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| 4 bodies pulled from wreckage of Conn. plane crash - USA TODAY Posted: 10 Aug 2013 09:05 AM PDT Four bodies have been pulled from the site where a plane crashed into two Connecticut homes, fire officials said Saturday. Anthony Moscato of the East Haven Fire Department said the bodies of two people from the plane and two people in one of the homes were recovered overnight. The deputy chief says authorities now believe those were the only victims. Earlier officials had warned that as many as six people were feared dead. The small, twin-engine plane slammed into two homes near New Haven while attempting to land Friday morning. A family member identified two of the dead as former Microsoft executive Bill Henningsgaard and his teenage son, Maxwell, who were on the plane traveling to the East Coast to visit colleges. The family learned it was Bill Henningsgaard's plane through the tail number, Blair Henningsgaard, the city attorney in Astoria, Ore., and brother of Bill Henningsgaard told the Associated Press. Authorities previously said that two children in one of the homes hit were missing. They were ages 1 and 13. The Hartford Courant reported Saturday that officials confirmed the two children were among the dead. The other home was empty at the time of the plane crash, East Haven Fire Chief Douglas F. Jackson told the Courant. Bill Henningsgaard worked for Microsoft for 14 years and had been a vice president of sales for the Western United States, Australia and New Zealand. He lived in Medina, Wash., a Seattle suburb, with his wife, Susan Sullivan, and their three children. It wasn't the first time Henningsgaard had been in a plane crash. In April 2009, he and his 84-year-old mother — who couldn't swim — survived a crash into the Columbia River after their plane's engine died. They were rescued by a bar pilot who had watched the crash from shore. Contributing: Michael Winter, USA TODAY; The Associated Press |
| Hunt for abducted teen centers on Idaho wilderness - USA TODAY Posted: 10 Aug 2013 08:29 AM PDT A massive search is underway in the remote Idaho backcountry for California murder suspect James DiMaggio and the 16-year-old he's believed to have kidnapped following the grisly murders of her mother and younger brother. More than 100 law enforcement officials are descending 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 north of Boise where motorized vehicles are prohibited. Crews are searching the area by foot, horse and helicopter. More than 100 people are either working on the search or are on their way to help. Agencies working on the search include the Valley County and Ada Cuonty Sheriff's departments U.S Marshals Service, Homeland Security, FBI, Idaho Army National Guard and Idaho State Police. 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 bomb squad. The discovery came about two days after a horseback rider reported seeing DiMaggio and teen Hannah Anderson hiking with backpacks. Idaho authorities say the rider didn't realize the pair were being sought until he got home and recognized them on news reports. San Diego Police say they believe DiMaggio, 40, kidnapped Hannah after killing her mother, Christinia 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. The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area was named after the late Idaho senator who sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1976. At more than 2.3 million acres, its the second-largest protected wilderness area in the lower 48 states, coursing through mountain ranges, deep canyons and the middle fork of the Salmon River, a popular waterway for rafters and kayakers. DiMaggio, a friend of the Andersons, is an experienced outdoorsman, according to Hannah's father, Brett Anderson. Follow Strauss on twitter @gbstrauss |
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