on the Jennifer Wilbanks case
The thing that strikes me about Jennifer Wilbanks is how profoundly ordinary she is. Christian woman; divorced parents; Duluth; medical assistant; wears ponchos in the winter (see the last photo in the series); runner; planning a wedding; has a couple close friends and a wide sprinkling of people who think well of her. There are probably thousands of women very much like her scattered around Atlanta in the suburbs, not all cut from the exact same mold — some are more creative, some prefer basketball to running, some had kids sooner, some went through wilder phases in high school or college, some are shyer, some are more conservative or more liberal — but similar in background and sunny temperament. Ordinary’s not so bad.
So if all had gone according to plan, the most media coverage Jennifer Wilbanks would have received would have been a small piece in the AJC and possibly a larger piece in the Gwinnett Daily Post on her wedding, which sounds like it was an enormous pain to plan (14 bridesmaids! 600 guests!). Instead she’s the subject of a huge investigation and national media attention, simply because of the very not-ordinary circumstances of her disappearing.
Our resident crimeblogger is on the case. All the rest of us can do is speculate and hope things get back to ordinary again soon.
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Jennifer Wilbanks should be prosecuted for what she’s done.
Jennifer should be prosecuted to the fullest extent….What a liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She should pay the full price for her behavior . The cost , the faults claims . Yes, she should be prosecuted .
Jennifer Wilbanks should burn in hell for what she did. I hope she gets the death penalty. I’d pull the switch myself.
I think burning in hell is a bit strong but I think quite a few hours of community service would get the point across.
The woman is a straight up wacko and deserves to pay dearly. The more media exposure the better. She deserves to be the joke of the nation for a few more days if she doesn’t have to pay any penalties.
Hey if any of you media people are reading this (especially cnn), I think that you should apologize to the whole nation for spending 3/4 of all your broadcast time on this stupidity. DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU SHOULD APOLOGIZE? - You should do coverage on every legitimate missing person in the United States, especially minorities!!!!!
The only reason you networks covered this story is because she is White and has a pretty face. If the missing person was male or was a minority (or both), do you think that they would get coverage on national headline news on all the news networks, like this stupid ignorant undeserving woman? Well we all know the answer to that. Also people did you notice that most of the news networks (and cnn 100% of the time) never have a man or an average looking woman covering the news? All you damn people want is a pretty face to look at. Thats the only reason Jennifer Wilbanks is plastered all over the news, people just want another pretty white face on the news. If the runaway bride happened to be ínot the best lookingí person, do you think the news networks would have covered her at all???? (just you people think about that for a moment). This woman does not want the media coverage, and does not deserve the media coverage, so get the hell over this dead story already. The white and wealthy are covered on the news for the most trivial of details, while nobody seems to give a damn about the poor and minorities, the underrepresented and disenfranchised, and people that have real problems.
All of the missing children and adults in this nation and their families deserve an apology from from all of you news networks.
I completely agree with Beth. Minorities and missing children NEVER GET THIS TYPE OF ATTENTION, until they’re dead (and still, rarely would the media attention even compare to the runaway bride crap).
And whoever wrote that this chick is “ordinary” is a LIAR and is living in a vacuum. It is not ORDINARY, or average, to have 600 people invited to your wedding and 28 in the wedding party. WAKE-UP. She is a rich, white lady in the South, old enough to know better. Does anyone remember a similar hoax that was carried out by a young, white college female who faked her abduction, apparently to get attention from her ex-boyfriend….
I think she has suffered enough for her poor judgement. It will be remembered for a long, long time and blogged forever on the Internet. It’s funny, sad, maddening, interesting, ordinary and not. Quite a mix of feelings. The “deer in the headlights” look on her pretty face adds more to the fuss. Still, I’d rather see a story like this than another dead 10-year old in Florida. I hope they live happily ever after.
Jennifer deserves to be prosecuted, and do minority community service. She should have said she was abducted and raped by by a GA white male!
Big deal. Leave the girl alone. I can’t understand all the anger directed towards this girl. In a way, it is the same as my confusion at the anger directed toward Martha Stewart. Are these angry people just lower caste and jealous of those who seem to be a little more put together? I don’t know, but I think those who are so harsh with this Wilbanks girl more than likely also have issues with Marrtha Stewart. It’s a sad commentary on life.
Jennifer Wilbanks should be forced to work for Martha Stewart for 30 days, for community service, and then pay restitution to the City.
Wow. Give her a break. I’ve never seen a lynch mob formed so quickly. Nobody knows what the real deal is. I would love to have someone ask all the 2 bit psychiatrists on the news programs what the deal is with all you people that want her hung. YOU are the ones with the real mental problems.
If you are worried about taxpayer money being wasted, look into your congressman or senator. I’m sure he has wasted 20 times what was wasted on this case.
Grow up.
I agree with the comment way too much media attention is spent on this matter..But what is it about this girl being “beautiful”?? Am I missing something here? The bugged out eyes? Wow, she is ugly? or not? I don;t get it?
She should repay the money she took and then just be allowed to fall out of the spotlight. What she chooses to do with her life is her business as long as it isn’t diverting people from their jobs to follow her on her made up wild goose chase.
She should be ashamed for what she did and truly should be more apologetic. But that really should be the end of it.
Enough already..with this story! It is getting sickening..Just make her pay the $60,000 she owes, after all what happened to the reward funds? Why hasn’t that been given to all the innocent civil-service and volunteer workers..who so diligently tried to find this piece of work! Not that I have anything against her or her boyfriend..but don;t you think he is “gay”? And she may have found out? No one has thought of that???
has anyone besides me thought this poor woman MIGHT have panic disorder, an eating disorder, augoraphobia or all of the above? has anyone considered that on top of whatever controlling fears she has she MIGHT have been numbing herself with drugs or alcohol, thus adding to her “insanity?” Surely there are women out there like me who have had experience w/ mental illness (post-partum depression, just as an example, affects 3 in 10). And, unlike Andrea Yates, who listened to voices in her head saying she should kill her children, Jennifer did what any pathologically frightened young woman under pressure might do: she ran, hoping to escape her own demons. Brooke Shields recently said that her experience w/ postpartum depression made her want to run away (and actually seriously consider that as an option) and leave her daughter to be raised by her husband b/c she truly believed her daughter would be better off without her. Do you see the POSSIBLE similarities here?
I hope none of the people posting condemning messages here ever have mental illness or uncontrollable fears or habits (handwashing, OCD, eating disorders). It is a nightmare, and most would give their right arm to be able to conquer their problems.
Why must we (the public and the media) continue to pick at her like a scab? Her personal problems and struggles should be her own business. All that matters is that she get help and (maybe later?) share her story on her own terms so that others won’t feel so alone in their mental illness that they run away or worse — take their own lives or those of others.
Keep these loonies in the spotlight - they are both hilarious! Come on, fess up - a part of you is laughing. Two born again simpletons with “the world revolves around me” mentalities. Seven bridal showers. $100,000 wedding. No charges from town police - his dad is mayor. It is small-town Christian America at its own absolute parody!!
Keep the news coming; it just gets better and better. Lack of sex caused her to get on a bus? Breast implants? Failed the rape test from that awful Hispanic man, and THEN she changed her story? How can anyone not be hysterical with each new piece of information?!
And John Mason - a man with serious (but totally hysterical) issues. Live together, but no sex before marriage? (I have to wonder - same room, or different room?) Born again cracker, totally lost in translation. Hey John, did you ask God for a sign? I’m not very theological, but.. I think you got one. When you accompany your poor dear Jennifer to counseling, make your own appointment, man.
By the way, to address the question if the news media has gone too far with this one… The US news media fell apart forever when they announced Clinton had oral sex in the White House. Everything since then has been pure comedy. What a country, what a time.
Jennifer needs to be charged for her crime. She lied to the police and wasted the valuable time of many individuals. She knew what she was doing. It was clearly premeditated. If she wanted to run away, she should have left a note for her family and fiance not to worry about her.
What’s all this “Jennifer needs time to heal” claptrap? “She” needs time to heal? Heal from what?
Heal from the embarrassment and public scrutiny she brought down on her family and fiancÈ? Heal from the lies she told? How she lied about being raped? How she lied about her being abducted?
The act of cutting her hair en route to the taxi, and deliberately leaving its evidence where it would be found, is in of itself a lie told to the local authorities that could have easily cost her fiancÈ his freedom and destroyed his reputation.
Jennifer Wilbanks carefully and meticulously planned and plotted her deceptive little adventure, and she’s still at it! Has anyone compared the images of her return to Atlanta with those her attorney is now trying to portray?
Take a good look at the night shots of her in the passenger seat of the vehicle taking her from the Atlanta airport. Watch her expressions and hand gestures carefully. What do you see? A woman with an “Oh my! Look at all those reporters and cameras! Is all this for little’ol me!?” For crying out loud, she’s actually smiling about the attention! At that particular moment this woman wasn’t hiding a thing because she didn’t think she was on camera. She isn’t cowering. She isn’t crying. She isn’t sobbing or hiding under that ridiculous towel. If anything it looks like she’s about to start laughing!
And listen to her initial quotes. Later that day she is paraphrased (was it by an FBI spokesperson or a local Prosecutor?) as having said something to the effect that “she doesn’t feel she’s done anything wrong and wasn’t really apologetic for her actions”.
It was only “after” she hired an attorney (can anyone say “damage control”), that [according to said attorney] she began “crying so hard she cannot complete a sentence”. Geeeeeeeez. WAKE UP people! She still lying!
And the statement read by her pastor that he claims “she” wrote? I’m sorry, but that speech smacks of someone educated in the seminary, not a nursing school. In any event, I can’t feel sorry for her. Not with what we’ve seen thus far. I feel for her family, and I pity the naivetÈ of her fiancÈ and pastor.
Jennifer Wilbanks deliberately dragged the entire country into her little drama and now we want the TRUTH. For my money it’s another man. If I had to guess I’d say she was either running after some guy who jilted her, or that she recently discovered she was pregnant by someone other than her fiancÈ, which may also explain her [now recanted] claim of being raped. Are you listening John? If Jennifer’s pregnant, GET A PATERNITY TEST.
There are far too many deceitful and manipulative women out there behaving just like Jennifer Wilbanks. All lessening the credibility of women everywhere, just a little, each time they cry wolf.
I don’t want to throw stones, but isn’t it just possible that Ms. Wilbanks fabricated this elaborate hoax to cover-up something? I mean, here is a woman who literally had months in which she could have confided to her friends or family, any second thoughts or doubts about her wedding. Instead, she plots well in advance to disappear, and makes a deliberate effort to make said disappearance look like an abduction. She even goes so far as to leave evidence (the lock of cut hair left where it would found, and the leaving behind of her engagement ring, keys, identification, credit cards, etc.) and, when she finally panic’s in New Mexico, fabricates a tragic tale involving a nonexistent vehicle, persons unknown, weapons, and finally, her rape. All intended to misdirect authorities and exonerate her actions. My question is: Why would anyone, sane or otherwise, go to such extraordinary lengths at the expense of their own family and fiancÈ, simply because they got “cold feet”?
If she were mentally unstable I would guess all of this was to get attention, but how much more “good” attention can one get than a 600-guest wedding at which they are to be the star? On the other hand, if this person were trying to hide something, like a pregnancy from another man, then it all makes perfect (though very disturbed) sense. Like it or not, we allowed Ms. Wilbanks pull us all into this fiasco, and after the relief of learning she was found alive and unharmed, we’d all like to believe her actions were more or less innocent. The smiling wide-eyed photos and images of her with her teddy bear make that assumption a fairly easy one. I think however, that the truth may be something far less attractive.
She lied to everyone who trusted her. She lied to everyone who loved her. She lied to the FBI and police in two states. She has shown a complete disregard for the law, her family, and the fate of her fiancÈ. Whatever her motivation, I say Jennifer Wilbanks is 32 year-old self-involved brat who needs to be taught the world doesn’t revolve around her whims, and John Mason needs to realize this is one Georgia Peach best left on the tree.
How many women who are fighting for their lives in a “real” kidnapping and rape scenario will ultimately succumb to their sexual predators because the authorities waited to search for them wanting to better authenticate the missing woman as really missing remembering the premeditated self centered lies this imbecile Jennifer relayed to the authorities. She will be complicit in any resultant deaths to the rapist/murderer himself. Her actions are no joke, they are criminal.
whoa…this sucks…im 16yrs old doing this frickin religion paper thats gonna end up being 6pages about the dang ‘runaway bride,’ and what moral actions could have been taken. i hate this lady for all the pain and suffering she has caused me…lol…it is 1:11am and i want to go to bed!! i hope you read this, ms jennifer wilbanks, because if it werent for you, i could be sleeping right now!!!so screw you and all your problems. well i better go and finish typing all this shit about you.neways…GO SPURS GO!!!BEAT THE SONICS!!check out my new website yall….geocities.com/flynniv4/spurs.html
Jennifer Wilbanks’ life is being ripped open, a’la Michael Jackson, and she is not yet in court. Before it is over, the world will know EVERYTHING about her. It may be the 21st Century equivalent of having a big ‘A’ branded onto her forehead.
I suggest that she pose nude for Playboy. A spread in Playboy seems to end these PR feeding frenzies. Remember the “I married a milionaire” bride? Probably not. Since her exposure, she has dropped off the face of the earth.
Ripped apart? “Revealed” is perhaps more accurate, and it was, after all, by her own hand that she has invited this attention (why play to 600 when you’ve got the whole country!). Her shoplifting convictions aside, this woman is no teenager looking for a cheap thrill. Jennifer Wilbanks thoughtfully executed a premeditated plan to fake her own adbuction (let’s not forget the rape) and involve the FBI by crossing state lines. The “why” is still a mystery, but the speculations of involvement with another man seem reasonable. As for Playboy, I wouldn’t know, but I somehow doubt there would be much interest by either party.
Absolutely ridiculous! That is what I think of this woman/child. A drama queen and nothing more. A few years back, I was involved in the search for a missing woman. A friend from high school who was found murdered. It’s alot of work and stress and tears. With no good end. Jennifer Wilbanks took advantage of all who heard of her. Pretty sad and pathetic and cruel. Not to mention, premeditated!!! Remember people, she planned this!!!! This is not the work of a “disoriented” person. She’s not even crazy. She PLANNED THIS!!!! And the families talking about her like she was a saint are living with rose colored glasses on!!! I think they just wanted her married and off THIER HANDS!!! Wouldn’t you??!!
And she wasn’t just abducted, she was sexually assaulted. WHATEVER!!! When is the one friend who knew this going to come forward, because this did not happen without help.
I live alone, and I shudder at the thought that something could happen to me, and they would say there is no reason to look for me, as I may be hiding out for dramatic reasons.
Have seen Danny Porter on the news over the years and feel he is an intelligent and fair person. Hopefully he wil do the right thing here, and make her pay for this!! It needs to be done to keep this from happening in the future!!
Let me hear what you think. Thanks for listening.
yes, the media has put a bit too much effort in this coverage probably more for the joke than anything else, i mean, look at her eyes!
yes, she is a psycho. yes, john is a weirdo. yes, they are all in denial and yes, they totally belong together! i mean who can be a better match for her than john? living with her and not knowing about her past? yeah right! he knew all along and he chose to put up with it! that’s why he was so calm during the first police interview on the next day of her disappearance! he probably though “man, that b…..h really did it!!!!
yes, we all make mistakes, so, john, go ahead with the wedding, but please try to refrain your future wife from attracting anymore of the public’s attention! keep your drama at home!
she better be living like a mouse for the rest of her life!!! liar, loser, blaming on the hispanics. i am not a hispanic but i agree that she needs to personally apologize to the hispanic community, that’s just unforgivable!! and don’t ask your priest or attorney to speak for you either, loser!!! don’t even have the guts to apologize yourself!*@#
i am happy though, that she’s alive, i guess that was the good part of the entire news. but that lying and hiding behind the family is just too frustrating for the community!
she better pay in one way or the other.
this is bad. who the hell is she and why should any of us care about what she did? i don’t pay attention to stuff like, usually. now it is getting on my nerves and i’m wondering why anyone is giving a f&*k about this mental case. she has people who may help her and they are the mental health staff.
this is sick. all the media coverage is sad, but then again it is cnn all the rest of the network news goons. why would they have anything better to write about? this girl is crazy and she has the biggest eyes i have ever seen. i bet she can see me right now writing this message. she can probably see my thoughts… scary!
I think it is lamentable that the woman could not be real: to her fiancee, her family, the news media, or to herself. And to blame a Hispanic is abominable; her comments are insulting to the entire Hispanic community.
I am glad I don’t tune in to television or radio network news so I didn’t have to hear about the story every 2 minutes!
It’s hilarious that, obviously, minorities are having such a FIT that this Fruit Loop is in the news because “she’s a white woman.” Well, that’s probably about the truth because had she been black or Mexican, she would most definitely have NOT ran from a white man wanting to marry her in front of 600 people. She would have been too busy either, A) “getting her hair did” or B) teaching her illegitimate children to say “daddy” in English.
Is Jennifer a dude in drag? Is that why she has the appearance she does and why she won’t sleep with nor MARRY a man? Mystery solved.
Has anyone noticed that she mentioned that the Hispanic abductor didn’t use “force” or “foreplay?” I found this comment very strange….maybe she just needs to have sex?! Also her statements are very conflicting…she told New Mexico police that she ran from the wedding preparations and recently said that her running had nothing to do with the wedding.
Leave her the hell alone. Leave her fiance alone too. She freaked out so what? She made up a story under stress, so what? What pinhead didn’t get popped for shoplifting in junior high and made up a story to the cops? She had 600 blue blood southern aristocrats breathing down her neck on the eve of her wedding…who wouldn’t blow main trunk fuse and split?!! Sue her for the costs of the search? Sounds like its election year for the sherriff in question.
Yeah, I love the “foreplay” part of her tale, must have been a Freudian slip over some Latino-bondage fantasy. Anyway, now it turns out she was headed to New Mexico in hopes of renewing a failed romance with some poor guy named Todd Kendrick. He was quoted as saying “I would have turned her ass in, no question” “And then,” he joked, “I’d have asked for the $100,000 reward.” –You go girl!
From a family that has delt with mental illness before I understand the panic and anxiety issues. Whether she went to go “rekindle” and old romance or not, to do that while engaged still means to me she was a bit off balance. I think she should have to repay what she owes for the cost of looking for her and do community service but I also think she needs to have counseling, therapy and be evaluated to see if she needs medication as well. Its really easy to sit in judgement of others when you can hide behind your keyboard and pretend you have never felt panic or fear and not be able to control it. Not everyone fakes problems to get away with something, my guess is this snowballed and probably put her into more of a panic, hence the made up story. Sorry but I feel for her, I for one dont live in a glass house.
We all want to be kind and look for the best here, but weíve all known people who have done just this sort of thing, and worse. Like too many others just like her, Wilbanks knows how to play her sympathizers like a violin. It is highly doubtful that she is now, or has ever been, suffering any mental disorder. Were that the case, ìsomewhereî in her 32-years, 3 criminal convictions, nursing college, and romantic involvements, it would have reared it’s head.
At the time of her “abduction” such a history would certainly have been factored into the investigation and we would have all been made aware of it by the media. Though her attorney will soon attempt to prove otherwise, there is no mental illness and there wasnít any emotional breakdown. It was all just a con gone wrong.
Wilbanksí careful planning of her zigzag multi-state path [to elude authorities and cover the trail to her old beau in NM] are far from evidence of mental instability. Her actions, in fact, show cunning and an absence of conscience — something attributable to a sociopath, and a terrifying attribute for a nurse.
The earlier press conferences and statements can all now be dismissed. The latest evidence points to her desire to escape [what she likely thought would be] a boring, loveless marriage (for her part), and instead, attempt to revive a long-failed tryst with Todd Kendrick (a former GA boy now living in NM). I would guess Wilbanks had been pining for this guy for some time, and for her, the memory of their fling became an over-romanticized obsession. Once she decided to track the guy down thatís all that mattered. John who?…
I think that the dog she went jogging with convinced her to run away. The bus she took was called “Greyhound” so obviously the canines were in kahutz on this one. If she listened to all animals so closely she would have escaped, because we all know that Bugs Bunny is adamant about taking the left turn when you get to Albequerque. Those of you that have taken the bus know that if she rode a Greyhound bus that far, I think that is punishment enough for her actions.
I think that since the ethnic groups are coming down on her, she should also face scrutiny from Shaggy and Scooby for making people who own vans look devious.
For the towel over the head display, she owes an apology to Fry Guy from Mcdonalds and Rudy from Fat Albert
She also should be sued by owls for having eyes that look like them, but not posessing their amount of wisdom
Personally, I like her. It took alot of guts to leave a wedding that big and from everyone she knew. By herself! Everybody back at the farm jumped the gun, put out the search, etc. She didn’t make her attempted claim until last day when she was apparently seeing herself all over the papers etc. The FBI and locals didn’t let her carry it out. Her boyfriend sold her out. It took twice the guts and nerve to go back to mayberry!! She could have stayed where she was and no one could do anything. It takes alot of courage to go and face the music to everyone you know. Dad should have saved her the trouble and payed, he was offering twice as a reward anyway, No doubt she has some things to work out. Who among us doesn’t. For those calling for her head ’cause she lied, beware the punishment you desire towards others when you yourselves are equally guilty of the same and probably more. I’ve not met a “saint” yet!! I do agree with the comments regarding race, etc. “SHAME” on the mainstream media. I guess the question to ask is; Do the Gainesville Police “always” do that kind of search for all who turn up missing? Do they “always” forget the 48hr. rule to be declared missing? Is it normal operating procedure? I can understand Dad wanting to, but!!!
Update please! Where is Jennifer now and what type “treatment” is she receiving?
Pity? Guts? How about “disdain” and “disgust”. It’s old news that every aspect of Wilbanks’ tawdry little adventure was a fake. Too many people are still attributing legitimacy to her actions without keeping up on the facts. The only panic-attack experienced by Jennifer Wilbanks was her fear of being trapped in a boring, loveless marriage to John Mason (fortunately for John this happened “before” they were married). Her carefully planned [but poorly executed] circuitous flight to New Mexico, was contrived for the sole purpose of tracking down her ex-lover, Todd Kendrick.
She had some pathetic hope of renewing their sexual tryst, and while Kendrick has admitted they had had a steamy relationship at the time, he’d have turned her in for the reward if she’d found him!
I can’t believe that the taxpayers of Georgia would want this woman who had cold feet pay for her actions with six years of her life in prison. She made a mistake and maybe she should do some community service, but not prison. The only reason $50,000 was spent trying to find her is due to the media coverage of her disappearance. She got scared and left for personal reasons and did not ask to be found. Now in addition to the $50,000, the taxpayers will have to pay for the trial and if she is found guilty and sentenced to prison time, the taxpayers will pay ten times that amount.
Has anyone ever been just plain scared? 6 years? I can see community service and mandatory mental health appointments. There are a lot more serious offenders who get less than 6 years besides some chick who skipped out on her wedding. Besides, have you seen the fiance? If I was a chick I’d skip out on that dufas looking guy too. And I used to live in Albuquerque. Believe me the cops aren’t that busy that it hurts them to help someone out.
If Jennifer was Black or Hispanic and the media treated her the way she’s being treated the streets would be full of protesters. I hope Jennifer gets a offer from Playboy. I’d buy a copy.
I believe Jennifer should be left alone. Why is she being hounded like this? She doesn’t deserve this treatment. I hope John and Jennifer have a great wedding and a wonderful married life.
All of you defending Jennifer Wilbanks should go and get a life. She may not be the ultimate criminal, but she has to pay for here irresponsibility. She and not her parents, not John Mason, but she alone. If that means community service so be it. Also, shame on you for suggesting Jennifer as a playboy playmate.
Apparently this girl love having sex. If that is the case, why not have her in Playboy. John could be part of the shoot too.
Come on, people. Jennifer Wilbanks did not stage a kidnapping. The only thing she did was panic and make up a lame story once she realized she was all over tv. If she has any responsibility to repay taxpayer money spent searching for her, it should be pro-rated for the 3 hrs between the time she told the lie in New Mexico and the moment she admitted she made it up. The mayor of Duluth and all of these imbeciles are just embarassed that they jumped to the wrong conclusion and made fools of themselves. Get over it.
Bill Clinton never inhaled. Bill Clinton never had sex with that woman. Hillary just played stupid. Martha Stewart was into who know’s what? Michael Jackson. Who knows what that creep is up to. O.J. got away with murder. Rumsfeld just axed two retired military nursing homes. Now they want to give Jennifer 6 years for skipping out on Mayberry R.F.D. This country is getting lynch happy with the wrong people.
This BULLSHIT indictment is CLASSIC Gwinnett County “Justice”.
The only good thing about this indictment is that it will outline Gwinnett’s harsh and unfair prosecution patterns.
This Pandora’s Box , once opened, will reveal to the rest of the world that….Gwinnett is run as a FASCIST POLICE STATE.
Meanwhile, somebody Please pass that poor silly girl a PROZAC and a SHOT OF TEQUILA! Christ!
Hurrah! Jennifer is getting what she deserved. Good job, Gwinnett county D.A. Let these people know that racism of any kind will not be tolerated.
This woman does have a problem, that is easy to see. The media has shown that. The media has overcasted the instance, I agree. What she did was wrong, she will face the consequences. It’s not for the public to decide what they are though. The state of prosecution will decide their justice, and the embarassment of the friends and family will also persecute. Being from the rich does not give the privelage to do as you want to please yourself, nor does being from the poor. Problems she had before are now multiplied by her actions. People are made on earth to make mistakes. She’s made a mistake, she is a person. She will face her consequences. It’s not the decision of just one person to decide her fate, but a group of so called “Professionals” to decide. They are “Professionals” because individuals, such as yourselves, accepted them to be knowledgable in thier course of study. So here’s the real deal. Media plays too much on an individuals mistake. The judicial system will make their call on her punishment, And she will have to deal with it all. People’s mental state shouldn’t be played with. Help the ones that need help. Don’t help destroy them. Help in correcting them.
In all the psycho-babble there has been no mention of the psychiatric problem that describes what happened, dissociative fugue.
If she is a victim she can tell us about her activities in the weeks before the episode.
When I spoke with the cold case officer about the same problem causing the disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little he remembered that the Atlanta Police Department had problems with the phenomenon explored on my site. The Police Department had to switch to cubicles.
Wilbanks would not have had Cubicle Level Protection in a doctor’s office.
If this was Wilbanks’ problem it will shed light on sudden unexplained college student disappearances. Amy Bradley, Maura Murray, Suzanne Lyall, and Michael Negrete are all still missing. Murray had a similar story of confabulation at the time she disappeared. She told several stories about why she had to get leave from school, UMass, and work.
Wilbanks false stories are called confabulations if she was a fugue victim. No one stepped forward to claim they were the couple on the bus. It was all probably confabulation.
I live near Duluth… don’t feel sorry for this little town. The police department are rabid about giving speeding tickets & using speed traps… they can probably make the money that they spent on looking for JW in one day.
I just found out that the runaway bride had a singing career as “SKYE MASON” in the local Atlanta band Superchick and Goodpussy.Her picture is still in the Creative Loafing archives for July 29, 2000.She is definitely a publicity hound.I even think she might moonlight as a photographer so she could take her own “spread” photos.
Has anyone seen her in person? Does she have a nice body? Can’t tell but the bug eyes are sort of creepy.
I can NOT believe how many IDIOTS some apparently as big or bigger than Ole Bug Eyed Wilbanks there are in this blog!! Namely so far the list consists of Nancy, JoJO, Mudnani, Steve, Jim, David, Jules, Doug Williamson, “Normal” (FAR FROM IT), Mike, Chris, Dave & the biggest one Ashley. Apart from them defending this moronic Quack, their justification for her actions and reasons for defending her are UNBELIEVEABLE!!!! Especially Ashley (must be a close relative!! They both share the same amount of brain cells).
Now this white trash piece of work is going to make money off this by either doing a book or movie deal??? The law should step in and prevent her from making ANY MONEY OFF THIS STORY!!! Especially since her Family ( NOT HER) paid such a small pittance of what was spent to find her sorry ass, not to mention the PERSONAL Time strangers gave freely because they thought she was REALLY in need. What do they get in return?? Made out to be laughing stocks for volunteering their time, efforts and prayers. What a SLAP in the Face for them that this moronic simpleton will profit from her lies!! And don’t get me started on the gaybo boyfriend of hers…imagine being made a “person of interest” and then a Huge laughing stock for still wanting to marry a 3 time jail bird!! In Washington State, 3 strikes and your out!! After her THIRD CONVICTION FOR STEALING her sorry lying ass would of been in jail where she so deserves to be. I hope everyone boycotts either the book (no doubt a paperback ) or movie or both and make the money hungry book publishers and movie studios take a HUGE loss for even wanting to make something of her lies!!!!! What a Hooker she Really is!!! And is Todd Kendrick as simple minded as she is???
I think its a sin that this woman can use the system, including tax payers money, accuse minorities of a horrible crime( proven unfounded), and NOW she is going to “profit” from it. this woman, regardless of her mental problems………..seriously does not need ANY support from ANYONE for what she did.
I am not a judge…….we are all guilty of something……..but for her to do this and THEN turn around and PROFIT from it????? There is a serious problem here…..And it all lies with her.
I think her and her boyfriend cooked this up before hand knowing that something this stupid would bring the morons like Couric knocking at their door. Want to make a lot of money? Do something outrageous that you know will not be prosecuted and the movie/book whores come running with their checkbooks open.
Everybody: Please boycott anything (TV shows, books, movies) related to this bitch! Please also urge anyone you know to do the same!
It’s a shame that our media is so “low-class”. The best way is not to tune-in or spend money on anything they are going to produce! That might teach them something!
I hope that her town should protest against her business deals and kick her out of there. If she ever moves in to my neighborhood, there will be a riot! She should be kicked out of the country once a for all!!!!!
I agree with the above post by Bubba1995. I think Jennifer and John cooked this thing up from the beginning to make a ton of money. I have also been reading on other sites that Mason is having money troubles. Call me a cynic, but in todays world, it’s entirely possible.
Someone should really kidnapp her and sell the story like she did!
3 wastes of my time:
Wilbanks running away.
This post.
This reply.
Is she capatilizing/profitering on this interest?
Yes.
Is the reason the national interest was there in the first place becuase she looked hot in the press photos during the search (aka missing southern bell search?)
Yes
Are people across the U.S. losing interest in this story becuase she looks like a skank in the coric interview and the media and wasted the taxpayers of Duluth’s tax money ($40k) that we all know could be going to pave their much needed roads and improve that pain in the ass 3-way interesection near the train line crossing in downtown?
Yes.
That my friend is the root of it all. She may be pretty, have the perfect story, but she should have chose a different town to waste tax payers money (and keeping cops away from their families).
I think this whole case is funny and as someone who lives in Atlanta (inside the 285)but is not a native I have some comments:
Duluth is a place full of noveau rich ignorant religious idiots who have made themselves the laughing stock of the world. It makes me laugh at all the people who live there as its the only place they can afford a house and actually think they are wealthy. Anyway is it any wonder people think southerners are stupid???
To see them all fawning over this girl and following round some dumb ass preacher quoting the lord……..they created all this mayhem with the help of the worst media in the whole of the US. If she wasn’t a pretty little baptist there wouldn’t have been half the coverage.
Her boyfriend borders on the retard level, born again virgin whats that all about??? Quite frankly Jennifer is not a bad looking girl and if she had hooked up with a normal individual who had shagged her once in a while none of this would of happened. She can still come down to my place in Buckhead and I will bang her anytime.
As for Duluth taxpayer money, isn’t this the same town that has too many gestapo police and spends taxpayers money on police baseball cards.
Hey Mr. Whiterabbit, Duluth is not a place where the Nouveau rich reside…having grown up there Duluth was once a quiet town full of hardworking blue collar people who were eventually swallowed up by Atlanta’s urban sprawl. The rich moved in…they weren’t born there. As for your over arching generalized statements regarding the residents of Duluth…unless you have met personally with every resident and then formed an opinion about the towns population..which I doubt you have done,,,then you are just as ignorant and sick as Ms. Wilbanks….and lastly….you are like the ‘pot calling the kettle black’….look at where you live…F-ing Buckhead of all places…the seat of wealth in Hotlanta! You sound pretty sick. Since you are not a native and seem to hate stupid southerners…go back from where you came. If the South is such a backasswards place why did you grace us with you sick ass? Don’t bother with a reply…this blog doesn’t need to see any more of your ignorance posted. And if you do reply..take some ownership of what you say and keep away from gross generalizations.
Bang her anytime Whiterabbit??? If she would have to come down to your place, that would mean you live even further south, and this of course would make you an even bigger southern fried dumb-ass bottom feeder…
Your probably just a little more horny than usual now that your sister dumped you again.!!!
By the way, how many teeth do you still have??