Hannah will be taken to a hospital where she will be thoroughly evaluated before any detectives or FBI agents interview her. Her father will be transported to Idaho and hopefully reunited with his daughter tomorrow, he said. The San Diego Sheriff's department was notified that the shootout happened 4:22 p.m. PST. The campsite was spotted from the air and then the ground units were sent into the area which lead to the confrontation. "Obviously we would've liked Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in the court of law but that's not going to be the case," Gore says. The intense manhunt and multi-state Amber Alert case has been going on since Sunday.
The San Diego Sheriff's Dept. says it appears that DiMaggio, 40, kidnapped Hannah after killing her mother, Christina Anderson, and her brother, Ethan, last weekend. Their bodies were found in DiMaggio's burning California home near the Mexican border Sunday. On Friday night, San Diego County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the remains found in the home matched the DNA of Ethan, 8. Ethan Anderson's remains were not positively identified until Friday night and an Amber Alert was initially issued for both children. DiMaggio's Nissan Versa, covered with brush and missing its California license plates, was found about five miles from a trailhead into the area Friday morning. Authorities had suspected the car may have been booby-trapped, but no explosives were found in or around the vehicle by a Boise Police Department bomb squad. DiMaggio is considered armed and dangerous, authorities say. The discovery of his car came two days after a man on horseback reported seeing DiMaggio and 16-year-old Hannah in hiking gear and backpacks. Idaho authorities say the rider didn't realize the pair were being sought until he got home and recognized them on news reports. Some 200 law enforcement officials — mostly FBI agents — had descended on a 320-square-mile area of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area, a mostly roadless, rugged, heavily wooded forest in central Idaho about 70 miles northeast of Boise.
Teams from the Valley County and Ada County Sheriff's departments, U.S Marshals Service, Homeland Security, Border Patrol, Idaho Army National Guard and Idaho State Police were part of the search-and-rescue operations, says Andrea Dearden, an Ada County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman. The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area was named after the late four-term Idaho senator, a Boise native who sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1976. At more than 2.3 million acres, it's the second-largest protected wilderness area outside of Alaska., coursing through mountain ranges, deep canyons and the middle fork of the Salmon River, a popular waterway for rafting, kayaking and fishing. DiMaggio, a friend of the Andersons, is an experienced outdoorsman, according to Hannah's father, Brett Anderson, who was separated from his wife and had moved to Tennessee for work. He and DiMaggio, a Scripps Research Institute telecommunications technician, met about 20 years ago.
Authorities say DiMaggio is "infatuated" with Hannah. Brett Anderson said earlier this week that DiMaggio had promised to watch over his family and that his kids had referred to him as "uncle Jim." An Idaho State trooper stops traffic on a road 35 miles east of Cascade, Idaho, on Friday.(Photo: Darin Oswald, AP) Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/10/search-for-dimaggio-and-teen-kidnap-victim-centers-on-idaho-wilderness-area/2638423/
