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Rick
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Rick asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 8 years ago

Why are the so adamently refusing to consider Hannah Anderson as anything except an innocent child/victim?

Even with all the evidence of her involvement and questionable behavior with DiMaggio before and during her "kidnapping", the police steadfastly refuse to even consider the possibility that she could have been remotely complicit with anything that happened in any way. Even without everything else that has come to light, just her behavior after she was "rescued" would have been enough to make me a bit suspicious. Does anyone else think that maybe the reason the authorities are so determined for Hannah to be an innocent victim is because to do otherwise could cast a shadow on their killing of James DiMaggio? Does anyone else have a reasonable explanation for the authorities turning a blind eye to any/all evidence that shows her as anything except the picture of innocence?

Update:

Maybe I should add that I am not convinced that Hannah Anderson really was anything but an innocent victim. What I am wondering is why the authorities don't seem willing to even look into the possibility. With any other murder case I have ever heard of, the police consider almost everyone to be a suspect until there is absolute proof of everyone's guilt or innocence. What do they have that makes them so sure she is innocent? If they have indisputable evidence of her innocence, why wouldn't they release it to dispel everyone's doubts of her?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Hannah is 16 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!

    She is a minor

    Under the laws of the State of California, she is to be protected to the maximum extent possible. That means that it will take a warrant for her arrest, and then a ruling by a court that she be tried as an adult, before ANYTHING about her case can be released.

    The Sheriff has gone as far as he can legally go, stating that she is a victim. He absolutly cannot say any more.

    Even her name would be secret, but for the Amber Alert.

    You are looking for things that you will not be allowed to find out until the girl is of legal age and asks that the records be opened and released

    So you are just going to have to take the Sheriff's word at face value, because that is all you are going to get

  • ?
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    8 years ago

    Maybe it's the letters she wrote to Dimaggio & the 13 calls between them on the day of the murders..or the private trips the two took; or the face that she remarked "we're in trouble now", when the pair was discovered. Then again it could just be the smiling pictures she took of herself on social media after "learning" her mom & brother were dead.

    There's much more to this case than meets the eye. Much more.

    Also..there is up to a 4 hour window between the time Dimaggio picked her up from cheerleading practice - to the time of the fire. For her to claim no knowledge of the murders; and no apparent sorrow over her loss, does lead one to question just what her role was in the gruesome deaths.

  • 8 years ago

    Sweetie, You are treading on very delicate masculine /totally patriarchial territory.

    What is SACRED to a MAN? A man will break his back, work his hands to the bone doing hard work for HIS FAMILY.

    If a man's own best friend becomes a traitor and turns against him- kills his wife and son, kidnaps his young daughter- NO MAN WILL SIT BACK AND ALLOW THAT TO GO UNPUNISHED.

    E|ven if lets say you may be right in your vile suggestion that the female child may have a part in all of this, the BEST FRIEND SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER AND MADE DECISIONS WITH HIS FRIEND IN MIND.

    This was an adult and a child. and the adult betrayed a bond between man and another man,brothers by choice of company- unforgivable even in the dawn of mankind when we were all living in caves and armed with spears and rocks.

    What you are suggesting is IRRELEVANT as there are primal rules between man and his fellow man.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I have some of the same questions... except I believe she knows more than she is telling.

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  • 8 years ago

    -Maybe it's because They don't WANT to Know that she's NOT as "Innocent"- as They wish She Were... :(

    Source(s): People who only "Believe" -what They Want To.
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