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 ...
You might want to read these two articles, that have a different portrayal than yours.
Mike Young, who was part of the foursome on horseback, said most people on the trail are friendly, but that these two clearly did not want to talk.
“She was trying to turn her face away. ... Then, when we went up the trail a little ways, I turned around and told these guys that there was something wrong there. It just wasn’t right,” he told reporters, according to KTVB-TV.
When the riders passed the pair again as they came back down the trail later, they once again tried to start a conversation, joking with Hannah about dipping her feet in the water.
That, said John, prompted a cryptic message from Hannah. According to Mark, “She said, ‘Looks like we’re all in trouble now.’ Or, ‘We’re in real trouble now.’ And then, we rode on out.”
Christa John said the pair followed them on foot as they headed down to a lake. “She was just sitting there and I just felt I should go over and kind of see if she needed help and make contact with her,” Christa John said. “I’m glad I didn’t because that could have turned out terribly wrong for the four of us.”
“They weren’t friendly, and they didn’t talk,” said Mark John, a rancher and ex-sheriff.
The pair were first seen on a trail — and then later at the lake, where one of the horseback riders cautioned Hannah about dipping her bare feet in the fish-filled water.
“Looks like we’re all in trouble now,” the teen said cryptically to herself as Young, John and their wives headed away from the lake and back to the trail, according to John.
I would take about 50 % of the reporting with a salt lick size piece of salt...
You are making a ludicrous assumption.
The phones being turned off at 1600 hours on August 4th, 2013 would appear on the phone record documentation.
The phone record will not say that they were turned off at 1600 hours on the “day of Hanna’s cheerleading event”.
Why is that so hard to comprehend???
They keep track of a phone being turned off?
If she wanted to be found then why would she turn her face away??? If I wanted to be found I would put my face right in front to be seen and remembered.
Which brings us to the Amber Alert.
All that time in the car and they didn't listen to the radio which was blasting Amber Alerts every 15 minutes on every station, and she didn't hear even one of them???
C'mon
You are willfully misunderstanding my posts by being over literal, because you don’t want to acknowledge the truth.
Your belief that this girl has fooled the FBI and the San Diego Sheriff’s Dept. is ludicrous.
Apparently — since the police reported that both phones were turned off together at 4:00 on August 4th.
C,mon yourself, would a kidnapper have the radio on so his victim could be alerted to the fact that a nationwide alert was given.
And Amber alerts don’t blare every 15 minutes. Exaggeration and assumption appear to be your stock in trade.
every one of the points you make requires an assumption on your part, none of which are even remotely supported by the evidence we have currently. Because we don’t have much evidence out there yet.
First paragraph - both of your sentences begin with if. Not a terribly sstrong word.
the third paragraph requires you to assume they were listening to the radio. Do you have evidence that they were not listening to an iPod. I haven’t listened to the radio in my car since Reagan was prez.
No he might not -- but that's why he probably had it on because she wasn't kidnapped.
She was never handcuffed or tied or restrained in any way that anyone knows of.
A few years back I rode with my niece and her husband (my great niece’s step dad and a great guy BTW) to meet her daughter at her high school’s marching band show competition. My great niece had gotten a ride to her high school from her biological dad with whom she lived (about 40 miles from where we lived) but after the show, she was to ride back home with us for the long holiday weekend. But what she neglected to tell her mom and step dad was that the band show wasn’t at her HS. They had a practice there earlier in the day but then rode school busses to another bigger HS in the area were the band show was to take place that evening. My great niece was still a teenager and sometimes they aren’t so good at communicating or thinking it’s important.
So we showed up at her HS and no one was there.
And so started a string of text messages between her and her step dad that went something like this – I know because he was reading and showing them to me and his wife:
where are u?
@ band show – where R U?
@ UR school / nobody here
again, @ are u?
Ooooh. @ XYZ HS – didn’t I tell U?
; (
no & OK & where is that?
off main st & rt 123
how do we get there from here?
go down the road UR on and turn left
Hum..not on road - in parking lot…which road, there r 4
don’t know what it is called, iz the main rd
OMG! doesn’t help
directions pls?
let me ask my friend
RU in front or back of building?
front I think
go out of big parking lot & go rt
a mile then turn left on rt 123
drive about 10 min and turn right
school is mile down road on left
What is name of road@ rt turn?
?
OMG! did you leave brain on bus?
: (
10 min is not a help, what is name of road for rt turn?
beaver street, I think.
no friend says shady oak road or rt 46
which is it?
yes
What is name of school, will put in GPS
eastern
eastern regional HS
on beaver st
OK. calling UR dad
am I in trouble?
…for directions
no but can’t believe UR smart enough to graduate HS this year….honor student? right LOL!
now UR mom & me know why U failed UR driving test
That’s about 39 text messages over the span of about 15 minutes just to get directions. So sinister /s. FWIW, I’ve seen both my great niece and her mom text at least 13 text messages during a commercial break while watching TV and that’s not counting FB and Twitter posts.
And why do you ask, didn’t they just call and talk to each other?
Part of it is because this is how the youngings (including my 40ish niece and her husband) communicate now days. The other reason was that band director told the kids they absolutely had to keep their cell phones turned off all day except for meal breaks and only then with “special permission” from him and for a dire emergency and the band director was a huge jerk, so my great niece was sitting in a quiet corner of the gym – it was easier to text and not get caught than it was to talk on her phone.
Just saying.
Those are BS assumptions and stupid ones at that.
The riders said she was inadequately dressed in pajamas or exercise sweats (same clothes she was picked up from cheer camp in???)
The search warrant indicates a handcuff box was found, but not the cuffs. Was she kept cuffed part of the time?
She did not know her mother and brother were dead until told by the FBI (who are trained to watch reactions when doing this stuff).
The SD Sheriff has made it emphatically clear that she was under extreme duress the entire time. His exact words “extreme duress”. Since he is acquainted with all the facts, I will accept his determination over your fantasy projections.
So you want us to believe that that teenager would have gone to cheerleader camp in her pajamas or sweat pants??? Pleeeeaaase.
In San Diego she would have to dig in the back of her drawer for that. Odds are that they stopped by her apartment and packed some cold weather stuff.
Bwa ha ha! That’s exactly what I’m talking about. And they text with their thumbs at warp speed. I have to use a stylus or I just keep touching the wrong letters and back spacing.
I don’t have texting on my teens phone package, hoping to avoid those types of scenarios. Did me almost no good. Apparently there are free apps that text without a text package.
The upside is that I’m not paying for texting or for a higher grade package that includes it.
Check her hands in those pictures and you will see no handcuff or rope marks and no evidence of such appeared to the 4 horsepersons -- two of whom were LE retired.
What the HELL is different than what I said??????
That's because he believed the things she said like her claim that she went 6 days without food or sleep.
Did she look like she missed any meals to you or lost any sleep???
LOL!! No WONDER you don’t have a clue!!! You really are THICK.
Exercise sweats or yoga pants are the norm that age group and I have daughters that age so I know what they are wearing.
Yoga pants pulled over their booty shorts and sports bra and tank top is what they practice in. They do not practice in uniform, those are too hot and expensive to practice in.
And there of numerous pics of her in exactly that type of outfit so it’s kind of obvious that she did in fact wear them to practice all the time.
Also, schools now have “wear your PJ’s to school” events and sweats, yoga pants and flannel jammy pants rule. I often think it’s some type of dress code for girl athletes.
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