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Autopsies reveal new details of slayings in Hannah Anderson kidnap case
Ned Randolph, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 07:36 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 07:42 PM EDT
SAN DIEGO - The mother of a San Diego-area teenager who was kidnapped by a family friend last month and rescued days later in Idaho was killed by at least a dozen blows to the head and left bound and gagged inside a garage set ablaze after her death, coroners found.
Medical examiners were unable to conclusively determine the cause of death of her 8-year-old son, whose body was found burned beyond recognition in the charred ruins of an adjacent house, but they revealed he most likely died from the fire.
The two autopsy reports, issued late on Monday and posted online by a local ABC television affiliate, revealed new details in the origins of an abduction and double-murder that triggered a multi-state manhunt and drew national media attention.
The case came to public notice in early August when authorities issued a statewide child-abduction alert in California for 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and her 8-year-old brother, Ethan, both from the San Diego suburb of Lakeside.
Police launched the search after finding their mother, Christina Anderson, 44, on the night of Aug. 4 slain inside the smoldering garage owned by the suspected kidnapper, James Lee DiMaggio, with no immediate sign of her children.
The body of a child was discovered in the burned-out ruins of DiMaggio's two-story cabin next to the garage, but those remains were not positively identified as Ethan's for several days.
DiMaggio and Hannah ultimately were tracked down about a week and a half later in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho, after a group of horseback riders reported to authorities that they had encountered the pair days before.
FBI agents shot and killed DiMaggio in a lakeside confrontation with the suspect and Hannah was freed unharmed.
Hannah said in comments later posted to an online chat service that she believes DiMaggio, who was a computer technician, set off the fires at his home with a timer device after taking her captive and heading to Idaho.
BLUNT-FORCE TRAUMA
The high school student also said in the online comments that she, her brother and mother had been "tricked" by DiMaggio into paying a visit to his house at the outset of the ordeal.
But according to the autopsy reports, Christina Anderson had asked DiMaggio to take her 16-year-old daughter to cheerleading camp on Aug. 3 while she was attending her son's football practice. That was the last day that the mother and her son were seen alive, authorities have said.
In both autopsy reports, the San Diego County Medical Examiner ruled the deaths of Christina and Ethan Anderson as homicides. The family dog was found dead from a gunshot wound inside the garage with the mother, the coroners said.
Firefighters found the mother's body lying face down beneath a tarp in the detached garage. She had been gagged with duct tape and bound at the ankles with a plastic cable.
The coroner previously disclosed that Christina Anderson had died from blunt-force trauma to the head. The autopsy detailed numerous abrasions and lacerations to her scalp from a "minimum of 12 impact sites," but it did not identify a murder weapon.
The medical examiner also found blunt-force injuries to her extremities, as well as a gaping slash wound to her neck that appeared to have been inflicted after she died. Parts of her body also were burned.
On the boy's badly burned remains, examiners found fractures of the skull, ribs and other bones they said were most likely caused by the fire's heat but added, "traumatic causes cannot be completely ruled out."
The autopsy offered no additional clues about possible motives for DiMaggio's actions, an aspect of the case that authorities have declined to address publicly.
The children's father, Brett, who was living at the time apart from his family in Tennessee, has said he was bewildered by the actions of DiMaggio, a longtime close friend who had served as the best man at his wedding and was like an uncle to his children.
But a family friend has said the suspect developed an apparent infatuation with Hannah that made the teenager feel uncomfortable.
In yet another twist to the tragedy, a friend of the DiMaggio family came forward last month to say that the deceased kidnapper made Brett Anderson's mother, Bernice, the beneficiary of a $112,000 life insurance policy.
Autopsies reveal new details of slayings in Hannah Anderson kidnap case | World | News | Toronto Sun
Ned Randolph, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 07:36 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 07:42 PM EDT
SAN DIEGO - The mother of a San Diego-area teenager who was kidnapped by a family friend last month and rescued days later in Idaho was killed by at least a dozen blows to the head and left bound and gagged inside a garage set ablaze after her death, coroners found.
Medical examiners were unable to conclusively determine the cause of death of her 8-year-old son, whose body was found burned beyond recognition in the charred ruins of an adjacent house, but they revealed he most likely died from the fire.
The two autopsy reports, issued late on Monday and posted online by a local ABC television affiliate, revealed new details in the origins of an abduction and double-murder that triggered a multi-state manhunt and drew national media attention.
The case came to public notice in early August when authorities issued a statewide child-abduction alert in California for 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and her 8-year-old brother, Ethan, both from the San Diego suburb of Lakeside.
Police launched the search after finding their mother, Christina Anderson, 44, on the night of Aug. 4 slain inside the smoldering garage owned by the suspected kidnapper, James Lee DiMaggio, with no immediate sign of her children.
The body of a child was discovered in the burned-out ruins of DiMaggio's two-story cabin next to the garage, but those remains were not positively identified as Ethan's for several days.
DiMaggio and Hannah ultimately were tracked down about a week and a half later in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho, after a group of horseback riders reported to authorities that they had encountered the pair days before.
FBI agents shot and killed DiMaggio in a lakeside confrontation with the suspect and Hannah was freed unharmed.
Hannah said in comments later posted to an online chat service that she believes DiMaggio, who was a computer technician, set off the fires at his home with a timer device after taking her captive and heading to Idaho.
BLUNT-FORCE TRAUMA
The high school student also said in the online comments that she, her brother and mother had been "tricked" by DiMaggio into paying a visit to his house at the outset of the ordeal.
But according to the autopsy reports, Christina Anderson had asked DiMaggio to take her 16-year-old daughter to cheerleading camp on Aug. 3 while she was attending her son's football practice. That was the last day that the mother and her son were seen alive, authorities have said.
In both autopsy reports, the San Diego County Medical Examiner ruled the deaths of Christina and Ethan Anderson as homicides. The family dog was found dead from a gunshot wound inside the garage with the mother, the coroners said.
Firefighters found the mother's body lying face down beneath a tarp in the detached garage. She had been gagged with duct tape and bound at the ankles with a plastic cable.
The coroner previously disclosed that Christina Anderson had died from blunt-force trauma to the head. The autopsy detailed numerous abrasions and lacerations to her scalp from a "minimum of 12 impact sites," but it did not identify a murder weapon.
The medical examiner also found blunt-force injuries to her extremities, as well as a gaping slash wound to her neck that appeared to have been inflicted after she died. Parts of her body also were burned.
On the boy's badly burned remains, examiners found fractures of the skull, ribs and other bones they said were most likely caused by the fire's heat but added, "traumatic causes cannot be completely ruled out."
The autopsy offered no additional clues about possible motives for DiMaggio's actions, an aspect of the case that authorities have declined to address publicly.
The children's father, Brett, who was living at the time apart from his family in Tennessee, has said he was bewildered by the actions of DiMaggio, a longtime close friend who had served as the best man at his wedding and was like an uncle to his children.
But a family friend has said the suspect developed an apparent infatuation with Hannah that made the teenager feel uncomfortable.
In yet another twist to the tragedy, a friend of the DiMaggio family came forward last month to say that the deceased kidnapper made Brett Anderson's mother, Bernice, the beneficiary of a $112,000 life insurance policy.
Autopsies reveal new details of slayings in Hannah Anderson kidnap case | World | News | Toronto Sun
Hanna Anderson is "trouble" - guilty & involved? - Patrick Wanis PhD - YouTube
Do you believe Hannah Anderson is innocent or guilty?
Do you think she was truely an innocent victim in this case, or do you think she had a part in this either a small part, or a big part of it. There are things to consider with the case.
1. The phone calls, letters, texts, etc. between Hannah and James.
2. The fact Brett wasn't around with them to say goodbye to James.
3. The DNA test kit.
4. Hannah being online and talking to strangers just shortly after the incident.
5. Hannah's statement about her mother and brothers death.
Do you believe Hannah Anderson is innocent or guilty?
Do you think she was truely an innocent victim in this case, or do you think she had a part in this either a small part, or a big part of it. There are things to consider with the case.
1. The phone calls, letters, texts, etc. between Hannah and James.
2. The fact Brett wasn't around with them to say goodbye to James.
3. The DNA test kit.
4. Hannah being online and talking to strangers just shortly after the incident.
5. Hannah's statement about her mother and brothers death.
Hannah Anderson says captor made her play Russian roulette
Dan Whitcomb, Reuters
First posted: Thursday, October 10, 2013 07:54 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013 07:59 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego teenager who was kidnapped in August by a family friend after he killed her mother and brother said in a TV interview on Thursday that her captor forced her to play Russian roulette before drugging her and driving her to Idaho.
Hannah Anderson told the “Today” show that on the day of her abduction James Lee DiMaggio picked her up from cheerleading camp at a local high school. She said DiMaggio seemed “perfectly normal,” until he arrived at his home 25 miles east of San Diego.
“When I got into the house, he handcuffed me and zip-tied my feet and then sat me down on the couch and told me what his plan was,” Anderson, 16, told “Today.”
That plan, the teenager said, involved DiMaggio driving her to Idaho to carry his backpacks to a river in the wilderness, where he told her he intended to live.
Anderson said DiMaggio, 40, assured her that he would get her back home and that “everyone was going to live their normal lives and that his intention was that no one was going to be hurt. No one is going to die.”
The high school student said DiMaggio assured her that her mother, Christina, and 8-year-old brother Ethan were alive. But Anderson said DiMaggio’s behavior alarmed her.
“When we got into the house, after he told me the plan, he made me play Russian Roulette with him, sitting on the couch,” she said. “And when it was my turn I started crying and was freaking out. And he said, ‘Do you want to play?’ And I said ’no.’ And I started crying and he was like ‘OK’ and he stopped.
Anderson said DiMaggio then gave her two sleeping pills. After taking them, she did not awake until they were in Idaho.
The bodies of Christina Anderson, 44, and her son Ethan were found in DiMaggio’s home, which was found burning on Aug. 4.
DiMaggio was shot to death by FBI agents less than a week later when they raided his camp at a mountain lake in the remote River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. Hannah Anderson was rescued and airlifted from the woods by helicopter.
During the “Today“ interview, Anderson said DiMaggio, whom she had known her entire life, had been “like family“ to her, but described trying to distance herself from him after he forbid her from bringing boys to his home because he said he had a “crush“ on her.
“He told me, he said: ‘It’s not that I don’t want your friends up here, it’s that I don’t want to see you kissing your friends or anything like that because I have crush on you ... a crush as in a friend, like family, like I care about you,’“ Anderson said.
“After that, it just got really awkward around him.“
Authorities have not publicly disclosed possible motives for DiMaggio’s actions. A family friend has said that DiMaggio developed an apparent infatuation with Hannah Anderson.
Hannah Anderson says captor made her play Russian roulette | Home | Toronto Sun
Dan Whitcomb, Reuters
First posted: Thursday, October 10, 2013 07:54 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013 07:59 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego teenager who was kidnapped in August by a family friend after he killed her mother and brother said in a TV interview on Thursday that her captor forced her to play Russian roulette before drugging her and driving her to Idaho.
Hannah Anderson told the “Today” show that on the day of her abduction James Lee DiMaggio picked her up from cheerleading camp at a local high school. She said DiMaggio seemed “perfectly normal,” until he arrived at his home 25 miles east of San Diego.
“When I got into the house, he handcuffed me and zip-tied my feet and then sat me down on the couch and told me what his plan was,” Anderson, 16, told “Today.”
That plan, the teenager said, involved DiMaggio driving her to Idaho to carry his backpacks to a river in the wilderness, where he told her he intended to live.
Anderson said DiMaggio, 40, assured her that he would get her back home and that “everyone was going to live their normal lives and that his intention was that no one was going to be hurt. No one is going to die.”
The high school student said DiMaggio assured her that her mother, Christina, and 8-year-old brother Ethan were alive. But Anderson said DiMaggio’s behavior alarmed her.
“When we got into the house, after he told me the plan, he made me play Russian Roulette with him, sitting on the couch,” she said. “And when it was my turn I started crying and was freaking out. And he said, ‘Do you want to play?’ And I said ’no.’ And I started crying and he was like ‘OK’ and he stopped.
Anderson said DiMaggio then gave her two sleeping pills. After taking them, she did not awake until they were in Idaho.
The bodies of Christina Anderson, 44, and her son Ethan were found in DiMaggio’s home, which was found burning on Aug. 4.
DiMaggio was shot to death by FBI agents less than a week later when they raided his camp at a mountain lake in the remote River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. Hannah Anderson was rescued and airlifted from the woods by helicopter.
During the “Today“ interview, Anderson said DiMaggio, whom she had known her entire life, had been “like family“ to her, but described trying to distance herself from him after he forbid her from bringing boys to his home because he said he had a “crush“ on her.
“He told me, he said: ‘It’s not that I don’t want your friends up here, it’s that I don’t want to see you kissing your friends or anything like that because I have crush on you ... a crush as in a friend, like family, like I care about you,’“ Anderson said.
“After that, it just got really awkward around him.“
Authorities have not publicly disclosed possible motives for DiMaggio’s actions. A family friend has said that DiMaggio developed an apparent infatuation with Hannah Anderson.
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