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
everything was it right there for you name, for number, i figured out who he was so at the time he had gone t high school with britney so they did an online searc and easily found brittany s ol high school friend to her surprise, he was police officer did that rattle you a littl bit? of course it did. what a better way to just no get caught and covered up she contacted the officer broke the news to him that h was a person of interest in th brittani marcell case. she also collected a sample of his dna. a few weeks later, the results came back. they were negative once again, it wasn t john doe somewhat relieved that it wasn t him was i relieved? i was. if it was him, and he was a la enforcement officer, than good we got him about how many man do you say that you got your hopes up for, that this could be the one? i think those four where th most significant
the odds, surviving a near fatal beating that left he brain damage, find in one eye, and partially death. now she was about to take an extraordinary step to catch he attacker despite her fears of relivin the trauma, on august 14th 2014, brittani agreed to go unde hypnosis dr. leon morris was th clinical side colleges chose to work with brittani, it woul be his first criminal case using hypnosis and he was confident that ther were memories to uncover [inaudible] dr. morris was well aware that what memories brittani ha of the attack could be wrong there s something calle confabulation, the perso doesn t remember something, an they kind of fill in the blanks where it may not be accurate the - before starting, he made sur
the old school approach of working tips, leads, and hunches just was not payin off. so she went through the case files again and came across report about britney s cel phone. back in 2008 during th unofficial investigation police did not have technology to break into the phone withou erasing the data so when it was firs processed, there were only s many tools to get into it. and brittani could not remembe her pen. so years later, they took it down to the forensic laboratory for computers you tried it again? tried it again. because there is advancement in technology? this time, technicians were able to get into brittani phone. and right off the bat, the found an intriguing clue a text message from a mal who texted brittani, the day i happened, and wanted to meet her for lunch. and i was like wow, we did not know about this guy. and brittani did not remembe him. did you have a name and
at the the clothing store i the mall yeah. and people liked hi and wanted to date him. and, like, you did that the next hurdle would be th trial. brittani would have t testify and re-live th emotional trauma of the attack normally, people don t loo forward to trials like this. are you actually looking forward to it to get it done and to see justice very much so. i can finally kind of close that chapter finally after nine years what brittani didn t know a the time of this interview was that there were problems wit the case. believe it or not, there were serious doubt justin hansen would ever go on trial. coming up a stunning setback. the case against justin takes another dramatic turn. there s a lot of evidence that doesn t make sense. it hard to prove your innocence after a certain amount of time when dateline continues