The hundreds of pages shed light on some previously unknown details from the night of the shooting, including no gun was found at the scene. It also says officers were left searching the hospital for the clothes Rachel had been wearing the night of the shooting. It's unclear if they were ever recovered after her death.
The report also describes multiple strange things in the days before the shooting. At the beginning of June, Rachel moved back into the apartment she had been subletting. A leasing agent at the Gilbert complex told police, around that time, neighbors made a noise complaint. The agent went to the area of Rachel's unit and heard multiple people yelling in and outside. She called the police that day, but when they arrived no one answered Rachel's door.
Later in the report, police detail multiple reasons why Rachel moved back in. It says at one point she kicked out the subletters for not paying, but she also had a sudden change in her job. Previously she had been living in a casita and training horses, but ultimately lost that job.
In those same days when Rachel moved back in, the maintenance worker discovered the unit's locks had been changed. Rachel talked to the leasing agent, but her explanation was redacted. Later the report says Rachel told her fiancé, that while in that apartment, she woke up to someone inside. Ultimately she said that person left, but she noticed new food items left out.
"My first reaction was, why didn't you call the police that night?" said Kim.
She told ABC15 she remembers her daughter telling her about the alleged intruder.
"But she just thought it was somebody that was friends with the people that had the apartment prior to her moving in," said Kim. "And so it startled her, and it frightened her."
Parts of the report mention possible persons of interest. It also details Rachel's mental health struggles.
In November 2022, the Medical Examiner "identified the death of Rachel Hansen a homicide". Interviews are heavily redacted throughout the report. But police did file search warrants for social media and cell phones in the months following Rachel's death. They also detail checking cameras in the area, but the complex told police there were "no operational cameras anywhere in the complex".
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The report also describes multiple strange things in the days before the shooting. At the beginning of June, Rachel moved back into the apartment she had been subletting. A leasing agent at the Gilbert complex told police, around that time, neighbors made a noise complaint. The agent went to the area of Rachel's unit and heard multiple people yelling in and outside. She called the police that day, but when they arrived no one answered Rachel's door.
Later in the report, police detail multiple reasons why Rachel moved back in. It says at one point she kicked out the subletters for not paying, but she also had a sudden change in her job. Previously she had been living in a casita and training horses, but ultimately lost that job.
In those same days when Rachel moved back in, the maintenance worker discovered the unit's locks had been changed. Rachel talked to the leasing agent, but her explanation was redacted. Later the report says Rachel told her fiancé, that while in that apartment, she woke up to someone inside. Ultimately she said that person left, but she noticed new food items left out.
"My first reaction was, why didn't you call the police that night?" said Kim.
She told ABC15 she remembers her daughter telling her about the alleged intruder.
"But she just thought it was somebody that was friends with the people that had the apartment prior to her moving in," said Kim. "And so it startled her, and it frightened her."
Parts of the report mention possible persons of interest. It also details Rachel's mental health struggles.
In November 2022, the Medical Examiner "identified the death of Rachel Hansen a homicide". Interviews are heavily redacted throughout the report. But police did file search warrants for social media and cell phones in the months following Rachel's death. They also detail checking cameras in the area, but the complex told police there were "no operational cameras anywhere in the complex".
330+ page police report released in Rachel Hansen case
ABC15 obtained the over 330-page police report in the Rachel Hansen case from the Gilbert Police Department.
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