hannah s car never happen again. 13 years on, can akron residents be assured that the screw-up has been rectified? i believe so. and there s been a lot of changes. denny ross was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for hannah s death. he won t serve that time for years to come. what the jurors didn t know is that he is already serving a 25-year sentence for the rape and attempted murder of this woman between the two trials. he will be 67 years old before he is eligible for parole. we re disappointed. we had hoped for a different result. denny s lawyers filed a request for a new trial, which was denied. after the trial reporter ed meyer said he was still suspicious about how the bag of evidence appeared beneath denny ross s window. skeptics can still wonder. absolutely they can still wonder. despite the fact that denny s defense had always been that brad killed hannah, oborn was never regarded as a serious suspect by the authorities or
a small shrine to hannah s memory. and for hannah s best friend, tara, it wasn t that she ever stopped thinking about her sweet friend but found she couldn t talk about it. emotions all bottled up. hannah frozen forever at 18. so you went on with your life. mm-hmm. then you had babies. yes. she never got to do that, did she? no. the case, meanwhile, was mostly in the deep freeze, making a glacial procession through the courts. seasons passed with no resolution. but that was about to change in startling fashion. coming up, a second trial, but at times it was hard to know exactly who was the defendant? was it denny ross? he was choking me from behind and just squeezing. or hannah s boyfriend? did you blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. when dateline continues.
appeared in a tree near where her car was found. a small shrine to her memory. for hannah s friend tara, it wasn t that she stopped thinking about her sweet friend but found she couldn t talk about it. emotions all bottled up. hannah frozen forever at 18. so you went on with your life and you had babies. yes. she never got to do that, did she? no. the case, meanwhile, was mostly in the deep freeze, making a glacial procession through the courts. seasons passed with no resolution. but that was about to change in startling fashion. coming up, a second trial, but at times it was hard to know exactly who was the defendant? was it denny ross? he was choking me from behind and just squeezing. or hannah s boyfriend? did you blame yourself for hannah s murder? yes. oh, come on. flo: don t worry. you re covered. (dramatic music) and you re saving money, because you bundled home and auto.
13 years on, can akron residents be assured that the screw up has been rectified. i believe so. there s been a lot of changes. denny ross was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for hannah s death. he won t serve that time for years to come. what the jurors didn t know is that he is already serving a 25 year sentence for the rape and attempted murder of this woman between the two trials. he will be 67 years old before he is eligible for parole. we re disappointed. we had hoped for a different result. denny s lawyers filed a request for a new trial, which was denied. after the trial, reporter ed myers said he was still suspicious about how the bag of evidence appeared beneath denny ross s window. skeptics can still wonder, absolutely they can still wonlder. wonder. oborn was never regarded as a serious suspect by the authorities of hannah s friends and family. brad said he loved hannah and
visible blood spots were found on denny s apartment walls, but in the percent sent out for testing, none came back for hannah. no dna, no blood. you theorize she was killed there, but yet there s no trace of her. yep. nor was there a trace of denny in or around hannah s car. despite the ambiguous evidence, in october 2000, 20-year-old denny ross stood trial for the rape and murder of hannah hill. he pleaded not guilty and faced the death penalty if convicted. he beat her into submission so he could rape her. two young prosecutors argued their theory of the case, that inside that apartment denny had