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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It wasn't in the posted part or I missed it. I've seen the guy on TV a few times and something doesn't look right. Something like Scott Peterson or Susan Smith etc.
If you are innocent, and it is your fiance that is missing, you would want the investigators to have every lead traced out. Eliminating the husband/fiance as a suspect is one of the most obvious leads to trace out. That means the man should not hesitate to take the test if he is innocent.
The lawyer may know that the police would never accept the videotaping demand. That is how he got his client Mason out of having to take the polygraph.
hear hear! I agree. a friend of mine had one suggested to him a while back. passed with flying colors. of course, he was guilty as hell, but he passed the test. cops called him for three months anyway trying to get him to confess. he never did, and now helps them with their computers and stuff.
It seems odd to me that they found cut hair which could be a match to her and possibly her sweatshirt and pants.
I would venture a guess that a psycho jogging trail killer would not cut her hair strip off her clothes and vanish with her body without someone seeing this at 8:30 or so at night.
If these clues are legitimate then I would conclude that someone put them there.
Since he is flinching at taking the polygraph I immediately suspect him much like I did with Scott Peterson!!
My gut reaction has to be controlled but I never ignore it. First impressions are instinct and very accurate.
"A couple of years ago a woman vanished in my area when she went to the shopping mall. Her car was eventually found with her wallet inside, keys, ID, etc. Everyone thought the worse and I'm sure many assumed her husband wacked her because no one would just bolt and leave the personal stuff behind, right? Wrong. Several years later she was discovered living out of state with a new ID."
A person would have to be pretty desperate to dump and run and start life under a new identity. Many women flee like that because they feared for their life. Men usually do that when they want out of an existing marriage with kids or both sexes do fake death and flee because they embezzled a lot of money and flee to another country and start new as a millionaire. So many theories.
Police want to be the only ones to "interpret" the polygraph results. Videotape could be used as backup in case there's a conflict with the cops version.
Depends on the state's law, I think..
Maybe that's just the case in GA..
British law seems to require taping of all interviews/interrogations..
I know in some states that interviews/interrogations are taped..
Not sure if that includes polygraph exams as well, but I would assume that it would be considered same as any other questioning by the police..
"Who's with me?"
To be honest, my first impression was that there is no way this guy did it. But I could be wrong.
Has anyone heard how long they were engaged?
Does he have an ex-girlfriend?
Was there life insurance?
From the reward money it appears her family has money.
If that turns out to be the case, you have to wonder if these people are "paying attention," if you will, to what happens to the Peterson-Smith types.
If this guy did do it he must be the stupidest killer on the planet. It's basically the same story use by Scott Peterson and the other moron who whacked his wife -- the who lied about going to medical school in NC.
Trusting your gut is important.
Good for you!!!!!!!
"From the reward money it appears her family has money."
My other theory is, I hope this isn't some staged stunt by the alleged victim like that nutcase college girl who faked her own kidnapping. What was her name? She was caught when the authorities found out she had purchased her own duct tape, tools, etc.,
I thought I heard on TV that they were engaged for 5 years. But that could have been the total time they were acquainted/dating before the engagement.
Per the LE presser, LE said, something to the effect, that anyone with a grain a salt would not video tape a polygraph.
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=91882
Wilbanks' fiance takes lie detector test, passes
DULUTH - The fiance of a missing bride-to-be passed a private lie detector test, but will not agree to a polygraph conducted by authorities unless the test is video taped.
Police Chief Randy Belcher said during a press conference this afternoon John Mason's request is unusual for the FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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Do the British even allow the use of polygraph? The US, along with only two or three (or so) countries even allow the polygraph to be used AT ALL! Most realize the machine has way to many faults to be of any real value. Unfortunatly, here in the US many believe the machine to be an honest dectector of truth-which could not be farther from the truth!
Whether he passes any such test or not has little to do with the real use of the machine-the police use it to get as much info out of you as they can to ease their investigation-that is the real value of the machine to police.
I haven't seen any photo's of him (and I live in Atlanta, LOL, can you tell how much I watch MSM?) Does anyone have a photo?
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