were able to see it was a blue tent. now the horseback riders reported they saw a blue tent at honeymoon lake which was three miles away from moorhead lake and they reported they saw her and a cat and dimaggio up at moorhead lake. so when we saw the blue tent, we were we definitely knew we would have to research further. and then, we were actually able to verify it was a male and a female with blond hair and a small animal. so at that point, we knew we had something extremely valuable. it appears they were just kind of going about their normal activity. they gathered firewood and walked around and it didn t appear like they were doing anything out of the ordinary. but they were the only ones in this in that area. we searched the area, and there was no one else within several
steve german who told his story to kgtv. we had been working the case for nearly a week, and it s kind of interesting to point out that this was the sheriff that called in the tip about the idaho woods and seeing them. that was the 200th tip. when the sheriff called in the tip, it was we were trying to determine how valid it was. when the car turned up in idaho, of usually, it became a central area of focus. once we were able to determine that the car was there, it became it was really the needle in the haystack that we had been searching for. we went to the lake where she was last seen by the horseback hiders, it s called moorhead lake and it s a small lake, tiny little mountain lake and it s up it s probably no larger than an olympic sized pool. we circled a few more times and focused in on that area and we
where the man from jim kocounty idaho spotted him on wednesday afternoon. that location is probably 68 miles east of the trailhead where he parked the car in and left it. and just a few miles west of moorhead lake. go ahead, john. sorry. i didn t mean to interrupt you. and almost what? well, yeah, they said that they didn t go very far. i was talking today to the fire chief that has been here for decades, and an outfitter that regularly flies into the area, and they said that even a fit person would have a hard time going more than about five miles a day. that is how rugged these conditions are in the frank c r church river of no return wilderness. john sowell, tell me this,
tell us about this operation. how it happened and what you re hearing now. reporter: well, one thing you just said, don, that caught my interest is moorhead lake. this is an area that was about six miles from where that car was ditched on, presumably on either late monday, possibly tuesday. they were then seen around 5:00 p.m. on wednesday on, by a horseback rider near moorhead lake. so, and then it wasn t until friday morning that this search really kicked off. is you re talking about 48, perhaps 60 hours between the time they were spotted and the time this investigation got going. and here we are on saturday. 72 hours later. they didn t move very far from where they were seen at moorhead lake. so either they were extraordinarily tired. they only got six miles in a day, perhaps, two days. it s incredibly rough territory. we flew over it today. there is smoke in the air from fires. it s hard to breathe. it s very rough terrain.
time, special agents with the fbi s hostage rescue team along with salt lake city s division of the fbi, observed hannah and the suspect near moorhead lake at a campsite. agents moved in to rescue hannah. the suspect is deceased. as a matter of policy, the fbi automatically dispatches a shooting review team from washington to review the circumstances surrounding any situation where a special agent discharges a firearm. the team will interview witnesses and determine exactly what happened. for this reason, no other details can be released at this time. when incidents like this occur, no one ever really knows where the investigation will lead. in this case, our team faced a very challenging situation. our team of fbi agents, valley