Fact Sheet: Runaway Bride
WHO-- Jennifer Wilbanks.WHERE-- Atlanta.OVER?-- Wilbanks tells People Magazine she and the fiance who took her back have broken up for good.FIANCE-- John Mason.CLAIM TO FAME-- Generated a media storm with her phony tale of abduction.-- Disappeared four days before the scheduled wedding in April 2005.-- Hundreds of police officers and volunteers searched for her for three days.LIES-- She called her fiance from Albuquerque, N.M., claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted.-- She later recanted, saying she fled because of personal issues.PLEA BARGAIN-- Pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.-- Was sentenced to two years probation, which she performed through community service that included mowing the lawns of public buildings.





