn t match the description brittani gave while under hypnosis. he s hurting me. that person was tall, muscular, and had brown eyes. hansen on the other hand is average height, thin and has