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julianpenrod
Joined: 07 Mar 2002
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Location: west caldwell, new jersey, united states |
Jernnifer Wilbanks was apparently murdered and replaced
 Fri May 06, 2005 3:44 am
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Julian Penrod
4 Fairfield Avenue
West Caldwell, New Jersey 07006
(973) 220-1601
julianpenrod@comcast.net
May 5, 2005
Letters to the Editor
Dear sirs:
As important as it is to oppose the foul and unethical, it is just as valuable to be able to recognize it when you see it.
The recent case of Jennifer Wilbanks' reported flight from her impending marriage, in Duluth, Georgia, has been literally pounced on by news agencies across the globe. With the eminent unusual nature of the situation, it is not surprising that it has been the subject of everything from mystified incredulity to pseudo-sleuthing investigation. And, with the many "loose ends" involved in so complicated a matter, it is unremarkable that each has drawn its own share of devoted coverage.
Commentators have discussed the supposedly wide-spread situation of brides getting "cold feet" before marriage.
Sympathy has been slathered on Ms. Wilbanks' fiancee, John Mason,for his having been brought under the "umbrella of suspicion" for her disappearance.
"Righteous indignation" has been lowered on Ms. Wilbanks, herself, from numerous quarters, insisting that she pay for the expenditure of the police search for her.
Yet, in all the discussion about and addressing of the matter, critically important points seem to have been so consistently and earnestly missed as to almost seem to have been deliberately ignored!
The description of the events were that, at about 8:00 p.m., on Tuesday, April 26, only about four days before she was to be married, Jennifer Wilbanks went jogging near her home in Duluth, Georgia. She reportedly left her purse and keys at home. She failed to return. About six hours later, her fiancee, John Mason, contacted the police. Within a day, a search of the surroundings was begun, using local police and neighbors. Immediately facing suspicion, Mr. Mason was asked to take a polygraph test, and agreed. However, his family, apparently very highly politically connected locally, arranged for him to take a personal polygraph test, and, on the basis of that, the police stopped questioning him. With such evident miscarriages of justice as Jon-Benet Ramsey still leaving a bad taste in people's mouths, the situation immediately seems to have started to take on the appearance, in the public's mind, of a massive cover-up! Before suspicions about Ms. Wilbanks' boyfriend could heat up further, a call was conveniently registered with the local police, claiming to be Ms. Willbanks, and saying she had been kidnapped by a white woman and an Hispanic man, and dropped off in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her community celebrated, but, then, she supposedly confessed to Albuquerque local authorities that she supposedly had run away, out of cold feet, from her marriage. Bit by bit, other points emerged that she had taken a bus trip from Atlanta to Dallas, then to Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, she had actually taken time off to play the slot machines. Then she had traveled to New Mexico, where she, presumably, had cut her hair to “disguise her appearance”. A tape of her being escorted, covered with a beach towel, by several police, to a Georgia-bound plane, became widely circulated. During the plane flight, the passengers were, apparently, ordered not to go near her or speak to her. Once home, she failed to show up at any congregation, to speak to her neighbors, and even came to be depicted, by family, as “incapable of even stringing sentences together, without breaking into tears”, and completely refusing to appear in public. A statement was released on May 5, but not by her.
But there are enormous holes in the “official” story that point very seriously to a suspicious situation!
Among the first points is the clear and simple question of, if she left her wallet at home, how did she pay for a bus ticket? This evidently became an almost immediate embarrassment, so the story was cobbled up that she had “bought the bus ticket a week before leaving”. This would make it harder for any investigator to look into the matter of how she, supposedly, bought the ticket, since records from that far back would be almost certainly destroyed, or difficult to verify, or disprove! This forethought, however, would make the likelihood of her running away an impulsive action all but nonexistent. But, if she was so determined to get away, why didn’t she do it better, and make arrangements to stay away?
A follow-up question is, is her family actually trying to convince us, then, that, for example, she actually traveled for four days in just her jogging suit, without a change of clothes? Especially in that warm and muggy environment?
And, even if she did buy the bus ticket ahead of time, traveling by bus still requires some outlays of money, for meals and so on! And she was seen playing the slots in Las Vegas! Where did she get that money?
Even more compelling, however, is the evident sheer impossibility of the supposed bus trip Ms. Wilbanks went on. She traveled for no more than about 48 hours, and, likely, significantly less, since she spent time gambling in Las Vegas, cutting her hair and preparing her story for the New Mexican officials. Yet her supposed “trip” covered no less than 2200 to 2400 miles! It seems patently impossible that she could have covered all that distance in the likely less than 48 hours that she will have been traveling, even in a bus trip!
This tends to add up to the woman picked up in New Mexico, then, not being Jennifer Wilbanks! That is strengthened by the woman claiming to be Jennifer Wilbanks being escorted to the plane back home with a towel completely covering her head! Passengers of her plane being ordered not to go near her; her being, early on, described as having “cut her hair”, apparently so those who saw her replacement wouldn’t be surprised that she looked different; and her supposed refusal to even show up before audiences after returning home all lend credence to the suspicion that the real Jennifer Wilbanks was murdered by her fiancee, John Mason, and it is some stand-in that was returned home!
The failure of any of her family, or her pastor or lawyer, to have blown the whistle on this only suggests that turpitude runs deep in her community!
When the unscrupulous and malignant misrepresent situations, to profit themselves, it is up to the people, then, to take the initiative, recognize the lies, and condemn the underhandedness!
Julian Penrod |
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TheMinstrel
Joined: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 72
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Sat May 07, 2005 3:05 pm
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seems like a case of hyper active sleaze mongering schwag corporate media shoveling another story down our throats which has little or no relevance to public at large. that the parties involved are rich white and upper class is all the reason needed to drag this story on and on with constantly updating coverage to keep all news viewing eyes focused on the personal scandal caused by a disturbed alter- ditching woman in the throes of a mental breakdown. Issues that may hold actual importance to Average Citizen X have been pre-empted to bring you the latest updates in a pile of hype that shouldn't concern any one but the those directly connected to the involved parties and the local communities which they're from.
At any rate, your suggestion that she was murdered and switched with a body double based on the evidence cited above doesn't seem to have much weight whatsoever. So she had no wallet , no change of clothes, got a haircut- what could that possibly prove? Those jogbras are snug fitting devices but theres always room to stash a few 100s... Pretty much smacks of idle speculators struggling to tie together bits and bobs of information in order to create a theory which on the surface tries to give the illusion of making some sense, but in actuality, it makes not much sense at all. |
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