
As the occurrence was debuted on NBCs Dateline, the spotlight has indeed. As long as he's caught and he serves for the time for whatever he did, I'm okay with that," she told KRQE.ĭateline airs Friday at 9 p.m. assaulted by a man named Justin Hansen when he went into Marcells home. "You know, you forgive and you move on is what it is. CHRIS HANSEN, FROM DATELINE NBC FOR TESTIFYING TODAY ABOUT HIS RIVETING. Hansen's memberships at select places were revoked because of his outward advances. TWO CHILDVICTIMS OF INTERNET PREDATORS JUSTIN BERRY AND MASHA ALLEN. He would routinely wait around tanning salons and gyms. Prosecutors explained Hansen had a history of coming off as creepy toward girls around Marcell's age. I've seen that darkness and it's not a matter of if with him, it's a matter of when," a friend of Hansen's told KRQE Albuquerque news after the trial. "It does scare me not knowing the what-ifs and what could happen." "I am ready to move forward and prove my innocence," Hansen said. Hansen maintained his innocence in an interview with 20/20 before his trial. When one drop of blood found at the crime scene matched Hansen's DNA, it became clear to prosecutors he was the culprit.

Hansen was considered a suspect when Marcell underwent hypnosis, which helped her identify the defining characteristics of her attacker and even a name: Justin Hansen. "You were beaten traumatically, with a shovel, in your house.' It was hard to take in." They're like, 'That's far from what happened to you," she said on an episode of 20/20. Marcell awoke 10 days later unable to speak, read, write or remember anything about her attacker and the incident. She was put under a medical coma to kickstart her recovery, though her survival was not promised. Marcell had multiple broken bones, including skull fractures, and low brain activity. The man threatened her mother, but she was able to escape and call 911. Her mother entered the home around noon and found her lying on the ground with a man holding a shovel above her.

Marcell was attacked in September 2008, ABC News reported in June. Hansen, DNA evidence that helped convict him and hypnosis will be featured on Dateline Friday, along with the story of Brittani Marcell, the victim who was beaten nearly to death with a shovel in her home. Ari was popular within the diesel-truck pulling community, according to Chad Embrey, a friend interviewed on Dateline: He was an extremely nice guy. There was no guarantee that Brittani Marcell would ever wake up, and if she did, no one was sure she would ever be the same.Justin Hansen, a father-of-four, was convicted of attempted murder in June for the 2008 assault of a 17-year-old girl. She says that it’s because of her mom, who walked on time towards her, that saved her.īrittani Marcell’s condition was listed as critical, and she was placed in a medically induced coma. Know more about the Albuquerque Killer and his wife.

Doctors discovered she had a broken left arm, a broken left wrist, multiple skull fractures, fixed pupils and minimal brain activity. Justin Hansen is serving 18 years for the brutal 2008 beating of Brittani Marcell but last month in jail, Hansen became the victim. Justin Hansen is sentenced to 18 years for the shovel beating case. Justin Hansen, now 34, was arrested in 2017 after detectives DNA-tested a cup he threw away at a fast-food restaurant and found that his profile matched the one found at the crime scene. The man escaped – bursting through a window – leaving Brittani Marcell fighting for her life.

Brittani, who was on the way to dine with her mom Diane Marcell, was suddenly beaten with a shovel by a masked person.īrittani Marcell’s mother, Diane Marcell who was heading home to meet Brittani for lunch, opened the front door and found her daughter lying on the floor just inside the house, covered in blood, and a man standing over her holding a shovel.ĭiane says the man then grabbed a knife from her kitchen, threatening her, but Diane was able to flee the home and call 911.
