Glad the girl is ok and glad the suspect is dead.
pat
I’m pleased that the girl was recovered without any reported physical injury and will be reunited with her dad tomorrow. And I hope they get her into some counseling the day after that, as she is likely going to have some very severe survivor’s guilt following this horrific trauma.
She lost her brother and her mother than is not going to be something she gets over ever. Wish her the best.
Pat
I hope I’m wrong, but I think she was a willing participant in this.
Curious as to why you think that?
Pat
ABC Nightly News reported that the persons who encountered the suspect and the teenage abducted female did not report any indications of duress or request of assistance. The reporter stated the principal reason their location was provided to Police was because the camping equipment and gear they were wearing was not appropriate for the location; it was too light-weight.
p.s. The interesting part of the report was that the suspect was engaged at a distance by a ‘FBI Tactical agent’ aka sniper because of his potential threat to the female hostage. The report was not very specific but it sounds if he was shot at a distance with no attempted negotiation or opportunity to surrender. Not that he deserved it, just somewhat ironic when it was very likely a FBI Hostage Rescue Team sharp-shooter who brought the incident to a close.
You may be right. I read something (can’t remember where) that this guy had a relationship to the family and he had been in contact with the daughter previously.
My understanding is the dead abductor was a friend of the family, had previously made public comments about having a “crush” on the teen-aged daughter, and the daughter had told either her parents or another adult she was uncomfortable around the guy and did not want to be left alone with him.
I certainly hope this is the case as the entire situation is tragic enough already.
My wife made the same call several days ago. Note that the media still continues to call him the “alleged” abductor. I hope like hell that he really was a kidnapper and that you and my wife are wrong.
Definitely well done to the LEO’s involved and the people/person who tipped them to the location.
This event sux big ones in and of itself, so I’m hoping it doesn’t devolve into something even more bizarre.
I read another report that said that she was happily hiking along with him with her own camping gear. The same witness that saw them hiking got home and saw their pics on the news. That witness called the police.
The witness statements that I’ve seen make Hannah to be more of an accomplice than victim.
“She was trying to turn her face away,” Mike Young said.
The riders said that Hannah did not give them any signal she needed help and they thought DiMaggio might be her father. Despite the red flags, they didn’t detect any danger or see any weapons.
I curious if DiMaggio was armed when he was killed?
The guys attention toward her in the weeks or months before the kidnapping reportedly “creeped her out” and she didn’t want to be alone with him after he had confessed his crush to her.
I doubt she was complicit, far more likely some variation of Stockholm Syndrome.
The same story on CNN made her look like a victim rather than an accomplice.
I sincerely hope you guys are wrong about her being an accomplice. That would be truly tragic for the father and immensely ****ed up.
Also, I know we don’t know all the details of the story, but as a father myself, if one of my best buddies and family friend confessed to my teenage daughter that he had a crush on her he’d be choking on his teeth, let alone ever being around my family again. Just sayin.
Shot at a distance while attempting to take him into custody? How much an attempt was there?
James Lee DiMaggio, 40, was slain by an FBI agent while authorities were attempting to take him into custody…
It’s all media blather at this point. Trying to parse the sequence of events from the conflicting speculative data that’s being reported at the moment is pointless. Rest assured that the FBI will ultimately, sooner rather than later, release the scenario in their anxiety to justify the shooting to the public.
I’m of a mind that people may breathe or hold hostages but not do both simultaneously.
I agree. It’s a little premature to start characterizing this as a poor man’s Badlands scenario that ended with another Ruby Ridge execution by the FBI.
Also you have to wonder what “sharpshooter at distance” means to the media. For all we know it was a guy with a Colt Commando from 50 yards.