04-28-05
Posted on 04/29/2005 10:09:47 AM PDT by LouAvul
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Investigators have taken several computers from the home of a missing bride-to-be to examine e-mails for clues to her disappearance, police said Friday.
Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, was reported missing Tuesday night by her fiance, John Mason, who said she did not come home after her nightly jog in this Atlanta suburb. He said she left with only her radio and the clothes she had on.
Police found Wilbanks' keys, cash, credit cards and identification in the home she shared with Mason.
Chief Randy Belcher said investigators took three computers from the home and were reviewing e-mails.
Officers who searched Wilbanks' neighborhood were also testing several sweat shirts for any connection to the case, though the police chief seemed doubtful. "We've picked up pieces of clothing all over," he said. Authorities said they considered the case a criminal investigation, but police gave mixed signals about whether they believe Wilbanks may have gotten cold feet.
Maj. Don Woodruff said authorities did not believe Wilbanks was a runaway bride. But under questioning from reporters, Belcher later said: "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?"
Belcher said Mason had told authorities he would decide Friday whether to take a polygraph test.
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I can only speak from experience, but I probably would have tried to smile too. I remember when my first husband died in a car accident (I was 23 and my girls were 2 1/2 and 5 mos)I was in shock. The visitation and funeral were a blur to me. When they were over, I would lock myself in the bathroom and sob (didn't want my babies upset).
Unless you have been there, you don't know what you would do.
How much cut hair? Maybe she DID want to disappear. Cut & dyed her hair & changed her clothes.
Why is the photo creepy?
Did you hear Mark Fuhrman on Greta? He said that some parts of Masons statements so far don't mesh. He also said that even if the police agree to his demand to videotape the polygraph, Mason's lawyer will just issue new demands wrt the polygraph.
Reading btwn the lines i got the impression that the polygraph probably won't happen. So for what it's worth, if Fuhrman is in contact with the Duluth cops, I got the impression that the cops are going with the assumption that Mason did this. I happen to trust Fuhrmans instincts.
---IMO, that is absurd.. to be afraid to take a polygraph test when you know you didn't do it. ---
When they're forming a firing squad for you, don't buy them the ammunition. Let them get their own.
Info on Mason's lawyer:
Apparently his name is Jim Watkins.
I looked in Martindale for a listing but couldnt find one by that name.
The only James Watkins I could find in Georgia is a judge.
(A judge who happens to be a runner too)
Judge James C. Watkins
6487 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
Suite A
Atlanta, GA 30360
One and the same ?
04-28-05
Being that Masons dad is a judge, that probably is the one.
Otherwise, maybe some other high price lawyer from somewhere else.
Boy... All you folks who were ready to string this guy up ("cuz we can tell by the way he looks") appear pretty foolish this morning...
I really hope she's not dead and that her fiance didn't do anything to her. Just another scenario.
When I was a teenager, my 17 year old neighbor ran away from home. She left a note for her parents behind a dresser. (Which they never found.) She assumed her mom would find the note when she cleaned. They thought she only left with the clothes on her back. In fact, she had been planning her escape for months, had a big winter parka, and huge backpack full of stuff. As far as her parents knew, she had nothing with her. They told police nothing was missing from her room. She was gone for 2 months before turning up in Kansas.
Joke's on you. As of this morning it turns out she did bug out on the wedding. The fact that the boyfirend looked strange to many of the posters here only shows that many people react differently to stressful situations. Some people scream and cry, others bottle up their emtions, and others do other things. The only time it's reasonable to conclude, as so many posters here did, that a boyfirend/husband murdered a missing woman is a case like the Scott Peterson one where every other logical explanation can be eliminated.
Turns out she bugged out on the wedding instead of having any type of fatal encounter. However, strange as it seems, being taken by a mountain lion is possible in many rural and semi-rural areas. It's happened on several occasions in the last few years in California and they often remove the bodies of their victims to secluded places before they dine on them.
Too many people on this thread jumped to the imediate conclusion that her finacee killed her, instead of doing what the police responsibly did, viewing him as a potential suspect but not going any farther. The cops were very professional in this case and deserve praise from everybody. One can properly conclude a boyfriend/husband is guilty in a case like this only if every other logical possibility of how the woman was killed can be eliminated, as occurred in the Scott Peterson cse.
New fund raising idea!!!
RIGHT ON!!
predict right now; the Fiancee killed the woman, period.
You were saying? :->
Greta asked him if it was possible that she "just needed some space"...
He responds, very quickly, "she wouldn't just run away" ( paraphrase) then when asked to clarify, explains that she would remain in the house, and read a book or listen to music if she had a problem..
The boyfreind acted "suspiciously".. I stand by that..
He very probably suspected, if not knew, what had actually happened..
There was no concern she was injured or dead..
FReepers that expressed doubt, suspicion, concern, that the boyfreind was not being totally honest about his missing fiancee were Totally Justified..
Suspicions confirmed..
Why the hell is she not going to jail?
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