Faked kidnappings

Faked kidnappings

• Tawana Brawley rape and kidnapping allegations

• Jules Croiset; Dutch Jewish actor faked being kidnapped by neo-nazis.

• Dar Heatherington, Alberta city councillor who claimed to have been abducted in Montana.

• Shannon Matthews, is a British girl who disappeared on the afternoon of 19 February 2008 and was later found alive on the 14 March 2008. Karen Matthews, Shannon’s mother,who was behind the kidnapping was charged with child neglect and perverting the course of justice, on 8 April 2008

• Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist who maintained she was kidnapped while all evidence pointed to the contrary.

• Audrey Seiler, University of Wisconsin–Madison student who faked her own kidnapping in the spring of 2004

• Jennifer Wilbanks (a.k.a. the Runaway Bride): Georgia woman who alleged that she was kidnapped as an excuse for her running away from her own wedding in late April 2005.

• Michele Sindona Italy. Fake kidnapping organized by masonic logia P2.