years passed, with the akron police department getting kicked in the teeth for losing the conviction o many people called sloppy police work. people that remember the case, it goes down as an akron pd fumble. unfortunately that's probably the way it's remembered by most. but defending ourselves is not what we're concerned with. solving the case is what we're concerned with. dennis murphy: with a team of detectives and prosecutors, jerry hughes, now lieutenant hughes, toiled away in hopes of a second chance at convicting denny ross. the case went careening in to years of appeals in the state, federal, and the ohio supreme court. dennis murphy: finally, the ohio supreme court overturned lower court decisions and ruled that denny ross could be retried for hannah's murder. 13 years after hannah's death, the second trial begins. hannah's mother was dreading it, said best friend tara. kim said, i have to be here every day. and i know that was probably hard for her. but that's what she felt she had to do. attorney: the evidence will show that on that fateful evening of may 19, 1999, hannah h