Jennifer Wilbanks found alive in New Mexico!!! (Missing Georgia bride-to-be found alive)

CNN ^ | April 30, 2005

[kcvl]

CNN: Missing Georgia bride-to-be found alive in New Mexico

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.

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[CAluvdubya]

Well we are all hanging around to se her new "do".

[tomkat]

Y'all, thanks very much for an enjoyable time with this train wreck.
Seriesly, the laughter was medicinal and needed.
G'night...

oh, and Jenn, if you're lurking, bless you heart

[cajungirl]

THe short version:

The abducted bride was actually a runaway bride with a history of running away before.

She has gotten no flatware, her fiance still loves her, her Mother did not go to pick her up, she has 14 bridesmaids and that is not alot in Atlanta. We are chipping in to get her grape spreaders if she will get a GPS implanted. Her hair is short now causing havoc at her beauty parlor.

True love has won out. She now resides in the land of myth.

Some want her stoned, hanged, fined, horsewhipped, put in jail and shunned.

I just want her to settle down and have little pop eyed children with her rock of Gibralter.

[VA40]

I haven't heard how much the wedding cost. But if there's a pool going on for this, that's my bet.

[Howlin]

I'm telling you all, you just can hardly beat Amazon; especially with the free shipping thing!

[Txsleuth]

Oh, WOW, we do have Wal-mart Superstores --- I don't ever shop there, but maybe it will have Dukes...

Howlin, I will go to Wal-mart and check--if they don't, I'll find you and see what we can do, okay?

Thanks Carolinamom--other than WAl-mart I haven't even heard of any of those stores---isn't it amazing the difference in different parts of the country...

[Dad yer funny]

that is NICE

[CAluvdubya]

We could at least pitch in and get her the used one.

[Howlin]

As I said, Amazon has EVERYTHING cheap!

I'm sitting here trying to decide whether to buy that Calphalon cookware 70 percent off before the offer expires at midnight!

[pamlet]

I am SO glad you posted that - it actually sounds pretty good.. laugh... ok .. so while I was raised in Chicago - I've spent my entire adult life in the South..

[Txsleuth]

She may have a lot of regifting to herself!!!

[Howlin]

If you don't have one of those, GET ONE immediately. I have had it about three weeks and all my husband does is cook on it and go to get stuff to cook on it.

It is worth every penny.

[NautiNurse]

be careful with the Amazon Calphalon--some of those are made in China. They are either warped in delivery, or after the first use.

[Howlin]

Believe me, it IS better than any cucumber sandwich you'll ever eat.

Make it and hide it in the back of the refrigerator to keep it all for yourself........lol.

[Txsleuth]

I see you wrote the Cliffs Notes version of this epic!!!

[CAluvdubya]

I'm cleaning my screen again. That is the funniest synopsis ever written. I'm thinking the society pages, for those in Atlanta that were outside doing yardwork today.

[Mo1]

So basically you're saying .. the gal has issues huh?

Thanks for the summary :0)

[Howlin]

Warped? Do you remember which line it was? (Gosh, is that why it's so cheap? Does Amazon have a money back guarantee?)

[maggief]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/0505/01runaway.html

Jubilation gives way to harsh reality

Published on: 05/01/05

It was like Jennifer Wilbanks had come back from the dead.

John Mason stood in the front yard of his Duluth home early Saturday morning almost giddy with excitement. Hours earlier, the fianceé who had vanished three days earlier called to tell him she had been kidnapped to New Mexico.


John Mason reacts in front of his Duluth home early Saturday after hearing that Jennifer Wilbanks had been found alive.


But she was alive and well.

The darkness in front of Mason's bungalow had been replaced with the glare of television cameras. Reporters clamored for interviews.

"Is this 'Good Morning America'?" he asked as techs wired him with a microphone. "That's kind of cool."

Agents in an unmarked car got out and walked toward the house. "That's the FBI," Mason said, pointing. "Hey man, y'all know anything else?"

They didn't answer.

"I feel like Tiger Woods," he joked as he waited to go live.

Friends and relatives darted back and forth across the yard embracing each other. Someone had used a marker to add the word "not" in front of "missing" on a large yard sign with Wilbanks' picture.

In front of the cameras, Mason rejected the suggestion that his fiancée could have made up the kidnapping.

"I never thought she got cold feet," he said. "She put too much into this to leave four days before."

At the Fox News tent, Mason turned into a groupie. "When's [Sean] Hannity going to come down to see me?" he asked before gushing when a producer told him soon. "Oh man, that'd be awesome."

A couple of journalists were still waiting to talk to Mason when friends abruptly pulled him from the tent and rushed him into the house.

Everyone but immediate family was told to leave the house. Blinds were drawn and the front door closed. Several police officers converged on the front porch as news began to trickle among reporters.

It hit friends on the lawn like a bullet.

Jennifer Wilbanks was a runaway bride.

"She got cold feet," Duluth Police Chief Randy Belcher told reporters.

For Mason, the reality would be even more harsh: His future bride — desperate to escape the pressure of 600 wedding guests, two prominent families and a head full of doubt — had just wanted space.

And she disappeared on a Greyhound bus to get it, using a ticket she may have purchased more than a week ago.

(snip)

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

So wait...has there been footage of the husband that was supposed to be meeting up with the bride that ran yet? Did he really go to Atlanta to meet her?