The Idaho kidnapping case of Hannah Anderson came to an end
after four horseback riders coincidentally met James DiMaggio and Hannah Anderson who said, “It
looks like we’re all in trouble now.”
"For us to be there at the precise time to interact with
them is one chance in a trillion."
The Idaho kidnapping case began on Sunday in San Diego after
Hannah’s mother, 44-year-old wife Christina Anderson, and her eight-year-old brother
were killed in the San Diego area community of Boulevard. James Lee DiMaggio, a
long-time family friend, is suspected of having set fire to his house which
killed Christina and Ethan Anderson.
“Firefighters found the victims' remains, and the body of
their dog, in the embers of DiMaggio's home. Authorities believe DiMaggio
killed the two at his back-country home off Old Highway 80 before torching the
log cabin-style residence.”
James DiMaggio, who was a telecommunications technician and
who had bought new camping gear just the week prior to the Idaho kidnapping
incident, disappeared with Hannah Anderson into the back country of Idaho.
After Wednesday’s encounter with the four horseback riders, authorities
searched the trail in Idaho for clues and found James DiMaggio's blue Nissan
Versa roughly 60 miles northeast of Cascade. It was the last place where one
can drive to before going into the wilderness. James DiMaggio’s car had been
stripped of its license plates and covered with brush. “Police feared the car
could be rigged with explosives but a bomb squad found none on Friday.”
On Saturday, at about 5:20 p.m. Mountain Time, FBI agents
with a special hostage rescue team spotted Hannah Anderson and Joe DiMaggio not
far from the remote Idaho location where the group of horseback riders had seen
Joe DiMaggio and Hannah on Wednesday.
“Much of the terrain is so rugged and remote that some
ground search crews had to be flown in Saturday morning. Others took to
horseback, while helicopters buzzed overhead. By Saturday afternoon, roughly
150 FBI officials had combined with local and state officials to amass a force
of more than 200 personnel,” reported Ada County sheriff’s spokeswoman Andrea
Dearden.
According to San Diego County Sheriff William Gore, James
DiMaggio was killed by an FBI agent “while authorities were attempting to take
him into custody” at the remote Morehead Lake area in central Idaho.
Hannah Anderson was also found at the lake with James
DiMaggio. After her rescue, while she was apart from James DiMaggio, Hannah
Anderson was taken by helicopter to an Idaho hospital and was reunited with her
father on Sunday.
While authorities respectfully and carefully try to learn
more information from Hannah Anderson about the Idaho kidnapping case, more information
is being revealed about James DiMaggio whose father died on the same day, Aug.
10, in 1998.
According to a San Diego 10News report,
James Lee DiMaggio’s father, James Everet DiMaggio, told a then 16-year-old
girl that he was in love with her after he had broken into her house.
“A prosecutor said the elder DiMaggio had earlier broken
into the home of an ex-girlfriend in a dispute over a car, but only the woman's
teenaged daughter and her boyfriend were there, so he handcuffed the boyfriend
to a bed. The girl escaped after asking to use the bathroom, the prosecutor
said.”
James Everet DiMaggio died from a "drug-induced"
suicide," on Aug. 10, 1998.
The sins of the fathers, the ripple effect of a father’s suicide
– just 15 years later.
History tends to
repeat itself.
