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As of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, only a handful of protesters were seen in the demonstration zone on South High St.

Breakthrough. news that police had located hannah's car. it was parked on a quiet dead-end street called cain road. jerry hughes, then with the akron pd, raced to the scene. 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 ...

Now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline extra." denny ross's murder trial had ended with a stunning twist. just as the jury was about to acquit him on the most serious charges, the judge declared a mistrial. denny was released on bond, but he was not off the hook yet. prosecutors would get another chance to prove he killed 18-year-old hannah hill. this time they would be armed with crucial new evidence and a bomb shell witness. here fwen is dennis murphy. >> the trial of denny ross for rape and murder had collapsed. years passed with the akron police department getting kicked in th...

I'm paging her. she's not calling. that just wasn't like her. >> we're freaking out now. so we make out thousands of f fliers. ask we're passing them out, have you seen my sister? we heard nothing. >> the boyfriend took it a step further. he went down to the police station on that friday, the first of several visits to the cops. >> my girlfriend is is mising and doesn't seem like the police are doing very much. >> long days became longer nights with no word from hannah. by tuesday evening, she had been missing nearly a week. police finally turn to the media. >> an 18-year-old girl has vanished...

It was just very intense. >> i remember thinking, thank you, god, and a sense of relief all in one fell swoop. >> those long years of work for prosecutors and detectives had paid off. >> the only thing the state of ohio is going to say is that we are grateful to these jurors that they have finally provided an accounting for hannah hill's death. >> jurors told us that in the end it all came down to the blood evidence on hannah's clothes. >> the dna outweighed a lot of unknowns for us. >> it said denny ross was there. >> as a result of the hannah hill disappearance, the akron police department m...