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Another Scott Peterson Case?

Wedding jitters? Possible murder? Already hit USA Today’s website.

Search on for bride-to-be who vanished from Atlanta suburb
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A 32-year-old woman disappeared while jogging just days before she was to be married, prompting hundreds of volunteers to search an Atlanta suburb.

Jennifer Wilbanks left home Tuesday night to go jogging. When she did not return in a couple of hours, her fiance began looking for her, then notified police.

On Wednesday, more than 250 people searched for Wilbanks, including volunteers and police using helicopters and tracking dogs. Authorities called off the volunteer search but continued canvassing door-to-door for clues in this northeastern Atlanta suburb. They were treating the disappearance as a criminal investigation.

Wilbanks’ family told authorities it is “totally uncharacteristic of her behavior” not to let someone know where she is, police Maj. Don Woodruff said.

“There’s been a lot of speculation … that it could have been a case of the premarital jitters,” Woodruff told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday. “But again, according to all of her friends that have been interviewed, all of her family, that’s simply not the case.”

Investigators checked the banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River, and the state Department of Natural Resources planned to search the river, Woodruff said.

Wilbanks and John Mason were to be married Saturday.

“She left out of here with just a radio and the clothes she has on,” Mason said. “Everything she owns is in the home. If this is cold feet, it is the weirdest case of cold feet I have ever seen.”

Wilbanks was described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, about 123 pounds, with shoulder-length dark brown hair. She was last seen wearing a gray sweat shirt and blue sweat pants, police said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-28-missing-bride_x.htm?csp=34








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