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Hannah Anderson gives first interview since being kidnapped ...
The Daily Mail Online ^ | August 22, 2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 08/22/2013 6:44:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

Kidnapping victim Hannah Anderson said in her first interview since she was rescued after a week-long abduction that she knows there are tough times ahead of her but she would get through them because her mom raised her to be strong.

In an interview with the Today show, she said: 'In the beginning, I was a victim. But now knowing everyone out there’s helping me, I consider myself a survivor instead.'

The 16-year-old also clarified some details about what her relationship with kidnapper James DiMaggio was like and why they exchanged 13 text messages on the day he abducted her after killing her mother and brother.

Denying that it was phone calls they exchanged, Hannah said the 13 texts were regarding arrangements to pick her up from cheer camp, explaining where exactly she would be and the address.

According to search warrants, Hannah exchanged about 13 phone calls with DiMaggio before she was picked up from cheerleading practice that day.

The San Diego County Sheriff's said it could not immediately explain the discrepancy.

Authorities have also said that letters from Hannah were found at the home. The teen said that they were written about a year ago when she was having trouble getting along with her mother and she sought advice from DiMaggio....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: hannahanderson
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To: Valpal1
Do you actually believe the FBI didn’t debrief her and that nobody asked her any questions at all, just dropped her off at her Dad’s the day after the rescue?

I think she did to them what she is doing to everyone else and has all along by claiming that she is too distraught to talk about it or answer any relevant questions -- but look at these great nails.

And she is surrounded by ennablers who she is manipulating and who are defending her right to be too distraught to provide the details of the crime that she witnessed an/or participated in.

21 posted on 08/22/2013 10:10:03 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

First of all, I’m quite sure the investigators know the answers to your questions. They just choose not to share them or the incompetent media hasn’t really asked because they make more money by continuing the confusion so the controversy over whether the girl was or wasn’t a victim gets them more hits for a longer period of time.

Clearing up the confusion is not in their monetary interest. Welcome to the age of internet journalism.

Second of all, the cheer camp was at a different HS than the one she was a student at, so she had to explain the location of the gym to “Uncle Jim”. Occam’s Razor would indicate he was not the one who dropped her off.

http://laist.com/2013/08/22/hannah_anderson_interview_explains.php


22 posted on 08/22/2013 10:10:54 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: Uncle Chip

Because the FBI has no experience in hostage/kidnapping victim debriefs.

Puh-lease, a 16 yr old is outwitting every adult in the world except you.

Why are you so emotionally invested in the idea that she just has to be a part of it? Why are you so hot to excuse the kidnapper by shifting blame to the victim?


23 posted on 08/22/2013 10:14:50 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: Valpal1; bgill

The DNA kit belonging to the police makes sense especially in that it was not burned up in her vehicle.

The problem in the misreporting there is the police who put that kit in the list of evidence recovered in the warrants without explanation, and when it was misreported they did nothing to correct it even with a full time public relations expert on staff whose job it is to make such corrections.

That being said, the family is still asking for a DNA test and if her father is so sure of her paternity then that should be no problem for them.

Afterall if you were Hannah wouldn’t you want to know and don’t you think she has the right to know???


24 posted on 08/22/2013 10:20:01 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Valpal1

Yep, I’m a media stooge.

Read the last page of the warrant of items taken from mom’s car - (1) DNA swab kit.

http://media.nbcbayarea.com/documents/DiMaggioWarrant2.pdf


25 posted on 08/22/2013 10:20:32 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: atc23

Rumors are that DiMaggio was the girl’s father.

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The one and only person suggesting that is Dimaggio’s sister, the same one who suggested her brother was a teddy bear would never hurt anyone in the Anderson family.

Zero credibility.

According the story on GMA this morning, Hannah’s mother was 6 months pregnant with Hannah before the 2 families even met.


26 posted on 08/22/2013 10:21:00 AM PDT by dmz
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To: atc23

She may have had issues with her mother and in her life she and discussed these with this guy as she felt he was a caring family friend. She didn’t realize he would become a monster who would kill her mother & sibling and then kidnap her. Young people are vulnerable so that’s why predators seek them out.


27 posted on 08/22/2013 10:22:28 AM PDT by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: Valpal1
Occam’s Razor would indicate he was not the one who dropped her off.

That's fine but who dropped her off and when and where was mom and bro during this time.

Did they drive to his place without her that morning???

She said that they all went there together???

When would that have been -- Friday night???

There was a missing persons report filed on the family that Saturday because they were not around all day.

Who filed that and when.

28 posted on 08/22/2013 10:28:19 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
If she has then why did it take LE a full week to realize that the cheerleading practice was Saturday and not Sunday??? And why did they have to find a photograph of them together at a border checkpoint to find out that they were on the road to Idaho by midnight Saturday. Why didn't she just tell them??? Instead for an entire week LE and the public are led to believe that they left for Idaho at 4:00 Sunday afternoon after cheerleading practice.

And she said the phones were left at the scene to be burned up but police say that they were used Sunday and then turned off together at 4:00.

How were those phones in two places at once???

Either LE is lying or she is or both -- take your pick.

Media reports were based on the search warrants which had a dating error regarding the phone warrant. I still can't find any clear reporting on the issue of which day they were turned off or where the phones were found.

I do know that the warrants included handcuff boxes, but no mention of the actual cuffs. Was Hannah cuffed, were the cuffs found at the camp? Also in the search warrant were two cellphone arm band boxes. Did Dimaggio have the phones and arm bands on his person?

Don't expect the media to find out because they don't want answers, they want controversy.

29 posted on 08/22/2013 10:32:49 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: Valpal1
Because the FBI has no experience in hostage/kidnapping victim debriefs.

They defer to psychologists who are more concerned with emotional well-being than physical details.

Even this morning on NBC they proffered a disclaimer that she was not prepared to offer any details about anything. Two weeks and she has offered no details.

As I said before why does it take a photograph from the border patrol for the police to find out when they hit the road to Idaho when the real live witness is right there???

She has been playing them and us --

30 posted on 08/22/2013 10:34:35 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Ann Archy

My guess is that she’s in on it.....13 text messages about where and what time to pick her up??? More like PLANNING something!!!

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What is truly amazing to me is this focus on the girl, not the guy who basically played out the exact scenario his father went through 13, I think, years earlier.

It is LOL funny to me thinking that a 16 year old girl (I have 2 daughters, for the record) could bamboozle the authorities for 3 weeks.

But it sure is a much sexier story if the girl was in on it, right?

Man kidnaps girl, kills mom and little brother, oy, so pedestrian. But get Hannah in on the action, woo boy, now we have a story.

BTW, I have no problem eating my words if I’m wrong, because there is currently absolutely nothing in the evidence we have seen so far that points in any way shape or form to Hannah being involved.

This is Newtown Redux.


31 posted on 08/22/2013 10:35:26 AM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz
According the story on GMA this morning, Hannah’s mother was 6 months pregnant with Hannah before the 2 families even met.

So the publicist says -- but I have not seen those words coming from her father.

She was 5 years old when they got married.

His family says that they have known each other for 20 years.

What's the harm in a DNA Test if they are so sure of paternity.

32 posted on 08/22/2013 10:41:48 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: bgill

A swab kit was used on the car, duh! Just like two stain kits were listed on the garage portion of the same warrant (pg 23 items 50 and 51).

They needed to surmise who was or wasn’t in the car. At the time they hadn’t discounted the possibility that DiMaggio had an accomplice.


33 posted on 08/22/2013 10:42:35 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: Valpal1

Then they should list the pictures and finger prints taken from the car and property.


34 posted on 08/22/2013 10:44:41 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Valpal1
I still can't find any clear reporting on the issue of which day they were turned off or where the phones were found.

For two weeks every media report and the spokesperson for the Sheriff Department said that there were 13 calls just before they were turned off together around 4:00 Sunday after the cheerleader pickup.

Then the spokesman for the Sheriff corrected that and said that they misreported that and that the cheerleader event was Saturday not Sunday -- but they did not correct the date and times of the 13 phone calls.

Those 13 calls still remained Sunday and turned off at 4:00 -- and to this day still do -- without correction from those who should know since they have the documentation in their hands from the cell phone carriers.

Hannah this morning claimed that these were actually text messages not calls and were on Saturday during practice not Sunday.

Really???

How did the telecommunications company and the police mistake text messages for cell calls???

And how did they mistake August 3rd on the call reports for August 4th???

Do you really believe her???

35 posted on 08/22/2013 11:02:21 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
As I said before why does it take a photograph from the border patrol for the police to find out when they hit the road to Idaho when the real live witness is right there???

Assumption based on media reports. You do NOT know what the police found out, when they found it out or how. Basing your belief about what investigators knew from the minimal amount of information they shared with media is armchair sleuthing.

All the cops said is they have a checkpoint cam pic as evidence indicating that DiMaggio had a 20 hour headstart before the fire started, not that it was the totality of their knowledge or evidence. We don't even know when they located the pic, before or after the rescue, but I find no mention of it until after the rescue.

The car was spotted in Northern CA and Southern OR on Aug 7 so they know they were headed north by then and spotted in ID on the 9th, captured on the 10th.

Don't expect much more from the police, they won't be sharing much about a minor child crime victim.

36 posted on 08/22/2013 11:04:19 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: Uncle Chip
How did the telecommunications company and the police mistake text messages for cell calls??? How did the telecommunications company and the police mistake text messages for cell calls???

And how did they mistake August 3rd on the call reports for August 4th???

Do you really believe her???

They didn't, which is why they corrected the date of the cheer camp and the phones were turned off after she was picked up on the 3rd.

The media continues to repeat bad info because they can't be bothered to keep it straight.

37 posted on 08/22/2013 11:16:40 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: Valpal1
All the cops said is they have a checkpoint cam pic as evidence indicating that DiMaggio had a 20 hour headstart before the fire started, not that it was the totality of their knowledge or evidence.

The purpose of the photograph release is to imply that 12 Midnight is when they left the house for the last time. The picture however, doesn't prove that. They are assuming such from the picture.

Why would they need a photograph before stating that they hit the road at midnight Saturday??

The picture is no substitute for a live person telling them.Why wouldn't they get that from Hannah.

She is either not being cooperative or they don't believe what she is saying and are having to go to the videotape to make their assumptions.

38 posted on 08/22/2013 11:18:28 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Valpal1

Why are you so emotionally invested in the idea that she just has to be a part of it? Why are you so hot to excuse the kidnapper by shifting blame to the victim?

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Man kidnaps girl, kills the mother and the little brother. Soooooo pedestrian a story.

But get a 16 year old girl in on it (with perfect nails) and now we have a real story. Super sexy now.

I really and especially enjoy the complete glossing over that Dimaggio’s father ended his life in pretty much the same way as Dimaggio did.

And yes, with you I laugh out loud at anyone thinking a 16 year old girl is going to outwit experienced FBI agents, schooled in these matters. Just hilarious.


39 posted on 08/22/2013 11:28:04 AM PDT by dmz
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To: Uncle Chip

The article stated that they did not meet Dimaggio until the mother was 6 months pregnant with her. According to that timeline it is highly unlikely that he is her father.


40 posted on 08/22/2013 11:29:29 AM PDT by formosa
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