19, 1999 prosecutors anna feralia, matt meyer and bradley rotigam laid out their theory of the crime, that hannah hill was lured to denny s bachelor pad in what would be a fateful encounter. nearly 70 witnesses were called, some of them testifying off camera to things denny had told them over the years about hannah s death. denny had made a comment to me that he was going to [ bleep ] hannah. he said, we were all having sex, and i was having sex with this girl and ended up choking her excuse my language she died. this woman was a stripper back then and a regular at denny s place. for 12 years, she denied being there the night hannah died. but just months before the second trial, she changed her story, saying now she was there that night and hadn t spoken up earlier because she had been afraid. while you were there, what
and who? was it her boyfriend? they had fought before. did you verbally abuse her? yes. did you physically abuse her? yes. or was it another man in her life? they had been together the night she died. did you have sex with her? more than 13 years would go by as hannah s family fought for justice. two possible suspects. did you kill hannah hill? absolutely not. did your kid kill hannah hill? no. two trials. i was a wreck. it was just very intense. would there ever be justice for hannah hill? the truth always comes out. i m lester holt, and this is dateline. here s dennis murphy with our story. 18-year-old hannah hill may have been live in her parent s
basically have hannah under his control. she could not go my where. but denny, not brad, was suddenly the person cops wanted to know a lot more about. at 3:00 a.m., they returned to denny s in force 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 it? hannah s missing clothing. 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. the magic bag. critics of the police work in the case, like local journalist ed meyer, were skeptical. we didn t buy it. why would he keep a potential bag of evidence that could hang him inside his apartment for a full week? denny insisted he did not
the condition of the body, the forensic results? very possible. it gave time for whoever did this to cover his tracks. who did do it? in the week after hannah had vanished, all the while her body in the trunk of her car undetected, the police were trying to make sense of her boyfriend, brad oborn. when detectives checked him out with hannah s family, they got an earful. hannah s family wasn t a fan of her boyfriend. no, they didn t like him. and her father made no bones about it. i tried to put mr. oborn out of her life. but when kids know you don t like something, the farther they get from you. i probably told her she was better than that and she could do better and he wasn t good for her. s . he s got physical injuries, he s coming on like a house afire. right. either he was completely innocent and concerned about his girlfriend and really loved her, or he had done something and was going to use us as a tool. it could have fallen either way.
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