Jennifer Wilbanks called 911 to report a phony kidnapping at 11:37 p.m. MDT on Friday, April 29, 2005. The text is from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (reg. req.). As you read the transcript, keep this in mind: She’s lying. Editorial comments added.
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Dispatcher: Alberquerque 911. Operator 45. What is your emergency?
Wilbanks: I’m at the … I don’t know where I am. I’m right here beside Solano Street at the 7-Eleven.
Dispatcher: OK. What’s going on?
Wilbanks: I’ve got my family and the police on the phone. I was kidnapped earlier this week. It was on CNN. [inaudible]
Dispatcher: What is your name, ma’am?
Wilbanks: Jennifer.
Dispatcher: Were you hurt, Jennifer? Do you need any medical attention?
Wilbanks: No I don’t need any medical attention. [inaudible] I told them my name.
Dispatcher: Do you know who did this to you?
Wilbanks: No.
[inaudible]
Dispatcher: Do you know where your location is?
Wilbanks: At some street … I, I don’t even know who I am. And I’m just sitting here.
Dispatcher: Did they hurt you in any way? Jennifer, do you need medical attention?
Wilbanks: No, they didn’t hurt me. I’m talking to them right now…
Dispatcher: What happened?
Wilbanks: I was kidnapped from Atlanta, Georgia. I don’t know, my fiance has been on the news. I don’t know. I just need them to fly here and get me.
Dispatcher: Who did this to you?
Wilbanks: I don’t know.
Dispatcher: Did they just drop you off right now?
Wilbanks: I don’t know how long ago it was. They didn’t drop me off here. Away from here. On some street, I don’t know where I am…It was a Hispanic man and a Caucasian woman. It happened in Duluth. — All lies.
Dispatcher: Was he Hispanic or Native American?
Wilbanks: Hispanic.
Dispatcher: About how old?
Wilbanks: I’d would say in their 40s, maybe.
Dispatcher: How tall was he?
Wilbanks: God, I don’t know, about 5-10, about my height, 5-9.
Dispatcher: What was his weight? Thin, heavy or medium build?
Wilbanks: It was medium, yeah, don’t know.
Dispatcher: What color hair did he have?
Wilbanks: Black.
Dispatcher: Was it long or short?
Wilbanks: Short. — She’s probably describing some actor she saw on TV.
Dispatcher: Did he have any facial hair?
Wilbanks: No
Dispatcher: What color jacket was wearing when you last saw him?
Wilbanks: He had a maroon jacket and I don’t know what color shirt under it. — Details, details!
Dispatcher: What color were was his pants?
Wilbanks: Blue jeans
Dispatcher: And what kind of vehicle was he driving?
Wilbanks: A blue van, like a sport van
Dispatcher: Was it a conversion van or a small minivan?
Wilbanks: It wasn’t a mini van, it was like a painter or what van.
Dispatcher: Did you get a license plate? Jennifer?
Wilbanks: I’ve got my family and police on the same line. I want to know that the police or somebody is on the way. — First attempt to get off the phone.
Dispatcher: We’re on our way right now. You still need to answer my questions. Did you get a license plate number?
Wilbanks: No ma’am.
Dispatcher: And the female? Was she black, white, Hispanic, Native American.
Wilbanks: Caucasian. — Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Dispatcher: How old, approximately?
Wilbanks: I would say in her 40s, too.
Dispatcher: And how tall was she?
Wilbanks: Probably 5-5 or so.
Dispatcher: And her weight? Thin heavy or medium build?
Wilbanks: She was heavier. — “Medium” Hispanic man driving around with “heavier” white woman.
Dispatcher: What color hair did she have?
Wilbanks: It was like a frosted blonde. — Frosted hair? Interesting detail.
Dispatcher: Was it long or short?
Wilbanks: It was like shoulder length. (I have to answer her questions.)
Dispatcher: What color shirt or jacket was she wearing?
Wilbanks: A white tee-shirt and blue jeans.
Dispatcher: Did they have weapons on them?
Wilbanks: Yes (cries). They had a huge pistol and a small hand gun. (cries) — She watches too much TV.
Dispatcher: Do you know if they were real?
Wilbanks: Yes.
Dispatcher: What direction did they leave in?
Wilbanks: Do what?
Dispatcher: What direction did the leave in the van?
Wilbanks: There somebody trying to use the phone. I don’t have any idea. I don’t know where I am. — Second attempt to get off the phone.
Dispatcher: Was it a dark blue van?
Wilbanks: No it was a lighter van. Somebody is here to use the phone, y’all. — Third attempt to get off the phone.
You were kidnapped several days ago and dumped in a strange city. You’re alive and on the phone talking to someone who can help you, and you’re worrying about some bozo who wants to use the phone?
Dispatcher: You’re going to have stay on the phone. Let them know you’re on the line with officers. How long ago did they leave you?
Wilbanks: (unintelligible through sobs) — Boo hoo, boo hoo! I have to keep making stuff up? I’m running out of material here!
Dispatcher: Did they go right or left out of the parking lot?
Wilbanks: They went straight. And they went behind me and I went forward.
Dispatcher: Did an officer make contact with you?
Wilbanks: No, he doesn’t even see me.
Dispatcher: What are you wearing?
Wilbanks: I have on gray running pants, and the same sweatshirt that I’ve had on since Tuesday.
Dispatcher: So you have gray sweatpants on? Sweat suit on?
Wilbanks: Gray running pants and a gray sweatshirt.
Dispatcher: Just stay on the line.
Wilbanks: He sees me. The police is here.
Dispatcher: Is he making contact with you?
Wilbanks: He’s getting in his car and coming back down here.
Dispatcher: Wait until he makes contact with you, OK. Did this happen on April 26?
Wilbanks: Um, Tuesday. — Yeah, that’s the ticket!
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For my opinion of Jennifer Wilbanks, see Nitwit Bride-to-Be Fakes Abduction.
Update (5/3): The Therapist provides some much-needed humor to this craziness.
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Women who are not emotionally stable frighten me.
This woman needs prayer.
Well, she actually made me feel sorry for the cops that busted their tails trying to find her. I understand getting cold feet, but tell your betrothed what the deal is. Don’t pull this kind of crap. I think they are going to prosecute her spoiled rump. Good for her if they do. Still, I am glad her folks seem to be willing to forgive, because THAT is essential to her recovering whatever it is she needs to recover. However, there MUST be some consequence for this.
I think they’re all nuts. He still wants to marry her. If that were me, I’d have warning bells and red light sirens going off. “Warning! Warning! Do not marry!”
“His hair was longish-shortish…he was kind of thinish-fattish…age? I guess he was kind of oldish-youngish…
Couldn’t think of anything important to write about either, huh? I know that feeling…
She bought the bus ticket on 4/19, left on 4/26…
Planned…
I’m sorry my only reaction is to laugh. Maybe it is not the “right” reaction to have but we reap what we sow. She is a product of our “I can’t handle stress and it’s not my fault society”.
It’s just sad that while she was playing out this childish charade because she didn’t have the guts to tell her fiance and family that she need more time, the authorities were wasting man hours that took them a way from REAL people in need of their assitance.
GEESH!
LOL! La Shawn, you missed a calling for comedy. You and this buffoon could be the next Martin & Lewis. This whole transcript is killing me.
Bad enough this little nut runs off; she also has to lie to the 911 operator rather than call home with the truth. I can only surmise from her honey’s reaction to her behavior that he is used to it and that he is a moron. He doesn’t seem a bit surprised.
It sounds as though this couple truly deserves each other. I wonder at what point the 911 operator taking this call figured out that the woman was lying. This woman really should be prosecuted. This would be one of the few things that would slap her back into the real world that the rest of us live in.
Renee,
I agree to a point that it’s a product of “It’s too much stress, it’s not my fault society” (paraphrasing I suppose), but laugh? No way. She
caused MY TAX MONEY to be spent on nothing!
She DESERVES to be punished. And the other person who said Sirens should be going off with “DO NOT MARRY!”? RIGHT ON THE HEAD THERE.
Dan
I am with you Dan. It was the commentary (dialogue) that made me laugh. It all readws like something from a hollywood script (as the commentary states, she probably watches WAY to much tv).
Yes she does deserve to be punished and to the fullest degree that the law will allow. I was just reading some of the reports on other news sites that she has yet to apologize and that she really doesn’t believe she did anything wrong. Appropriate punishment should fix that up with a quickness
La Shawn and all:
Runaway Bride’s boyfriend spent an hour on Hannity and Colmes last night.
I believe we are still being taken for fools:
He was just too calm, cool, and collected.
And how else could such losers have their “day in the sun” and prospects of becoming wealthy?
Not rocket science – stage the whole thing – together. Too much “lovey dovey” behavior for a guy who has been “had” by a gal.
I believe the two of them staged the whole thing – together.
I don’t disagree that she is a nitwit and manipulative, etc. But I don’t think she should be prosecuted. Click on my name for a unique perspective on this situation.
I agree with Frank, I think there’s more to the story. Boyfriend has returned the engagement ring she left at the house before she disappeared. She left her ring? Unless he was used to it lying around, that should have been a clue.
Here’s another aspect of this situation being explored:
“(AgapePress) – That Jennifer Wilbanks was found alive and well is cause for relief. That the runaway bride was not charged with criminal stupidity at the least, or for giving a false report to the police, at the most, is cause for head scratching.
But the issue which brings me to the word processor today is, lessons on prayer as taught by the man who was to perform her wedding, the Reverend Alan Jones.
The Rev. Mr. Jones said they were all praying, “Let her be a runaway bride.” She was found — a runaway bride. “So,” Jones said, “God was faithful.”
And boy that chaps my old control-alt-delete.”
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/32005ds.asp
“It was on CNN.”
*eyeroll* What a horrible actress!
Then again, it’s entirely plausible that George Lopez and Kirstie Alley in a wig are kidnapping unsuspecting, innocent brides-to-be and dumping them in Alberqueque. I mean, these celebs have nothing better to do.
La Shawn:
Another female friend who lived in GA said that in GA the “upper class”, the “social order” is “old fashioned” (code speak still living in Scarlet O’Hara days, and Jennifer is confused about what her role should be – sort of like “Old South” when rich man’s bride was property, somethwat like slaves.).
So Jennifer is confused about what her place is in the “social order”. So even “Rich White Women”must be “put in their place”.
Perhaps a little of the Confederacy left behind.
To the ones who seem to go so far as to say the whole thing has a conspiriatorial thread running through it:
Stop watching so much CSI and look at the story.
Unbalanced embarassment leads to a badly delivered obfuscation for the enbarassment leads to a country more outraged with her than they were when Anne Heche took Rosie o’Donnel for a ride.
Homer Simpson says it all………..DUH-OHH!!!!
Gee, I grew up in Duluth,GA. And now living in New Mexico. And No, I’m not related to this bride, either. And now, we have a former prosecuter of Wilbanks defending her.
This is getting a bit weird.
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