Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20200809 09:20:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
i tried to put mr. oborn out of her life. but when kids get something in their head the more you try the farther they get away from you. hannah s friends saw things about brad they didn t like too. 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, police were struck by brad s demeanor. before hannah s car had been found washington lacy, a police officer at the time, was pulling weekend duty when again into the station walked a fuming teenager demanding to know what was being done to find his missing girlfriend. first impression, didn t like him. he was he just was abrasive. brad s attitude wasn t the only thing to catch the officer s eye. right away i noticed some scratches on him. we kind of raised our eyebrows at that. lieutenant hughes was on duty that weekend too. he made note of the angry boyfriend with the scratches. he s got physical injuries.
Time. she said she invited him back to her place where she says he violently attacked her. how were his hands fixated on your neck? from behind. he was choking me from behind and just squeezing until i couldn t breathe. i couldn t breathe at all. i know i passed out a few times. and what are you doing at this point? pretending i m dead, hoping he can t see me breathe. choked during sex, battered and left for dead. the prosecution s implication was clear. is this what happened to hannah hill years before? people develop patterns of behavior. it s what we do. we form habits. and killers are no different. the prosecutors knew denny s lawyers would offer the jury an alternative killer in this trial. and who would that be? why, brad oborn, the scratched up boyfriend. to pre-empt the defense team the prosecutors put brad on the stand. it was a risky strategy. i was a heroin addict for
She was bound to trying to find that prince charming. now, not every teenage girl has the same definition of prince charming. hannah s boyfriend, brad, for instance, was a high school dropout with more than a few rough edges. but by all accounts, hannah was smitten. definitely her one true love. she just really loved him and was really happy. and brad, he remembers like yesterday being capital vaited by the girl at the party with the lively brown eyes. they quickly became a couple. did you think i m really lucky to have this girl? i did. and we d always get compliments. people would say you guys look so cute together. but by spring of 1979, hannah s friends and family worried that she was growing distant. they feared that brad was tugging her into a world where she didn t belong. she trusted everybody. saw the best in everybody? yes. and didn t have her radar up? no. that s where we differed. and now hannah hill had vanished into the night. out there somewhere. bu
Who, basically. you think he s good for this crime. not sure, but i want more information. give me something to go on. to detectives, brad was a puzzle. angry and abrasive on one hand, and yet cooperative and seemingly distraught about hannah s death on the other. it just didn t click with oborn. questions still swirled around brad in the hours after hannah s body was discovered. but now the case was about to spin off in a whole new direction. investigators had obtained hannah s phone logs and learned she had made four calls on her last night. one to a girlfriend, two to brad and another to a boy named denny ross. denny ross. does it mean anything to anybody? it doesn t mean anything to me. the detectives learn that this denny ross lived in a three-bedroom apartment next to a porn shop. they drove over and knocked on the door. denny ross answers the door. he s got a phone in his hand. i say hey, i m detective hughes,