depatched garage, looking for any fire extension, and during that search, they came across a body in that garage. later, another charred body was found in the house. by monday morning, 45 miles west of the cabin, tina s family had grown concerned. i got a call from my sister, said we have a family emergency, you need to get over here right away. i m coming to get you. and we got there. and they told us that jim s house burned down, and we didn t know where tina was. and ethan hadn t made it to practice, and we knew he wouldn t miss it. also suspicious, tina was totally off the grid. and so the bells went off when she didn t show up at wo, and people were calling around, hadn t heard from her since saturday. something was terribly wrong. breaking today, you have an amber alert out west. it a horrible situation.
provided for. i was very sad when i heard it. david is christina anderson s uncle and remembers the separation quite differently. i think that s where this fe fellow maybe moved in on tina a little bit. but he was a trusted family friend. and he took the kids to practice, picked them up. was helping tina out. i could see where they were all manipulated to trust whatever he had to say or do. braun says some family members were slightly suspicious of why this divorced man spent so much time with the andersons. especially the kids. my brothers kind of wondered about this guy, because maybe not before, but they kind of out of place with the family. but they didn t it s not their business, you know. no one wanted to rock the boat. christina needed help with the kids. and she trusted dimaggio like a
they had to worry about propane tanks exploding. dimaggio s cabin was ablaze, and so was the garage. firefighters investigated. so they went into the detached garage, looking for any fire extension, and during that search, they came across a body in that garage. later, another charred body was found in the house. by monday morning, 45 miles west of the cabin, tina s family had grown concerned. i got a call from my sister, said we have a family emergency, you need to get over here right away. i m coming to get you. and we got there. and they told us that jim s house burned down, and we didn t know where tina was. and ethan hadn t made it to practice, and we knew he wouldn t miss it. also suspicious, tina was totally off the grid. and so the bells went off when she didn t show up at work, and people were calling around, hadn t heard from her since saturday. something was terribly wrong. breaking today, you have an
a raging fire just east of san diego, and then a woman and child found dead inside. the woman was tina. and the child, ethan. they had been beaten, blooded, then burned. in the ashes of dimaggio s home, authorities found arson wire, a hand written note, ammunition and letters from hanna. days later, speaking exclusively to cnn s chris cuomo, brett anderson was distraught. tell me about your kids, mr. anderson. tell me about hannah. tell me about ethan. give me a second. ethan wore his heart on his sleev sleeve. he would give do anything for anybody, loved everybody. he was just my buy. just like tina, was jen s buddy. she was here at this exact table. two weeks ago, playing board games.
will come. only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life when we celebrate funeral masses for those who die a natural death, we choose scripture readings that bring us consolation and comfort. but for the deaths of tina and ethan, there are no easy words. we struggled with deaths like this, because they are not right. they are an abomination. we will miss them forever. we will always remember them and ask, what could have been? after all, this was a national tragedy. it has been very painful. an unending pain and sorrow. i can say that it has been and still is the very worst tragedy to befall our entire heritage as a family.