# Kidnapped teen Hannah Anderson - does this story sound off to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380 "2013-08-16T03:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/61 "2013-08-21T12:40:34Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > No, it wasn’t THEIR house that was set on fire. It was HIS house that was set on fire. The bodies were found in his house. > > Hannah and DiMaggio had previously spent time together. There is no reason to suppose she was being restrained. She could have been waiting in the car some place else thinking they were going on a camping trip together. His house, eh? WTF? This is a crazy soap opera. And I can see how Uncle Jim might’ve lied to get her kidnapped. He was a trusted guy it seems. Maybe the rest of the kidnapping plan didn’t go to plan so the murders and fire happen followed by an impromptu Idaho camping trip? Let’s get them there DNA test results! This is probably going to be morbidly intriguing at the very least, peeps. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/62 "2013-08-21T16:21:08Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Why did he kill the little boy? That doesn’t make any sense. Because he didn’t have a crush on him or the mother, just the daughter and they, in his mind, were probably collateral. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/63 "2013-08-21T16:47:58Z")
The CNN article summarizes everything quite well. I’m not sure the entire truth will ever be known. This guy had a 20 hour delay timer that set off the fire after he left. He certainly had his crimes planned out. > [@](#): > > Then there is this. > > Hannah was seen in a car with DiMaggio about 20 hours before he allegedly set fire to his house, police said Tuesday. > > The two were seen in DiMaggio’s blue Nissan Versa just after midnight Sunday, August 4, said San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell. She confirmed reporting from the Los Angeles Times that the two were spotted at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. > > Caldwell did not say what the two were doing together, or if Hannah Anderson was with DiMaggio voluntarily. > > CNN was unable to get an Anderson family response to this revelation. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/64 "2013-08-21T18:51:33Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The two were seen in DiMaggio’s blue Nissan Versa \ [Nissan Versa! Nissan Versa!](http://heroeswiki.com/Nissan_Versa#Memorable_Quotes) ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/65 "2013-08-21T19:53:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > So, they can just demand a paternity test? How does that work? Demand or suggest? Either way it should be part of the FBI’s investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/66 "2013-08-21T20:05:58Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Demand or suggest? Either way it should be part of the FBI’s investigation. Why should it be part of the investigation? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/67 "2013-08-21T20:13:56Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Why should it be part of the investigation? Motive. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/68 "2013-08-21T20:17:34Z")
The FBI matched the DNA from bone marrow in the child’s body to the [father](http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130821/US--Burned.Bodies/), and DiMaggio met the mom when she was pregnant with Hannah. The DiMaggio family is just mad about the insurance money. > [@](#): > > Anderson family spokeswoman Stacy Hess said DiMaggio didn’t meet the children’s father and mother, Brett and Christina Anderson, until Christina was six months pregnant with Hannah. Investigators used Brett Anderson’s DNA to confirm the identity of 8-year-old Ethan Anderson, whose remains were found in the rubble of DiMaggio’s burned home, Hess said. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/69 "2013-08-21T20:44:10Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > … it was her grandparents, and her cousins, and her friends, and people from the small town where she lives coming together to support her remaining family and let her know that life can carry on. A minor nitpick: Hannah doesn’t live in a “small town.” Lakeside is a smallish suburban city, part and parcel of the sprawling San Diego megalopolis. “Boulevard”, where the killer lived (and the murders, fire took place) is very small and out in the sticks. None of which has any bearing on your message, which I agree with. . ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/70 "2013-08-21T23:20:47Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Motive. The perpetrator is dead. Does motive matter? ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/71 "2013-08-21T23:23:03Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > The perpetrator is dead. Does motive matter? Do we know for sure he is the perpetrator? The only perpetrator? I don’t think it’s time to close the investigation just yet. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/72 "2013-08-21T23:28:35Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > Do we know for sure he is the perpetrator? The only perpetrator? > I don’t think it’s time to close the investigation just yet. I was at work and can prove it. I don’t like your insinuation.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/73 "2013-08-22T01:25:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > The perpetrator is dead. Does motive matter? Of course it does. How else can you be certain he acted alone? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/74 "2013-08-22T12:32:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I was at work and can prove it. I don’t like your insinuation.:mad: But you could have set the timer that caused the fire. Where were you 20 hours previous to the fire? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/75 "2013-08-22T16:35:14Z")
Late to post but, from her pic on today’s news feeds—haven’t we all seen “that” face before? (Crocodile tears.) Added to the seeming acceptance of her mother’s and brother’s deaths makes me feel like there was _some_ kind of complicity there. Maybe he wasn’t as smart as she is which is why he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/76 "2013-08-22T16:57:59Z")
What makes me question her involvement is the torturing of her mother. You can make a case that he wanted them dead so that he could have access to Hannah, but that doesn’t explain why he tortured the mother before killing her. That is very personal, and I can’t imagine why he would have built that sort of rage against Hannah’s mother. Perhaps he did all of this because Hannah convinced him, either truthfully or untruthfully, that her mother was abusive towards her. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/77 "2013-08-22T17:03:49Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Maybe he wasn’t as smart as she is which is why he’s dead. I must say, she doesn’t come off as particularly bright in the interview I saw. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/78 "2013-08-22T17:10:02Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Late to post but, from her pic on today’s news feeds—haven’t we all seen “that” face before? (Crocodile tears.) Added to the seeming acceptance of her mother’s and brother’s deaths makes me feel like there was _some_ kind of complicity there. Maybe he wasn’t as smart as she is which is why he’s dead. I don’t even know what to say when I read things like this (and they are all over Facebook). Even if she had been having a sexual relationship with this guy, she’s still a victim. Occam’s razor, friends. What’s more likely: A teenager spent \*years \*scheming and plotting, manipulating a close family friend through seduction to help her with her plan to off her mom and brother. or Some weird old dude wanted to fuck the pretty teenager and killed her family so he could tap that? _C’mon_. Hoof beats. Zebras. And all that. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/79 "2013-08-22T17:27:15Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > What makes me question her involvement is the torturing of her mother. You can make a case that he wanted them dead so that he could have access to Hannah, but that doesn’t explain why he tortured the mother before killing her. That is very personal, and I can’t imagine why he would have built that sort of rage against Hannah’s mother. Perhaps he did all of this because Hannah convinced him, either truthfully or untruthfully, that her mother was abusive towards her. We really don’t know what the police are considering torture, at this point. It could be that he hit them a bunch of times to knock them out. Otherwise, I’m at a loss as to why he would torture a little boy. Even crazy people don’t tend to go that far. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380/80 "2013-08-22T18:39:05Z")
Yeah, she doesn’t seem unusually bright, but when being chased by a bear you only have to run faster than the guy behind you… She could be totally innocent for all I know (of course this is all speculation) but the story unfolding so far does not seem cut and dried and new developments beg many questions. But hold on and let me check Facebook to see what “I” think now. 😃 :rolleyes: At any rate, three people are dead—under “sensational” circumstances—and we wonder why. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidnapped-teen-hannah-anderson-does-this-story-sound-off-to-you/666380.md?page=5)