were off in the future for hannah s circle of friends. her mom, kim, was a homemaker, and dad elza, was eking out a living as a boilermaker. dad loved his girl. hannah, she was a very bubbly kid. she always loved everybody. she liked the spice girls, and signed her letters with tiny pink hearts. a nice kid. these friends of hannah thought so. she was a very easygoing person. someone you could be friends with very easily. she was a great friend. a great girl. tara ferguson chls her best friend forever. she s so fun and silly and funny. there s no doubt she was a very pretty young girl. yes. she was a hopeless romantic, and she was bound trying 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
major, how could this car have sat there since wednesday and not be connected with ms. hill? well, i think that s entirely possible for a car to be parked for many days anywhere in the city. did somebody drop the ball here, captain? again, like i say, that s under investigation. was the investigation compromised horribly because of that delay? 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
13 years on, can akron residents be assured that the screw up has been rectified. i believe so. there s been a lot of changes. denny ross was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for hannah s death. he won t serve that time for years to come. what the jurors didn t know is that he is already serving a 25 year sentence for the rape and attempted murder of this woman between the two trials. he will be 67 years old before he is eligible for parole. we re disappointed. we had hoped for a different result. denny s lawyers filed a request for a new trial, which was denied. after the trial, reporter ed myers said he was still suspicious about how the bag of evidence appeared beneath denny ross s window. skeptics can still wonder, absolutely they can still wonlder. wonder. oborn was never regarded as a serious suspect by the authorities of hannah s friends and family. brad said he loved hannah and
the fact that he had introduced hannah to denny in the first place. so but for you, hannah hill would never have met denny ross. is that what you re saying, mr. oborn? yeah. did you blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. do you still blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. did you kill hannah hill? absolutely not. the prosecutors had had their chance to show brad as someone clearly not the killer. but now defense attorneys would have their crack at him. an all or nothing cross-examination. coming up, did brad have a motive for killing hannah? maybe something he had read in her secret diary. she wrote that she had gone to denny s. did you read that when you read her diary? when dateline continues. gg a lot more of him now.
pager. we couldn t figure out why they dent luminol the first time they went out there. the wait was excruciating. they took a long time. the jurors say they weighed brad o born s testimony carefully. did you believe his story? looking at his body language, p making contact with the jury, i believed him. none of us felt it was him, and his dna wasn t there. friday, just after lunch came word of a decision. lawyers, friends, family all assembled at the court. hannah s brother stayed away. i was at a friend s house waiting by the phone. i was terrified. all rise, please. in just moments, there was no more need for guess work. count 1, is it your determination that the defendant committed murder in this count