The Runaway Bride

Crime Scene

Sony Music

True Crime

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Four days before a 600‑person Georgia wedding, a churchgoing bride laces up for a quick jog and disappears, leaving her keys and three‑carat ring behind like she’s been plucked out of her own love story. As search teams flood the town and the FBI closes in on her fiancé, a call from hundreds of miles away blows apart the kidnapping tale and leaves everyone wondering whether Jennifer Wilbanks was running for her life…or from it. For ad-free listening to Crime Scene and access to over 60 true crime series, subscribe to The Binge+ on Apple Podcasts or at GetTheBinge.com. Follow Crime Scene: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebingecrimescene/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebingecrimescene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	If your fiancé went out for a jog one night and never came home, what would you do?
0:35.4	And what if while hundreds of people were searching for her body
0:39.3	and the FBI was interrogating you, she called from the other side of the country. In April 2005,
0:47.3	a 32-year-old woman vanished from a suburb outside of Atlanta four days before her wedding. What started as a missing person's
0:55.9	case quickly became a criminal investigation. Then the woman calls 911, stranded hundreds of miles
1:02.8	from home. Welcome to crime scene, the show where we tell you the stories behind the world's
1:07.8	most unforgettable crimes. This week on the show, the case of Jennifer Wilbanks.
1:12.6	What began as a missing person's case turned into something far stranger.
1:17.4	And it left everyone asking, who's the real victim here?
1:20.8	From Sony Podcasts and The Binge, this is the story of the runaway bride.
1:34.8	Hey all, welcome to the crime scene office.
1:35.8	I'm Jonathan Hirsch.
1:36.7	And I'm Cooper Mall.
1:42.5	And together each week, we're going to bring you the most remarkable cases and crimes now and throughout history.
1:45.9	We're going to dig into every aspect of it. The investigations,
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