'I knew him well enough to know that I didn't like him'

Summary

Family of Rachael Anderson speaks out about the arrest of the man their mother was trying to divorce; daughter says Charles Capone was abusive.

Story Published: May 6, 2010 at 6:08 PM PST

Story Updated: May 6, 2010 at 6:08 PM PST

LEWISTON - Members of Rachael Anderson's family say they are happy that Charles Capone was arrested Thursday and hope it leads them to answers.

"I knew him well enough to know that I didn't like him," said Rachael's daughter Amber Griswold.

Griswold said her mom married Capone in September but quickly wanted an annulment.

"She was so excited to get married to him, she wanted to be with him forever," said Griswold. "She thought it was like a fairy tale. She was basically tricked into it, that's what I felt like."

Anderson filed for divorce in January, just days after her family says Capone choked her. But Amber said there were many other incidents before that.

"'He's grabbing something, it looks sharp, his stabbing the tire,' she's (Rachael) like screaming this over the phone, so scared," said Griswold. "I don't remember how she made it home that night. I think a friend came and got her."

Amber said those are the reasons why the family thinks Capone was the person stalking and harassing their mother and perhaps knows about her whereabouts.

"(We said) it's Charles mom, it's Charles, we know it's Charles," said Griswold. "But he would say 'I'm getting text messages too. I'm getting voicemails like that too. I'm getting stalked also.' So, it was kind of a common thread where she could call him and say 'are you getting text messages too? What are they saying?'"

On Friday there will be a bake sale from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at St. Joe's, just outside of the cafeteria, to help pay for expenses for the family.

On Mother's Day, Sunday, at 8 p.m., the family is holding a candlelight vigil in Beachview Park.

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