Chapter 1: What led to the tragic car crash involving Mary Hill?
just five minutes before they were alive. Five minutes later, your life changes like you never thought that it could change. I saw a BMW, and I thought, what happened here? And it suddenly dawned on me, it looks like my car. I called 911. There was nothing that any person on earth could have done.
I've driven that street thousands of times. I have been a good driver my whole life. But I could not stop that car.
You had enough time for the world to go quiet, to think, why won't you stop?
Chapter 2: How did Mary Hill react immediately after the accident?
A Seminole County mother plowed into a tree. I knew I had to get to the children. She lost control of the car on the way down. I could not for an instant think that they were gone.
Two girls died on their way home from the very first day of school. It was just the most horrible experience I could ever imagine. The mother of one of them was behind the wheel.
Those girls had everything to live for. Why couldn't I have died? My daughter is gone. because of Mary Hill.
A mother charged with crashing into a tree. I want answers. Why was she driving so fast?
Hill's attorneys blame the car.
A car like that just doesn't run into a tree. I knew that something like this was going to happen.
Mary Hill needs to be held accountable for her actions.
She is charged with vehicular homicide.
It was like a time bomb, just waiting for that time bomb to go off.
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Chapter 3: What evidence did investigators find about the car's speed?
Driven to extremes. When I play to her each night, I just hope that she's listening.
This is Dennis Hill's nightly ritual.
It just helps me to say good night every night.
The song is appropriately entitled, Forgotten Dreams.
I just see how hollow my life is now. And I never thought that I would experience that in my lifetime.
In August 2000, Dennis Hill lost his 13-year-old daughter, Amy, in a tragic accident. How would you describe your daughter?
I believe that the reason I was born was to have Amy. Amy just had this capacity for love for everyone.
Before the accident, Dennis and Mary Hill appeared to be living the extremely good life outside Orlando, Florida. Dennis Hill here. They owned a successful marketing business, lived in a stately home, and their daughters, Amy.
She was always an honors student.
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Chapter 4: What were the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Amy and Carrie?
She gave it her all and she was great.
I was just so proud of her.
On August 7th, 2000, Mary and Dennis Hill went to pick up their daughter Amy from her first day of eighth grade. With her were best friends Kerry Brown and Zach Rockwell. The three were inseparable.
They were very jubilant. Everybody was in a very good mood.
On the way home, Dennis told Mary he needed to make a stop.
I had another vehicle at the gas station that I wanted to pick up.
Mary got behind the wheel with the three kids in the back seat and drove off.
I've driven that street thousands of times.
But the next few minutes would be anything but routine.
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Chapter 5: What charges were brought against Mary Hill after the accident?
This is Mary Hills BMW. Investigators believe it was traveling at 73 miles per hour when it slammed into a tree. Here at the point of impact, a divot two feet deep. Amy was sitting here, her best friend Carrie in the middle, Zach at the far end. Mary Hill, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was thrown 24 feet through this side window.
I woke up. I thought I was on fire. The heat was immense.
It was just the most horrible experience I could ever imagine.
One of the first to arrive on the scene, Dennis Hill frantically felt for his daughter Amy's pulse.
And I thought, oh, please, I'm not doing this right. I'm doing something wrong. She is alive, and I just can't tell.
Dennis then checked for Carrie's pulse, but also felt nothing. Zach was breathing but unconscious. And I called 911. It was so surreal. I just could not believe this was happening. Just minutes before, they were all excited in the backseat. Just five minutes before, they were alive.
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Chapter 6: How did the families of the victims respond to the incident?
We were laughing.
Life was good. Five minutes later, your life changes like you never thought that it could change.
This 48 hours animation shows how police believe the accident happened. After Mary made a left-hand turn, her car began to accelerate rapidly. As it started to drift into the oncoming traffic lane, it fishtailed and began a sideways slide. Police estimated the car was traveling 73 miles an hour when it left the road.
After it hit the tree, the car traveled 15 feet to its resting spot on the other side of the tree. News of the accident spread quickly.
The Seminole County mother plowed into a tree, killing her own daughter. And she lost control of the car on Markham Woods Road.
Two girls died on their way home from the very first day of school. The mother of one of them was behind the wheel. Keith Rockwell assumed his son, Zach, was taking the bus home that day, until the police showed up at his door. They said, you need to get the hospital as fast as possible. Keith found his 13-year-old son, Zach, alive, but unconscious.
They basically said he was in a coma, and that the longer he was in, the worse it would be. Carrie Brown's sister, Jennifer, was home alone when she got the news.
The life was just sucked out of me. Like, I just remember the most empty feeling.
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Chapter 7: What was revealed during the trial regarding Mary Hill's mental state?
Christmas morning. That's one of my favorite pictures.
Carrie's mother, Rita Brown, heard the news from a friend. And all I said was, who? Who? And he said, Carrie. I collapsed.
Not my baby. Not my baby.
Once some of the shock started to wear off, naturally, the questions started. A car like that just doesn't run into a tree for no reason at all. Was this tragic accident really accidental? And then once the light changed, she floored it. The answers were getting very complicated. The tires were screaming and she took off.
Why couldn't I have died? I lived a life. I had wonderful children. I had a good life.
Those girls had everything to live for.
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Chapter 8: What was the outcome of Mary Hill's trial and sentencing?
They were such good girls.
For Mary Hill, the guilt of driving the car that killed her daughter Amy and best friend Carrie Brown and left Zach Rockwell in a coma has been unbearable. You didn't know, would he be out a day or a year? So at that point, you were just really scared. Keith Rockwell was terrified, but considered himself strangely lucky. His child was alive.
As a single dad, it's just me and him, and he's number one. For four days, Zach's loved ones kept a bedside vigil until one friend gave him a teddy bear.
Then he just went, thank you.
Just sat up, just like that. Would you say to him, welcome back? You feel lucky to be alive? Yes. I really do. Although Zach had no memory of the accident, he was on the road to recovery. But some wounds would never heal. And what did you lose when you lost those two friends?
I lost a lifelong friend and partner, a lifelong partner. I lost a lot of things.
I can't come up with a reason as to why they had to die. And I can't accept something that I don't have a reason for.
It's like I am angry and everyone is angry I know at me.
I felt sorrow and anger. I was mad.
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