she is the definition of grit. she didn t give up. he s hurting me. the details that she gave. it was unbelievable. she said, you did it. i said, no, you did. route 66 once stretched across the southwest from one horizon to the next, going from what america was to what it wanted to be. cities like albuquerque, new mexico, were celebrated stops along the journey. today buildings that once lined this part of the iconic highway had faded and closed as the cottonwood mall became the new downtown. the mall was the big hangout. i met my husband at the mall. so did i. it has played a pivotal part in our lives. for the marcell sisters, all six of them, along with their brother, jonathan, the cottonwood mall in albuquerque was the center of their social lives. 17-year-old brittani worked at a sunglasses kiosk. she is this blue-eyed girl with a big eyes and a striking smile. everything was good, until september 11th, 2008, brittani just starting her senior yea
williams announced she would be quote, evolving away from tennis, after the tournament. the 40 or old has won 23 major singles titles. now back to dateline. w back to dateline for sergeant liz thomson and detective jodi gonterman, calling brittani s case cold was an admission of defeat. but 8 years after the attack, the investigation had clearly stalled. so this new name from brittani justin hansen didn t look to be any kind of case-changer. she gave me so many names names of people, but nothing was really significant to her and all along justin s name never came up. did she have any reason why his name, of all people, was popping into her head? she didn t know. it just popped into her head one day. hansen didn t match the description brittani gave while under hypnosis.
that was found at the crime scene, and so we find that this person, you know, has fairly fair skin. so this is a white male, as it s a fair-skinned male. fairly confident in that, and this person has sort of light brown hair. so, we say blonde to brown. it s fairly equally likely blonde to brown. so, it s sort of on the-รข the lighter brown side, and most likely doesn t have a lot of freckles. there was one detail in john doe s profile that turned out to be crucial information. the color of his eyes. remember brittani s description of john doe. brittani marcell, brown eyes. well, it turns out she was wrong. john doe s eyes weren t brown. we found that this person has green to hazel eyes. which is unique. it s fairly unusual, yes. green eyes. the same color as justin hansen s and the sketch itself. here it is. when we saw that composite, i was like, oh my god. it was that close. it was. oh yeah.
john doe indictment that was filed in 2010 tossed out. it was a tense time for both families, the marcell s and the hansens, as they waited weeks on the appellate court s decision. just 12 days before the start of the trial, the court issued its ruling. hansen s motion was denied. the john doe indictment was upheld and the case was going to trial. that s when prosecutor david waymire got a very unexpected phone call from hansen s attorney. they wanted to revisit plea negotiations. wanting to spare brittani the stress and anxiety of a trial, the marcell family gave their blessing to waymire s decision to move ahead with a plea offer. of no contest to attempted murder in the first degree. which hansen accepted. and just like that it all came to an end. the alternate suspects, the john doe indictment, the hypnosis, the
he s hurting me. that person was tall, muscular, and had brown eyes. hansen on the other hand is average height, thin and has green eyes. hansen was also a married father of four with no criminal convictions other than a dui. was this immediate for you? i have to run this down right now? or was it like, okay, i ll get to it. well, i said, okay, i m gonna set it aside, and i m gonna wait to contact him, because the more i had when i do an interview, the more information i have behind me is gonna be more helpful. justin hansen just didn t seem like a high priority, until three months later, january 3, 2017, when detective gonterman and sergeant thomson finally got the parabon dna report. dr. ellen greytak of parabon walked us through her dna analysis. this is the dna from the person who attacked brittani. yes, so this is from blood