It appears the police are calling off the search and a prayer vigil will be held instead of the wedding.
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MSNBC
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DULUTH, Ga. - A lavish wedding with 600 guests seemed destined to become a prayer service after police called off the search Friday for a missing bride-to-be, saying they have “turned over probably every leaf in the city.”
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Jennifer Carol Wilbanks disappeared Tuesday after her fiancé said she went on a jog and never came back. Hundreds of police and volunteers spent the week searching the woods of this Atlanta suburb for the nurse.
With authorities acknowledging Friday they have no solid leads, relatives offered a $100,000 reward and said wedding guests will likely still gather at the church Saturday, but for a prayer vigil instead.
Attention in the case has now turned to fiancé John Mason, a 32-year-old office manager who teaches a Sunday school class and coaches his church’s youth basketball team. Mason has refused to take a police polygraph test except under conditions outlined by his attorney, police Chief Randy Belcher said.
The fiance’s lawyer turned in results from a privately administered polygraph, which family members said he passed, but Belcher said police still wanted to talk to him.
The fiancé and his lawyer have requested the police polygraph to be videotaped, something Belcher said no law enforcement agency “that’s worth anything” would do. Belcher said negotiations about the polygraph would continue. Mason’s lawyer did not immediately return phone calls to elaborate.
Scant clues
Three computers seized at the home Thursday were being analyzed, but the police chief would not say whether they contained anything useful.
Meanwhile, tearful family members gathered at the home of the soon-to-be-married couple, and were frustrated by the lack of clues. Police are testing some strands of hair and a few articles of clothing turned in, but added they had no reason to believe that any of it belonged to Wilbanks.
“We have nothing at this point to show that there has been a crime committed,” Belcher said.
Earlier, Belcher said the hair, found in a commercial parking lot, was a lock that appeared to have been cut.
Wilbanks’ uncle Mike Satterfield said he didn’t fault police for wrapping up the search: “You can only search so much and so many times.”
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It's like this woman just disappeared off the face of the earth. I watched a bit of the press conference on television tonight and had to change the channel. It was just too hard to watch.
