"Abigail Hernandez waited a week to reveal alleged captor’s name" by Lynne Tuohy | Associated Press November 12, 2014
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teen who was kidnapped in October 2013 waited until a week after she was home to reveal her alleged captor’s identity, according to court papers released Wednesday.
The documents also said Abigail Hernandez told investigators she learned her captor’s name from a cookbook he had handed her during her captivity.
The information was released by a judge Wednesday in response to a motion filed by The Associated Press to unseal the arrest warrant affidavit against Nathaniel Kibby.
Kibby was charged in July with kidnapping the then-14-year-old on Oct. 9, 2013, as she walked home from her high school in Conway. She returned home the night of July 20, but investigators have not revealed the details of her kidnapping and return.
The heavily redacted paperwork released Wednesday sheds no light on how Abby vanished or how she returned home. Nor does it address any trauma she may have suffered.
Lawyers hired by Abby’s family said in August she suffered ‘‘numerous acts of unspeakable violence’’ during her months of captivity. The lawyers posted the statement on a website created by friends after her disappearance. The statement was largely a plea for privacy and did not elaborate on what she endured.
Kibby’s lawyer, public defender Jesse Friedman, declined to comment Wednesday on the newly released information.
I'm sorry, folks, but this whole tale is starting to stink of a psyop for it doesn't make sense. The whole coverage of it is strange, and one is led to conclude that what happened was this girl may have run away and now interested parties want to keep the narrative flowing in a different direction. The reaction by family and authority is strange.
After Kibby’s arrest, investigators spent considerable time searching a large storage container behind his Gorham trailer. They have refused to comment on whether they believe Abby was held captive there during her nine-month disappearance.
The excerpts indicate prosecutors believe she spent at least part of her disappearance inside Kibby’s trailer.
She told prosecutors she remembers seeing a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence on Kibby’s wall. According to the excerpts, a state trooper who’d made several trips to Kibby’s home before Abby’s disappearance recalled a framed government document inside the residence.
Abby and her mother attended Kibby’s arraignment in July but have not commented on the case. Her mother, Zenya Hernanadez, told prosecutors she doesn’t believe her daughter made it home the day she vanished because the dogs had not been let out.
The excerpts says a dog tracked Abby’s scent from the high school to her front door, but it is not clear from the affidavit whether her scent was fresh or may have lingered from previous trips home from school.
The Associated Press filed its motion to unseal on Oct. 2. Kibby’s lawyers did not object but prosecutors did, saying the information would impede the ongoing investigation and could ‘‘taint the testimony’’ of witnesses who have yet to be interviewed.
The state’s objection, dated Oct. 10, confirms the affidavit details Abby’s disappearance and return and what happened in the interim.
Judge Pamela Albee met with prosecutors and defense attorney Jesse Friedman behind closed doors Nov. 7 but did not hold a public hearing on the motion to unseal.
Most of the affidavit remains sealed.
Kibby is charged with kidnapping but has yet to be indicted or have a hearing on the evidence against him. Several probable cause hearings have been postponed with the consent of his lawyers.
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Is it possible, could it be possible, that the whole things is another in a long line of mind-manipulating hoaxes?
"Delay in victim naming alleged kidnapper is common, specialist says
A trauma specialist said it is not unusual for a kidnap victim to wait a week or more to reveal information about the alleged captor that leads to an arrest. Dr. Judy Cohen, medical director of the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children & Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, said she was surprised that New Hampshire teen Abigail Hernandez provided a name within a week after she returned home from nine months of what prosecutors are calling ‘‘captivity.’’ Recently released court documents show Hernandez named Nathaniel Kibby, 34, of Gorman as her alleged captor within a week after she returned to her North Conway home. Cohen said it’s likely Hernandez was trying to protect herself from the reality of what happened. Kibby was arrested July 28 on a kidnapping charge and is being held on $1 million cash bond."
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Did you know they were cousins?
UPDATE: Just found something.
