Runaway Bride & Walmart in India??
Well, it does not only happen in Julia Robert's movie...it happens in real life as well.
Jennifer Wilbanks fled from her house the week she was supposed to get married. It just took 2 hours for this news to gain media's attention, and in no minutes, this was the headline of every news channel all around the country. Be it CNN, MSNBC or CBS, they were all talking about the missing girl. It was suspected that she has been abducted and/or killed. The localities started searching for her along with the police. The first suspect for the police was her fiancé, since 70% of crimes in US (or maybe all around the world) are committed by the family members. However her fiancé took a polygraph and got out of the umbrella of suspicion. Many volunteers came forward to help in the search. The family offered a reward of $1 million to anyone who found her. Many restaurants in the town offered free food to all the volunteers. Fliers were distributed, pictures were put everywhere. The massive search costed almost 50,000 dollars to the local authorities.
Eventually Wilbanks called authorities from a pay phone in Albuquerque, New Mexico-thousands mile away from her home town in Georgia. She said that two people had abducted her and sexually assaulted her. She was flown back from there to her home town. When FBI started questioning her, she retracted her story several times. The FBI agents felt that the story was not credible, and finally Jennifer confessed that she just ran away because she got hot flashes for the wedding and she said that she was totally pressurized by the wedding day coming up. She was overwhelmed by the list of things she needed to get done before the wedding day,
Today, she was indicted by the grand jury. She is charged with a count of making false statements which is punishable by up to five years in prison, and a count of making a false report of a crime - an offense punishable by a year in jail.
Now what she thought was going to remain only between her and her family, is known to almost everyone in the country. So I guess you really have to think twice before taking any drastic steps – you might end up in jail!
Check this out:
http://people.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1122572.cms
Jennifer Wilbanks fled from her house the week she was supposed to get married. It just took 2 hours for this news to gain media's attention, and in no minutes, this was the headline of every news channel all around the country. Be it CNN, MSNBC or CBS, they were all talking about the missing girl. It was suspected that she has been abducted and/or killed. The localities started searching for her along with the police. The first suspect for the police was her fiancé, since 70% of crimes in US (or maybe all around the world) are committed by the family members. However her fiancé took a polygraph and got out of the umbrella of suspicion. Many volunteers came forward to help in the search. The family offered a reward of $1 million to anyone who found her. Many restaurants in the town offered free food to all the volunteers. Fliers were distributed, pictures were put everywhere. The massive search costed almost 50,000 dollars to the local authorities.
Eventually Wilbanks called authorities from a pay phone in Albuquerque, New Mexico-thousands mile away from her home town in Georgia. She said that two people had abducted her and sexually assaulted her. She was flown back from there to her home town. When FBI started questioning her, she retracted her story several times. The FBI agents felt that the story was not credible, and finally Jennifer confessed that she just ran away because she got hot flashes for the wedding and she said that she was totally pressurized by the wedding day coming up. She was overwhelmed by the list of things she needed to get done before the wedding day,
Today, she was indicted by the grand jury. She is charged with a count of making false statements which is punishable by up to five years in prison, and a count of making a false report of a crime - an offense punishable by a year in jail.
Now what she thought was going to remain only between her and her family, is known to almost everyone in the country. So I guess you really have to think twice before taking any drastic steps – you might end up in jail!
Check this out:
http://people.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1122572.cms
posted by mannat @ 5/25/2005 02:28:00 PM
8 Comments:
At May 25, 2005 2:47 PM,
test said…
angrej bhi saare khote hote hain :) bhai agar want she wanted to spend some time alone to bata ke chali jaati :)
At May 25, 2005 8:56 PM,
Anonymous said…
this is one of the weirdest cases i have ever heard in my life. amazing what this lady did just becuz of a marriage!! now this is a sheer example of a master plan blowing up in your face!
At May 26, 2005 6:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
changed it around here ..eh mannat? :) i like it:)
At May 29, 2005 9:13 AM,
Anonymous said…
That was one funny incident:smile:
At May 30, 2005 11:45 AM,
Jon Doe said…
Very Interesting :))
At June 02, 2005 7:12 PM,
Anonymous said…
Who is Jennifer Wilbanks? (I could have googled, but wanted to show my ignorance)
At June 02, 2005 7:38 PM,
mannat said…
Oh c'mon Gaurav...2 smart men came up with the concept of google so that ignorant ppl could get away with just anything;)
I thought u live in US..right?? It has been on CNN these last few weeks.
Anyways..will save u time from switching on CNN or even googling...she was just a normal girl who ran away a few days before her wedding (coz' she didn't wanna get married, U guess), then made this whole story about being abducted and is now facing charges against her for all this. I think getting famous in US is so ez..what say?
At June 15, 2005 10:31 PM,
mannat said…
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