terrified. i saw blood everywhere! she s laying there. a young girl coming home for lunch. getting brutally attacked. blood on the floor, shovel, duck tape. a knife. i truly thought brittan would die. you wake up from your coma. and i m just trying t communicate. she didn t give up. it was a struggle you are not the only victim in, this year the witness. it s almost like nightmare. that detective wanted you t do hypnosis? your mind is in a completel different place. [inaudible he s hurting me he s hurting me. the details that she gave it was unbelievable! she said, you did it i said no you did route 66, one stresse across the southwest from on horizon to the next, going for what america was, to what it what it to be. cities like albuquerque, new mexico with celebrated stops along th journey. today, buildings that once lined this part of the iconi hallway helped - and close was the cottonwood mall became the new downtown the mall a
then she contracted meningitis which almost killed her. one surgery after another, bra brittani held on and that by christmas, three months after the attack, the family was told that she would survive. but what would her new life be like we talk to her, and she would bring her eyes and smile but we knew at that point no we know there s paralysis. and that s when they told us her ear canal is crushed she will be death. and they also told us that her optic nerve is severed just from the hitting of the head the jolting of it. despite her extensive injuries, brittani s famil started taking her on shor outings. we would put her in the wheelchair, and she stil couldn t hold her head up and was like please don t let that be it. the family knew that this could all the they hope for. and we they remove pieces of that
attack i could see his height. brittani s mom had actually seen the guy i saw he had jeans on a long sleeve shirt on and what is a look? like either a dark, caucasian man. or hispanic. with their own hair. kind of spiky. police created a composit sketch, and spread the wor across the rio grande valley - crime stoppers rewards, name would start pouring in so we were talking to a bunc of people. but to no avail the billboard campaign did not produce any workable suspects. witnesses, or leads. meanwhile, the marcell famil was on edge. in the days following th attack, brittani remained on life support close to death we really did not know what to do. i said, she s probably not gonna make it. their home, once a safe and sacred place, was now marred b evil walking in was like somebody died there. it was just, more mobud. it was dark, very dark.