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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exactly. Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy all looked like normal "guys next door", and boy were the neighbors surprised.
oh i do entertain the thought that he might have done it. personally i doubt it at this time, and there are a lot of other scenarios that need to be examined.
asking for a videotape and lawyer at a polygraph sounds prudent in light of police excesses these days.
Unfortunately, I did..
I saw his interview with Greta.. on Fox..
He was way too "flip" about the whole thing.. not serious enough..
He didn't seem to really be upset that she was missing...
( That may not be the case OFF camera, but it sure was the case ON camera.. )
I would never ever take a polygraph test in a criminal case. They produce too many false positives. (you lied). In many cases just the way a question is asked or the question itself can make you nervous or uneasy. I taken a couple of lie detector tests for job interviews when I was younger. They are no fun, make you feel like a criminal and are not reliable.
Even if you feel that you have nothing to hide, don't risk a false positive. Then you are presumed guilty, the cops stop looking for other suspects and you risk being charged and possibly convicted.
Force the cops and DA to produce evidence of your guilt besides a failed polygraph test.
Man...I don't know...the polygraph wouldn't be admissable in GA, right? It would move the focus away from him though. It's not like failing the polygraph is going to put him under any more suspicion from the cops, they always think the boyfriend, husband etc... did it. Pssing it would proabbly remove him from consideration as a suspect.
Personally, if I were innocent, I'd take it and figure that I'd "pass" it and that would be all the cops needed to focus all their energies in another direction.
Mason had told authorities he would decide Friday whether to take a polygraph test.
??????? !!!!!!!!
I'm there.
GMTA
Ann Rule, the Seattle police woman who writes about serial killers, often writes about perps who have this "flat aspect," inappropriate emotion for the circumstances, or almost no emotion. Makes you wonder.
Actually Bundy did have the psycho eyes.
"Personally, if I were innocent, I'd take it and figure that I'd "pass" it and that would be all the cops needed to focus all their energies in another direction."
Well that's the fun part about lie detector's. Depending on who's side you're on you ignore the flaws. He passed it so now we get to show that Lie detectors rarely even have a 50/50 percent accuracy rate. Or that they can be beaten or point out that moons weren't aligned properly before given it to him. But if he were to fail it, that would be your smoking gun. He failed the test, game over case closed.
The best advice is to usually avoid them. Don't take them unless you have to (security clearances come to mind, but that's a little different)
Home she shared? Did she buy it? Was it her money? Was he deeded on the property? How about bank accounts? Or trust funds? I'm just beginning to smell the stench.
sheesh, good thing we don't let mob rule decide guilt or innocence. it is possible that the woman was abducted and killed by a stranger while out jogging. give the guy the benefit of the doubt. you know, innocent until proven...i kinda like that policy. as a lawyer, i wouldn't allow him to take the poly unless it was privately administered either. so blame his lawyer for protecting him. its what you would want in his position.
lie detectors are fairly reliable but remember, they aren't admissible so there are problems with them. you don't throw your client to the wolves with those odds. let's let it play out, the truth will come. and then string him up if he did it. but some here seem to think there don't exist psychos out there who just nab women and kill them. despite all the evidence to the contrary.
I thought that I read that she left behind her engagement ring. Is that correct? Is that a reasonable thing?
It's not exactly like that; he has agreed to take the polygraph but he wants it videotaped and in a neutral place.
The police won't agree to that, according to MSNBC.
Yeah, yeah Pukin Dog, Star Chamber city brother.
I give him the old Dom Deloise "thumbs down".
Appears he took the Condit polygraph ...
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=62422
EXCERPT
Belcher also said that Jennifer's fiancé, John Mason, took and purportedly passed a polygraph test administered by a private examiner. However, Mason's attorney, Jim Watkins, demanded that a GBI polygraph be videotaped, which is not acceptable, according to Belcher.
"At this time, we are unable to administer a polygraph by the GBI as a result of not being able to meet Mr. Watkins' requirements," said Belcher. "It's an investigative tool and we like to do our own."
"exactly. Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy all looked like normal "guys next door", and boy were the neighbors surprised."
Evil is so very very cunning that way. It walks among us and preys upon and plays with the minds of rational (normal) logical thinkers.
More examples of evil double lives deemed normal looking and behaving until....: OJ Simpson (sports hero with great public persona), actor Bob Crane (closet freaky kinko), BTK serial killer( model citzen up front. Closet psycho killer underneath).
I'm with you, although of course I can't say for sure - but he's just creepy to me. I've got nothing other than that for justification. He spoke with the press too much and too soon, and I don't think he seemed very upset.
if you were running off with someone else would you take the engagement ring? or if you were going to hurl yourself into an abandoned construction pit? this is what makes me think that she had something to do with it.
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