Her recent escapades were the second time she's behaved in such a manner.
[T]he fleet-footed bride had fled before. Friends and other relatives of the former flame also confirmed the doomed engagement.
"They had picked out an engagement ring and put it on layaway and were looking at houses to buy together," the former fiancé's wife said.
"They never consummated their relationship," the woman added. "She claimed she wanted to wait [for marriage]. He said he was fine to have sex, but it was her decision."
When Wilbanks suddenly reversed course and dumped him, "He was shocked, and he was hurt," the woman said.
And she has a criminal record (registration required).
Court records show that Wilbanks was arrested three times in that county on shoplifting charges from 1996 to 1998.
In 1996, as district attorney, Sartain prosecuted Wilbanks for allegedly shoplifting $1,740 in merchandise from a Gainesville mall, court records show. Sartain dropped the felony charge after Wilbanks, then 24, completed a pretrial diversion program, the records show. Wilbanks performed 75 hours of community service and paid restitution, according to court records.
Months before that felony arrest, police had charged Wilbanks with misdemeanor shoplifting for allegedly taking $37.05 in merchandise from a Gainesville Wal-Mart. Court records show that officials dismissed the case after Wilbanks completed "Project Turnabout," a six-week counseling program for shoplifters.
In fact, she could use a little rough handling. If the cops don't teach her lesson now, at age 33, by age 40 she'll be knocking off banks and engaged in prostitution. Mark my words...
Let's hope the police investigate Jennifer's parents, too, since Jennifer's misbehavior must surely be reflective of their parenting. I mean how could Mr. and Mrs. Wilbanks give John Mason their blessing for the engagement without telling him about their daughter's history of immoral and criminal behavior?
[L]ast August, Harris Wilbanks got a call from the man his daughter was dating. Could Mr. and Mrs. Wilbanks join him for dinner?
At the dinner, Mason produced a diamond ring. The younger man asked the elder one for permission to marry his daughter.
"He did it the old-fashioned way," Harris Wilbanks recalled. "I couldn't ask for a finer Christian son-in-law."
His daughter eventually moved into Mason's home as the couple prepared for their wedding. As devout Christians, Mason said, they lived chaste lives together, agreeing not to consummate their relationship until they said their vows in front of God and 600 friends April 30.
I bet they knew exactly what their daughter was up to when she "disappeared."
What on earth is wrong with these white, Christian, heterosexual families?
(via Steve Gilliard.)
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In the mental hospital she is now in, I’m sure she has :lost it” a few times and required restraints and sedation. That’s what happens to people waiting for trial in jail as well if they get hysterical as reports state some of the female teachers being held have undergone. This person has an illness to overcome, and if restraining her to help her face it is what it takes, maybe she will NOT become a thief or prostitute as someone posting thought.
There ware rumors that she was upset with her fiancee for NOT having sex with her, rather than his “chaste until marriage” vow.
Wilbanks is not the first. Aubrey Seiler disappeared and was found camping out in a park. She delusionally believed she had been abducted. Her settlement with the city of Madison was about $9000 in monthly payments.
Wilbanks is probably another case of Dissociative Fugue. She did not take a change of clothes or eat. She must have had more money than she took. Little details she overlooked point to an altered mental state.
No one has stepped forward to claim they were the couple on the bus. Most of what Wilbanks said was confabulation. That is common in cases of Dissociative Mental Breaks.
Most victims recover with little treatment. They do not understand or know what happened.
VisionAndPsychosis.Net argues that a little known conflict of physiology is the cause of these events. The problem was discovered by designers building the first close-spaced office workstations. The Cubicle stopped the episodes there by the 1960’s.
Wilbanks would not have had Cubicle Level Protection in a doctor’s office. In addition it is possible to cause the problem by incorrectly installing a computer in your home.