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    Hannah Anderson found and is safe. DiMaggio has been shot and killed!
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    Hannah Anderson teen in Amber Alert found safe

    San Diego Sheriff's Department says 16-year-old Hannah Anderson found safe in Idaho.

    San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore said the suspect in the massive Amber Alert case was shot and killed.

    Hannah Anderson was successfully rescued and "appears to be in good shape," according to Gore.

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    Abductor of California teen killed

    James DiMaggio -- the California murder suspect who allegedly kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah Anderson -- was shot and killed in the Idaho wilderness, authorities said Saturday.

    An FBI tactical agent killed DiMaggio around 5 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) near Morehead Lake, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said. The teenage girl was found alive near him.

    "She appears well and was rescued and will be transported to a hospital in Idaho," Gore said.

    Hannah Anderson was last seen at her cheerleading practice August 3; her mother and brother died in a fire at DiMaggio's home in San Diego County the next day.

    About 250 law enforcement personnel -- among them about 150 FBI agents -- had converged on the River of No Return Wilderness, about 15 miles outside Cascade, looking for DiMaggio and his captive.

    In addition to guarding all ways out, they tried to cover 300 square miles of rough terrain frequented by nature lovers near where DiMaggio's car was found Friday. Its license plates removed, the vehicle was hidden by brush in the vast River of No Return Wilderness.

    "We know that any piece of information, any piece of evidence, any clue that we could find could be what we need to bring Hannah home safely," Andrea Dearden, spokeswoman for the Ada County Sheriff's Office, had told reporters Saturday afternoon.

    Authorities have been hunting for the suspect and Hannah, with a tip earlier this week leading them to focus on the area of Idaho about 1,000 miles north of where the two died.

    The discovery of DiMaggio's car there further intensified that search.

    Before DiMaggio's death, Dearden had vowed that authorities would "use every single resource possible."

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    Tip from two Idaho couples led to rescue of Hannah Anderson



    BOISE — Four Sweet residents whose tip to police led to Saturday's dramatic rescue of 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and the FBI shooting death of kidnapper James DiMaggio said they found the pair they came across ill-prepared to camp in the rugged Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.

    First, the tent and camping gear in the possession of DiMaggio and Hannah was brand-new. That made them appear to be novices rather than people with outdoor experience.

    Second, DiMaggio told the foursome they were headed to the Salmon River, yet they were heading in the wrong direction.

    "I just had a gut feeling," rancher Mike Young told a gathering of reporters today outside the Ada County Sheriff's Office..

    Former Gem County Sheriff Mark John questioned the man's camping skills.

    "He may been an outdoorsman in California, but he was not an outdoorsman in Idaho," John said.

    John, 71, his wife Christa, 68, Young, 62, and his wife Mary, 61, were camping in the wilderness east of Cascade when on Wednesday they twice came across a man and a teenage girl on foot west of Morehead Lake.

    The first encounter took place at about 9:30 a.m. The couples, longtime friends who often camp together, had left their campsite along the Sand Creek Trail southwest of the lake and while on horseback about an hour later came across the man and girl walking on the trail.

    Last week, incident media coordinators told reporters a single horseman saw DiMaggio and Hannah. That information was wrong. They explained Sunday that Mark John reported the incident and the others for some unexplained reason were not included. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, whose office is investigating the murders of Hannah's mother and brother, correctly said Thursday there were four horsemen.

    When Hannah was first seen, It seemed a bit odd to the foursome that she was wearing what looked like pajamas or sweat bottoms. Christa John also noticed that when they first spotted them, the girl was 10 feet away from the man. The man then closed the gap and placed his arm around the girl.

    "She looked frightened. I thought maybe she was scared of the horses," Christa John said.

    DiMaggio said they were heading toward the Salmon River, but the couples, who have camped in the wilderness several times a year over the past five years, knew better.

    "They were definitely going in the wrong direction," Mike Young said.

    Mark John said he figured someone camping in the wilderness would have carried a map, but he didn't see one. Later that day, at 5 p.m., the couples rode their horses to the lake and saw the pair once again. The girl later identified as Hannah was dipping her toes into the water. Mark John, who can't resist a good prank, confronted the girl.

    "Why have you got your feet in the water? There's fish in the lake," John said, laughing at his recollection of the incident. The girl seemed startled by the comment, he said.

    Christa John wanted to get the girl by herself and see if there was anything wrong, but Mark John told his wife to stay out of their business.

    DiMaggio made what Christa John thought was a strange remark. He told her that Hannah wanted to visit Los Angeles and Hollywood, but instead he brought her to Idaho.

    "That's why I brought her here," she recalled DiMaggio saying.

    Mary Young, 61, tried to engage Hannah without success.

    "I told her 'You must be tougher than me. I couldn't have hiked in here carrying a pack,'" Young said, referring to the steep terrain the pair had to cross on foot to get to the lake.

    Christa Young said none of them felt like heroes.

    "We did what anyone would have done in that situation," she said.

    Andrea Dearden, spokeswoman for the Ada County Sheriff's Office, praised the foursome.

    "They played the biggest role in this operation," Dearden said.

    The couples arrived home in Sweet about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. They turned on the TV and learned that DiMaggio and Hannah were subjects in an Amber Alert first issued in Southern California. They realized they were the folks they saw in the wilderness.

    Mark John called Idaho State Police investigator Tom Nesbitt, who grew up in Gem County and who once worked for John. He gave Nesbitt the information, which moved the search for the pair to Idaho, after possible sightings were reported in Oregon and Washington.

    It turned out the couples also provided information that led to the discovery of DiMaggio's blue 2013 Nissan Versa, which was found Friday at a trailhead 50 to 60 miles east of Cascade.

    The couples told authorities that trailhead was their most likely entry point into the wilderness.

    "Without that information, they would not have found the car so quickly," Dearden said.

    Anderson's mother, Christina Anderson, 42, and her brother Ethan, 8, were found dead Aug. 4 in DiMaggio's burned-out house in east San Diego County, near the Mexican border.

    http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/0...to-rescue.html

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    Kidnapping suspect's father once held teen at gunpoint

    In a wild twist in the story of a kidnapped teenager saved when her alleged abductor was killed over the weekend, a report shows a disturbing similarity between the suspect and his father.

    James L. DiMaggio's father had a violent past, and he once held a teenage girl at gunpoint after professing feelings for her, CNN affiliate KFMB reports.

    A report from the San Diego Union-Tribune at the time contains similar allegations.

    James L. DiMaggio was shot dead Saturday, 18 years to the day after his father committed suicide, the station reports.

    DiMaggio's killing by an FBI agent in the Idaho wilderness ended the captivity of 16-year-old Hannah Anderson. DiMaggio is also accused of killing Hannah's mother and brother in California before fleeing with her.

    A friend says DiMaggio, 40, told Hannah a few months ago that he had a crush on her.

    KFMB reports that DiMaggio's father, James E. DiMaggio, did something similar in 1988. He told a 16-year-old girl that he was "in love" with her, according to the girl, now a woman who is keeping her name confidential.

    After having dated her mother, "He had told me that he only stuck around because he was in love with me, he wanted to take me away to a better life," she said.

    After she refused, he broke into her house, holding handcuffs and a shotgun, and threatened to kill the girl, her boyfriend and her brother, the station reported.

    "I asked him not to kill us, and he said, 'Don't worry, you won't feel a thing.' "

    She managed to escape after saying she needed to use the bathroom, and DiMaggio ran off.

    CNN reached out to the woman through KFMB but has not heard from her.

    Public records show that James E. DiMaggio was the defendant in a criminal case filed in 1989. No specifics were immediately available.

    The case is mentioned in a San Diego Union-Tribune article from December 1989.

    Police wanted to question DiMaggio in a case involving a burglary and a beating at a motel, the article said.

    He had previously been arrested in July of that year "after breaking into an ex-girlfriend's home in El Cajon, wearing a stocking mask and carrying a sawed-off shotgun," the article said.

    "His ex-girlfriend was not at home, but DiMaggio held the woman's teenage daughter and her boyfriend at gunpoint," the article said, citing prosecutors. "The boyfriend was handcuffed to a bedpost, but the girl escaped after asking to use the bathroom. ... Neither victim was harmed."

    Andrew Spanswick, a friend of the younger DiMaggio, told CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" that DiMaggio's mother died of cancer and, several years later, in 1998, his father committed suicide.

    But public records show the date of death as August 10, 1995.

    DiMaggio's father had already "disappeared" by that point, Spanswick said. It was on the anniversary of that disappearance, earlier this month, that the younger DiMaggio's house was set on fire, burning the bodies of his former friend and her son -- Hannah's mother and brother, Spanswick said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/justic...her/index.html

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    Sheriff: James DiMaggio fired at least one shot

    James Lee DiMaggio, who was shot and killed Saturday by an FBI agent in the rugged Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, fired at least one shot before he was killed, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said today.

    Gore also revealed that 16-year-old Hannah Anderson had not known until after she was rescued Saturday that her mother Christina and her brother Ethan, 8, had been murdered before she was abducted, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Their bodies were found Aug. 4 in DiMaggio's burning home in east San Diego County, near the Mexican border.

    Hannah and her father Brett Anderson were reunited Sunday at an unnamed Boise hospital, FBI spokesman Jason Peck told the Associated Press.

    Dimaggio was armed with at least one firearm that he carried in a shoulder holster, Gore said in remarks reported by the Los Angeles Times.

    "Obviously we would've liked Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in the court of law, but that's not going to be the case," said Gore, quoted by USA Today.

    The FBI has refused to provide details about the shooting, saying no information will be released until after an internal investigation into the shooting that led to DiMaggio's death is completed. On Saturday in Cascade, Mary Rook, the FBI agent in charge of the bureau's Salt Lake City office, would not say whether DiMaggio was shot during a confrontation or whether DiMaggio had resisted.

    Two U.S. marshals in a plane spotted the pair at a campsite on Saturday. Two teams of agents trained for hostage situations were dropped onto the ground by a helicopter away from the lake. It took two hours for them to reach the campsite. They waited until DiMaggio and Hannah separated before moving in.

    Hannah was taken safely from the scene and DiMaggio was fatally wounded.

    A West Coast manhunt began after the bodies of Christina and Ethan Anderson were found. Amber alerts were issued in several western states and efforts focused on the Northwest after several sitings of DiMaggio's blue 2013 Nissan Versa were reported in Oregon and Washington.

    Four Sweet residents camping in the Frank Church wilderness and riding on horseback encountered DiMaggio and Hannah twice on Wednesday. It wasn't until they returned home on Thursday they learned about the search for the two Californians.

    Mark John contacted Idaho State Police investigator Tom Nesbitt, who grew up in Gem County and who worked as a Gem County deputy when John was sheriff. That led to a search in the wilderness that located DiMaggio's car on Friday. More than 200 Valley County and Ada County deputies and officers from other local, state and federal agencies, including the FBI, arrived on Friday and Saturday in Cascade to assist in the search.

    "It's now healing time," Brett Anderson wrote in a text message to CNN after her rescue.

    Her maternal grandmother, Sara Britt, told USA Today that joy over Hannah's rescue will give way to mourning the death of the teenager's mother and brother.

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    Family friend says DiMaggio ‘clearly had a death wish’

    Andrew Spanswick suspects the 40-year-old was following a script written 15 years before by his dad.

    A man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old family friend after killing her mother and younger brother died in a shootout with FBI agents exactly 15 years after his father committed suicide, a family spokesman said Monday.

    James Lee DiMaggio, 40, appears to have followed in his father's footsteps in a carefully laid plan, said Andrew Spanswick, a friend who runs a behavioral treatment center in West Hollywood.

    "He clearly had a death wish," Spanswick said.

    DiMaggio is suspected of killing 44-year-old Christina Anderson and 8-year-old Ethan Anderson and leaving their bodies in his burning home near San Diego on Aug. 4. He triggered a massive search in much of the western United States and parts of Canada and Mexico for Hannah Anderson, who was rescued in Saturday's shootout.

    Spanswick said DiMaggio's father disappeared exactly 15 years before the house was set on fire.

    James Everet DiMaggio was addicted to methamphetamine and had a troubled life marred by criminal activity, Spanswick said. His cause of death was listed as dehydration, but he consumed a large amount of methamphetamine intravenously and "walked into the desert," he said.

    The elder DiMaggio was arrested in 1988 after breaking into the home of his ex-girlfriend, wearing a ski mask and a carrying a sawed-off shotgun and handcuffs, Spanswick said. The former girlfriend wasn't home, but DiMaggio held her 16-year daughter and her boyfriend at gunpoint. The girl escaped after asking to use the bathroom.

    The elder DiMaggio later spent time in prison after pleading guilty to assault with a deadly weapon for a 1989 beating of two people with a baseball bat at a motel in El Cajon, east of San Diego.

    The Evening Tribune of San Diego described him as a 35-year-old transient, former car salesman and divorced father of two. He died in 1998.

    Spanswick said he confirmed details of the elder DiMaggio's criminal history and death with Lora Robinson, James Lee DiMaggio's sister and only surviving family member. Robinson, who did not respond to phone messages, asked Spanswick to serve as a family spokesman.

    The victim of the elder DiMaggio's kidnapping attempt - now an adult - told KFMB-TV that her attacker professed his love after breaking up with her mother and announced he was taking her away to "give me a good life." She pleaded with him not to kill her, her boyfriend and her brother.

    "Don't worry, it'll be over quick," the woman remembered the elder DiMaggio saying.

    The woman, who was not identified by the television station and whose face was blurred on camera, attended El Cajon High School, near San Diego, with James Lee DiMaggio. After the episode, KFMB said, she changed her name and moved.

    The younger DiMaggio was like an uncle to the Anderson children and close friends with their parents for many years. Spanswick, who often went hiking with him and his brother-in-law, said neither he nor the Anderson family noticed anything strange about his behavior.

    Spanwick said he alerted authorities Friday when Robinson told him the date of her father's death.

    "There's too much coincidence for this not to be directly associated with that," he said.

    Spanswick said the siblings made a pact not to follow in their father's footsteps.

    "Her brother broke that trust and he never called her," he said.

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    Kidnapped California teen says captor deserved to die

    SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a close family friend suspected of killing her mother and 8-year-old brother says he threatened to kill her if she tried to escape and got what he deserved when he died in a shootout with authorities in the Idaho wilderness.

    Hannah Anderson went online barely 48 hours after her rescue Saturday and started fielding hundreds of questions through a social media site. Many were typical teenage fare - she likes singer Justin Bieber and her favorite color is pink - but she also answered queries about how she was kidnapped, how she survived captivity and how she is dealing with the deaths of her mother and brother.

    The postings started Monday night, hours after her father publicly requested that the family be allowed to grieve and heal in private. Brett Anderson didn't respond to a text message seeking comment about his daughter's postings, which continued into Tuesday evening.

    Police have said little about their investigation. Jan Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, said authorities are aware of the online comments but couldn't confirm the account is Hannah's.

    The postings appear on the ask.fm social-networking site account for "Hannahbanana722" of Lakeside, the San Diego County community where the teen lived with her mother and brother. At one point during the lengthy series of posts, a questioner asked Hannah to post a photo and she complied. The image shows her with a wide smile.

    Dawn MacNabb, whose son, Alan, is one of Hannah's closest friends, confirmed the postings were by the teen. Alan spoke on the phone with Hannah on Tuesday and urged her to delete some of the postings, MacNabb said.

    "He said she was going to, but I don't know if she will," she said.

    Anderson declined interview requests from news organizations that posted to her account.

    She was kidnapped Aug. 4 by James Lee DiMaggio, 40, her father's best friend who was like an uncle to her and her brother, Ethan. DiMaggio had invited the children and their mother, Christina Anderson, 44, to his house in Boulevard, a rural town 65 miles east of San Diego.

    "He told us he was losing his house because of money issues so we went up there one last time to support him, and to have fun riding go karts up there but he tricked us," Anderson wrote.

    Anderson said DiMaggio tied up his mother and brother in his garage. Their bodies were found after a fire destroyed the home. She said she didn't know they had died until an FBI agent told her at the hospital after rescue Saturday.

    "I wish I could go back in time and risk my life to try and save theirs. I will never forgive myself for not trying harder to save them," she wrote.

    Anderson said she "basically" stayed awake for six straight days and DiMaggio ignored her requests for food. She couldn't try to escape because DiMaggio had a gun and "threatened to kill me and anyone who tried to help."

    Anderson said she was too frightened to ask for help when four horseback riders encountered the pair in the remote wilderness on Wednesday. The riders didn't report the sightings to police until the next day, after returning home and learning about the massive search spanning much of the western United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.

    "I had to act calm I didn't want them to get hurt. I was scared that he would kill them," she wrote.

    The girl said DiMaggio threatened to kill her if she didn't help hide his blue Nissan Versa with tree branches. Authorities discovered the car Friday, leading to her rescue the following day.

    Asked if she would have preferred DiMaggio got a lifetime prison sentence instead of being killed by FBI agents, she said, "He deserved what he got."

    Anderson acknowledged being uncomfortable around DiMaggio even before the ordeal, saying he once told her that he was drawn to her.

    "He said it was more like a family crush like he had feelings as in he wanted nothing bad to happen to me," she wrote.

    She said she didn't tell her parents because DiMaggio was his father's best friend "and I didn't want to ruin anything between them."

    On Monday, Anderson had her nails done - pink for her mother and blue for her brother. She said she anticipates returning to El Capitan High School in the east San Diego suburb of Lakeside for her junior year.

    She said she was still in shock. When one commenter said her responses appeared to lack emotion, she wrote, "I'm trying to stay strong. You don't know I could be crying answering these questions at the moment."

    Therapists say Anderson faces a long recovery, but support from family and friends can help her lead a happy, productive life. Counselors may focus on acknowledging her trauma but not letting it control decisions.

    Her father has told at least two people that he planned to move with Hannah to Tennessee, where he lives.

    Moving would be a father's "very normal reaction," said Jessica Donohue-Dioh, a social work instructor at Xavier University in Cincinnati. She cautioned, however, that it shouldn't be an attempt to bury the past.

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    Lifetime will re-air Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT

    Lakeside teen angry over movie about what Lifetime says 'really happened' with her kidnapper

    The kidnapping of Lakeside teen Hannah Anderson following the heinous murders of her mom and little brother and her subsequent rescue from the wilds of Idaho has been made into a movie for the Lifetime cable network that’s set to air this weekend.

    And she and her family are not pleased.

    Edited Here’s the trailer from “Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story,” set to re-air Sunday at 8 p.m.



    It’s no wonder the real-life abduction and murder case in August 2013 was made into a movie. It definitely had all the trappings of a TV drama.

    First there was Hannah, the blonde 16-year-old, who was whisked away by kidnapper - and family friend - Jim DiMaggio. The two had recently returned from a trip to Hollywood where Hannah posted photos of herself posing in what some would say were suggestive short shorts and tank tops. Combined with the selfies the attractive and social-media savvy teen posted, not to mention the shots of her and DiMaggio clowning around, people started to question the nature of the pair’s relationship.

    Hannah said the man she had known for years as “Uncle Jim” told her he had a crush on her, but “more of a family crush like he had feelings as in he wanted nothing bad to happen to me.”

    Then there was the fiery and horrific crime scene at his Boulevard home where the bodies of Hannah’s mother Christina, little brother Ethan, 8, and the family dog were discovered.

    Then, of course, there was the good-guys-to-the-rescue ending after horseback riders serendipitously spotted the pair in an area of Idaho called the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

    Hannah’s ordeal ended when FBI snipers opened fire on DiMaggio, killing him with six bullets to his head and torso.

    The movie feeds the speculation that there was something more between the kidnapper and his victim than meets the eye. In the promo for the show, which stars Scott Patterson (of “Gilmore Girls" fame) as DiMaggio and 20-year-old Canadian actress Jessica Amlee as Hannah, the network writes: “As the dust settled, questions began to emerge about the nature of the relationship between Hannah and her kidnapper... and what really happened?”

    One provocative scene shows Hannah blowing DiMaggio a kiss. Another shows the actress who plays DiMaggio's sister doing a television interview in which she she says that Hannah flirted with DiMaggio and that she "wouldn't put anything past her."

    According to 10 News, Hannah was not too happy about those scenarios, angrily posting on her Instagram page this week that she never gave her permission for the movie and that the preview alone contained false facts and untrue events. “If anyone is gonna tell my story it should be me,” the El Capitan High School honor student wrote.

    Hannah’s grandmother Sara Britt said says the family had nothing to do with the movie and was surprised to hear about it. “You would think that they would have contacted the family… and it’s just a heartbreaking to see that it keeps on going,” she said in an interview with Fox 5 News.

    San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore stated unequivocally at the time that Hannah, who returned to San Diego days after her rescue amid a media frenzy, was an unwilling participant in her ordeal. “There is no doubt in our mind she was definitely a victim here and under extreme duress from the time she was abducted by DiMaggio until she was rescued by the FBI hostage rescue team,” Gore told the Union-Tribune.

    Will that statement be in the movie? Stay tuned.

    http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/...ping-lifetime/
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