She wanted people to think she'd been abducted and potentially raped and murdered. I'm not out for her blood, and I didn't follow the many threads on it, but it's not malice to have cold feet, it's malice to make everyone believe you are the victim of an abduction.
Good arguments. A case for a jury, cross-exmination and supeona, perhaps. But it's mens re. A thing of the mind. And she was a highly confused person, not in so much control of that mind.