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Originally posted by honeychile
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?
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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.