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April 30, 2005

Missing Bride Found...

Of course you've heard the story of the bride-to-be from Georgia who disappeared while jogging? She's been found in New Mexico where she claims a man and woman in a blue van kidnapped her. From Yahoo/AP:


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Georgia woman who vanished just days before her wedding was found in New Mexico early Saturday after she called her fiance from a pay phone and said she had been kidnapped, authorities 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, said Albuquerque police spokeswoman Trish Ahrensfield. Police were searching for a blue van with a man and woman inside.

The bride-to-be had been missing since Tuesday, when her fiance reported that she went for her nightly run and didn't come home, police said.

Wilbanks called her fiance, John Mason, late Friday and said she had been kidnapped, her stepmother said. "Jennifer said she thought the people got scared because of all the media coverage and just let her go," Ann Wilbanks told The Associated Press.


Yeah, well, I suppose it could happen but WHY would a couple kidnap a 32-year-old woman? Is her family THAT wealthy? Is she SO desirable that... I don't know; call me a cynic but I THINK she just got cold-feet. Maybe she and her bridegroom should attend a bit of pre-wedding counseling. I hope it works out.

Update 8:50 AM: See, I should have just waited a couple hours. It turns out I was right. From Yahoo/AP:


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.


I'm glad that both Albuquerque and Deluth police aren't going to charge her. She's been through enough. Let's all just hope she and her (almost) husband and their families work it all out. I would certainly be intimidated if facing a wedding of 600 people. I get stagefright just doing my radio segments!

Posted by Jeff Soyer at April 30, 2005 06:44 AM
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