NEED TO KNOW

Just days before her April 2005 nuptials, bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks vanished without a trace

While her fiancé and family members pleaded with the public for help, Wilbanks was on a Greyhound bus halfway across the country

She would ultimately admit to faking her own kidnapping in a story that captivated the nation

Seven years before Gone Girl hit bookshelves and was later turned into an award-winning film, a startlingly similar scenario played out in real life. Just days before her planned $100,000 April 2005 nuptials, bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks vanished without a trace.

Wilbanks, then 32 years old, was an avid runner and had gone for a five-mile jog near her Duluth, Ga. home at 8:30 p.m. on April 26. When she still hadn't come home hours later, her fiancé, John

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