Sneak peek: The Han Family Murders | Forensic Files

[Music] We don't want to accept that there's actually evil that walks amongst us.
But it does. And this was pure evil. The Hahn family, I felt better whenever I spent time with Henry, Jenny, and
Emily. Henry was born to be a healer. Henry was the guy. In the alternative medicine world, patients would come in
from all different parts of the country to see him. When you go to the clinic, it just
kind of oozed of peacefulness. He had the magic. Emily had her own little table and her
crayons. Her mom, Jenny, was there working in the clinic. It's kind of good therapy to be
with the three of them. And they did make a good team. We were business partners with Henry,
and we were becoming friends. We really had a beautiful road ahead of us. [Music]
He had a 10:00 a.m. meeting with his normal investment group. >> It was probably, you know, a good 45
minutes um after the meeting was supposed to start that we all kind of went, "Where is Henry?"
>> If he was going to be 2 minutes late, he called. >> We're trying to call Henry, and it was
going straight to voicemail. So, for him to miss this meeting would be a big deal.
>> Yeah. >> He just wouldn't. Something was not right. >> We all had a pit in our stomach, and we
were trying to find a reason why that pit shouldn't be there. Emily's birthday is coming up. Maybe
they took her to Disneyland. Somebody's got to go over to their house and check on them. Mark finally gets in touch with
Don Goldberg. Very unusual not to get any communication from either Jenny or Henry. By midday, I decided to go to the
home. From the outside, it looked normal. Went to the front door. Door was closed, but
it was not locked. The two vehicles were in the garage, which you could see through the windows at the top of the
garage door. Then I called 911. They came over and did a welfare check. Around 5:30 that
evening, two deputies arrived, made entry, called out, no response, and then started to look to see if there was any
sign of foul play, and that's what led them to open the garage door. And then if you walk around the first
car, they can see what appears to be three bodies wrapped in plastic and duct tape.
Within a minute or two, it sunk in that the the three bodies were Henry, Jenny, and Emily. My friends were
gone. There's a certain amount of shock that that sets in. We didn't hear back from Don. We didn't
eat that night. We didn't sleep that night. A 5-year-old. 3 days short of her birthday.
It shook us all to our core. It was rough. Things started rapidly going into the
next phase. Who, how, and why? It's a huge home. There was biological evidence throughout, primarily in the upstairs
and the bedrooms where the murders took place. The smell of bleach was there, indicating a cleanup attempt.
An entire family killed, presumably while they slept. We knew there was a monster out there,
and we were going to find him and get him.

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Brief Summary

The episode recounts the shocking murder of the Hahn family and the investigation that followed.

Key points

The Disappearance of Henry Hahn. Henry Hahn goes missing before an important meeting, raising alarm among friends.
The Discovery of the Bodies. Authorities find three bodies wrapped in plastic and duct tape in the garage.
A Family's Tragic End. The shocking murder of the Hahn family leaves the community in disbelief.

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Episode quotes

And this was pure evil.

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