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Teen Rescued From Idaho Wilderness Returns To California With Father

James DiMaggio, Car
Courtesy Ada County Sheriff's Office

Federal authorities say the 16-year-old girl who was abducted last week and rescued in Idaho has returned to California with her father.

FBI spokesman Jason Pack says Hannah Anderson was reunited with her father, Brett Anderson, on Sunday at a hospital in Boise.

The girl was flown to Boise hours after two teams of FBI agents rescued her and shot and killed her abductor, 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio, at their camp near an alpine lake in the Idaho wilderness Saturday.

DiMaggio is also believed to have killed the girl's mother and brother at his home outside of San Diego.

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore told KSWB-TV Monday that Hannah Anderson didn't know her mother and brother had been killed until she was rescued.

Gore tells the Fox affiliate that Hannah was taken against her will and was under "extreme duress."

Sheriff Gore says the man suspected of abducting Anderson girl fired at least one shot before authorities killed him in the Idaho wilderness.

Gore, the FBI and Hannah's father have scheduled a news conference in San Diego on Monday.

Authorities also say Hannah Anderson has been reunited with a gray cat that she had with her in the wilderness last week.

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