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I would look directly at the Fiance.
By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer
1 minute ago
DULUTH, Ga. - A 32-year-old woman disappeared just days before she was to be married, and authorities said Thursday they are treating her case as a criminal investigation.
Jennifer Wilbanks was reported missing Tuesday night by her fiance, John Mason, who said the bride-to-be was last seen hours earlier leaving her home to go jogging on her one-mile route, police said.
Friends and relatives have told police that Wilbanks seemed happy and said she was looking forward to her wedding Saturday. Her keys, cash, credit cards and identification also were found in her home. Her fiance said she left with only her radio and the clothes she had on.
"All of her friends and family said this is totally uncharacteristic of her," police Maj. Don Woodruff said Thursday after it was announced that police were treating her disappearance as a criminal investigation. "We don't believe it was a case of premarital jitters. She did not get cold feet."
Despite this, Duluth Police Chief Randy Belcher said hours later, "It's a very real possibility she did get cold feet. I mean, how many husbands have gone out for a pack of cigarettes and not come back."
The wedding was expected to be a big bash, with 600 invitations sent out and 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen, according to Mason's mother, Vicki.
The ceremony was to be held at Duluth First United Methodist Church followed by a reception at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The groom's father, Claude Mason, a former Duluth mayor and municipal judge, was to be the best man.
Gifts have poured in for the wedding, according to the couple's bridal registry at Macy's, which listed Lenox dinnerware and Waterford crystal among the items bought for the bride and groom.
"She was so in love. The wedding is huge. It's the talk of the town. Everybody knows her, and was so excited," said Killie McCauley, of Gainesville, who went to high school with Wilbanks. McCauley was at the police station to find out how she could help find her friend, she said.
On Thursday, about 100 police officers were expanding a search a quarter-mile deeper into the nearby woods. Police had not asked anyone to take a polygraph test, but her fiance has volunteered to do so, Belcher said.
The woman is a daily runner and police downplayed the five hours it took for her fiance to report her missing. Many of those who routinely saw her jogging cannot remember if they saw her Tuesday, Blecher said.
Woodruff said the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have offered assistance in the search.
Hundreds of volunteers searched the area Wednesday for Wilbanks. Authorities called off the volunteer search late in the day but continued canvassing door-to-door in this northeastern Atlanta suburb seeking clues in the disappearance.
Police checked the banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River and the state Department of Natural Resources searched the river, Woodruff said.
Wilbanks is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 123 pounds, with shoulder-length dark brown hair. She was wearing a gray sweat shirt and blue sweat pants, police said.
I would look directly at the Fiance.
Or a jealous ex-boyfriend.
Or maybe he was the soon to be ex-fiance.
About to go jogging?
Damn... that placement before someone goes missing is so 2001.
Fishy story.The woman is a daily runner and police downplayed the five hours it took for her fiance to report her missing.
Did she normally jog (or disappear) for five hours without explanation?
I would think after two hours her fiance' would have been frantic.
If they were getting married that week and 14 groomsmen were in town I doubt he was just sitting around twiddling his thumbs a looking at his watch waiting for her to get back...
I suspect it was one of those "I thought she was with you?" things...
I am gonna take the opposite side and go with the abduction theory...
Hope she's ok.
Yeah I guess it could be. I don't go five hours without talking to LJ under any cir stances, so I just think it's peculiar.I suspect it was one of those "I thought she was with you?" things...
Y'all haven't been married long enough.
Give it time.
Y'all haven't been married long enough.
Give it time....my cell phone plays Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" when my wife calls...
I'm actually happy when my hubby has a week-long TDY. Cuts the dishes and laundry in half, and I can sleep without someone breathing all over me. Not that it isn't nice when he's home too, of course!Y'all haven't been married long enough.
Give it time.
Y'all haven't been married long enough.
Give it time.
I think we are just unusual. We are together 24 hours a day (because we both work from home) and we actually prefer it that way. Everyone we know thinks were crazy.
I swear, my husband has the most laundry of all. He's changing 3 times a day..work, after his walk, bed clothes.
I email him a lot also.
Back on subject..any updates on this story?
Here's the latest...
Search for Bride-to-Be Now a Criminal Probe
Thursday, April 28, 2005
DULUTH, Ga. — Searchers looking for a missing Georgia woman who was to be married this weekend found a clump of hair Thursday, and authorities were working to see if a DNA match existed.
WAGA-TV, the FOX affiliate in Atlanta, reported that the hair was found in an office park near the home of Jennifer Wilbanks (search). The station reported that authorities could not say yet if the hair was connected to Wilbanks' disappearance.
Authorities said they were considering the case a criminal investigation.
Wilbanks was reported missing by her fiancé, John Mason, who said she disappeared Tuesday on her nightly jog in this Atlanta suburb.
Her keys, cash, credit cards and identification also were found in her home. Her fiancé said she left with only her radio and the clothes she had on.
Before she left, "she talked to her mom ... about the different wedding stuff they had to get done for today," Mason said Wednesday night during an interview on FOX News' "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren."
Mason, who had just returned from a run himself, said Wilbanks prefers to run by herself, but "she doesn't just go and run and hide."
I saw a picture of her on TV last night...she is/was extremely good looking...hope some perv didn't snag her...
He just returned from a run?????
Sounds fishier by the minute.
Is that like, "Scott Peterson had returned from a fishing trip..."
EXACTLY!!!
Ga. Bride-To-Be's Family Announces Reward By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 22 minutes ago
DULUTH, Ga. - Police halted their search for a missing bride-to-be on Friday, saying they had "turned over probably every leaf in the city."
The announcement came minutes after the family of 32-year-old Jennifer Carol Wilbanks announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to anyone responsible for her disappearance.
Wilbanks, whose wedding is planned for Saturday, has not been seen since she went out for her nightly run Tuesday in this Atlanta suburb.
Police have searched for miles in the wooded areas around the home she shared with fiance John Mason but said Friday the job was done.
"We have searched what can be searched. We have exhausted our manpower and turned over probably every leaf in the city," Police Chief Randy Belcher said.
The only lead at this point, he said, was the strands of hair found Thursday that appear to be similar to Wilbanks'. The hair was being tested, he said.
"We have nothing at this point to show that there has been a crime committed," Belcher said.
Mason appeared with Wilbanks' family, who said he had passed a polygraph test. Police said the test was conducted privately and that they want to conduct their own test.
Mason did not speak with reporters. His lawyer has requested that the test be videotaped, which Belcher said no law enforcement agency "that's worth anything" will agree to do.
Belcher said Mason was continuing to cooperate.
Did Peterson ever take a polygraph test? Him being out jogging too is kinda fishy. It's not as though he was on a fihing trip by himself. When would one of you guys call the cops for your significant other?
This guy is sounding more and more guilty. If you were innocent and it was your significant other wouldn't you be down at the police station saying take the damn polygraph and go find her????
sounds like it will end tragically, but i hope not.
Godbless her.
Exactly.
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