brown hair. so, we say blonde to brown. it s fairly equally likely blonde to brown. so, it s sort of on the lighter brown side, and most likely doesn t have a lot of freckles. there was one detail in john doe s profile that turned out to be crucial information. the color of his eyes. remember brittani s description of john doe. brittani marcell, brown eyes. well, it turns out she was wrong. john doe s eyes weren t brown. we found that this person has green to hazel eyes. which is unique. it s fairly unusual, yes. green eyes. the same color as justin hansen s and the sketch itself. here it is. when we saw that composite, i was like, oh my god. it was that close. it was. oh yeah. to justin. we think it s yeah. yeah. yeah, but i still didn t wanna get my hopes because i didn t wanna get disappointed again. still not convinced this man was the guy she d spent years hunting, gonterman, along with a fellow detective wearing a body cam, paid justin a visit. hi, h
to look at the item of evidence, swab the sample, extract the dna, see how much you have, and when it s on the instrument, you get a dna profile. at the end of all that did you think it was him? i thought it was a possibility got my hopes up. then i was very disappointed when it wasn t. the dna didn t match. a big let down. one of many to come. then another tip. gonterman took it seriously because of who it was from. a parent saying i think it s my son who did this. my son would visit the house right across from brittani s home and he looks like the sketch and this was considering this would be very difficult for a parent, i thought, wow, okay. but when she got the man s dna sample he was excluded. another let down? yes. so she and thomson tried a different strategy, focusing on
justin? i am justin. okay, cool. i m jodi. we re detectives with the apd. okay. right from the start justin was calm and cooperative. i m investigating a case, an older case and i m just going back and to talk with the friends or the people who knew brittani marcell. okay. it s from 08. okay. hansen invited the detectives into his home, where gonterman started off with the basics. do you remember hanging out with her at her sunglass place ever? not hanging out with her. i walked by, maybe and kind a just, hey, how ya doin ? what s new? how s your family? how s your sisters? that kind of stuff. on a like, on a regular basis or do you just remember, like no, no, no. just when i when i think when i was working at the mall. i d just happen to walk by and say hi. it wasn t like a hanging out, regular basis type thing. because she cause brittani actually remembers you coming in and visiting her and hanging out and talking with her, like twice a week.
gonterman told hansen what she was really after. a dna sample. just to compare with the dna at the scene just so we can exclude everyone because that narrows down the field. expecting, or hoping, hansen would agree gonterman put on a pair of latex gloves as she continued to talk. not that you re suspect at all anyway, because you re not. but hansen hesitated. can i can i think about this then come back and see you? just cause seems kinda what s your concerns? what s what s your concerns? i don t know. me and my wife watch a bunch of a bunch of shows, and we hear people, you know, oh, i ve been. i ve been in trouble, or i got in trouble for something i never did. and then 10, 15 years later they come back and oh, it wasn t you, or that kinda thing and then they ve been in trouble for it for a long time. yeah. can i get your card, though, and come back, and just so i can think about everything and talk to my mom or whatever? and if they re like, yeah, t
able to get into brittani s phone and right off the bat, gonterman found an intriguing clue. a text message from a male who texted brittani the day it happened and wanted to meet her for lunch. wow. i was like, wow, we didn t know about this guy and brittani didn t remember him. did it have a name? everything right there for you? name, phone number. i figured out who it was. at the time he had gone to high school with brittani. she did an online search and easily found brittani s high school friend, to her surprise, he was a police officer. did that kind of rattle you a little bit? of course, it did. what a way to wait and not get caught and cover it up. gonterman contacted the officer, broke the news to him that he was a person of interest in the brittani marcell case. she also collected a sample of his dna.