FOund Girl Who was Kidnapped.....
 

Is anyone watching this news coverage of the kidnapped Girl on Fox News? This is insane... I cannot wait to hear what the hell went on... This is so scary... To think this could happen on a college campus... Everyone be safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its pretty rare dude . . I wouldn't stress it . . you are much more likely to be run over by silly lost freshmen.

This is a total hijack, but every year a freshman or two at Pitt gets picked off by a city bus when they step into the busses only lane without looking first. The bus lane goes against all the other traffic on a one-way section of Fifth Avenue so someone always thinks it's safe to walk when they don't see any traffic coming. Then...splat!

Sorry, reading "freshmen" and "run over" in the same sentence gave me a flashback.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread :D

One of the last bastions of Darwinism.

thank god she's alive...
who knows what she went though.

No joke... Greta Van Susteren interviewed her friend last night, and it was pretty telling. He couldn't say enough nice things about her. I was impressed. I am just glad she is safe.


James, I know it is rare, but just one of those scary things... You know?

What do you mean by the buses go agianst all other trafic? Are the buses driving on the left side of the road?

Thank God she was found safe and sound. The entire story is just bizarre....

There are three lanes of traffic going one way, then the bus lane which is going the other way.

Am I the only one who is suspicious of this girl's story? It sounds very shady to me.

I just got through posting about this on another message board. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't true but at this point I think it's more likely that it is.

(1) She has injuries consistent with somebody who has been kept in a confined area.

(2) It sounds like, from what she's been saying, she is in shock and isn't making a whole lot of sense right now.

(3) I'm almost positive that the area she was found in was searched at least once if not more than that, so it is unlikely that she was there the whole time (one lady said she saw her there on Monday and Tuesday).

(4) I have yet to hear if alcohol was a factor in her behavior on Saturday night, but knowing my school ;) I would be surprised if it wasn't.

Honestly I think it's more likely that there is some major fact that isn't being released that ties some of the ends together -- in particular I'm thinking that it's possible that she knew her attacker. Then again, this girl knows that if she just faked her own abduction and it gets found out that there is going to be a pretty huge backlash and maybe she is trying to avoid that -- but then again, if you're faking your own abduction you could probably make up a better story than what she's got, right?

The girl was attacked from behind about a month ago also. Right now they don't know if the two incidents are related, but I would find it really fishy if there wasn't something to connect the two.

There's supposed to be a press conference going on right about now with some "Breaking News" on the investigation. Wish I wasn't at work so I could listen.

Is the same girl that was on the phone with her boyfriend and was taken from a parking lot at a mall?

No, that was Dru Sjodin (sp?)... a Gamma Phi from North Dakota. She is still missing.

Audrey Seiler was a soph. from the University of Wisconsin. I think she was a GDI... I haven't seen any affiliation listed for her. sugarandspice would probably know.

I just heard a blip on GMA this morning that they(or someone) believes that this was a hoax? :confused:

Has anyone else heard this?

well, she's changed her story and said that she was still abuducted, but not from her apartment. That she'd gone out on Saturday night because she wanted to be alone, and was abducted somewhere else in the city.

This is so wierd... I feel bad for her if this really did happen, because right now pretty much no one believes her. On the other hand... it's WAY shady.

i agree... hopefully time will tell if she was really abducted or if this was a hoax for some attention. i really hope it's not the latter because i can only imagine how people like dru sjodin's family and the families of the thousands of other abducted children would feel - it's like giving them hope that their child could be found and then saying just kidding :(

It sounds like someone REALLY needs some hard-core counselling.....

(Article was linked from Fox News but the AP, CNN, etc are essentially carrying the same story.)

Cops: Audrey's Kidnap Story a Hoax
Police said Friday they are no longer seeking a suspect in the case of the 20-year-old college student who originally claimed she was abducted from her apartment building at knifepoint, after they discovered several inconsistencies in her story.......


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115959,00.html

(Don't miss the part where the authorities claim a video tape showing her purchasing the rope, tape, etc, she was allegedly bound with.)

Sad. This young lady needs some help.

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I've been following this today. So sad.

Doesn't it make you wonder what was so "wrong" in her life she felt she had to do something like this?

Somewhere between recanting WHERE she was abducted, she told police she just wanted to be alone...

This is really, really so sad.

http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=n...es.cfm&ID=1679

ACCORDING TO CHIEF NOBLE WRAY, WISCONSIN STUDENT CHANGES STORY


Our top story this afternoon-- a University of Wisconsin student who disappeared from her apartment nearly a week ago has changed her story.

Audrey Seiler (see'-lur) now says she was not abducted from her apartment, but from somewhere else in Madison. Jeannie Ohm has the latest from Madison, Wisconsin.

There's been another strange turn in the case of the Wisconsin college student. Audrey Seiler first disappeared over the weekend. She was found four and a half days later in a marshy area.

Madison police just wrapped a very brief news conference. They did not take any questions. But they did not ever use the word hoax, but they did say that there were a lot of inconsistencies among Audrey Seiler's statements, a witness statement and the physical evidence.

But most significantly Chief Noble Wray of the Madison Police Department said Audrey herself had changed her story.

(Chief Noble Wray/Madison Police)
"She was presented with these confirmed inconsistencies that resulted in Audrey admitting that in fact she had not been abducted at her apartment at all."

Adding to some confusing out here, the chief went on to add that Audrey (regarding that composite sketch), Audrey said she was not abducted from her apartment building, but she was taken at knife-point at a different location in the city.

So the chief on the one had said that Audrey admitted that she had in fact not been abducted, but later on went to say that she was taken at knife-point in a different location rather than her apartment building.

And the police chief and other officials have refused to clarify at this point only to say that the investigation continues.

More info:

http://www.madison.com/captimes/news/stories/71518.php

One of my sisters told me that Audrey had been dealing with depression (I'm not sure if she read this/saw it on the news or knows the girl personally) so that could play into what happened. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other mental issues at play. However, it's still really sad/scary/frustrating/sick that she could do that.

I have known how she feels in the "I just wanted to be alone" thing and I know many many other people who have, and none of them have pulled anything like this. Not to mention that getting caught pulling a stunt like this isn't going to make you feel any less alone -- people feel really manipulated now. I wouldn't be surprised if she transfers again/takes off from school entirely.



And no, I'm almost positive she's not Greek (unless she joined during spring rush).

If she did this to herself, it is a serious cry for help. I feel badly for everyone involved. :(

It is a serious cry for help.

When I was in the 8th grade my mom started dating again. I ran away from home for 3 days because I wanted attention. I know it's not the same but something must've made her want to do this.

So sad that this woman used this particular method of attracting attention. It sounded so fishy to a lot of people, right from the beginning.

Similar scenarios have occured twice here in the DFW area in the past several months. Those women are being prosecuted for the waste of law enforcement manpower & expense. The same thing should happen to Audrey Seiler. This "crying wolf" will eventually make us (communities) less willing to believe REAL victims & abduction reports.

this saddens me after dru's story. now it's getting to be spring so she's likely to be found. how sad.

What really scares me is the next woman who really IS abducted - how seriously will it be taken? Will it be seen as another woman with a mental disturbance or PMS, or will they really try to find her?

Just like mmcat said, it's only a matter of time before Dru is found. Let's not forget that one person abducted against his or her will is one person too many!

I was kind of waiting for her to just explain that she was getting extra credit in her "Victims in the Media" class or something. It is amazing how the media jumped on the bandwagon and even though it's a hoax, many networks have decided to create their own news. I saw Fox had an "expert" psychiatrist on this morning trying to diagnose her behavior as crazy.

For me, it's actually kind of entertaining to watch this stuff go on.

Actually, I don't think that it will make that much of a difference. From what I've heard, most police stations face a number of faked crimes every month, including faked abductions. It's not usually not that difficult to tell whether or not the allegations are legitimate. There's a reason why the Madison police department took this case so seriously despite its inconsistencies -- a few years ago a woman accused someone of rape and because of the inconsistencies/lack of evidence, the police basically said she was lying. A while later she came back with proof that the rape had actually happened. So the police station did NOT want that kind of thing to happen again.

In general I don't think Audrey's case will have much effect on the rest of the abduction cases in the U.S.

This is one of the times that I'm very, very glad to be wrong!!

I was talking to my dad about this incident when he noted something that I thought was interesting. He said that her father "was surprised about all this hoopla" and didn't seem that upset about the incident. If you think about it, like some of you said it was a huge cry for help and attention. She is a 4.0 student, sounds to be pretty much perfect, and really pretty. Yet, can't even get her father to even -care- about her disappearance. I don't know about your dads but if I went missing he'd be nuts!

I was watching FOX and LMBO at this fool.
My friend was saying, "Oh, poor girl. She needs help." No, what she needs is a swift kick in the behind. I know people want to feel sorry for her, yada yada yada. To heck with the sympathy, she is PSYCHO!!!!

Kidnapping yourself? You get no more disturbed than that.

I'd guess that any plea agreement she works out will involve hefty restitution -- at least I hope so.

did anyone else read that she wasd oing it to get attention from her boyfriend? i think there are other ways you could go about gtting attention.

:rolleyes:

Sounds like she wanted to smash pretty bad....

See what a lack of smashing does?!

MADISON, Wis. - A college student who faked her abduction and set off a desperate search was sentenced to three years' probation Thursday and ordered to repay the police department at least $9,000.

Audrey Seiler, 20, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of obstructing officers and read a statement in court in which she said severe depression had caused her to act irrationally.


"I'm taking care of myself now, so someday people will see I'm still a girl to be proud of," Seiler said. The Rockford, Minn., woman withdrew from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the incident and is in therapy.


After her March 27 disappearance, dozens of volunteers slogged through marshes and woods as national TV broadcast surveillance footage of her leaving her off-campus apartment late at night with no coat or purse.


She turned up four days later, curled in a fetal position in a marsh, and claiming she had been abducted at knifepoint.


Her story soon crumbled, and investigators said she faked the abduction because she was upset over her fading relationship with her boyfriend.


Police concluded Seiler made up her abduction after obtaining a store videotape that showed her buying the knife, duct tape, rope and cold medicine she claimed her abductor used to restrain her.


She could have gotten nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../missing_woman

I am suprized she didn't get more of a punishment. Depressed people don't go out and fake their kidnappings. Guess the judge bought it of just felt sorry for her.

I feel sorry for her also. I hope that therapy works for her. I think that jail time would have been too severe for her. Maybe community service is in order here.

We've seen with others before that incarceration isn't for everyone. With Audrey's case, I think the therapy and the sentence are appropriate.

Her mother mentioned in an interview that "while she was not physically, it was clear that she was lost emotionally". I hope she gets better.

The chance that this girl was going to get jail time is slim. She's been in therapy since the incident (as well as being hospitalized for part of that time). Between the $9000-14400 that she'll have to pay in restitution and the thousands of dollars her family will no doubt be spending on therapy, I think that's a decent punishment and will allow her to get her act together.

IMO there's no reason why a girl like this should be in jail when her real issues clearly had to do with her mental health. Hopefully therapy will help her work out these issues.