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DiMaggio family requests Hannah Anderson DNA
CNN ^ | 8/21/13 | Amanda Watts

Posted on 08/20/2013 11:51:39 PM PDT by jodster36

James DiMaggio's family is requesting DNA samples from the family of Hannah Anderson, the 16-year-old girl he's accused of kidnapping and whose mother and brother were found dead in his burned home.

The reason? They want to know if he was the biological father of the children, Hannah and Ethan, the family spokesman said.

"We are going to be requesting from the Anderson family that we try to get DNA samples from Hannah. And if they have anything left from Ethan -- that we get a DNA sample," family spokesman Andrew Spanswick told CNN affiliate KGTV. "There has been a lot of rumors that Jim might be the father of either or both children."

Reached by CNN, Spanswick said DiMaggio's sister, Lora, is making the request -- but would not elaborate further.

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Hannah was in a car with DiMaggio about 20 hours before he allegedly set fire to his house, police said Tuesday. The two were seen in DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa just after midnight Sunday, August 4, said San Diego County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell.

She confirmed reporting from the Los Angeles Times that the two were spotted at a U.S. Border checkpoint. Caldwell did not say what the two were doing together, or if Hannah Anderson was with DiMaggio voluntarily.

CNN was unable to get an Anderson family response to this revelation as well

On Monday, the Anderson family spokeswoman told CNN that DiMaggio left a life insurance policy from his job as a telecommunications tech that named Hannah and Ethan's grandmother, Bernice Anderson, as the beneficiary.

Stacy Hess, the spokeswoman, did not know the dollar amount but other media outlets put it around $110,000

"We find it very strange that he has left this money without any explanation," in explaining the need for DNA tests.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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Very interesting. Still doesn't add up to me.
1 posted on 08/20/2013 11:51:39 PM PDT by jodster36
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To: jodster36; MinuteGal

Hmmmmmm, Hmmmmmm ...


2 posted on 08/21/2013 12:02:45 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: jodster36

Hmmmmm......

Middle finger going up as I smile and suggest you “Go to Hell and Burn”

Ave nice day


3 posted on 08/21/2013 12:06:29 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: jodster36

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any sicker.


4 posted on 08/21/2013 3:17:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: jodster36
Still doesn't add up - but I had assumed there were other issues there.
Had the same feeling about that older case in Utah (?) where the father killed the wife (body never found, had taken his boys camping on a whim that same night in the cold), then the two kids a while later - turned out there were all types of strange stuff going on with the dude's father and his wife.
Not saying that's what is going on here, just that there is somethng below the surface.
5 posted on 08/21/2013 3:45:26 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Vendome

Do we actually KNOW who did the killing and burning??? I don’t think it’s been proved at all. That girl is NOT acting like she’s lost a mother, brother and friend. Something is NOT KOSHER here.


6 posted on 08/21/2013 3:52:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Valpal1; BunnySlippers

Apparently the DiMaggio family does not trust the police to do even a rudimentary investigation and they just might be right.


7 posted on 08/21/2013 5:17:47 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: jodster36

They are going to fight each other now for 112K? Really now it’s not that much.


8 posted on 08/21/2013 5:23:10 AM PDT by angcat
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To: jodster36
A representative for the Anderson family appeared to shoot down the theory. "Brett and Tina Anderson did not meet Mr. DiMaggio until the sixth month of Tina's pregnancy with Hannah. Brett Anderson's DNA was used to identify the body of his dead son Ethan Anderson," the family statement said.

DiMaggio was Best Man at their wedding. Was Hannah born before or after the wedding???

9 posted on 08/21/2013 5:26:42 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Ann Archy
Do we actually KNOW who did the killing and burning??? I don’t think it’s been proved at all. That girl is NOT acting like she’s lost a mother, brother and friend. Something is NOT KOSHER here.

I was wondering about the same things.

10 posted on 08/21/2013 5:48:20 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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Okay here we go. According to one article the parents didn’t marry until 2002 when Hannah would have been what ??? — 5 years old.

If DiMaggio was her father or believed that he was her father then that explains all the time he spent with the family and her and it takes off the table his kidnapping of her for some kind of sexual relationship between them.


11 posted on 08/21/2013 5:54:02 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Bump.

(good as any idea I’ve heard yet.)


12 posted on 08/21/2013 5:56:53 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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The family also wants to see the letters she sent him.

http://wtkr.com/2013/08/21/james-dimaggios-family-requests-dna-samples-from-hannah-anderson/


13 posted on 08/21/2013 6:18:39 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: angcat
They are going to fight each other now for 112K? Really now it’s not that much.

You've been here long enough to know bald men will fight to the death over a comb.

14 posted on 08/21/2013 6:21:22 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I would think that her paternity would be important regarding the legal disposition of his property in Boulevard.

Unless he left a will his property will go to his sister Lora — unless Hannah turns out to be his daughter.

Why would she and the Anderson family not want to know???

[actually I do know but I am just saying that to be facetious]


15 posted on 08/21/2013 6:32:46 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Funny, sad...and true.


16 posted on 08/21/2013 6:39:14 AM PDT by gogeo (I didn't leave the Republican Party, it left me.)
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To: angcat
They are going to fight each other now for 112K? Really now it’s not that much.

I don't know about that particular policy, but mine explicitly states it will not pay if I die during the commission of a felony. I'd say kidnapping, murder, arson, and shooting it out with law enforcement types is committing a felony.

17 posted on 08/21/2013 6:45:28 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Why would she and the Anderson family not want to know???

It's entirely possible that they feel absolutely sure in the paternity already. Perhaps Hannah strongly resembles other family on the paternal side of the family.

It's possible that Uncle Jim developed an obsessive fantasy that Hannah was his daughter that had no basis in reality.

My middle child and my sister's middle child look more like siblings than they do with their actual siblings and strongly resemble a great grandmother. My youngest is the spitting image of my mother and it was obvious on the sonogram of her facial bone structure in utero.

18 posted on 08/21/2013 9:06:19 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with brute force, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: jodster36
Hmmmmmm. Inquiring minds think there could be much more to this story.


19 posted on 08/21/2013 9:20:11 AM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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To: Valpal1
It's possible that Uncle Jim developed an obsessive fantasy that Hannah was his daughter that had no basis in reality.

A simple paternity test would have put that to rest and her DNA was readily available to him for such a test. I doubt that he was the one with the fantasy.

Anything is possible but if Hannah is his daughter then she and not his sister Lora will inherit his property -- thus at this point it is a legal issue amongst everything else.

Also Hannah said regarding her phone that it got burned up in the fire: Can anyone explain how she could have known that despite the fact that no phone was found burned up at the scene???

And if she did leave her phone at the scene then what was she using to make calls to DiMaggio hours later before the phones were turned off???

But by all means the police need to shut down this investigation before they get the truth from Hannah as well as her DNA -- after all there are now more questions than answers. .

20 posted on 08/21/2013 9:39:27 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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