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Oh, and mary_x, the husband made the initial call when she didn't come
back from jogging. She told him she was going jogging and he waited 4-5 hours, I beleive, before he called her in as missing.
posted by
saul_relative
on May 29, 2005 at 3:12 PM
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It could be a little of all that, mary_x. But here's the deal: this woman
knew there was a massive manhunt out for her; hell, it got national exposure from go. An example needs to be set for people like her, emotional problems or no, that decide to just up and take off (today's world being what it is, manhunts are becoming all too common), and I'm not talking about just the cold-footed brides. Those resources could have been used to arrest criminals, search for real missing people, etc., instead of wasting time looking for someone who just didn't want to go through with a wedding (hell, look at all the kids that go missing daily). Unfortunately for her, that example looks as if it is going to be Wilbanks. As a society, the signal has to be sent that if you decide to stage a vanishing, you will pay for the resources allocated to look for your irresponsible ass.
And the lying to the police in her statement and making a false police reports shouldn't go unpunished either.
posted by
saul_relative
on May 29, 2005 at 3:10 PM
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Saul,
I'm a little hazy on all the facts here, because I don't know who got the police involved, when and why. If she didn't actually call and make the missing persons report on herself, but was trying to get out of the embarrassment of calling off the wedding, then I think they are being too harsh on her. The woman obviously has some serious emotional problems. I think the cops are trying to make up for the embarrassment they feel about being duped.
posted by
Blanche.
on May 29, 2005 at 2:40 PM
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Agreed, TARZANA, if you have a ceremony at all. My mom and dad
were hitched by a JOP. Dad says if he'd done it any other way, he would have just taken my mother to see a preacher. Something simple, but just as binding.
I was just at a wedding -- best man. Small, very nice.
posted by
saul_relative
on May 29, 2005 at 2:33 PM
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Perhaps a small wedding is best. So much trouble for one day of festivities and acknowledgement of a couple.
posted by
TARZANA
on May 27, 2005 at 2:47 PM
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You're right, scoop. Fabricating the story made her culpable. You could
say that all of her problems in the last few weeks have been due to some serious lapses in good judgment.
posted by
saul_relative
on May 25, 2005 at 6:04 PM
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Many subjects plead temporary insanity
I truly believe this girl does have problems. If you think about it, if she never said she was abducted, there would be nothing they could do to prosecute her because she had done nothing wrong up until then. Just because she took off having cold feet is not against the law, the authorities are the ones who launched the big search, which is natural but again if she never lied she would skate on this.
posted by
scoop
on May 25, 2005 at 5:31 PM
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