road. detectives popped the trunk. it was worse than he had expected. you ve seen a lot of stuff in a lot of years. how does this fit in the awful things that cops encounter? it s sickening. it s something you can t unsee. you will see that for the rest of your life. the body of hannah hill had been found naked from the waist down, posed, her shirt pulled up. at approximately 7:30 this morning, the auto belonging to missing person hannah hill was found on the side of the road. pictures of her car made the evening news. devastated. how could this happen? i just totally blacked out. every emotion hit me at once. what had happened to hannah? and why? and an even bigger question, who? who had killed hannah? police quickly focused on one man: hannah s boyfriend, brad.
suspect by telling the police she was there? no. no. my son didn t do this. alan sees hannah showing up at denny s apartment that night looking for a shoulder to cry on, the teenager upset that her boyfriend brad, the guy she recently scratched up, had cheated on her. the father said the night unfolded just as denny had told the cops. they fooled around a little, kissed and stuff, and hannah left a few hours later. had someone been waiting below for her to leave the notorious party house? so denny ross was framed by the true killer, is what you re saying? well, that s pretty obvious. that was the theory defense attorneys roger sinnenberg, larry whitney and donna coletta took to court. preparing for denny s trial number two was a daunting task. it turned out to be a 13-year investigation, so there was an awful lot of data. they insist denny was innocent. following the fallout by the akron p.d. and the failure to find hannah s car. once they found the bag outside the window
it was a risky strategy. i was a heroin addict for quite some time. the story brad told of his relationship with this nice girl hannah was for sure a warts and all presentation. i was not a good boyfriend. can you explain to us what not a good boyfriend means? i was abusive. i hit i abused her. did you verbally abuse her? yes. did you physically abuse her? judge: you need to answer out loud, please. yes. brad testified that just days before hannah disappeared, they had had a big fight about him cheating on her and said that s when she scratched him. does that pictures fairly and accurately represent the scratches that are on your arms? yes. most painful, he said, was
living under a cloud of suspicion had taken its toll. do you feel like this verdict cleared your name. the only thing i m guilty of is being a bad boyfriend, and i can t change that. i wish i could. if i had three wishes, all three would be to change that. i can t. on a rainy sunday afternoon the verdict, hannah s friends and families gathered for a balloon release in her memory. they passed around sharpies and wrote messages for the lost girl, her brother. i m glad that it s over with. now i can start mourning. they are father her father, her best friend, and then after a brief prayer, they stood by the pond and the brisk wind carried away their good-byes.
this day, believed killed hannah is her boyfriend. brad oborn s alibi as to where he was that night was he was at home watching television with his roommates, and they never interviewed the roommates. now denny s attorneys would have the shot at one man that could create reasonable doubt in their case: brad oborn. they began by attacking his depiction of himself as a bad boyfriend. you were a bad boyfriend but you were also abusive. correct. you hit this young girl. no, i didn t. you slapped her. no, i didn t. you kicked her. yes, i did. denny s lawyers tried to trip brad up on dates and times. you told us earlier today i just want to get this straight you re not trying to get it straight, you re trying to confuse me. but did brad have a motive for killing hannah? for an answer to that question, denny s attorneys would turn to hannah s diaries. page after page of entries in her own handwriting. you could argue she was fed up