Police: Ga. bride-to-be fabricated kidnap tale
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – 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.”
I can’t wait for SNL and/or MadTV to scoop up this gem to use in their sketches. Her feet obviously weren’t that cold to run from Georgia to New Mexico. Isn’t there some kind of charges that could be brought on her, like “False Kidnapping” or something? I’m pretty sure that nationwide hunt wasn’t free.
I told my overly concerned coworkers this was the case when the news teams ran with it.
A white woman blows a fart and America calls out the National Guard. Can we PLEASE stop this pre-occupation with their idiotic carrying on?
White Woman in Trouble
As Karsh said, “Bitch, please.”
When I heard about the bride-to-be who’d disappeared in Georgia, I braced myself for another onslaught of media covereage reminiscent of the Lacie Peterson case and others like it. I took a deep breath and vowed n…
if she were black, the police department’s would bill her family for the overtime.
Nationwide manhunt? For that ugly b****? She should be glad someone wanted to marry her ass! She must’ve told her fiancee that her abductors were black!
She must’ve told her fiancee that her abductors were black!
I think she told the police on the 911 call she was kidnapped by a Hispanic guy and a White guy…so she was close. Now that you mention it…she does have a touch of crazy in her eyes…
her eyes are a lil freaky.
There was a similar incident I heard of in Wisconsin where some stupid white chic kidnapped herself and there was this big media circus. Sad thing was, at the same time, 3 black women were really abducted and to my knowledge, never got any media attention and haven’t been seen since, either. Muthafuckin’ whitey…