Posted on 04/28/2005 10:13:06 AM PDT by varina davis
Hundreds Search for Missing Bride-To-Be
April 28, 2005 10:40 AM EDT
DULUTH, Ga. - A 32-year-old woman disappeared just days before she was to be married, and authorities said Thursday they were expanding their search for her.
Jennifer Wilbanks' fiance told authorities she left home Tuesday night to go jogging. When she did not return in a couple of hours, he began looking for her, then notified police.
On Wednesday, more than 250 people searched for Wilbanks, including volunteers and police using helicopters and tracking dogs. Authorities called off the volunteer search but continued canvassing door-to-door for clues in this northeastern Atlanta suburb. They were treating the disappearance as a criminal investigation but did not elaborate.
"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," Duluth Police Chief Randy Belcher said.
Earlier, police Maj. Don Woodruff said friends and family believed "this is totally uncharacteristic of her. We don't believe it was a case of premarital jitters."
On Thursday, about 100 police officers expanded their search a quarter-mile deeper into woods near her home. Police had not asked anyone to take a polygraph test, but her fiance has volunteered to do so, Belcher said.
Friends and relatives have told police Wilbanks seemed happy and was looking forward to her wedding Saturday. Her keys, cash, credit cards and identification were found in her home.
"She left out of here with just a radio and the clothes she has on," said Wilbanks' fiance, John Mason. "Everything she owns is in the home. If this is cold feet, it is the weirdest case of cold feet I have ever seen."
Wilbanks and Mason were to be married in a large ceremony. Six hundred invitations had been mailed, and the wedding was to feature 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen, according to Mason's mother, Vicki.
Investigators checked the banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River, and the state Department of Natural Resources planned to search the river, Woodruff said.
Wilbanks was described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, about 123 pounds, with shoulder-length dark brown hair. She was last seen wearing a gray sweat shirt and blue sweat pants, police said.
.....Ooh. if his dad's a political figure,......
?.....very interesting......?
?....May be worth 'digging' into.....?
?Was/is everybody from outta 'town'....?
?.....a political wedding 'only'.....?
?Who was 'invited'......?
? Who had ALREADY 'arrived'.....?
:-(
They are also more prone to be in an accident by stepping in front of a vehicle not being able to hear a horn blow.
Motive could be he didn't want to get married to her.
But would you kill somebody over something like that? It is hard to imagine. To paraphrase Laci Peterson's parents, breaking up is an option; murder isn't.
LOL!!!
I still haven't read the Purpose Driven Life. I have no time for any more "purposes". And I'm already way too driven! Still think its him...he is way too cool with the twitching eyes...he also referredto one of the hills around where the fiance ran as " a real Killer hill"..hmmm?
The guy has an odd look about him as well but not as odd IMO as the girl.
No, haven't heard of that particular person. But, I do remember hearing of a lady that was abducted from Lenox Square in the late 60's. Can't remember her name though - (not who you are talking about) but they have never found her either.
Course I was just a kid when these happened.
Put some ice on it and you'll be fine.
Fox just reported that they asked her fiance to take a polygraph and he said he would give them an answer later??
Later........I would think if he was innocent he would do it right away. Hmmmmm.....
Gotta wonder about him just a little bit.
Noooooo, I wouldn't kill someone because I didn't want t marry them, but SOME have.
The PASTOR even said that the ceremony will probably go on as planned!! he's a litte weird also....imho.
No, I think he wants to sell the diamond later.
Yeah, I saw the eyes. I thought they could make her annoying. (I'm sorry) That's no reason to kill but... heeeeerrrreeeee's Johnny!
Pride goeth before the fall.
In all the pictures I've seen of them she's got the wild-eyed smile, and he's not smiling at all.
Right. She just doesn't appear to be all there.
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