Audrey Seiler Charged Over Kidnapping Hoax
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117088,00.html
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 MADISON, Wis. — A college student accused of faking her own kidnapping last month was charged Wednesday with lying to police in what they suggested was a desperate attempt to get her boyfriend's attention.
Palatka Police Believe Woman Faked Her Own Kidnapping WJXT-TV
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7624331/
Police in Palatka said a woman is under arrest for faking her own robbery and kidnapping. Officers found Nicole Echevarria, 24, Friday morning, tied up and her mouth taped in the back seat of her car in the parking lot of the Palatka Housing Authority. She claimed she'd been kidnapped and robbed of $8,000.
Teen Girls Faked Kidnapping, Say Police
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/01/10/hoax.html
Two Hamilton girls are facing charges for lying about being kidnapped. The girls, ages fourteen and sixteen, contacted their parents in Hamilton by cell phone Monday morning, and said they had been kidnapped.
Faked kidnapping ends up in court
http://www.yourlibrary.ca/community/richmondreview/archive/RR20000209/newssum.html
Mark Allan McCreary received a conditional discharge and was sentend 75 hours of community service in Richmond Provincial Court this week for his role in a faked kidnapping.
There's many more . . .
Do you know, offhand, if the other cases continued beyond finding the "missing" person? That is, any search for a kidnapper? Any ransom actually paid?
Thanks for your excellent post. I saved it for future reference.
Do you know, offhand, if the other cases continued beyond finding the "missing" person? That is, any search for a kidnapper? Any ransom actually paid?
Okay .. I checked two of the other three. My browser choked on the Palatka story.
The two girls in Hamilton made the false report, as did the bimbo from Duluth. And whatever reaction the bimbo's false report caused, she is certainly liable for that. I'm not excusing that part of her adventure (or any other part, for that matter). But I think that teh cops who took her "I was abducted" report didn't believe it, and therefore didn't act in haste on it. Plus, they had the "victim," which is first priority in an abduction anyway.
The faked kidnapping was an extortion scheme.
The bogus kidnapping last May was designed to extort $600,000 in ransom money from the parents of Renee Lam, who failed to appear at her scheduled sentencing regarding the same case this week.
Oh, here are the facts of the Palatka case ... They are easily distingushable ;-)
She claimed she'd been kidnapped and robbed of $8,000.Investigators said she stole the money from the cash advance business where she works and gave it to a friend, Keith Williams, 26, of Palatka.
Police are still looking for Williams and the money.