Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play by Stephen J. Morewitz

Author:Stephen J. Morewitz
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030268404
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Runaway Brides

Another urban legend that has surfaced is the belief that many brides and soon-to-be-brides get “cold feet” when faced with the prospect of their life-changing marriage ceremony and run away. As with other urban legends, runaway brides are sensational stories that capture the fascination of the public. These urban legends focus on the intense fear that brides and brides-to-be have about their marriage ceremony, which traditionally is supposed to be adored as one of the high points in their lives. This discrepancy may add to the public fascination with runaway brides.

Women who disappear may want to delay the ceremony because they feel that they need more time alone to deal with the emotions of their upcoming life-changing marriage. In other cases, a woman wants to avoid getting married at the time. In one runaway bride case, FPP case # KMP1G, a 32-year-old woman, who was supposed to get married in less than seven days, staged a kidnapping hoax that was also a racial hoax (Mace, 2009, April 30, FPP case # KMP1G). The woman claimed that an armed Hispanic man, who was accompanied by a white woman, kidnapped and rape her. The woman eventually confessed that she just suddenly disappeared one day because she had to have “some time alone.”

Another runaway bride case, FPP case # KMP1K, involved a 42-year-old woman in Oklahoma who reportedly staged her own abduction because she did not want to marry her fiancé (Taylor, 2014, January 4, FPP case # KMP1K). The woman confessed to staging her abduction to avoid marrying her fiancé. She noted that her fiancé was a nice person, but she did not want to marry him because she was unhappy with her life at the time. The woman finally was found in a Texas motel almost a month later.

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