Looks guilty to me.
Posted on 01/26/2009 8:45:35 PM PST by Ron Jeremy
The disappearance of a West McDowell Junior High School teacher took a bizarre but fortunate turn Monday night when the woman authorities had been searching for all day came out of the woods unharmed about a mile from her house.
Capt. Vic Hollifield of the McDowell County Sheriff's Office said 28-year-old Amanda Fields appeared at a home on Candee Acres off Stacy Hill Road wearing multiple layers of clothing, including her pajamas, and baseball cleats. She had part of a rope around one wrist and a loose cord dangling from one foot. She sustained minor cuts and bruises, and there was a bald spot on her head. The resident at the Candee Acres house called for an ambulance, and, after arriving on the scene, paramedics notified the Sheriff's Office. Fields was taken to Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville for evaluation.
Hollifield stated Monday night that detectives had not had a chance to interview the teacher about the ordeal but hoped to do so before the night's end. For the second time, Jason Crisp, a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Forest Service, brought his K-9, Maros, to the area - but this time to backtrack Fields' steps.
Crisp and Maros were called to the scene at U.S. 70 East Monday morning to search for signs of the missing teacher. They were joined by more than a dozen personnel from the Sheriff's Office, the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation and the district attorney's office, as well as a N.C. Highway Patrol helicopter crew. Fields teaches seventh- and eighth-grade language arts at West McDowell. The search began Monday morning when Sgt. Lynn Greene of the Sheriff's Office, who oversees the school resource officers, was notified that Fields didn't show up for work.
He went to her residence around 9:15 a.m. to conduct a "welfare check" and found Fields' red Ford Mustang sitting in the driveway with the driver's side door open and the keys lying in the seat. Someone had written "Go to hell faggits" on the garage door in red spray paint. When Greene walked up to the house, he discovered that a window on the door had been smashed with a cinder block. Inside, there were signs of a struggle but no Fields. The teacher's dog, a dachshund, was running loose in the house.
While some authorities combed the home, car and property, others talked to friends, family members, co-workers and acquaintances.
Hollifield said there were signs of a struggle in the kitchen of the residence, so they were treating it as foul play, "a missing person under suspicious circumstances."
Fields walked out of the woods nearly 10 hours after the investigation began.
The captain said after her discovery Monday night that detectives were going to interview the teacher, regroup and determine from there what path to take next.
We have to see a picture of her before making that decision.
baseball cleats?
Every time I get abducted, I leave the rope on my wrist until I walk out of the woods, too.
This is weird. Sounds like a hoax. Just someone trying to become the face of the anti-Prop 8 movement...
She was a little heavyhanded with the “evidence,” wasn’t she? Don’t want to lose those car keys, though.
Sounds like a hoax because no moron I know (and I know plenty) would be dumb enough to kidnap someone in her driveway, find the time to spraypaint on the garage door in broad daylight, take her back inside the house, wrastle her a bit, then drag her into the woods, tie her up, knock her around a little, and then release her.
Oh, also—the misspelled “faggits” is a nice touch to show the ignorance of the white male assailants.
I think the spraypaint is the key to the real story.
This is what happens when your Mommy and your Daddy are also your sister and your brother........
I agree re: the spraypaint. That is the key to the whole thing. They will find that she purchased it nearby recently, and probably even find the can in her garbage.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem to add up, but it might be true... I’ll wait to hear what the police have to say.
Hoax. I don’t care how cute she is, she’s guilty. I just wonder why she devised the hoax.
I thought FReepers believed in the rule of law. Or, the rule of law in regards to chicks in news stories, anyway.
Too convenient . . . . .
These incidents are very common, and they are almost always committed by members of designated "victim groups" who to fulfill some kind of bizarre need. (The famous "Obama B" hoax from last summer, which of course got a million times more publicity than all the thousands of other hate crime hoaxes put together, was the exception that proved the rule). Unlike the "Obama B" hoax, most perpetrators of the hate-crime-victim hoax tend not to express regret for having deceived people, because, I suppose, their status as members of an "oppressed group" makes them immune to guilt and shame.
These things are getting so common--just search the keyword fakehatecrimes here--that there ought to be a mental disorder named after it, Political Munchausen's or something.
She looks like the guy that sells “ShamWow” [Vince?], with long hair.
“They will find that she purchased it nearby recently, and probably even find the can in her garbage”
And some overspray on her hands and clothes
I’m a heterosexual female. I’m not inclined to designate a female not guilty on grounds of her looks.
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