The Night Hannah Hill Disappeared

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, an 18-year-old woman disappears one night and her boyfriend confesses to being verbally abusive and once kicked her. But he seems to have a solid alibi and there is evidence that points to someone else. Police work is heavily criticized. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on February 1, 2013.

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0:00.0	I just can't see why someone we knew would want to hurt her.
0:05.0	How could this happen? How could this happen to someone that we knew?
0:09.0	It's been very long, 13 years.
0:15.0	Homecoming Queen Hannah Hill was just 18 when she disappeared.
0:20.0	Everybody's sweetheart. This doesn't happen to the people like her.
0:25.0	But why where when and who was it her boyfriend they had fought before?
0:31.0	Did you verbally abuse her?
0:33.0	Yes.
0:34.0	Did you physically abuse her?
0:36.0	Yes.
0:37.0	Or was it another man in her life?
0:40.0	They'd been together the night she died.
0:47.0	More than 13 years would go by as Hannah's family fought for justice.
0:52.0	Two possible suspects.
0:54.0	Did you kill Hannah Hill?
0:56.0	Absolutely not.
0:57.0	Did your kid kill Hannah Hill?
0:59.0	No.
1:00.0	Two trials.
1:01.0	I was a wreck.
1:02.0	It was just very intense.
1:04.0	Would there ever be justice for Hannah Hill?
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