Guest Post By: Deborah King
Hannah Anderson, who survived 6 days of captivity by James DiMaggio, a close family friend, not only went through an abduction, but also watched as “Uncle Jim” was shot dead by the FBI in her rescue. If that wasn’t enough, she then learned that her mother and young brother and her dog had been brutally murdered, allegedly by DiMaggio. That’s a lot for anyone to deal with, never mind for a 16-year-old cheerleader!
On top of all that, some people have called Hannah a co-conspirator, not a victim, because of her calm demeanor, although she did shed a few tears during her interview on the Today show. I think she is still in shock and hasn’t yet had the chance to process her grief. I would hope she is getting help from a counselor or therapist, preferably one who is trained in dealing with what could possibly be Stockholm syndrome, where the hostage, as a result of trauma, begins to bond with the captor.
I also suspect that “Uncle Jim” may have been grooming Hannah for himself. Although nothing has yet come out about what happened during the six days of Hannah’s captivity, one would not be surprised to learn that there had been sexual contact and psychological control, which would complicate her recovery.
Calling herself a survivor instead of a victim is the way Hannah is holding herself together, especially in her desire to be as strong as her mother was and taught her to be. At the same time, she is very much a teenager, and painting her nails pink for her mother and blue for her brother, as well as her interactions on social media, are healthy forms of expression for Hannah and help her feel connected to her supporters.
Considering all that she has been through, and the many ways in which her life will never be the same again, Hannah is doing very well and we should continue to hold her in a positive light in our thoughts and prayers.
Attorney, health and wellness expert, and New York Times best-selling author Deborah King is a frequent guest on TV, appearing on shows as diverse as news on ABC and NBC, CNN, and Fox to entertainment shows like Showbiz Tonight and E! Entertainment. Below is a video introducing Deborah further:
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I can only conclude that this article was paid for by Hannah Anderson or her father. Nobody could possibly believe this pitiful excuse to paint Hannah as an innocent victim “in every sense of the word”. The police can’t even hold a straight face when they say it.
Any fool could see there’s something not right about Hannah… Recent pics on her Instagram are disturbing and show no hint of any trauma or grief. She’s even posed with her “boyfriend” and was all smiles posing with another friend at her mom’s funeral. Narcissistic behavior at its best. This girl played a role in the murders.
Eyespew & Spewcowboy: Follow this link to Dunning-Kruger Effect. Describes you two perfectly: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect. Then go here for a bit more enlightenment: http://mashable.com/2013/08/15/hannah-anderson-ask-fm/
Anyone who doubts Hannah has to believe that a barely 16 year old cheerleader has outsmarted the FBI, US Marshalls and the several homicide units who investigated this case, plus the State’s proscutor who charged DiMaggio with homicide and the judge who issued the $1 million warrant for DiMaggio’s arrest.
So by everything you have read in the media CT, nothing sounds quite right? This all makes perfect sence to you? Nothing seems amiss in this whole story? I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
No doubt what so ever. The authorities are either playing her for more evidence or are just stupid. Yea, I know which one.
I do admire your effort to make people aware of the stress this young lady has gone through. The problem fo me is not an effort to accuse Hannah but to understand. Her experience has brought up a lot of unexplained events. Why would her peramts allow her to take overnight trips with DiMaggio and her sleep in the same room. Why would they allow her to sleep overnight with him? 13 calls the day of. No attempts to excape. They had to stop for gas. Surly he did not pump gas holding that rifle on her. There are to many questions and the law enforcement refuses to release the answers. Forget trying to put blame on her. How does one know who did what and when. Misinformation. Such as there was no proof of torture and it was even impossible to establish cause of death on her brother. It was misinformation released by the law. WHY?
The more I think about this article the more uninformed I feel the author seems to be. Just a little thought would paint a different picture. The only information the law enforcement has released paints Hannah as a young slut who was being banged by a forty year old man she called uncle. The law allowed us to know that she took many overnight trips with DiMaggio sleeping in the same room. They allowed us to know she spent the night at his house. They allowed us to know that they contacted each other 13 times the day of the deaths. They allowed us to know that he picked her up and returned to his home where mother and brother were already dead or tied up on a home she knew was rigged to burn down. So you want to be critize the public for the thoughts they have. Why don’t you critize the law enforcement for feeding those thoughts to the public. With the information released one can only think that was being banged by a forty year old man who she called uncle. If Hannah is not involved don’t you think that the law could or should release information that should or could change everyone’s view. Does it seem as this is what the law wants us to think because they can’t garner enough to charge her. Do you think maybe this is the only way they can prosicute her. The publics views are the work of the law enforcement.
“Just a little thought would paint a different picture.”
oops, a bit of a typo there…
“Just a little completely warped and deluded thought from a sick and demented mind would paint a different picture.”
There! Fixed it for you!
My heart goes out to Hannah. She needs to grieve in her own time and place. She is struggling so hard to “stay strong” for her mother and little brother and to protect the adults around her from her trauma. I can’t imagine her anguish when the trauma finally does break the surface. I saw all of the photos of the funeral and I’ve seen her Tumblr, Instagram, and other accounts. I see a very traumatized young teenager trying to tell herself and the equally traumatized adult family members around her that life will be normal. It is a young teenager’s horrific battle to pretend that she will live a normal life and that this monster really did not ruin her life, and the lives of all of her loved ones.
I’m not sure I understand….Does she think the public would judge her if she’s not “strong” and she actually breaks down with grief and shows some real emotion? uh, ok… riiiiggghhhhtttt…………
I admit it sounds shady, but my husband died when I was 23 and I acted “uncharicistically ” I love him till the day I die, even though I had a new bf within a month
You had a bf before he died.
Within a month? Holy crap. I’d still be under my covers crying hysterically.
your a freakin kookoo bird!
lmao give me a break!!! This girl is not a victim in any sense of the word! How much did she pay you to write this article?
Don’t understand how anyone could think that this young woman was not somehow involved in this sordid affair. If one accepts the assumption that James Dimaggio wanted her for himself, then he had no motive to murder the other two because he already had what he wanted: He had almost constant access to Hannah on his own terms, so I am not even clear what his motive for the kidnapping would have been, but he definitely had no motive for murder of the Mom and brother on his own, because they were not in his way of seeing Hannah. Also Hannah’s behavior even during the “kidnapping” that was witnessed on various video cameras and by law enforcement does not appear as if she is being held hostage. Something is definitely wrong here. I agree that someone could be grieving in the way that Hannah is but too many other questions on this case make no sense without Hannah’s involvement, particularly if one focuses more on the grisly murders than on the “kidnapping”, or if one focuses on Hannah’s behavior both BEFORE and DURING the ordeal as opposed to just afterwards (although I think her behavior now is pretty suspect too).
I agree, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Father and Hannah were behind the entire thing, probably made some kind of deal to meet with them in Idaho, and when Daddy found out that they got spotted he backed out of the plan. I think they should throw them both in Ariel Castros cell and let them rot!
the writer of the article is a “spiritual teacher and energy healer”.
that explains it all. one phoney con artist sticking up for the other.
SanteePatch, 8/8/2013:
Marissa Chavez said Hannah, 16, had begun to avoid Jim DiMaggio, a change that angered the old family friend now believed to have killed her mother and possibly her brother.
Sheriffs detectives have said Hannah, 16, and her brother Ethan, 8, regarded DiMaggio as an uncle. But according to her friend, their relationship started to shift a couple of months ago and Hannah confided in Marissa that she no longer wanted to be around DiMaggio.
He started “making comments an uncle figure shouldn’t make to his niece,” said Marissa, 15, during the vigil held in her friend’s honor at El Capitan High School. “He just made her uncomfortable and creeped out.
“She stopped texting him and she thought she could avoid him,” Marissa continued. “He was like, upset by that.”
Well if thats how she felt why did he pick her up from cheerleading, why were they seen at the mexican border, ALONE! And btw she didnt look like she was in duress. Hmmmm
Ok. No doubt in my mind that Hannah started saying DiMaggio was weird. What would Amy 16 year old say to her friend who heard DiMaggio say weird things and had made the comment that she thought he was weird. Was she to say to that friend. “He’s not weird. I’ve Ben letting him have sex for couple years”. So to keep her friend from thinking she was weird. She agrees he is weird.
http://news.yahoo.com/man-killed-idaho-mirrored-fathers-actions-205142595.html:
James Lee DiMaggio, 40, appears to have followed in his father’s footsteps in a carefully laid plan, said Andrew Spanswick, a friend
who runs a behavioral treatment center in West Hollywood.
“He clearly had a death wish,” Spanswick said. Spanswick said he confirmed details of the elder DiMaggio’s criminal history and death with Lora Robinson, James Lee DiMaggio’s sister and only surviving family member. Robinson, who did not respond to phone messages, asked Spanswick to serve as a family spokesman
Yep CT. DiMaggio did some dumb shit. And now CT it explains Hannah’s relationship with her parents. It explains why mom and pop allowed her to take overnight trips with DiMaggio sleeping in same room. It explains her staying overnight at his house. It explains what she was doing when he took her back to his house where mom was already dead or tied up in a house she knew was set to burn down with mom on it. I’m glad you have brought all that up about how sick DiMaggio was. It helps everyone understand exactly what happened.
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2331907/Close-friend-of-accused-California-kidnapper-murderer-shares-insights:
According to Spanswick, DiMaggio was a military veteran who did classified work he kept secret from family and friends. “There’s a possibility he’s very good at covering things up,” he says.
that led to a mental “collapse.”
“I think Jim took Hannah’s teen separation, which is healthy, a lot more personally,” he said.
Something is not right about this whole entire thing. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that.
wow that was a load of BS!!!!!!!
I truly pray for her no matter what. She is a child NO MATTER WHAT and regardless of what she’s done, she is still a victim. Children don’t just go out and murder others. There is always trauma or mentality issues. She needs help and I hope she gets that help she so desperately needs REGARDLESS. And either way, we are not the ones to judge. That is God’s job and she will meet our Maker one day and then, and only then, will it be the true test for her…not here on earth. The only thing I have to say about the author, however, is get your facts straight. She did not see Jim get shot. She was safely far from harm. The rescue team had already escorted her by the time they approached him. She has still been through more than ANY child should ever have to go through though.
San Diego kidnapping: case study for trauma reenactment phenomena.
Alina FrankSeattle EFT Examiner
August 12, 2013
The recently widely reported news story involving the kidnapping and escape of 16 year old Hannah Anderson, in conjunction with the double murder of her mother and brother, offers a dramatic and eye-opening example of a condition that has been relatively obscure since its inception by Freud over 90 years ago, known as the “compulsion to repeat the trauma”.
As news stories are beginning to report, the man apparently responsible , James (Jim) L. Dimaggio, lost his life at the hands of FBI agents in gunfire in the remote wilderness of Idaho, after they were tipped off to Hannah’s whereabouts. Information is emerging that makes this story a virtual tragic paternal mirror of remarkable similarities. What we now know, is that this man’s father, James E. Dimaggio, also professed his love to a 16 year old girl, a schoolmate of Jim’s. After the girl refused his father’s affections, he broke into her house and threatened to kill her with a shotgun. Also mirroring our recent story, the girl was able to escape her life threatening predicament. He was caught and arrested for his threats of violence. If that is not disturbingly similar enough, after serving time in prison, he later walked out on young Jim and his family, a report states, on August 3, the same day that Jim torched his mobile home with the bodies of Hannah’s mother and brother inside. August 3 was also the date that his mother died of cancer. On August 10 2013, young Hannah was saved and Jim was killed by FBI agents’ bullets. August 10 was the very same date that his father died from committing suicide. It has been suspected that Jim also was planning a suicidal death.
One is forced to wonder if the timelines of these traumatic occurrences were conscious or planned. Another possibility exists that points to the idea of Jim suffering a psychotic break spurred by financial strain with his home being foreclosed upon and his having to return to his home state of Texas. One important psychological hypothesis offers the idea that many of the details played out in this devastating drama were unconscious processes. In discussing this story with Craig Weiner, DC, a teacher of the neurobiology of trauma, he points to a theory well described in Bessel A. van der Kolk’s 1989 article, The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma; Re-enactment, Re-victimization and Masochism. He reports that when a person is exposed to trauma, especially in childhood, traumatic events such as those experienced in this man’s life; loss of a parent, exposure to suicide, violence to a school friend, and likely even more that may never be known, there is a profound impact on an individual’s psychological development and the resultant compulsive behavioral repetition may even be accompanied by a loss of conscious memory of the original traumas.
It is really terrible how many people reacted to Hannah’s behaviour after the abduction. There was so much paranoia extracted from snippets of information that it boggled my mind!
Do some people really think that the FBI and police forces involved in the case would actually cover up facts that support an alternate reality where Hannah was some kind of co-conspirator?
It appears that a fair number of people have trouble defining the line between reality and TV/movie crime drama.