$100K Reward For Missing Bride

The family of a missing bride-to-be announced a $100,000 reward Friday for information that helps find the woman. They also said her fiancé passed a lie-detector test.

"We love Jennifer very much. We would give our life and everything that we own to have her returned," her uncle Mike Satterfield said during a news conference.

Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, was reported missing Tuesday night by her fiancé, John Mason, who said she didn't come home after her nightly jog in this Atlanta suburb. He said she left with only her radio and the clothes she had on.

Police found Wilbanks' keys, cash, credit cards and identification in her home.

Police have seized three computers from the home she shared with Mason and are examining e-mail messages on them.

But a search has been suspended, after a five square-mile area was searched three times.

"We have searched what we can search. We've exhausted our manpower. We've turned over probably every leaf in this city, so I have suspended all future searches," said police Chief Randy Belcher.

Several items of clothing were found in that area, and some cut hair that might be that of Wilbanks, Belcher said. Those items are being tested now.

Satterfield, who spoke over the sobs of family members behind him, said Mason took a polygraph earlier Friday and passed. Mason, dressed in a black polo shirt, was among the relatives at the news conference but did not speak.

"We support each other very much in all areas. It's my understanding that John took a lie detector test this morning and passed," Satterfield said, adding he did not know if other family members had been asked to take a polygraph.

However, that was a privately-administered test, say police, and they want Mason to take one from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
His attorney, however, wants the GBI polygraph test to be videotaped.

"The conditions that [Jim Watkins, Mason's attorney] has put upon us is not normal for the GBI or the FBI to do for a polygraph, so at this time we are unable to administer a polygraph," Belcher told reporters.

Authorities said they were considering the case a criminal investigation and that they do not believe Wilbanks, a medical technician and marathon runner, was a runaway bride. Mason is also a marathon runner.

"At this time we don't know what has happened with her, what caused her to disappear," said Belcher Friday morning on CBS News' The Early Show. "We don't believe the wedding had anything to do with it. But we just don't know at this point."

Mason and Wilbanks were to be married Saturday in what was expected to be a big bash, with 600 invitations sent out and 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen, said Mason's mother, Vicki.

"She was so in love. The wedding is huge. It's the talk of the town. Everybody knows her and was so excited," said Killie McCauley, who went to high school with Wilbanks and joined the search.

McCauley and other friends and relatives have told police that Wilbanks seemed happy and was looking forward to the wedding.

McCauley said the former high school track runner and cheerleader had introduced McCauley to her fiancé. She said Wilbanks was looking forward to a future that included children.

"She's just such a caring person. Being a mother would be her ultimate," she said.

Duluth, a middle class suburb just north of Atlanta, has one of the lowest crime rates in Georgia, one of the features that attracts residents like Christine Montfort, a jogger.

"I feel safe jogging in the area. I just would not jog after dark," she told CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston.

But Jennifer Wilbanks' disappearance is undermining confidence.

"We've even left the garage door open and never thought anything about it," said Colleen Player.

And now?

"We make sure it's locked."

Vigils were held Thursday night in the Baptist churches in Duluth and Wilbanks' home town of Gainesville, Ga.