on the trial. page after page of entries, in her own handwriting. you could argue that she was fed up with brad o born, and was reaching out on the very night she disappeared. that has got to be something for a jury to think about. it would be, if i was sitting on the panel. the diary entrance speaking from her grave, hannah s own words telling jurors who she was thinking about, danny. here on november 11th. again, on december 2nd, and then again on december 16th. in hannah s handwriting, denny. once more, the defense attorney got brad to admit he had read the diary, and catalogued hanna s visits to denny. do you recognize, in the 19th, words as brad hurt me, it hurt really bad, it never love someone so much. i recognize the fact that she recognized that i read the book. she wrote that she had gone to denny s. did you read that when you read the book?
and ignored everything else. the girl s mother was called to the stand but not videoed. those were her favorite pants. it all came down to the contents of the trash bag found beneath the window. of all the dna test bra on hannah s clothing spotted with blood, only one came back to denny. a small semen stain on the girls underwear. their kids. they re fooling around. that doesn t mean he raped her. the case went to the jury. and in the midst of the deliberations came a stunning turn. the judge, quite unexpectedly, walked into the jury room and declared a mistrial. she said she took that drastic measure because she was getting a report that one of the jurors was talking about a lie detector tests not in evidence. light a tech protests brad, hannah s boyfriend, had taken and passed. well, that said the judge, was jury misconduct. the court finds that the
person. definitely someone you could be friends it very easily. she was a great friend. she was a great girl. tara ferguson was the best friend for ever. she s so fun and silly and funny. there was no doubt she was a very brilliant girl? yes. she was a hopeless romantic. and she was bound to try to find that prince charming. now, not every teenage girl has the same definition of prince charming. hannah s boyfriend brad for instance, was a high school dropout with more than a few offenses. but by all accounts, hannah was smitten. definitely her one true love. she just really loved him and was really happy. and brad? they he remembers like yesterday being captivated by the girl at the party with a lively brown eyes. they quickly became a couple. did you think, i m really lucky to have this girl? i did. and we still get compliments. people would say, you guys look so cute together. but by late spring, 1999, hannah s friends and family thought she was going distant. the
see her life. absolutely. yes. her and i were conversant -ing. and you know, then one thing led to another. and then we kissed and stuff. did you have sex with hannah? no, i did not. denny offered up a tit for the cops. take a look at hanna s boyfriend, brad. why would he do it? do you know? jealousy? fear that maybe she sin somebody else? i recall many occasions that he would basically have hanna basically under control. so she could not go anywhere. but denny, not brad, was suddenly the person cops wanted to know a lot more about. at 3 am, they returned to denny s with a search warrant. the officers charging up these exterior stairs said they heard a thud. it wasn t long before one of them found a garbage bag beneath denny s window. in a? hannah s missing clothes. is that case closed? it s not case closed. but it s a big factor. i ve always called that bag of evidence the key factor in this whole case.
been a bad boyfriend. jealous, controlling. we found out he was a drug dealer. and he liked to chase other growth. it takes a pretty closely into means an opportunity. country hughes had tough questions for boyfriend bread. take off your shirt. do full fingerprints, palm prints. so is he saying, slow down? no, absolutely not. here s the thing, he never once said anything about attorney, his rights. just, find my girlfriend. whatever you need, find my girlfriend. and then came the awful day they discovered hannah s body. and i were hammering him. we re peppering, if not you, who? basically? you think he s good for this crime. that s true, but i want more information. give me something to go on. to detectives brad was a puzzle. angry and abrasive on one hand. and yet, cooperative and seemingly distraught about hannah s death on the other.