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DNA twist in Hannah saga
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Hannah Anderson arrives at a fundraiser on Aug. 15, left, and an undated booking photo of James Lee DiMaggio.
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News
The family of kidnapping victim Hannah Anderson denied reports that her alleged abductor could have been the biological father of the girl and her brother, after a spokesman for the deceased suspect’s family requested DNA samples.
“Brett and Tina Anderson did not met Mr. DiMaggio until the sixth month of Tina’s pregnancy with Hannah,” said Stacy Hess, a spokesperson for Brett Anderson, in a statement.
James DiMaggio allegedly kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah after killing her mother Christina Anderson and 8-year-old brother Ethan Anderson, authorities have said. Investigators later found the bodies of Anderson’s mother and brother among the remains of DiMaggio’s burned-out home outside San Diego.
“Brett Anderson’s DNA was used to identify the body of his dead son Ethan Anderson,” Hess said in the statement.
DiMaggio died in a shootout with FBI agents after investigators tracked him and Hannah Anderson to a remote corner of the Idaho wilderness.
The response from the Anderson family came after a spokesman for the family of alleged abductor James DiMaggio said that the man left his $ 112,000 life insurance policy to Hannah and Ethan Anderson’s paternal grandmother because “he expected the grandmother to take care of the two children with the money.”
“We are requesting DNA samples from Hannah and anything they can get from Ethan,” spokesman Andrew Spanswick told ABC News affiliate KGTV. “There are rumors Jim was the children’s real father. The parents didn’t marry until 2002. We think it’s strange he left them so much money with no explanation.”
The DiMaggio family’s request for DNA tests is not an attempt to contest the life insurance policy, Spanswick said, according to the KGTV report. DiMaggio removed his sister as his beneficiary in 2011, according to the report.
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DNA twist in Hannah saga
Monday, August 12, 2013
"Fitting" end for Hannah suspect
By Ian Johnston, Alastair Jamieson and Tracy Connor, NBC News
The grandmother of kidnapped teenager Hannah Anderson has said it was “fitting” that the family friend who officials believe abducted her was killed by law enforcement officers during the successful rescue operation.
James Lee DiMaggio, who sheriff’s officials have said had an “unusual infatuation” with 16-year-old Hannah, is suspected of killing the girl’s mother Christina Anderson, 44, and brother Ethan, 8, by setting fire to his house near San Diego on Aug. 3. He is then believed to have kidnapped Hannah.
A group of people, who encountered missing teen Hannah Anderson and her alleged kidnapper James DiMaggio in the Idaho wilderness, recall their strange meeting with the two.
DiMaggio was killed during a rescue attempt Saturday in the Idaho backcountry after he and Hannah were seen by two couples out riding earlier in the week.
Sara Britt, Hannah’s maternal grandmother, said death of DiMaggio – known by the Anderson family as “Uncle Jim” – had been for the best.
“The way it ended up for both Hannah and Jim. It’s fitting,” she told NBCSanDiego on Sunday.
“No one wants to go through years of jury trials and putting Hannah through any of that,” she added.
“So, you know, I wouldn’t want to see anyone dead, but it happened.”
Hannah was transported to a hospital after being rescued.
Her husband Ralph Britt told the station earlier that the family had known DiMaggio for years.
“It was just a complete shock … Let it serve as a warning, that’s all we can say,” he said.
DiMaggio had a “close platonic relationship” with Christine Anderson, according to sheriff’s officials.
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Hannah Anderson, 16, was taken to a hospital after being rescued.
She and her husband Brett Anderson had recently separated.
Brett Anderson was “elated” that Hannah was alive, San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore said.
Relatives were waiting to hear what had happened on the night Christine Anderson and Ethan died and during the following days.
“We don’t know what she saw or heard. Hannah is the only person who knows what happened that night,” Ralph Britt said on NBC’s TODAY.
The breakthrough in the hunt for Hannah came on Wednesday morning, when two couples traveling on horseback came across DiMaggio and the girl.
“She kinda had a scared look on her face. I just had a gut feeling about him,” Mike Young, who owns a ranch in Sweet, Idaho, said at a Sunday afternoon press conference.
“They weren’t friendly, and they didn’t talk,” said Mark John, a rancher and ex-sheriff.
Both couples were carrying guns when they met DiMaggio.
“He might have got one of us, but we would’ve got him,” Mark John said.
John said after they got home, he saw the Amber Alert for Hannah on TV on Thursday and instantly recognized her. He called a friend with the Idaho State Police.
Ada County Sheriff’s Office
Kidnapping suspect James Lee DiMaggio’s blue Nissan Versa was discovered hidden in a pile of brush.
DiMaggio’s car, a Nissan Versa, was found covered with brush and without license plates the next day.
With air support and on horseback, investigators scoured the isolated area and figured out where he was holed up, moving in on Saturday.
Ada County sheriff’s spokeswoman Andrea Dearden told TODAY Sunday that agents were forced to land a two-and-a-half-hour hike away from DiMaggio’s campsite to avoid making him suspicious.
She declined to discuss details of the operation or whether DiMaggio had fired at agents, saying that a review team would investigate the suspect’s death.
“Hannah is safe, and that was our first priority from the very beginning,” said Valley County Sheriff Patty Bolen at a press conference Saturday.
Related:
- Horseback riders who found Hannah say it was ‘one chance in a trillion’
- Suspected kidnapper killed in Idaho, teen girl safe: sheriff
This story was originally published on Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:54 AM EDT
"Fitting" end for Hannah suspect
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