Kidnapper James Lee DiMaggio deserved to die, according to his 16-year-old victim Hannah Anderson. After an abduction episode that led authorities on a chase from California through the Idaho wilderness, the teen is now speaking out about her captor less than 48 hours following her rescue.
A nationwide Amber Alert was sent out Aug. 4 after the California teen was kidnapped by close family friend DiMaggio, 40, who is also suspected of murdering the girl's mother and 8-year-old brother. DiMaggio was the best friend of Anderson's father and was like an uncle to her and her younger brother.
Monday night Anderson seems to have gone online to ask.fm, a social-networking website, where she answered a number of questions about her tragic ordeal, reports CBS News.
Jan Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, said authorities are aware of the online comments but couldn't confirm the account was Hannah's. However, one of her closest friends, Alan MacNabb, confirmed the postings were written by the teen and that he spoke on the phone with Hannah the next day.
The postings appear on the account of "Hannahbanana722" of Lakeside, the San Diego County community where she lived with her mother and brother, reports the Huffington Post. At one point during the lengthy series of posts, a questioner asked Hannah to post a photo. She complied, uploading an image showing off her wide smile.
When asked why she and her family went to visit DiMaggio at his home on the day she was kidnapped she said: "He told us he was losing his house because of money issues so we went up there one last time to support him, and to have fun riding go karts up there but he tricked us."
Anderson said DiMaggio tied up his mother and brother in his garage. Their bodies were later found after a fire destroyed the home. She said she didn't know they had died until an FBI agent told her at the hospital after she was rescued.
"I wish I could go back in time and risk my life to try and save theirs. I will never forgive myself for not trying harder to save them," she wrote.
Anderson said she "basically" stayed awake for six straight days without eating. She couldn't try to escape because DiMaggio had a gun and "threatened to kill me and anyone who tried to help."
Anderson said she was too frightened to ask for help when four horseback riders encountered the pair in the remote wilderness on Wednesday.
"I had to act calm I didn't want them to get hurt. I was scared that he would kill them," she wrote.
When asked if she would have preferred DiMaggio got a lifetime prison sentence instead of being killed by FBI agents, she said, "He deserved what he got."
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