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Missing Alabama Minister's Wife Found Working at Fast-Food Restaurant in New York
Fox News ^ | 7-31-07 | Sara Bonisteel

Posted on 07/31/2007 9:36:53 AM PDT by rawhide

The wife of an Alabama minister missing for more than four months has been located by police unharmed and working under an alias at a fast-food restaurant in New York state, authorities said Monday.

Louisiana police located Mary Byrne Smith alive and well in New York state on Friday. The 30-year-old kindergarten teacher had been working under an assumed name at a fast-food restaurant.

"We know it’s her," Bossier City Police Chief Mike Halphen said at a press conference Monday. "She did not want us to disclose the reasons why she left, and she did not want us to disclose where she is living."

She does not face criminal charges, he said.

"People have their reasons for wanting to start a new life and that was her choosing," Halphen said. "And again, we encouraged her very, very hard to contact her family and at least talk with her children and we believe that she will."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: marybyrnesmith; minister; missing; pastor; wife
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1 posted on 07/31/2007 9:36:58 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Not Guilty!


2 posted on 07/31/2007 9:38:35 AM PDT by GQuagmire (Giggety,Giggety,Giggety)
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To: rawhide

Some of these preachers need to consider whether their wives are cut out for that life before they go into it.


3 posted on 07/31/2007 9:40:32 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: rawhide

Nutcase.


4 posted on 07/31/2007 9:40:40 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: rawhide

Given the odd ways in which women are choosing to exit the field lately, “Southern minister’s wife” must be a suboptimal career choice. ;)


5 posted on 07/31/2007 9:40:43 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: rawhide

Bet $5 that some internet chat room affair had something to do with it.


6 posted on 07/31/2007 9:41:03 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; Mr. Jeeves; rawhide; stinkerpot65; GQuagmire

I don’t understand how a woman can leave her kids. Husband, maybe, but not her kids.


7 posted on 07/31/2007 9:43:14 AM PDT by Froufrou
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she must have hated life. fast food waitress in nyc? she must be happier because that kind of earning would be a serious struggle for just about anyone.

now call you kids!!


8 posted on 07/31/2007 9:43:45 AM PDT by rineaux (the powers that be are laughing at us)
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To: rawhide

i’ll add, now that it has some attention, expect a made for tv movie about it.


9 posted on 07/31/2007 9:44:51 AM PDT by rineaux (the powers that be are laughing at us)
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To: rawhide

Well, she just got a raise, thanks to the ‘rats.


10 posted on 07/31/2007 9:45:53 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: rawhide
Maybe she’s having a lesbian affair. Maybe she isn’t.
11 posted on 07/31/2007 9:47:30 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: rawhide

Somebody ask her if she works with Lisa Stebic.


12 posted on 07/31/2007 9:49:25 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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So this twit let her husband, kids, family and friend’s twist in the wind, not to mention face suspicion of criminality, but all is forgiven because she has a right to start over?

Now all that is left to make this the ultimate f-over is for her to demand custody of the children, spousal and child support, and get it.

This person should spend time in jail.

13 posted on 07/31/2007 9:51:25 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
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To: rawhide

I suppose that’s better than shooting her husband in the back with a shotgun in the bedroom and running off with the kids to make up a cock-and-bull story.


14 posted on 07/31/2007 9:52:10 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: rawhide
Looks a little like Catherine Bell. Yummy!


15 posted on 07/31/2007 9:52:18 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (@$*&#!!!)
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To: rawhide
Take half of her wages and send it to her husband/kids as would happen if it were a man.

Both parents are responsible for their kids...no-one should be allowed to just walk away from their kids.

16 posted on 07/31/2007 9:53:12 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: DoughtyOne

“This person should spend time in jail.”

Charge?

Better not be late for dinner...might have to arrest ya’...


17 posted on 07/31/2007 9:54:03 AM PDT by dakine
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To: Old Professer
"I suppose that’s better than shooting her husband in the back with a shotgun in the bedroom and running off with the kids to make up a cock-and-bull story."

That was my first thought too. Blast the husband in the head with a shotgun while he's sleeping then run off to the beach with the kids. Geez...

18 posted on 07/31/2007 9:55:35 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam
Take half of her wages and send it to her husband/kids as would happen if it were a man.

Only half?

19 posted on 07/31/2007 9:56:31 AM PDT by Hoodat
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To: rawhide

Didn’t read past the excerpt so does the rest of the article explain how the Police from Bossier City, LA come to be involved and found her? ...


20 posted on 07/31/2007 9:57:54 AM PDT by deport ( Cue Spooky Music...)
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