assault on brittani marcell, the detective was out of leads, suspects. gonterman and thomson believed if they were ever going to solve this case, they had to do something radical, possibly even traumatic, find a way to let brittani relive the attack that nearly killed her. there was no doubt brittani was improving dramatically, but she still had no recollection of the attack. nobody knew if her memory of that day was gone forever, or would eventually immerse from the haze, and they believed they had to do something radical and possibly
the two sketeches brittani s and her mom s six years earlier had some some similarities and some differences. while both said the attacker had brown eyes and light skin. the fay facial structure, nose and hair didn t match. dr. leon morris had a possible explanation. a lot of eyewitness identification is wrong! at the end of her hypnosis, i knew what she told me, but i didn t know whether it was accurate or not. no one knew if what brittani said while under hypnosis was accurate or not. the composite sketch based on her description failed to produce any usable leads. once again, the job of pushing the case forward fell to detective jodi gonterman. she s probably the best detective i could ever ask for. did you find yourself getting emotionally invested in the case with so many years 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 come
williams announced she would be quote, evolving away from tennis, after the tournament. the 40 or old has won 23 major singles titles. now back to dateline. w back to dateline 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.
phone, in 2008, police didn t have the technology to break into the phone without erasing the data. so when it was first processed, there were only so many tools to get in it. brittani couldn t remember her pin. so years later, i took it down to the forensics laboratory for computers. you tried it again? tried it again. there was new advancement in technology? yes. this time technicians were 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. once again it wasn t john doe. somewhat relieved it wasn t him? i was. but if it was him and he was a law enforcement officer, good, we got him. about how many men would you say you got your hopes up for that this could be the one? i think those four were the most significant. but many more were tested. a suspect was developed and then the dna profile wouldn t match. and another suspect developed and no match. every time it seemed like over and over, susp