to detective jodi gonterman. she s probably the best detective i could ever ask for did you find yourself getting emotionally invested i the case with so many year going by and - yeah. i did. yeah i didn t think i would be graduated from college right now, i didn t think i would be doing that to go to college and to com this far, it s just incredible i mean, how do you do it you gotta be strong i yourself. you gotta believe in yourself and it was around the tim of brittani s graduation tha gonterman got another one of her out-of-the-box ideas. sh heard about a new way to make sketch not from an eyewitnes account, but from a dna sample they do a different type of
was at the top of the pile i told her every time she called me. i m looking at the case. it s right here. i m not filing it away i would never put it away. did you have an instant connection with brittani i believe so. absolutely she immersed herself in brittany s world, prior to the attack who she was friends with. what those relationships were. who was in our phone who the photos were? who she hung around with why did she like to do she was a very social girl, very good girl , now, five years after th attack she worked the case like i happened yesterday searching for new leads, new witnesses. talk to neighbors i would look at every house to see. is there anybody at this house who has a criminal history tha would fit this type of crime because the case had been out of the public eye for so long, gonterman and thompson began drumming up local pres coverage, hoping it would shak loose a new lead
hello hi, justin. hello hi, it s detective jodi gonterman with the apd. how ar 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 refuse to give a dna sample i felt like the way you guy were coming at me was like n matter what i said. i was th person you were looking for an no one wants to be that. hansen ended the call demanding an apology i d appreciate a call t hear an apolog i ll apologize after i ge your direct dna. detective gonterman had bee investigating justin hansen fo 5 months now. yet, there was still a question mark next t his name. so, time again, fo gonterman to get creative. coming up - an undercover mission to mcdonalds? they followed him, an watched him eat. a hunt for treasure in th trash. i said, i can t believ this. when dateline continues
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 colo 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 wanna get my hopes because i didn t wanna get disappointe again. still not convinced this ma was the guy she d spent year hunting, gonterman, along with a fellow detective wearing a body cam, paid justin a visit. hi, how are you? are yo justin i am justin okay, cool. i m jodi. we re detectives with the apd.