compromise 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 the car, undetected. the police were trying to make sense of her boyfriend, brad. when detectives checked him out with hannah s family, they got an earful. mister hill was never a fan of bread. they knew very well who he was? yes, mr. hell didn t like him. and mr. hill made no bones about it. i try to take her away from bread. and you know, when kids get something in their head, the more you try, the father they get away from you. hannah s friend saw things they didn t like about brad, to. i probably told her she was better than that and she could do better. and he wasn t good for her. and when they met him, the police rice struck by brad s
denny s father, alan ross, says he was son stunned to. early air you telling me your boy was danny was a young kid who got himself in a situation by telling the truth. the father says, denny was an average, carefree kid. excited about a new job in internet marketing. not a killer. personality, demeanor, if you walked in the door who he would be? he drew a person who just as a stop smiling. it is a matter who you are, you ll feel at home when you re around him. because he just got that personality. the medical examiner ruled hanna s death a homicide by asphyxiation. saying she was strangled to death. but little else was color. for instance, the emmy found semen inside hannah s body during the autopsy, but said the sample was useful because it had degraded so much during the week her body lay in the trunk of her car. and then there were what critics saw as investigative lapses. police never checked boyfriend brad brad s alibi the night hanna disappeared. never checked her pag
diebold. the company that makes atms. her boyfriend of more than a year, brad, expected her to swing by her place in the morning to pick him up. he says, she was a no-show. i remember waking up with this eerie, gut feeling that something wasn t right. i paged her. no answer. and she didn t. the kids relied on pagers back then. cellphones and text messaging were off in the future for hannah s circle of friends. her mom, kim, was a homemaker. and dad was scratching out work as a boiler maker in the smoke stacks of the rust belt. dad loved his girl. she was a very bubbly kid. she would always love everybody. she liked the spice girls
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 jury is unable to fulfill the obligations required by law. the prosecution team was stunned. it was not a good day. nor was it a good day for the defense. everybody was broken hearted, included denny. danny s team was even more heartbroken to learn that when the judge interrupted the jurors, they had already reached a decision on the major counts. dateline spoke with four jurors after the trial. and they said they had already signed and sealed the ballots on all of the charges, except the lesser charge of manslaughter. rape? not guilty. not guilty. murder? i voted not guilty. not guilty. denny had come also close to being acquitted in hannah s murder. because jurors had voted in his favor, his lawyers went
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 too denny s. did you read that when you read the book? i do not remember. was it jealousy? was that the motive? you are concerned that denny might be there? yes. and you are concerned that he was potentially going to mess up your relationship with hannah, correct. denny s lawyer closed forcing the states case could possibly add up to a conviction.