Posted on 04/30/2005 12:05:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 04/30/2005 12:28:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Jennifer Wilbanks, a Georgia woman missing since Tuesday night, has been found alive and well in New Mexico, a friend of the family told CNN.
Wilbanks was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and told her family she had been abducted and taken there, according to John Kim, a friend of Wilbank's family.
Excerpt - story follows:CNN
She almost destroyed that young man's life. Being under suspicion for having something to do with her disappearance and perhaps murder..........do you think she has grasped the viciousness of her actions?
What if she had actually fallen victim to foul play in some seedy backwater during her excursion and never been found? That young John Mason would have been a ruined man.
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When I first heard about the CNN show I wondered if it was an hour or half hour show and if they were doing a program just on this case or an exploration of how often this happens. Only momentarily did I question how they would fill a whole program with this...after all we here on FR have filled over 2400 posts and still counting. LOL
The live commentary here on FR for CNN's show should be priceless. I have laughed so hard today at the wit and humor here. Sadly I need to get off the computer so will have to read the rest of this thread at a later time.
uhmmm, i think you fell onto the wrong thread with that post ?
Surely they didn't give her something that people meant to be for traumatized kids?
You were right on!
>>>Actually you're wrong.
>>>CNN is now reporting that she fabricated the story.
All I ever said was wait for the facts to come out. They did. How is that wrong???????
oopsie, my mistake, sorry ...
Were you the first to post suspicions on FR? Just curious. Kudos in any respect to your clarity of mind!
In any case, we should all be glad she is safe, even if it is revealed she is, in fact, a whackjob. :-)
Also, think it's odd that her stepfather flew out to bring her home. If it was my child I'd be the first one there even if I were hurt or angry.
Exactly: "RUN FORREST, RUN"
That's what my intuition tells me, but there may be cases of self-disappearance / self-abduction that were prosecuted. I'm still looking. "self abduction" turns up all sorts of bizzare stuff ;)
That's one for the "somethin' still ain't right" ping list.
;-D
Here is one that is a little closer:
NY businessman admits to faking abduction
http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/aug/03us4.htm
Suleman Din in New York
Bobby Kumar, a Long Island community activist and businessman, was arrested by the Nassau county police on August 1 on charges of making false statements about his alleged kidnapping.
Kumar, who came under the media's spotlight earlier last month after he claimed to have been abducted by three men from a restaurant in Syosset, New York, appeared in the first district court in Hempstead on August 2, but was released on his own surety and ordered back in court on August 20.
Kumar has been charged with two counts of making a false statement after admitting to police the night before that he made up the story of his supposed kidnapping last month.
Nassau county police told rediff.com that after three weeks of investigations, they had gathered evidence that contradicted Kumar's claims that he had been kidnapped on July 8 and held hostage for two days by the assailants.
When confronted with the evidence, Kumar, 44, broke down and admitted that he had made up the story because he wanted police to investigate a mystery newspaper, India in US, which published a number of allegations against him.
Police also confirmed the fears of Kumar's close friends, who had told rediff.com that when Kumar disappeared, they worried that he had isolated himself, and was considering suicide.
Kumar told the police that he had gone to the Nostalgia Diner in Syosset on the night of July 8 to meet a business associate. After leaving the diner, he said a van pulled up and three individuals forced him inside, threatening to kill him if he didn't.
He claimed in his statement to the police that they put a hood over his head and drove him to an unknown location, where they kept him in a small room for two days, before leaving him unharmed in Valley Stream State Park.
Lieutenant Steven Skynecki, a Nassau police detective, said the police first saw problems in Kumar's story when physical evidence did not add up, such as the fact that Kumar said he knew he was in Valley Stream Park when he saw a sign prohibiting picnics, though the sign did not say which park he was in.
Also, witnesses who saw Kumar while he was supposed to have been missing came forward, Skynecki said, including a taxi driver who said he had picked up Kumar in Flushing, Queens, and driven him out to the park the night he was found.
Skynecki said Kumar admitted that he was very disturbed by the articles in India in US, and hatched the kidnapping plot so that when police would investigate his kidnapping, they would find out who was behind the newspaper.
The newspaper, which claims to have offices in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, alleged that Kumar and his "thugs" engaged in extortion and influence-peddling and preyed upon young women.
The articles upset Kumar so much, Skynecki said, that he became depressed to the point of contemplating suicide. Skynecki said police are still investigating the newspaper, which was reportedly printed in Queens.
At the time of publishing this report, the offices for New York Governor George Pataki, Mayor of Woodbridge Jim McGreevey, and Nassau County Executive Tom Gulotta had not yet formed any comment.
McGreevey was often seen in public with Kumar. Governor Pataki appointed Kumar to the Stony Brook Council, an advisory board to the university. Gulotta had appointed him chair of the Nassau University Medical Centre board.
Calls made to the Nassau County Republican Party, of which Kumar is vice-chairman, and to the Nassau University Medical Centre, where Kumar sits on the board, also went unanswered.
Roger Chugh, a long-time business associate of Kumar's, also wished to say nothing, stating that he hadn't seen Kumar in over two months, and knew nothing.
Legislator Lisanne Altmann (Democrat, Great Neck) said she spoke to Kumar the night of his arrest, and said he sounded very emotional. "I had a feeling something was wrong," she told rediff.com "I hope he can make it through this, it must be a terrible time for him."
Altmann said she was going to stand by Kumar, as he needed the support of his friends now, more than ever. "When you have such a high position in society, you have such a long way to fall," she said.
Kumar, a father of five, came to the United States in the early 1980s and started as a busboy in Manhattan. With little education, he was able to find success in real estate and manufacturing. He also dabbled in publishing, establishing a South Asian phone directory and two newspapers for a short while.
He is known for his fundraising skills; it is said that he has raised more than $3 million for Republican candidates.
The misdemeanour charge of making a false written statement can carry up to a year in the county jail or three years' probation.
I don't know, someone else mentioned it first.
LEO do give stuffed andimals to children who are being removed from bad situations and blankets too.
Really?
If we had waited for the TRUTH from SeeBS on Memogate, Bush would probably not be in the White House. You're dead wrong..... as you were last night. It's o.k. to be wrong, everyone is wrong now and then, but it sucks to be wrong and mouthy and aggressive.... all of which you were.
What about the search effort that took place in Ga? Just because we didn't find out until later that she had planned this in advance and that it was all a hoax doesn't exonerate her for the search in Ga.
Totally agree.
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