Rescued Calif. teen Hannah Anderson spends first night home
(CBS News) SAN DIEGO -- California teenager Hannah Anderson is spending her first night back in her home since she was kidnapped more than a week ago, a horrible ordeal that began with the death of her mother and her younger brother.
Brett Anderson brought his 16-year-old daughter home to San Diego Monday. In a brief statement at the San Diego Sheriff's Department, he thanked everyone for their support and asked for privacy.
"My family and I are eternally grateful," Brett Anderson said, adding his family needs to grieve and heal now that his daughter has been found.
"The healing process will be slow," Anderson said. "She has been through a tremendous, horrific ordeal. I'm very proud of her, and I love her very much."
On Aug. 4, the bodies of Anderson's mother, Christina, and 8-year-old brother, Ethan, were found inside James Lee DiMaggio's burning home near San Diego. DiMaggio, a family friend, is believed to have then kidnapped the 16-year-old, which led to a highly publicized Amber Alert and an international manhunt.
On Wednesday, nearly 1,000 miles from San Diego in a remote area of Idaho, a group of four horseback riders saw the pair. They say Anderson looked scared and was wearing pajama bottoms.
"They were just like a square peg going into a round hole," said Mark John, one of the riders. "They didn't fit. He might have been an outdoorsman in California, but he was not an outdoorsman in Idaho."
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They later recognized Anderson in a televised Amber Alert and called police.
They told the FBI that DiMaggio had a grey cat with him. Agents searching for them spotted the cat from the air, and that led them to DiMaggio. A tactical hostage rescue team was dropped into the woods and hiked two hours to DiMaggio's campsite to rescue Anderson. A federal official says DiMaggio had at least two guns and fired at the agents, who then shot and killed him.
San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore said Hannah Anderson was definitely taken against her will.
"She was a victim in this case," he said. "She was not a willing participant, and she was under extreme duress from the time she left Boulevard to the time she was recovered at Lake Morehead, Idaho."
A friend of Hannah Anderson says DiMaggio had confessed to her that he had a "crush" on her and that she was uncomfortable being around him. Anderson was not aware that her mom and brother had been killed until after she was rescued.