Bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks Found Alive(Latest as of 09:30AM ET on the Bimbo Alert)

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution ^ | 04/30/05 | Staff and wire reports

[alrea]

she'd deliberately planted false clues (e.g. the joggin gsuit and the hair she had cut herself); I think this woman is mentally ill

a massive distraction of LE resources could easily have resulted in people getting killed; fraud and reckless, negligent behavior at the least. worse than reporting fake fires anyway.

[Nita Nupress]

It's too bad that so many couples saddle themselves with the debt of a huge wedding before they even get a foot off the ground.

There's NO way this chick was gonna have to pay for this monstrosity of a wedding. I'd bet $100 that Mommy not only planned it, but micro-managed it down to every minute detail. She probably made out the guest list, picked out the invitations, selected the wedding cake, chose the decor, and created the gift list. Then she picked up the tab for every single red cent.

Heck, she probably even picked out the groom.

Is it true that the future bride and groom shacked up for over a year? If so, it takes a lot of gall to throw a 600-guest wedding, complete with 8 wedding showers and a $250 ice bucket on the Macy's gift list. Just my old-fashioned opinion, of course.

[JeffAtlanta]

If she had not turned up the fiance would have eventually been charged for murder. The police would searched the home and found many "suspicious" items. Her family would have started remembering "not so happy times" that they had.

Eventually the fiance would have stopped looking for her and would had to start defending himself from growing suspicions. Then the public would start saying that he is acting "very guilty".

It may have been her plan to put her fiance through the Scott Peterson treatment. I hope he runs as fast as he can from her.

[JeffAtlanta]

When I saw her photo on TV the first time I thought that she looked nuts. Every picture they put up on the screen she had that insane look in her eyes so it wasn't just a one bad photograph.

Yeah and remember that they always give out the person's BEST photos. If that is the best she has ever looked then I'd hate to see her bad photos.

[Dante3]

Next time someone goes missing, people are not going to take it seriously. And it was horrible what she made her parents and others who love her go through. She did a serious disservice to real victims - perhaps took a page from the antics of that woman in Milwaukee (I forgot her name) who staged her own kidnapping and nothing was ever done to her except provide her with the publicity she sought.</p>

[Cboldt]

Leaving a note couldn't be adequate grounds not to look. A kidnapper could just force a person to write such a note.

I assume that people who leave notes that amount to "don't look for me" don't have their wishes respected either ;-)

[commonasdirt]

She should definitely be made to pay for the cost of the search. NO WAY this lady did not know what a stir she caused. And if the guy marries her now he should have his head examined.

[Nam Vet]

The groom to be needs to think long and hard before he says "I do" to this one.

I went to bed right after hearing she was found in New Mexico last night and was quite elated. When I woke up a learned she pulled a hoax and planned this all along that's what I thought.

If I were the fiance (Mason) I would put off the wedding indefinately, seriously considering never going through with it. Odds probably 3 to 1 I would find another life mate. Who knows when she might snap again in the future?

Nam Vet

[joylyn]

I heard one of this woman's friends say that this big wedding was Jennifer's lifelong dream. This was her fantasy wedding, and she's no teenager. So why push the blame onto others?

[small_l_libertarian]

When I first saw that photo, even before you altered it, I thought that she looked nuts.

Me, too. I said the same to my boyfriend. She just LOOKS crazy. There was some FReeper who knows her (I would ping him/her if I could remember the name - I am not being intentionally rude) who was saying that she's a great beauty. I couldn't believe it! She just plain looks crazy, and I wouldn't want to go near her.

I doubt that it's drugs, though. Just plain old, garden-variety nuts.

[Dante3]

I heard the same thing as you - that she had just started to move in her things because they were going to live in his house after the wedding.

Some have commented about always carrying a cellphone when jogging. My daughter and a friend of hers (who is a marathon runner) never carry a cell phone when going running, nor do they wear their jewelry.

[iconoclast]

so why the sexual assualt part?

Where'd you get this from ???

[iconoclast]

I read that she's a nurse

She is (or was) a Medical Assistant at an OB-GYN facility.

[Fudd Fan]

I thought that this case smelled fishy from the get go and suspected the "cold feet" made her run

I thought there was a lot fishy here too, but I didn't think it was cold feet. If I were her fiance I'd be livid at her and there'd be no way the relationship would be saved. At best she's an immature spoiled brat and at worst she's mental. Isn't much of what she did a crime?

[Fudd Fan]

I feel sorry for her fiance too but he still looks wierd to me as well. Maybe they deserved each other. Who knows.

[iconoclast]

I'd bet $100 that Mommy not only planned it, but micro-managed it down to every minute detail.

Just for the record (anyone?) just where do the bigger bucks lie ... her family or his?

[randog]

Then you've got those couples looking to retire right after their wedding...;^)

PS: I'm kinda partial to those $180 candlesticks, so if you want to get randog a belated wedding gift....;^)

[bedowin]

The family just got totally "punked"

[iconoclast]

When I saw her photo on TV the first time I thought that she looked nuts. Every picture they put up on the screen she had that insane look in her eyes so it wasn't just a one bad photograph.

I've seen so many women with this look in the last few years that I've concluded it's related to contact lenses.

Can anyone verify or invalidate my conjecture?

[Fudd Fan]

This morning on CNN there was a twit anchor who had that former FBI profiler, the woman whose name I forget. Anyway the FBI-er was furious that this girl would do all these things, said she had to know there would be a huge search, had to know they'd fear she was dead and the fiance would be suspect #1, how she could have her family not know WHAT had befallen her... Well the CNN twit kept trying to make excuses and the FBI lady was having none of it. I loved watching and listening to her. The kicker was, after the interview (it was pre-taped) the twit says, "well we TOLD you she'd be blunt!" Then twit and her co-anchor heaved large sighs. I'm shocked they didn't roll their eyes.

I hate CNN.