Posted on 04/27/2005 1:44:26 PM PDT by halieus
DULUTH, Ga. — Local police are investigating the disappearance of a Georgia woman who is supposed to get married on Saturday.
Jennifer Wilbanks has not been seen since she went jogging in Duluth, Ga., Tuesday night, Gwinnett County police said.
Wilbanks, 32, described as 5-foot-8, 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, was last seen in the downtown Duluth area at 8:30 p.m. She was wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue sweatpants and blue New Balance running shoes.
Her fiancé, John Mason, said Wilbanks left the house around 8:30 p.m. for her jog "in good spirits" and said she would return in about 40 minutes. Mason said that after an hour passed, he went looking for her on foot and then checked area hospitals. He called police two to three and-a-half hours after she left the house, he said.
"This is a very traumatizing time. It's hard to put into words. I'm exhausted, I can't eat, I'm just kind of here," Mason told FOX News in a telephone interview around 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.
Mason said he does not think Wilbanks voluntarily left on her own, since there were no signs of discontent and all of her personal belongings, including her car and wallet, were still at their house.
"I don't feel like there's anything, anything terribly [wrong with her]," Mason said. "She may be hurt or she, I don't know, [I] just would like to have some answers. Looks like now we have none."
He added: "I feel like she's out there somewhere ... I just don't know where to go."
Asked if he and Wilbanks had any major disagreements, Mason responded: "No, none whatsoever."
He said, "Oh, sure," when asked by FOX News if he would be willing to take a lie-detector test, if requested by police.
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Ah, gee...not another young woman gone missing.
This sounds a little like the Lori Hacking "disappearance" while jogging.
I'm still amazed that people just vanish.
Hard to know what is going on. However, as a woman, I would never jog alone. It is just not safe, especially that late at night. It may not be fair, but that is the way it is.
Prayers for her safe return.
That's the first place they'll look, that's for sure...
Maybe she hitched a ride with The Bandit who's running blocker for 600 cases of Coor's beer!
What's with Georgia and Florida lately?
I'd think being 20 minutes late from a run wouldn't cause too much concern either. He went looking when she was 20 minutes late? She could have stopped to talk to a neighbor for that long. I know who would be suspect number 1 if I was investigating.
Isn't this guy going to be on Greta tonight?
Sounds like the Julia Roberts movei my wife always watches on the Lifetime Lesbian Network.
There is ALWAYS something suspicious about the significant other in these cases. It doesn't matter what they say.
If they're quiet . . . its suspicious. If they talk about how they feel . . . its suspicious. If they say they just want to help find their loved one . . . its suspicious.
When we first got DirecTV, I deprogrammed Lifetime and Oxygen from the channel list.
But don't tell Mrs. CD.
Good move, man! Nothing but man hating self pitying shite.
Can you come over and get rid of Soap Net for me?
I don't run (bad ankles), but my hubby will call me on my cell phone if I am 10 minutes late getting home from work to check in with him (he travels all week). If I am going to stop anywhere, I tell him in advance or call him and let him know I will be late. Nothing wrong with that, we consider it a courtesy to each other to "report in" if we are going to be late.
You better delete Oprah, too. She's another manhating lesbian.
that is so weird, i am sure we have those channels on our cable system but i couldn't tell ya what number they are, i have never seen them.
That astounds me too..unless they were kidnapped/killed, I dont get how someone just leaves their life. But it happens I guess.
That's also gone from our TV, and I sure can, but it will cost ya some of that brandy...
My wife doesn't really care for Oprah. :)
DEAR DOCTOR LYRICS
(m. jagger/k. richards)
Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
It’s sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please tear it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
Oh help me, please mama, I’m sick’ning
It’s today that’s the day of the plunge
Oh the gal I’m to marry
Is a bow-legged sow
I’ve been soakin’ up drink like a sponge
Don’t ya worry, get dressed, cried my mother
As she plied me with bourbon so sour
Pull your socks up, put your suit on
Comb your long hair down,
For you will be wed in the hour
So help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
I’m sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please take it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
There’s a pain where there once was a heart
It’s sleepin, it’s a beatin’
Can’t ya please tear it out, and preserve it
Right there in that jar?
I was tremblin’, as I put on my jacket
It had creases as sharp as a knife file:///a|/banquet.html
I put the ring in my pocket
But there was a note
And my heart it jumped into my mouth
It read, darlin’, I’m sorry to hurt you.
But I have no courage to speak to your face.
But I’m down in virginia with your cousin lou
There be no wedding today.
So help me, please doctor, I’m damaged
You can put back my heart in it’s hole
Oh mama, I’m cryin’
Tears of relief
And my pulse is now under control
Someone seemingly close to this situation posted a 'prayer request vanity' about this earlier today.
[I don't find it doing a title search, but it showed up around noonish, IIRC.]
Here's what they are all about, in a nutshell:
Woman Good.
Man Bad.
You are better off! That crap will rot the brain faster than an unlimited free supply of crystal meth.
"I don't run (bad ankles), but my hubby will call me on my cell phone if I am 10 minutes late getting home from work to check in with him (he travels all week). If I am going to stop anywhere, I tell him in advance or call him and let him know I will be late. Nothing wrong with that, we consider it a courtesy to each other to "report in" if we are going to be late."
That is very cool! I bet you have a good marriage too.
I'm kind of along with you. When my spouse is an hour late I do NOT start checking the hospitals and call police.
How many on people on this thread would call hospitals and call the police if their spouse/better half were an hour late?
Disregard the fact that we know she has been missing longer than an hour.
How many would be checking the hospitals and calling the police? Just checking to see if in the future I should be doing these things!
it makes me question my femininity when i hear crap like that. i like the 3 stooges, monty python, and girls aren't spozed to either!
HAHAahhaa.a. a personal favorite, I see. Gads I hate that channel, too.
Maybe I'm overly suspicious, too, but if my fiance was missing, I wouldn't be doing TV interviews. I'll gladly apologize if it turns out I'm wrong about this man.
2 things I will never watch: (1)any Julia Roberts movie, or (2)Lifetime Network. Both are just dreck and insult my feminine intelligence.
It doesn't amaze me. Maybe wild animals - coyotes?
Maybe hit by a car? Seemed logical to me.
call me a cynic, but he sounds mark hacking-esque to me.
The PMS Channels?
"i like the 3 stooges, monty python, and girls aren't spozed to either"
This girl detests the stooges-- but I do love Monty Python. So now I'm confused!!
That is because that answer is in response to Martha MacCallum's question, "How are you feeling?" I heard the interview. The poor guy did not know what to say. He sounded exhausted and completely drained.
"he sounds mark hacking-esque to me"
I agree, the scenarios look similar at this early point. What was he doing while she was jogging?
Not me. But as a rule, I've generally tended to add an hour or so to the time my husband says he'll be home from work (self-employed).
He's always optimistic about when he'll get home, (especially from hunting trips) but I don't get worried unless he's two hours late.
ping
Article about Jennifer.
It is truly amazing how that happens. In South Carolina a girl disappeared over 10 years ago - Dail Dinwiddie - and there's been nothing - absolutely nothing - to lead the police in any direction whatsoever. It's like something came down on the street and pulled her up into it. She literally vanished in thin air.
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