Jennifer Wilbanks found alive

[imenja]

somewhere in New Mexico. Breaking news on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/

[JI7]

1. who is that ?

[imenja]

2. the woman who went missing right before her wedding

She's about 19. Her fiance was the major suspect. I don't know a lot about the story, but its been all over the TV lately.

[chicagojoe]

7. She's 32.

[imenja]

8. ok

as I said, I haven't followed it closely. Just happened to turn on CNN

[Sterling]

124. I think it is pretty obvious what happened.

:eyes:

[Scairp]

26. "Her fiance was the major suspect"

That's overstating a quite a bit. The cops were, from what I surmised, grasping at leads, and were attempting to turn the focus to him without a strong reason to do so. The media didn't seem to bite this time though. It seemed to me that today the media was backing him up. I guess he didn't have the feel of a villain that someone like Peterson ended up being. I guess he took a polygraph administered by someone his family engaged and passed, and was willing to do the same with the cops' polygrapher, but for some reason the cops were balking at videotaping it, and they were still trying to hash out the conditions. His only condition was that it be videotaped. Didn't seem unreasonable to me. Didn't understand where the Duluth cops were coming from in resisting. Most of the time, if a someone close to a missing person is willing to do the poly, they will bend over backwards to accommodate them. But, all is moot now that she has been recovered alive, and relatively unharmed, it would seem. I wish them all well, cause we all know that stranger abductions rarely turn out so great. I don't think she will make her wedding tomorrow though. I'm sure the guests will understand and show up whenever they are ready to reschedule.

[imenja]

28. as I said, I haven't been following the story

though I saw a recent article on Yahoo that said they'd called off the search and were focusing their attention on the fiance. Obviously he's cleared now.

[readmylips]

105. That Abrams lawyer rich guy's show was all about....

the fiancee having something to hide because he was refusing to take a polygraph in front of cameras. The experts said, that no one takes polygraphs in front of cameras which is mainly to protect the technician. Abrams like that bitch Nancy whatever, had fire coming out of their eyes. Their claws were already spread for a new juicy story...what a bunch of nice Christians. Humans, they're not.

[Sterling]

125. I'm sure the guests will understand and show up whenever they are ready to

I doubt it.

[jayfish]

65. And You Can Bet That...

if they never found her, they would have charged and convicted her husband of murder. Our criminal justice system is in a shambles.

Jay

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

71. You are spot on.

[miss_kitty]

3. link

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/

[imenja]

6. thanks!

I wonder what the real story is. I can't help but wonder if she ran off on her own accord.

[ogradda]

4. Thank God.

There's so seldom a good ending to these stories. Do they know what happened yet?

[Psephos]

5. Awesome! n/t

[madrchsod]

9. nancy grace was foaming at the

mouth about this story tonight..poor nancy she got it wrong again....

[imenja]

10. she thought the fiance did it?

Evidently so did the police. They had called off the search and were focusing on him exclusively.

[jayfish]

66. Poor Nancy?

Her ass needs to be fired.


Jay



I now you were being facetious.

[Sterling]

126. She is like the Jan Brady character from SNL.

She is a caricature that is for damn sure. I can't take any of the clowns they have on CNN seriously these days. Nerds, the lot of them.

[LostinVA]

75. To be fair, the odds are unfortunately that her fiance would

have been the murderer. Women are very rarely taken and killed by a stranger. It's usually their husband or boyfriend. It is a sad reality.

However, I think the cops in this case did a decent job -- the Chief said several times he believed it WAS a case of cold feet, because of what people told him of her stress level regarding the wedding. He only declared yesterday it was criminal, especially since her father said she would never, ever do that to her family. Her fiance took and passed a polygraph yesterday, and that carries alot of weight with investigators. The guy would have been okay.

Hoverer, she isn't being charged,a nd should be! She should at least have to pay OT costs and do some kind of community service. I wonder if she told the NM cops whether it was black or Hispanic guys that abducted her. Jesus. If she didn't want a big wedding, then why did she have 600 guests and 14 attendants??? Charles and Di didn't have that many.

[stevedeshazer]

11. I smell something

I'm glad she's alive, but there's something not quite right here.

I'm just sayin'....

[imenja]

12. me too

My guess. She wasn't kidnapped at all. She ran off, and then felt guilty when she saw her fiance was being reeled in by the police.

[Clark2008]

14. So the fiance looks like the biggest schmuck of all

God, what an indignity.

All because the media was hoping for another murder - and we know that's what they were hoping: body parts strewn and lude twinkles in blonde bimbo's eyes as they 'reported' the horror.

:grr:

(For the record, I was a police/crime reporter for 10 years.)

[imenja]

15. to be fair

An overwhelming percentage of abductions result in murder. And statistics also show that women are most often killed by their husbands or boyfriends. For pregnant women, that is the NUMBER ONE cause of death.

[Sterling]

127. So lets lock up all the boyfriends?

I wonder how many of those "majority" of men were not guilty?

[saigon68]

25. lude twinkles in blonde bimbo's eyes

There are quite a few of those vacant eyed, witless mouth pieces on FAUX like Lorrie Duhe etc.

[MSgt213]

23. I don't know what the true story is but I agree there has to be more to

this story. It all sounds just too strange.

[Scairp]

27. She ran off with nothing?

Her wallet, money, credit cards, car, everything was left behind. She had nothing but the jogging clothes on her back. I am willing to believe that she has been abducted by strangers who freaked out at the attention her being missing had generated, and either let her go or allowed her to escape. Until we hear otherwise, I take her story at face value. The Fibbies will uncover the truth should her abduction tale be just that, and she did run off. But how someone with zero dollars would get to Albuquerque is a mystery to me.

[roseBudd]

33. hitch hike, it's easy when you are female...

might not be safe, but definitely easy. Especially from truck stops.

[imenja]

34. she took a bus

She obviously had cash with her

[LostinVA]

76. An she cut her hair -- she knew what she was doing

Hopefully the guy is mart enough not to marry her now...

[imenja]

77. well, sort of a non issue

she ran away because she didn't want to get married. There is not going
to be a wedding.

[LostinVA]

112. Not necessarily

On her end, it could be she didn't want a wedding, not necessarily a marriage. I know several brides who freak out before and on their wedding day, because it's so much hoopla, and they are so stressed about it and all of the details.

But, if she still wants to be married, I hope the guy runs away as fast as he can.

[Wilber_Stool]

122. She's got money.

He'll marry her.

[Sterling]

128. "I am willing to believe that she has been abducted"

Well they allways say when you ASSUME.......
Glad you are not a cop.

[Scairp]

138. Wow

You must be in possession of a crystal ball. I got up this morning, turned on CNN, and lo and behold, she hopped a Greyhound all on her own, to Vegas no less. Why on earth she ended up in Albuquerque is beyond me. Maybe she was headed home until she realized what a big deal this had turned into? I looked up, on my trusty road atlas, the street where she called the cops from, and it's right off a major interstate. Well, she's got some 'splainin to do, and she has hurt very many people. I hope she gets her life together.

[Tomee450]

19. I agree with you.

[DaDeacon]

24. Yeah I feel that way too ...

This story is far from over

[LdyGuique]

13. I am glad that she's turned up and is alive

It costs me absolutely nothing to believe the story as it's currently being disseminated -- if other facts come out, so be it. However, since she didn't take any clothing, her purse, her CCs, etc -- it is less likely that she's a runaway bride.

Give her a break until more comes out.

[imenja]

17. You're right

I tend to treat these things like mystery novels or TV shows, where you try to guess the ending. They are real people's lives though and we want what's best for them. Still, if she was abducted she's gone through a horrifying ordeal, and mostly likely sexual assault.

[imenja]

30. breaking news: no abduction. she had cold feet

[KittyWampus]

101. This Woman Is Sanpaku. You Could See The Whites Above Her Eyes

sanpaku= out of balance and either in danger of either hurting someone else or being hurt BY someone else.

[grasswire]

119. I've been looking for that word for a long time

I heard it once on television. "Sanpaku" it is.

[Sterling]

129. It costs me absolutely nothing to believe the story as it's currently "

Wow the MSM send you their undying thanks. Without viewers like you it would be impossible to show nothing but lies and bullshit on cable news all day.

Imagine if people actually used common sense and were skeptical when watching the news. Where would we all be then. Moral would plummet.

Keep up the great work!!!!

[bluestateguy]

16. Good

Good for her and her family, and good for us because we will be spared another Laci Peterson cable news channel soap opera.

[imenja]

18. there is always another murder

This is America after all. The land of guns.

[Retired AF Dem]

20. Strange on how most of these high profile murders

the news subject us to, most of them don't involve guns.

[imenja]

hmmm. not so sure

Blake's wife was shot with a gun. They don't know how Lacey Peterson was killed. True, Nicole Brown Simpson was slashed to death. A lot of the others have been children, little girls victims of pedophilia. They don't tend to use guns. Their particular pathology requires closer contact with their victims. What about the Menendez boys? They may have used guns.

The overwhelming number of people murdered in this country are gun shot victims.

[Scooter24]

21. Good news!

This means more time for the Michael Jackson trial!!!
:puke:

[FormerOstrich]

22. Geeez.....

I almost never watch TV but I'm out of town at a hotel and have CNN on. This has been the only story they have had on for what seems like hours now. They've talked to everybody that knew her...blah...blah...

Don't get me wrong, it's great she is alive but how does this warrant all this air time? What good does it to speculate about the wedding and talk to everyone?

So now that they have given more information that I need... Why when she was released and went to a 7-11 (I can only assume was closed) and called her fiance collect instead of dialing 9-1-1?

Next, does anyone think it bazaar they are having a celebration at his house. They said they were going to NM about 11:00 am to pick her up. Maybe there isn't any flights between now and then but if I were her I'd be pissed they had their little party beforehand. Which is why CNN should report some other news so people like me don't have to wonder about all that kind of worthless bullshit.

[Catchawave]

70. Ratings, Ratings, Ratings !

These stories drag in the viewers! All the cable news channels have admitted ratings drop like a rock when politicians are on.

[Sterling]

130. "I were her I'd be pissed" If you were her you would deserve jail time.

This chick is useless and selfish. This stunt could have put here man in prison. She's a a first class B^&%$. He should never speak to her again and she should have to pay the costs of searching for her back to the gov.

[TomClash]

29. Is that the Saudi Bush was holding hands with? eom

[Maine-ah]

31. cnn reporting

case of cold feet, she made up the whole kidnapping story.

[imenja]

32. had to be

When she turned up alive in New Mexico, it was hard to imagine that she had been abducted, taken across the country and then set free.

[Red State Rebel]

35. Wilbanks NOT Abducted - Had Cold Feet

Breaking - Willbanks got cold feet about wedding and took a bus to Vegas.

[MSgt213]

36. That's what I thought. She was lying.

[pie]

94. You are smarter than I am

For some reason that possibility never crossed my mind.

[BrainRants]

37. Yet corporate news media took the "missing white girl" bait

and ran with it.

Idiots.

[thefloyd]

38. She is crazy

I love how she claims one of the alleged "criminals" spoke spanish.
One thing that is wrong with America........She is worried about her wedding and there are soldiers dying in Iraq

[Gman]

39. No she's not

she's just the Runaway Bride!

[confludemocrat]

96. Yes she is

Any sane person would consider what her disapperance would mean or simply tell her fiancee she wasn't ready. Instead, we have a case study in nuttiness residing in many quarters revealed.

[KlatooBNikto]

47. That she blames people who spoke Spanish does not come as a surprise.

I am sure when she gives out the descriptions of her so called abductors they will be black, hispanic or even better, Arabs, to suit the favorite demonology of our times.

[peekaloo]

111. Did you notice in all her photos she has that wide-eyed psychotic

look?

I, too, thinks she's nuts.

[chookie]

120. Might be pathological

I agree that she is fucking NUTS, but I think her crazy eyes are due to an endocrine problem (exophthalmy).

[chelsea0011]

40. Praise the lord

They prayed to the lord for her safe return. What they didn't know is the lord lead her away.

[Catchawave]

83. My thoughts exactly.....

Having heard the details of her over-the-top wedding from HELL, the Lord Jesus was not happy :sarcasm:

14 Bridesmaids ! 600 guests! 8 Bridal Showers! HUGE Country Club reception!

I'm happy that she's alive, but this inquiring mind wants to know how NOT one person in this mega-circle of family and friends NOT have ONE clue there was a problem?

Just saying, it's what's really wrong in this country....love of money is the root of all evil !

So, does Jennifer get the 100k reward or what ? :silly:

[rooboy]

41. BUS to Vegas? So does that mean she's been cheating in marathons too?

:)

[no_hypocrisy]

42. She was sensible in knowing that she wasn't ready to get married. However

she lacked judgment in not being honest about it, not to mention allowing so many people to worry about her safety.

[Samurai_Writer]

44. Not to mention...

that her little stunt caused the police to look at her fiance as the major suspect. How can any woman who claims to love a guy put him through that kind of hell? She's a selfish, immature brat. End of story.

[Bronco69]

48. I was watching Catherine Crier on CourtTV yesterday

and there was a guest host sitting in for her. She had all but tried and convicted the boyfriend for murder. The boyfriend had taken and passed a private polygraph test and he told the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) that if he had to take their test he wanted it taped. The dimwit host was spouting crap like "Well, if he's innocent what does he have to worry about?"

[imenja]

63. poor guy

Imagine being in his position. His fiancee runs off right before the wedding and he gets hauled in as a murder suspect and convicted by the press.

[tammywammy]

135. But I wonder

if she tried to tell someone and it was put of as "oh, it's just wedding jitters," or "your just nervous." I can see how she could tell her mom something, and her mom thinking "wait, I've got 600 people coming, this has to be just jitters b/c I don't want to ruin what I've planned." I'm sure there were signs, and no one wanted to believe that she wouldn't want to go through with this huge (and seriously 14 bridesmaids, 600+ guests, is huge) event.

[SouthernDem2004]

43. We should get her mental help and then bill her for the search efforts.

[BrainRants]

45. CNN Link

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

[imenja]

46. that was my guess as soon as I heard she had been found

[DawgHouse]

49. Missing Bride Found Alive in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Apr 30, 2005 — 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.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=716958

[fasttense]

50. Does anyone else think her story is a little strange?

[DawgHouse]

51. It seems strange to me -

just too "glorious" to miraculously appear on the day you were to be married. On the other hand, I could use some happy and amazing news like this, so I hope it turns out to be true.

[imenja]

68. she ran off. cold feet. it's on cable news now

[Uroboros]

53. I do

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns she ran off on her own. Probably with another party. In the end she probably changed her mind and made up this whole kidnap story.

I'm not a cop; but it seems strange to me that two people would kidnap her, take her cross country, only to let her go because they got scared? She's been gone since Tuesday. If she was important enough to be kidnapped for ransom; she would have made that demand by now. If she was taken by persons who's only desire was to kill her; seems to me she'd be dead already.

But what do I know? :)

[izzie]

54. Yes it does plus what is with the news being daily police reports?

--

[Judi Lynn]

57. What ARE the odds she would be kidnapped in time to escape

on her wedding day?

[zanne]

61. Someone who needs 14 bridesmaids at her wedding...

Is likely to be a bit of an attention junkie, n'est-ce-pas? Well, she got our attention.

[mitchum]

117. Y'know those bridesmaids are REALLY pissed at shelling out...

all of that $$$$ for those dresses :)
I think that Wilbanks cracked under all of the presssure to be what I call a Southern Bridezilla

[BlueManDude]

62. Business as usual in the USA 2005 - Red State Freaks being freaky.

[punpirate]

52. There will be much more to this...

... story as it unfolds, guaranteed.

[Bronco69]

55. I'm glad she's alive...

but I ain't buying the "kidnapped" story. This should be interesting as it unfolds.

[MADem]

56. She took a bus to VEGAS

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas???

That guy is luckier than he knows...if he is smart, he'll RUN LIKE HELL.

[pie]

95. Yep, that strikes me as loony

Perhaps she belongs in the loony bin.

[Catchawave]

58. Just announced - she wasn't kidnapped

Runaway Bride! LOL.

[Samurai_Writer]

59. Yeah, this doesn't pass the sniff test...

Especially when you read further into the article and find this one little sentence near the end:

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 couple's home.

My guess is the police are looking for clues on those computers about correspondence between this woman and whoever she was with. She probably met someone online, got cold feet about the wedding, then after spending a few days with her 'online love', realized he was not all that and called her fiance, miraculously 'released' from her 'kidnappers'.

[RamblingRose]

60. That Bitc*! - Now says she took a bus to New Mexico

Duluth bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks -- hours after she called from Albuquerque, N.M., to say she was safe after being abducted -- told police that she was not kidnapped, authorities said today.


At a news conference early this morning, Albuquerque Police said Jennifer Wilbanks admitted it was actually a case of cold feet. She says she needed some time alone to rethink the wedding that had been scheduled for today in Duluth.


In the dramatic collect phone call on the day she was to be married, Jennifer Wilbanks told family and her fiance that she had been released by a couple who had abducted her in Duluth

link
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/0405/30wilbanksfound.html

[Stevious]

64. loser much?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050430/ap_on_re_us/missing_bride;_ylt=AjWDB2Nn2hfzIJoWEGZgsSys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

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 got 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 Saturday.

[LizW]

67. Well, I'm glad she's alive, but...jeez

why didn't she just tell the guy she didn't want to marry him?

[Bo]

69. She has those big round psycho eyes

and those eyes scare me

[imenja]

72. I thought the same

What's up with eyes like that? Nancy Pelosi's are close. I thought it was plastic surgery in her case.

[sendero]

82. Those eyes....

.... walked a fine line between innocent beauty and psycho. Last night, I thought innocent beauty. Now, maybe it's choice 2. :)

[Bronco69]

73. I think her fiance should not only tell her to take a hike,

he should make her reimburse him for the collect phone call. :-)

[Ilsa]

74. They said the fiance had taken and passed a poygraph.

I would have preferred that he had flunked it just to prove that they are unreliable when people are upset.

That selfish bitch. Playing with everyone's emotions. And she had to have known everyone was spending all these resources looking for her.

[rodeodance]

78. Ga. Woman Found, Reportedly Got Cold Feet

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050430/ap_on_re_us/missing_bride
Ga. Woman Found, Reportedly Got Cold Feet

By MARY PEREA, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago

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......

[rodeodance]

79. I am glad she is safe.

[sendero]

80. That was kind of stupid..

.... her family was besides themselves. It seems like there would be better ways to cancel a wedding.

But, it is a huge relief that she's OK.

[Submariner]

81. She's a racist little red state redneck

She blamed "Hispanics" for kidnapping her. Classy little bitch to blame a non-caucasian for her fake abduction. Fine her for all search costs.

[xultar]

87. Agreed. Think of what shw put her parents through too!

:grr:

[NNN0LHI]

89. Lou Dobbs will be proud of her for a good attempt anyway

If she would have tried blaming it on Muslim terrorists she might have got away with it.

Don

[pie]

99. That part is particularly nasty.

[POAS]

86. Glad she is safe BUT

what does her fiancee do now? Do they put off the wedding for a week, a month, a year or maybe forever?

She demonstrated a certain amount of instability or at lest immaturity with this stunt. At the least she should get counselling before any plans proceed.

[insane_cratic_gal]

84. Cyber lover

They seize her computers and less then 24 hours later she comes crawling out. Spectualtion of course

However, If you need time to think, what ever happened to "im going to a friends house for the weekend?"

You don't runaway to NM and leave your family and friends worried about you? Chop off your hair, and come running out of hiding when they find your computer.

I'm guessing lil Jenn had a contact in NM and she wasn't alone at the holiday inn.

[delhurgo]

85. The theory someone had here meeting someone in Vegas that she

met online is good, but my theory is:

She did get cold feet, and came up with this brilliant plan:

1. Take bus to Vegas, win a million dollars.

2. Cut hair to disguise herself.

3. Take bus to New Mexico.

4. Cross border into Mexico and live there in a secluded house somewhere near the beach. Ahhhh, paradise.

It all makes perfect sense. LOL.

[Corgigal]

88. Nice to see she was found alive

Now one of her family members or friends needs to tell this bitch to grow up. 32 is too old to act like an idiot and scare people this way. I hope the poor guy doesn't marry her and god forbid don't have any kids with that woman.

[demgal2005]

107. I agree 32 is too old to acting like this plus

look at all time and money spent searching for her. But, maybe this is blessing in disguise for the groom. He now knows wife to be is a nut case.

[ima_sinnic]

90. does this little twit have an e-mail address?

I'd like to tell her what a vapid, self-absorbed, self-centered, immature, lying, cowardly little piece of shit she is and how she should as a matter of courtesy to her fellow citizens immediately check into a mental hospital for a few years. and also be fined BIG TIME for wasting the time and energy of countless police and frantic citizens.

and I'd like to e-mail the fiance and congratulate him for finding out now, instead of AFTER the wedding, what a complete LOSER his bride-to-be turned out to be and express my hopes that he doesn't "forgive" her. if he turns around and marries her, he will prove himself crazier than a s--t house rat.

[DoYouEverWonder]

91. So when is she going to jail?

As soon as this became national news she should have picked up the phone. She let this go on for what 3 - 4 days, at least? How many millions were spent by law enforcement looking for this gal? I hope they send her the bill.

[pie]

98. Soon, I hope

[damntexdem]

92. Now Hollywood can make ...

Runaway Bride II.

I'd go see it, if only it were instead made by Bolliwood.

[AlCzervik]

93. Glad she's alive and hopes she has to pay the bill

for all of the police overtime.

[marions ghost]

97. whatever happened

this woman is not well. She flipped out in some way (whether from actual fear or a sick need for attention) and needs psychological help. Sounds like she comes from an obscenely materialistic, status-conscious family. Overblown fairytale weddings often hide a nightmare of expectations and stress. Living in such environments can drive people insane. So I can work up to some pity here. She may be a bad seed, but she could also be merely a victim of her circumstances. People who are this unstable may not necessarily be able to be held responsible for their actions, at least not right away. She needs professional help. If I were the fiancee, I'd rather have this happen now than later.

[DoYouEverWonder]

100. Poor little rich girl

Sorry, she could have picked up the friggin phone.

[marions ghost]

103. oh sure she screwed up

the whole thing is a screw-up on her part. But my point is that you can't expect emotionally whacked or mentally deranged people
to operate from the same perspective as normal people. Think about it--a wish to disappear is not so far from a wish to die. She certainly put herself in a vulnerable position, however it plays out.
(I do know of a woman who DID die by doing something stupid like this).

We do not know the degree of derangement of this individual. "Temporary insanity" is very real, and may often have physiological causes. I agree with you that her issues may directly stem from being a poor little rich girl. Her wedding sounds so outrageous on the surface that maybe she DID feel trapped and suffocated.

My point is that people this messed up don't do rational things, like calling people when they "should." You can try to hold them accountable, but it usually doesn't work until they've been in therapy for awhile. Many people have underground issues that don't surface until they do something really bizarre, like commit suicide. This woman is in that league somewhere. Too much hating on this kind of sad basket case is misguided, I think, even though I agree with you that her wealthy spoiled situation could have produced it.

What is normal: Confess to the parents and fiance that you can't go through with it. Many tears. Happens all the time.

What is not normal: Disappear, however temporarily, and have everyone in the universe looking for you and praying for you. This is serious pathology of some kind.

[AlCzervik]

104. My problem with this is that if she were never found

her fiancee most likely would have gone to trial for her murder or lived with a huge cloud over him for the rest of his life.

[marions ghost]

114. with no evidence whatsoever?

I doubt the case would stand. If there were a murder, most likely traces would be found, as in the Peterson and Hacking cases. As it is, if this fiance is guiltless he may still have something of a cloud to dispel, but it sounds like he was very well-supported by family and friends. We still don't KNOW the whole story about the fiance, so it's hard to speculate if he was part of her problems. I think the odds are the fiance will be OK and move on, without her most likely, but maybe with her (stranger things have happened). All this is pure speculation. I'm just glad the media didn't get another "husband kills wife" nightmare to bludgeon America with.

[Sterling]

134. He was already convicted in the MSM.

That is how we do it these days. Guilty until proven other wise.

[alarimer]

121. I agree

Comments on this thread have been pretty nasty.

[Sterling]

132. Sympathy for spoiled brats?

If you say so. I will reserve my own for cases that deserve it. She is an example of what is wrong with this country, and she is NOT a victim.

[Wilber_Stool]

102. My guess is that

the media will be incredibly sympathetic towards her. Just a poor, privileged confused girl unable to deal with the stress of a wedding. We really don't expect much of adults these days. Now, if she was a five year old having a tantrum in school..........

[readmylips]

115. Poor Patty Hearst alike....

Patty Hearst got away with robbing banks and killing people. She blamed it on the group that kidnapped her. Yet, she could have ran away but she loved the adventure every minute of it, just like this nut case Jennifer.

[mitchum]

118. I'm not one to usually defend heiresses, but Patty Hearst was repeatedly..

brutalized by her captors. The SLA used classic brainwashing techniques on her. These tactics have been proven to work on trained military personnel, think about their effectiveness on a 19 year old woman.
That being said, I have NO sympathy for Wilbanks.

[Wilber_Stool]

106. Unbelievable

She is being slammed on CNN by a profiler and the news bunny is adamantly defending her. WTF!
I bet it's the last time that she will be asked for her opinion.

[marions ghost]

108. trust the media to whip it up

into something it isn't.

[kskiska]

109. Their preacher is on CNN, supposedly to make a statement,

and is taking the opportunity to preach on TV, maybe for the first time. He said that everyone has the right to make a mistake, but that each sin means that Christ is crucified anew. This guy seized his 15 minutes of fame and ran with it.

[silverlib]

110. The media hype

is what bothers me the most. Someone posted the other day about CNN's obsession with missing white girls. This is not the first time some gal got cold feet and ran aways before the meeting. Guys do it, too. This is a non-story - just an excuse to focus on something other than issue news. And instead of looking like the idiots they should, they will now hype this poor couple.

And how in the world do they choose which missing white woman for their cover stories?

[chookie]

116. Did someone at CNN know her family?

This is the second non-story of a "missing person" on CNN, dramatically overblown, featuring persons from the Atlanta area.

Remember the Atlanta dad whose son was "missing" in the tsunami in Thailand, who got HOURS of face time on CNN, including an appearance on Larry King -- whose son turned out to have been far from any of the effected areas, but who had not bothered to call home? Okay, that was bad enough, but then CNN showed the "reunion" of father and son -- which was utterly pointless and ridiculous. Gee, CNN could have done a story on ME as a "tsunami survivor", as I was far away from the horrific event too. :-)

I am wondering if these wealthy families had friends associated with CNN, who used the network to publicize their plight.

[reality based]

113. She should get the Susan Smith award

for race baiting with that story about being abducted in a van by a Spanish speaking couple. That might work in Georgia but New Mexico (unless we're talking about the "Little Texas" eastern counties-- near the little emperor's hometown) would probably not be amenable to stampeding by such a ploy. The MSM talking heads were really buying into the "abduction" earlier in the morning, weren't they? What idiots!

[kodi]

123. that woman is a real piece of shit to do that to friends and family

her fiance ought to sue her for breach of contract.

what will obviously happen is that she will write a book on the entire affair, have it turn into a tv movie and get rich, while her ex-fiance will have the memories of his public lynching in the media.

[0007]

133. I agree!

[Wilber_Stool]

131. For anyone interested,

here's the LTTE mail for the Duluth News Tribune:

[email protected]

I'm going to give them a piece of my mind. Not much though. Just a little piece.

[Neshanic]

136. Not this time sweetie, we have hours to fill on you..gasps CNN

"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."

Tune in for another episode of "The World Revolves Around ME!

Next time sweetie snookums, let at least ONE human know you are going somewhere. That way we would be spared the CNN blondies and male model anchors with the look of concern, with just the right amount of glee, your moronic friends saying all sorts of things lke "she's not the kind to do THAT", an imbecile fiance that obviously has his head up his ass on what makes you tick, preachers, hangers-on, and parades of law enforcement with wasted time.

That fiance of hers better ask who she's been having chats with on the internets.

[Massachusetts]

137. Excellent observations!

But could it be that her secret love was....

[Moderator]

139. locking

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3153463