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After hearing the news this morning, this sounds fishy.
I think she got cold feet and didn't have the nerve to call off the wedding.
Rumor has it she's alive.
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Jennifer Wilbanks, a Georgia woman missing since Tuesday night, has been found alive and well in New Mexico, the associate pastor of her church said.
Wilbanks was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and told her family she had been abducted and taken there, according to Pastor Alan Jones.
Wilbanks, 32, had not been seen since Tuesday night, when she left the Duluth home she shares with her fiance John Mason, also 32, for a jog about 8:30 p.m.
"Her abductors let her go," Jones said. "They got scared and let her go and she made it to a pay phone and actually called the home."
Wilbanks said her abductors "came up behind her, cut her hand and put her in a blue van," Jones said.
Jones said Wilbanks "sounded a little frantic, a little scared."
Pastor Jones was scheduled to conduct the wedding for Wilbanks and Mason who were scheduled to be married in Duluth, northeast of Atlanta.
Instead of the wedding, her fiance and family will fly to Albuquerque Saturday morning to be bring Wilbanks back, according to her fiance's father, Claude Mason.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/
After hearing the news this morning, this sounds fishy.
I think she got cold feet and didn't have the nerve to call off the wedding.
Ga. Woman Found, Reportedly Got Cold Feet
Ga. Bride-To-Be Found Alive in N.M.; Police Say She Got Cold Feet, Lied About Being Abducted
By MARY PEREA
The Associated Press
Apr. 30, 2005 - A Georgia bride-to-be who vanished just days before her wedding turned up in New Mexico and fabricated a tale of abduction before admitting Saturday that she had gotten cold feet and "needed some time alone," police said.
Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, was in police custody more than 1,420 miles from her home on what was supposed to be her wedding day.
"It turns out that Miss Wilbanks basically felt the pressure of this large wedding and could not handle it," said Randy Belcher, the police chief in Duluth, Ga., the Atlanta suburb where Wilbanks lives with her fiance. He said there would be no criminal charges.
Wilbanks, whose disappearance set off a nationwide hunt, called her fiance, John Mason, from a pay phone late Friday and told him that she had been kidnapped while jogging three days before, authorities said. Her family rejoiced that she was safe, telling reporters that the media coverage apparently got to the kidnappers.
But Wilbanks soon recanted, according to police.
Ray Schultz, chief of police in Albuquerque, said Wilbanks "had become scared and concerned about her impending marriage and decided she needed some time alone." He said she traveled to Las Vegas by bus before going to Albuquerque.
"She's obviously very concerned about the stress that she's been through, the stress that's been placed on her family," he said. "She is very upset."
The mood outside Wilbanks' home went from jubilant to somber after Wilbanks changed her story. Family members ducked inside and the blinds were drawn, but friends expressed relief that Wilbanks was safe.
"Having cold feet is a joy compared to what the alternative might have been," friend Melinda Larson, who had planned to attend the wedding, told CNN.
The wedding was going to be a huge bash. The couple had mailed 600 invitations, and the ceremony was to feature 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen.
Wilbanks' uncle, Mike Satterfield, thanked people who had helped in the search and supported the family.
"Jennifer had some issues the family was not aware of. We're looking forward to loving her and talking to her about these issues," he said.
Mason and Wilbanks' family planned to fly to Albuquerque later Saturday.
Wilbanks, who is a nurse, was tired and thirsty, but was not complaining of any injuries Saturday, officials said. Her hair, which was long in pictures released by her family, was shoulder-length.
Just hours before Wilbanks called her fiance, police in Duluth said they had no solid leads in the case and began dismantling a search center. Relatives offered a $100,000 reward for information and were planning a prayer vigil.
The hunt for Wilbanks had consumed Duluth, a tight-knit town. Her picture and newspaper articles about her disappearance were on telephone poles and shop windows. Police had also seized three computers from the home she shared with Mason.
Mason had become a target of su ion and agreed to a private polygraph test, which Wilbanks' family said he passed. He had been negotiating with authorities for another test.
"That's been the hardest part for me," Mason said after Wilbanks called from Albuquerque. "It gives you a feeling like you can't walk outside your home."
Larson, a friend of both Mason and Wilbanks, said she thought the bride-to-be had no idea her disappearance would draw so much attention.
"Sometimes things take on a life of their own, just like weddings," she said.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=717124
What a dumb .
Sorry, but I'm so sick of the fake abductions. If you can't handle something and want to take off, leave a frickin' note and go on your merry way.
Not only that, but to be that selfish to worry your family like that.
i ing knew this the moment i heard the story of her disappearance...
what is up with the dumbasses these days... back in the day, people just got stood up at the alter or divorced if they didn't want to be in the marriage anymore.. lately, they pull stunts like this or kill the spouse...
Book deal and Lifetime movie to follow.
My su ions were raised by this pic:
Got them crazy eyes -- those folk are capable of anything.
You know it!
What amazes me is that “ALL” of you just fall in line with your Gloria Allred man bashing...It never even occurred to any of you that “the groom to be” could possibly be a man of high moral fiber....You all start comparing him to Scott Peterson...
Pathetic!!!!
If he is a man...He is guilty of something...
too funny!My su ions were raised by this pic:
Got them crazy eyes -- those folk are capable of anything.
that is pretty much true though! hahaha!Pathetic!!!!
If he is a man...He is guilty of something...
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.
The wedding was going to be a huge bash. The couple had mailed 600 invitations, and the ceremony was to feature 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen.
Runaway Bride.
they need to put her ass in a crazy house or in jail for this bull !
LMAO!!!!!
S y was already blaming the fiance....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA...................
I'd just like to offer a little advice to this Mason dude:
RUN, FORREST! RUN!!!!!!!!!!
LMAO!!!!!
S y was already blaming the fiance....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA...................
uh..i didn't realize Flea was my user name. All I did was agree with her that I would be down at the police station taking a lie detector test.
This guy must be really hard up if he's willing to forgive that broad after she made him look like a chump in front of the entire country...Jones said Mason had no hostility toward his fiancee.
''I have never met such a strong person in all my life,'' Jones said. ''He's an incredible man.''
Did you hear the guy's interview though??
"I knew it was two things,
1 she was up in heaven
2 she would be back with me, cause she knew what a great thing she had goin with me"
lmfaooooo
what a couple of clowns.
BTW, any apologies from the women sect here???
Ray Schultz, chief of police in Albuquerque, said Wilbanks "had become scared and concerned about her impending marriage and decided she needed some time alone." He said she traveled to Las Vegas by bus before going to Albuquerque.
she must have been watching one of those "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" commercials an decided to have a last fling and then changed her mind about getting married...
When I was in college I ran into these two hotties at a bar on a Friday night...I didn't know either one of them but we got to talking and at closing time they invited me back to their apartment...we all sat there talking and laughing and one of them was showing all the signs of being seriously interested in hooking up...and I liked her too...very bright, funny, and hot...the other one kept hanging around which I thought was kinda weird but she FINALLY got up and stretched and gave her friend a funny look and said something about needing to get some sleep and having a big day tomorrow...I didn't think much about it at the time...one thing led to another and we were having a wonderful time and taking our time and using the old baseball analogy we were crawling around third base when she noticed that it was starting to get light outside...she freaked and jumped up and ran to the kitchen to check the clock on the stove...and said..."Oh !...you've gotta leave...my parents will be here in thirty minutes"...I was like...uhhh...why did your parents drive all night to get here at dawn?...she walked over and gave me a long slow kiss and them said "*sigh*...I just wish I had met you a year ago...I guess I should have told you I'm getting married this afternoon at 2..."
Dang!..whadda you say to that?..."I was like...well...I guess I need to get some clothes on and get out of here then...and uhhh have a nice life..."
Last edited by CosmicCowboy; 04-30-2005 at 12:31 PM.
And The Moose_Shady 'Foot In Thy Mouth Disease' Award goes to..
None other than our nostril-flaring southern belle herselfNancy Grace weighing in on the Jennifer Wilbanks disappearing case.
That which is Nancy Grace...
4/28 Transcripts
GRACE: Well, look, I don`t have a degree in being a police chief. But I can tell you this much: This is not cold feet, all right? This is not cold feet. I know that much.
4/29 Transcripts
GRACE: Another question. Could you tell me, Jonathan, what was the fiance doing at the time she was jogging? Was he there in the home? Does he have an alibi?
Well, she got it wrong for BOTH COUNTS because Poor Jenny decided to what Julia Roberts did in Runaway Bride on this time, this should've been a reality show.
cable news loves reporting on "kidnappings" and "disappearances" theres nothing they love more
its sick but it think foxnews' greta van sustren hopes for them to turn up dead or raped, brutally murdered, then she can sigh and tell you if you have kids to not let them hear so she can give you "grizzly" details
ive heard kidnappings are down the last 10 years but you hear so much about them due to cable news, youd think america was columbia
all this media coverage is to scare us so in a few years the government can start putting chips in all the babies, scare us so much that parents volunteer their children for radioID tags like they put in dogs
what a story
she must have been watching one of those "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" commercials an decided to have a last fling and then changed her mind about getting married...
When I was in college I ran into these two hotties at a bar on a Friday night...I didn't know either one of them but we got to talking and at closing time they invited me back to their apartment...we all sat there talking and laughing and one of them was showing all the signs of being seriously interested in hooking up...and I liked her too...very bright, funny, and hot...the other one kept hanging around which I thought was kinda weird but she FINALLY got up and stretched and gave her friend a funny look and said something about needing to get some sleep and having a big day tomorrow...I didn't think much about it at the time...one thing led to another and we were having a wonderful time and taking our time and using the old baseball analogy we were crawling around third base when she noticed that it was starting to get light outside...she freaked and jumped up and ran to the kitchen to check the clock on the stove...and said..."Oh !...you've gotta leave...my parents will be here in thirty minutes"...I was like...uhhh...why did your parents drive all night to get here at dawn?...she walked over and gave me a long slow kiss and them said "*sigh*...I just wish I had met you a year ago...I guess I should have told you I'm getting married this afternoon at 2..."
Dang!..whadda you say to that?..."I was like...well...I guess I need to get some clothes on and get out of here then...and uhhh have a nice life..."
obviously she didnt have Georgia on her Mind anymore
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