when they feel defined hannah s car. once they found the bag of her, clearly outside the window, the case turned from an investigation into the death of hannah hill, into an investigation of denny ross. denny s lawyers told the police on all the things they feel to do, like chuck hanna s pager records, or do a luminol test at denny s place. they question how denny possibly could ve killed hannah in his apartment and left no trace of the murder. no blood? no excrement? nothing that belonged to hannah hill, yet that is where they say she was murdered. as for the so-called new blood evidence, then his attorneys told evidence those spots were so hunting they did not prove anything. and also challenge the notion that bleeding necessarily proved a violent encounter. we all get paper cuts, don t mean? correct. we get mosquito bites, don t we? yes. the defense team challenge the credibility of prosecution
yes. most painful, he said, was the fact that he had introduced hannah to denny in the first place. so, if not for you, hannah hill would never have met denny ross. is that what you re saying mr. o born? yes. did you believe blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. do you still blame yourself for hanna s murder? yes. did you kill hannah hill? absolutely not. the prosecutors had had the chance to show brad as someone clearly not a killer. but now defense attorneys would have their crack at him in 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 dateline continues.
purposefully cause the death of hannah hill? is that your decision? yes. danny ross, guilty on all five counts. in the back courtroom, hannah s friend tara was visibly shaken. it was very intense. i remember thinking, thank you god, a sense of relief, in one fell swoop. those long years of work for prosecutors, detectives, had paid off. jurors told us that in the end, it all came down to the blood evidence on hannah s clothes. well, the dna outweighed a lot of unknowns for us. it said that denny ross was their. as a result of the hannah hill, case, lieutenant hughes says the akron police
kids don t always take the best care of school supplies. so save money shopping back to school on amazon. while they. 0oh. uh. figure their stuff out. for 13 years of hearings, appeals and trials, denny ross always had one little person in his court, his father, allen. did your kid kill hannah hill? no. in a moment of rough sex that went bad? oh my god, she is dead? put the body in the car, ditch the car, walk home. and then make yourself a suspect by telling the police she was there?
released on a 1 million dollar bond. it s great to be finally be out of here. but denny s freedom would be short lived. you ll hear more about that later. for hanna s friends and family, the shock of her violent death, followed by the inconclusive trial, took an enormous toll. brad now lived under a shadow of suspicion. with people still wondering if he had killed hannah. he tumbled deeper into drugs and even daytime for robbing a bank. maybe hardest hit of all was hannah s mother, kim. she went into a shell. i mean, it ripped our family apart. several years after hanna s murder, the figure of an angel appeared in a tree near where her car had been found. a small shrine to hannah s memory. and for hanna s best friend, tara, it was that she ever stop thinking about her sweet friend. but found she couldn t talk about it. emotions all bottled up. hannah, frozen forever at 18.