The Survivor Story of Hannah Pettey

When you look in the mirror and you see the triotomy scar, does it bring back those memories? It does, yes, it does. I just try not to dwell on it.

“Have you thought about what you'll tell your children in the future?”

I want to be honest with them because they do have a right to know the truth.

I started first feeling like I was getting sick of August, 2021.

I started getting severe abdominal pain. I was feeling so nauseous all the time. November is when it started getting really, really bad. How worried were you at this point? So on the bad days, I would ask you and you go to a doctor what you want to do,

and she says no, okay, it'll go away. And most of the time, it did. I'm going to have lost so much weight. [MUSIC] Things finally got to point us.

Hey, you're losing a lot of weight. That's when I started getting concerned. [MUSIC] Why did you take it or see the nurse practitioner care Griffith? When she was yellow, she was pure yellow.

Her mom grabbed my arm. And she said, promise me, whatever this is, you'll find it. She was terrified. I was just in such immense pain all the time. It just progressively got worse and worse.

And I thought this little girl has two babies. And she is dying is what I'm thinking. That's what it looks like. She's dying. Yes, we've got to get her help and we've got to get her help fast.

[MUSIC] I insisted she go to the hospital. And did she go? She did. [MUSIC]

What was that drive like? Oh, fast, fast.

“I just remember just praying and driving.”

That's all I did was just praying and driving. How long do you wait in that emergency room? 10 hours. And then she said, mom, something's wrong. And then that's when she broke into the seizure.

That was terrible. Just complete jerk-in and foam-in.

As just never stops moving back and forth.

When you see a picture of Hannah when she was in the hospital, I think everyone had the same thought. What on earth put her in this position? What could have made her body deteriorate to the point where she's unrecognizable?

It's heartbreaking. How close was Hannah to die? I don't think it's an overstatement to say hours maybe days. Someone said, we figured out what's wrong with you. It's lead poisoning.

You've been lead poisoning. There. That's the lead. Yeah, that's just a shaving in the lead. Soft enough to scrape off with a knife and put in a little capsule.

Absolutely. I was at that time of suspect. Everybody had to be a suspect. I'm going to ask you direct question. Did you try to poison your wife?

No.

The first thing that Hannah said to my friends

when she got home was she believed Nicole had to concocted this whole thing. One of the other doctors I spoke to said,

“you have to leave because she is now on a protective order.”

I remember them saying either he's done it, she's done it, or you've done it. But someone is intentionally trying to kill your daughter. [music playing] [music playing]

[music playing] [music playing] In the re-green reports, the gaslighting of Hannah Petty. [music playing] In January 2022,

the pain coursing through Hannah Petty's body for six months was hitting her heart or whatever. It was unbearable. I wasn't the bed at this point. For probably like a weak straight room,

even able to care for your kids. I did as much as I could. Hannah's son Lincoln was three and her daughter Gracie had just turned two. But Hannah was too sick to attend Gracie's birthday party. I was so weak that I couldn't hardly walk out

had a little office chair that would roll around in our house because I really didn't get out of the house. Hannah says her husband, Brian Mann, was there when she needed him the most. When I really started getting sick,

it's when he was the sweetest to me. Brian was a chiropractor, but he says he could not diagnose what was wrong with Hannah. I had no idea. That's out of my forte.

That's someone that I would refer up refer to a specialist, which is what I wanted to do. On January 18th, 2022, Hannah checked in with her mother Nicole Petty. After they hung up, Nicole says she was haunted

by something she heard in her daughter's voice. Just know that feeling.

I mean, I called and called and texted.

“Hannah called me, but she wasn't able to speak.”

So she just kind of gasped. And then she asked me, "She's a mom, can you take me to the hospital?" Brian was at work, so Nicole rushed over and drove Hannah to UAB. The hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

While there, Nicole took several photos and videos. The doctor said, "Obviously, she is very sick. I want to keep her, but there's no way that they're going to let me keep her, her battles are stable."

As I said, "If you send her home, she's going to die." It was right then that Hannah suffered a terrifying seizure and in the frenzy, she ripped off her hospital gown. For Nicole, that moment is frozen in time. She was skin and bones.

They told me that she was actually starving to death. When we got there, they said she was had hours to live. One doctor directed her anger at Nicole. She's like, "She lived with you."

“Obviously, someone should have seen that this person was dying.”

You know, this person was starving to death. She said, "Who is responsible for her?" What'd you say? And I said, "She's married." And they said, "She's married."

The seizure was so severe. Hannah lost consciousness. Doctors wanted to talk with Hannah's husband. So Nicole says, "She texted Brian." Hey, Brian.

Hannah had a seizure about two hours ago. She still has not come to yet. They said, "She could be out all day long, so I wanted to let you know if she's not texting you. That is why."

And that, of course, didn't get a response from. So you don't get a text back. And Brian, never. It had been that way for years.

“She said, "All through his marriage to Hannah,”

Brian ignored Nicole." Never seen him.

The whole time they were married and never.

Any interaction with him whatsoever. Never for any family gatherings, any holidays. He just never came, never. Brian didn't like you. No.

That night, Brian never got back to Nicole. But he had learned about Hannah's condition from his mother, who was in touch with Nicole. He arranged for child care and began driving. He got to the hospital around 930 that night.

Under COVID restrictions, the hospital was allowing only one visitor at a time. And with Nicole inside, Brian was kept out. That was very irritated that Nicole was not switching out with me. Um, letting me in, because I stood outside of that hospital for a long time,

trying to get in that room with Hannah. But eventually, Nicole did come out and Brian was allowed in. It must have been shocking to see her in that hospital bed like that. Yes, but I was glad that she was there and people were trying to figure something out. When Brian left to go to work, Nicole went in.

Hannah was still unconscious and had been that way for nearly 48 hours. Nurses had just finished checking on her when Nicole vent over her daughter. I kissed her head and I said, I love you. Her eyes just popped open and she said, I love you too. Nicole says, nurses were amazed and rushed to her side.

I just started crying and Hannah said, "Have I not been talking?" But Hannah's ordeal was far from over. Days after Hannah was admitted, Nicole says, "Doctors put her in a medical coma while they drained the excess fluid from within her brain." And then they had to paralyze her because even being in a coma,

there was just so much fluid in her brain that any type of movement she would out. But Nicole, it's like things are going from bad to worse. Yeah, yeah. Did you ever give up hope? No, I don't know.

Never. Not one time. Brian says he was wondering why Hannah's health had gone downhill so quickly. The day Nicole had picked her up and drove to the hospital. That is curious how bad she got from getting the car with her mother to being admitted to the hospital.

His dislike and distrust of Nicole boiled over. She is a cruel person. She was not happy with the fact that Hannah seemed happy. And being with me. Eight days after Hannah was admitted to the hospital,

her neurologist told Nicole that doctors had figured out what was causing Hannah's symptoms. Her exact words were, "She has an astronomical amount of lead in cells." I'm out of lead inside of her. Lead. It was an unusual finding.

And Nicole says doctors told her they had never seen a patient like Hannah.

They said her colon was so packed.

It was almost 100% lead.

“There was no room in her stomach to hold anything.”

It was just complete lead plus.

There was lead just in her bones. Just everywhere. Doctors told Nicole there was no way Hannah could have ingested all that lead by accident. It had to be deliberate and they told her exactly what they thought.

They let me know that this is an attempted murder. The hospital reported Hannah's case to the Department of Human Resources. DHR. The state agency that protects vulnerable adults. Hospital administrators immediately put Hannah in a secluded room

with someone at the door to keep all visitors out. Nicole says she and Brian were told to leave and were no longer allowed to see Hannah because they were considered possible suspects. I was beside myself. And because I had to leave her, they had to send me away from the hospital.

I immediately started thinking this isn't a call. This has to be Nicole pointing fingers. I didn't think it would get anywhere because I thought it was again just Nicole making waves to make waves. Hannah's mom just caused so many problems and not so much directly at me.

But she was just awful to Hannah.

Brian says Hannah told him that Nicole could be critical of her.

Why don't you put makeup on? Are you sure you should eat that? Just stuff like that all the time.

“I would say why do you want this woman in your life?”

And it's always all she can come out to, she's my mom. She's my mom. And that's really the only difference she had for when she's my mom. Hannah denies Brian's allegations. She did move away from Nicole and got her own apartment in June 2017.

The month she turned 18 years old. She had just graduated from high school. That's when she met Brian. A 29-year-old chiropractor with his own business. He was very, very sweet and the beginning.

And he's very charming. Good look in. And yeah, I really liked him. Sounds like it was almost sort of instant attraction. Yes, it was ahead of her heels.

Everything was just working right.

Within weeks of Brian's first date with Hannah,

his friend Walker Snyder says Brian told him, Hannah was the one. And I'm like, man, you just met her like a week ago. Or she's eating. She doesn't know what she wants.

She doesn't even know what she doesn't want. And he's like, no, we both know what we want. It wasn't long before Hannah told friends she was pregnant. How long were you guys dating before you proposed? We started dating in November.

“I believe I proposed after Valentine's Day.”

So not not too long. Were you nervous? I was. I take married very seriously. And so yeah, I was definitely nervous about it.

Hannah was nervous too. She says she had noticed that Brian could be controlling but she plunged ahead, at least until her wedding day in May 2018. Hannah's friend Allison Holmes.

Right before we were all about to walk down the aisle, Hannah expressed us that she was very nervous. She had cold fate. We told her 100 times over you don't have to do it. If this is cold fate, you know, it is what it is. But if this is uncertainty, walk away.

It's not too late to walk away. In the end, Hannah smiled through her ceremony and married Brian. When you walked up to the altar and you looked at him, you had no questions. I mean, I did. I mean, deep down I did.

I was like, I don't really know if I'm making the decision and everything. The couple moved in to Brian's home and started their lives together. How was he as a husband? For the most part, he was really good as a husband. I mean, it was good and bad.

We got in a lot of physical fights, so that's a bad thing. But it wasn't all the time though. As I'm listening to you talk, you know, it sounds almost a little bit like you're explaining away the bad stuff. Do you think you did that in the marriage of it? Yeah, definitely did. I think.

Yeah. Yeah, my mom tells me that too. Even their son's birth was a mind-filled emotion. I was not meant to pregnant and I had started bleeding. And so I went to the hospital and he came in and he got so angry. I mean, he was yelling at me and he shouldn't have been out walking.

Like in this he like that was so stupid and irresponsible. He was acting so just outrageous that the nurse has even told her.

Hannah never used that safe word, but as time went on,

Brian says the couple came to an understanding. I would say, Hannah talked to me. I am on your side. I'm your biggest fan, your biggest supporter. One day she said, "I'm going to trust you and I want to do this with you." And I want to build this with you from then on. It just got better and better.

That's when I started to really follow him up with him. The couple had another child, a daughter and life was good, they say. Until Hannah began to feel sick and went to the hospital emergency room in January 2022. She was left fighting for her life and doctors were trying to help her, but they told Nicole they had to know more.

“They said the only way she gets this much life in her system is to ingest it.”

This to ingest it. They said she had to ingest it. I remember some saying, "We don't care if you give her a crack." We just want to know about it. We have to know everything she's taken. And that's when Nicole remembered something that she completely overlooked. Hannah told her that Brian had given her special supplements, capsules,

each and every night. Doctors kept asking Nicole what Hannah had been eating in the months leading up to her hospital stay. From what they can see, it looks like someone has gave her lead every single day. For at least three months, was Hannah eating something that contained lead? Nicole says she had no idea, because she hardly ever visited her daughter in the months before

the seizure, and never if Brian was home.

Back at only gay when he was working, and I would have to leave before he got off work. I never actually ran into him. Yeah, he didn't come home until I left. As doctors pressed her for information, Nicole remembered Hannah telling her about special supplement capsules that Brian placed on her nightstand every night.

Nicole says it didn't strike her as unusual because Brian was a chiropractor, but she told doctors anyway. I told them that I know that they were big on supplements. Nicole says doctors repeatedly asked Brian to bring in the capsules, described by Hannah, but he never did.

Instead, he gave them this photo of common over-the-counter supplements. DHR investigators, who were getting information from Hannah's doctors, contacted Lieutenant Allen McDermott of the Heart Supp Police Department. They said that I needed to go arrest somebody for attempting to kill their wife, and I'm like, well, hold up.

“I mean, we can't just go arrest people. What are you talking about?”

Investigators told McDermott that doctors suspected Brian had given Hannah some type of lead-filled capsules over and over again. You can take a capsule and open it up. Empty the condens and then put the lead in. McDermott told Brian about the hospital's allegations.

McDermott said, "Your wife's been lead poison, and they think it was intentional, and they said you're the number one suspect." So I was kind of dumbfounded. I didn't know what to think about that.

McDermott asked Brian if the police could search his house and he agreed. So I took him all through the house. I let him search my house, and we went through and tried to figure out what she was eating, pills, make-ups, and things like that.

“McDermott said, "Brian provided a bottle of supplements,”

and a laxative that he said Hannah had taken. Hannah says he made her take supplements." That is not true. Ryan blamed all his problems on Nicole. I immediately started thinking this isn't Nicole.

This has to be Nicole pointing fingers. Investigators removed the children from Brian's home. They were placed with his parents. He had supervised visitation. Nicole had just done so much over the years,

and Hannah had told me so much about her that I just had no doubt Nicole was somehow stirring this all up. Ryan said he remembered something Hannah had told him that now seemed to hold more significance.

In second grade in a story that Hannah confirms,

she recalled being so sick for so long

And she eventually got really bad

and her mother took her to UAB.

“She says you remember staying there about a week.”

Flash forward to 2022, Hannah was back at UAB hospital. On January 29, McDermott went to see Hannah for himself, but she was in a coma. I had no idea the condition she was in until I went to the hospital and saw her from herself.

Doctors showed him Hannah's X-rays. What did you think? Oh my God, I just was just forward. I mean, her whole insides was lit up from the lead reacting to the X-ray.

I'm just crazy. McDermott asked Brian to come in. And at that point is when he refused to

further cooperate with investigation.

On February 1, McDermott cleared Nicole, and she was once again allowed to visit Hannah. How were you able to clear Nicole? You know, just through conversations whether you could tell that she was very concerned about Hannah.

She was the person that was caring for Hannah. It sounds to me like you just liked Nicole's behavior. She acted the way you expect a concern mother to act. And Brian didn't act the way you expected a concern husband to act.

That's correct. Is that evidence? That's not evidence. No. In the problem with this case,

was there was not a lot of evidence. Within days, McDermott received the results of the test done at Brian and Hannah's home. Everything was negative. Did you ever find any capsules?

No.

“Did you ever find any supplements that were tainted?”

No. Did you ever find evidence of blood being ground down or scraped or turned into little particles that could go into a capsule? No.

So isn't that kind of a big hole in the theory? Well, he sold supplements. McDermott says he kept looking for the source of that lead. In mid-February, Hannah began to rally and McDermott went to see her again.

A total, and a very nice way, you know, why she was in the hospital and ask her, you know, do you have any idea who may have given you some substance? She said no. Do you have any thoughts of self harm?

I mean, did you put yourself here? And she said no. McDermott said, Hannah was called here at one minute and not the next. She said she saw people coming out of the walls.

When I first started talking to the medical staff, I mean, they didn't give her any hope. They said if she came out of this, that she would really not have any cognitive functions. They didn't suspect that we would be able to even talk with her.

They basically told us that we needed to do everything that we could because we didn't need to rely on her as a witness because they didn't think she would ever make it to that point. But Hannah surprised everyone by getting stronger each day with the help of a team of dedicated nurses.

They were all kind of close to her age. They knew she had kids and they would say to her, you've got your babies.

You've got your babies and I remember she just always

got a laugh in her. When you mentioned to the kids, she was like, I'm going to get better. I'm going to get out here and get better, you know. Nicole says, Hannah did get better and stronger. Strong enough that Hannah's neurologist told her the whole story.

She grabbed my hand and she just kind of started giving me a heart to heart about why they have strong reasons to believe that it was Brian.

“And what's the conversation like after that between you and Hannah?”

Oh, it was horrible. That was horrible. Sorry. I have everything that she went through. With the heartbreak, the heartbreak was terrible.

She just would sit there and cry. On March 3rd, after nearly two months, Hannah was well enough to leave the hospital. She went to her mom's house, reunited with her children, and filed for divorce.

But friends like Kyle Golden were worried. We didn't know that Hannah was still in contact with Brian. And that did upset us. I'm scary. Yeah, knowing that she could potentially go back to the sky

that we believe try to kill her.

Hannah says she felt vulnerable and confused.

“Now, it's been so many different medicine.”

So many different psych medicines that doctors had me on. Despite the risks, Hannah had made up her mind to sit down with Brian face to face. Just one week after being discharged, she met him at their former home. I just had to figure it out for myself.

Instead of everyone telling me this is what happened. And so you sit down with him. And did you ask him out right? Did you do this? Did you try to poison me?

No. I was so emotional. I mean, I didn't stop crying that night. I mean, I cried all through the night. I wanted him to say, like, there's no way that I could have.

You know, like, what are like, are you crazy? Like, this is crazy. And I was expecting him to go out and say that to everybody. I don't care if he even made a face book post about it or just anything.

Hannah says, Brian never told her what she needed to hear.

But then, incredibly, she changed her mind about the divorce. I call my attorney. I was like, I don't want to go through with the divorce. Like, I don't think he did. I said there must be something else.

Hannah tells you not to sign the divorce papers. Yes. Because why? Because she knew her mother hadn't made up this whole thing. And it was just another crazy Nicole episode.

When Hannah's family doctor heard what was going on, Nicole says he wanted to have Hannah involuntarily committed because he feared Brian would kill her. And Hannah's next move caused even more consternation. She asked McDermott to drop the investigation.

I said he's a family man. I said he loves me. He loves the kids. It just doesn't make sense. McDermott knew without Hannah's help,

the criminal case against Brian would likely collapse. But he understood what Hannah was feeling. This typical of domestic violence to forgive your abuser. McDermott asked Hannah to sign a specific form that he'd prepared. And she said, "Well, what do I have to sign this for?"

And I said, "Well, with Brian, we're to kill you in the future." And somebody from your family comes and says that we didn't do our due diligence and the investigation. Then I can show them that you didn't want to pursue it.

“So if you want to go ahead and sign that, then we'll close it up.”

And she said, "No, I'm not going to sign that." She said, "I want you to keep going." Ultimately, she decided to proceed with the divorce and cooperate with the criminal investigation. What do you learn from Hannah?

More than anything insurance policies. Hannah told McDermott that Brian had taken out life insurance policies on her while they were still dating. McDermott learned that when Hannah was in the hospital fighting for her life, Brian tried to take out even more policies if they were approved.

Brian would have collected more than $5 million upon Hannah's death.

And that gave you what? Well, it gives you motive. Money is emotive. Money is a huge motive. At that point, McDermott felt he collected enough evidence to move ahead and so did prosecutor Garrett Vickery.

You knew Hannah had been poisoned, that it was intentional, and that it was ingested. You don't have any capsules with lead. You have a theory, you have a suspect, and you have what you believe is emotive.

“Why were you confident that this was enough to put in front of a grand jury?”

Nothing else makes sense. In this case, the evidence was clear that lead was getting into her system. So then you rewind to take you back up, and you see how that lead could have gotten into her system. And Brian Man was the only person who had access to Hannah.

The grand jury agreed and in September 2022, Brian was arrested and pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

He was freed on a half million dollar bond, but was required to report to jail every weekend.

Can I see the ankle monitor? What's it like having a wear that? I mean, it's definitely annoying. Police still had nothing connecting Brian to any form of lead. But then, they got an unexpected call.

Turns out this man, Danny Hill, thought he knew exactly where the lead came from. It all began when Brian asked Danny a contractor to line his X-ray room at his chiropractic office with you guessed it. Let Danny had recognized Brian from a newspaper article about his arrest and got in touch

You do an X-ray room.

The walls have to be lined with the lead for the protection of the people outside the room.

We did it with rolls of soft lead that we just covered the walls with and then put dry all over the top of that. He asked Danny to obtain a sample of the same type of lead he installed in Brian's office. The lead was heavy, but surprisingly soft and malleable. Danny showed us how easy it is to scrape the sheet of lead into tiny shavings, just like pencil

shavings and how easy it is to put those shavings into an empty pill capsule. That's just a shavings relay. After Danny was done with the X-ray room, he asked Brian if he should dispose of the remaining lead. And he said I'll take care of it.

Danny Hill's information sent cops directly to Brian's office. Prior to Danny's revelations, the heart cell police department did not have probable cause. Now they did. And we got a search warrant, we went in and we took a section of that out.

The lead that we recovered from the office was very thin. It would be thin enough that it could be shaved or whatever.

“Tell me about how important that phone call was from the contractor.”

It was vitally important.

It's always necessary to put your murder weapon into the hands of a defendant.

But Brian insists the state's case is weak and so he got himself a strong advocate. Bodybuilder and a fence lawyer, Chad Morgan. There's no reason that any of their evidence should be able to get into a courtroom. Going into the trial in June 2025, Brian had been forbidden any visitation with his children for more than two years.

He says it was just unfair. I should have never been separated from my kids. I'm going to be back in the lives. I've just been waiting for my child. On and there are about 2,013.

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“How does it feel to know that someone tried to kill you?”

But now I get really creeped out thinking about that someone poisoned me for a long, long time. The state started its case today against a Morgan County chiropractor charge with attempting to kill his wife. Man maintains his innocence. In June 2025, defended Brian Mann, walks into a Decatur Alabama courthouse, facing a possible life sentence. No cameras are permitted inside the courtroom during the trial.

What was your working theory as to what happened in this case with this crime? It really begins months before Hannah ever appears at UAB Hospital. Lead prosecutor, Garrick Vickery. In terms of a theory, it mostly was that he made a decision to slowly poison her to gain this life insurance. To rid himself of a sweet, sweet person.

Brian's defense attorney, Chad Morgan, tells the jury that police never found any lead-filled capsules in Brian's home, office, or anywhere else.

They searched the entire house, topped bottom. Never found one piece of lead. One of the issues we had was that Brian Mann had months and months to execute his plan, and then to get rid of the evidence. But the state does have Hannah, and prosecutors make her the first witness.

“Did you look at Brian when you walked in to the courtroom?”

I did. Was that the man that you would fall in love with? No, I mean, I saw someone totally different. Hannah tells the jury how Brian supplied her with vitamin capsules each night. Even when her pain was so intense, she could barely swallow.

I remember being in bed one night, and I wasn't so much pain, and I was so nauseous. And Brian was like, I put your vitamins on your nightstand. He was like, you need to take him. I was like, I just can't tonight. I do not think I can keep anything else down.

He was like, you gotta take it.

How easy would it have been to put lead in those capsules? Tremendously easy. Anyone that's sharpened a pencil could see how easy it is to get lead shapeings. And once you have that, and you have two hands to separate a pill and put it back together,

“you've got all the instruments you need to try to murder your spouse.”

Brian's attorney alleges Hannah's own mother. Nicole could have been the one poisoning Hannah. I'm suggesting they're looking the wrong place. He claims Nicole gave Hannah milkshakes that could have been laced with lead. Tell me why our mom was coming to her house every day for almost a year given her a milkshake.

Did you look into her mother? The thought was concerned, you don't want to rule anyone out, but assisted district attorney Kelly Simino. Nicole just didn't have that kind of access to her daughter. Did your mom bring you milkshakes?

No, not that I recall. I don't even like milkshakes. I really don't even like milkshakes. I don't drink milkshakes. Hannah tells the jury how the pain affected her.

Her body, in a sense, the crime scene. And her brain scans, blood work, and x-rays are discussed in open court. But there's something she's been holding back until she takes the stand. It is kind of emotional to talk about the fact that I can't have children anymore. On the day she was discharged, Hannah was smiling,

but inside she was heartbroken. Doctors had just told her she could no longer have children. She was only 22 years old. When it's Nicole's turn to take the stand, she thinks she knows what's coming from Brian's defense attorney.

And I think he was going to try to say that possibly say that I had to do this. And I wasn't really concerned about that because I didn't do it. Simino explains why prosecutors believe Brian used lead-filled capsules, like this one, instead of mixing the lead into her food. She would have tasted it.

And so that's where the theory of the capsule comes in,

“because it's the only way that she would have willingly put it in her mouth”

and swallowed it and not noticed anything different. After a day and a half and seven witnesses, the state rested its case. And then so does the defense. Chad Morgan calls no witnesses.

I was shocked that they've had three years to put this together and then it comes out that he has no defense at all. Brian's lawyer says he did his job and maintains that the lack of evidence in the state's case is the best evidence of all. There was a lot of assumptions about this is lead and that's lead,

but there was not one person to testify to anything that they actually saw him to touch or even begin to believe that she ingested something he gave her. The jury gets the case on a Wednesday afternoon and the next day returns a verdict guilty.

There was about a second of shock.

I don't think he was expecting that. Sure, Jeff Soli. I guess monster. What do you say that? The arrogance it takes to essentially watch somebody waste away

and then not only watch during the poisoning,

“but also watch during the downfall, I think that takes a very special person.”

It took me a few seconds for it to sink in that it was a guilty verdict. I just immediately started to fill in the tears well up because it was just this build up and I just had to step out.

This is a great way in for all domestic violence victims, especially those that are scared to come forward. McDerman is now chief of the Heart Cell Police Department. And after a lot of reflection, Hannah allows herself to consider a hard truth.

Do you think he ever loved you? No. I truly don't think that he did. I just don't think any of it was real. It's got to be hard to say.

Yeah. Because it was real for you. Yes, so it's very real for me. Now it's very real for Brian, who was sentenced to life in prison in August 2025.

And Hannah, who was once feared to be so brain damaged

that she would never be able to testify,

she graduated from college with a teaching degree. And what does Hannah's new life look like? You know, I'm a teacher. So I'm starting out a new school this year. So I'm just going to focus on being the best teacher

Life got even sweeter for Hannah.

“When she and the children move back into their old home,”

the one they used to share with Brian. I've repainted. I redecrated everything.

Cleaned it up really good.

I got all my stuff moved in there.

“And just pictures of us three all in there.”

So now it feels like hours.

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