Crooked in Canada

Monica Gagnon went to visit a friend last Sunday night, and sometime between the times, she left her Winnipeg, Manitoba home and late Tuesday afternoon she ended up at a Macon, Georgia police station claiming that she had been kidnapped.

Gagnon is telling quite a story, and police in Macon have expressed some doubt as to the validity of her story because there appears to be some discrepancies in her story, including the exact circumstances of the alleged abduction.

According to police in Georgia Gagnon claimed to have driven across the American border into North Dakota by herself where a man was waiting for her arrival.

Hmm, perhaps it was a man she had met on the Internet and planned to have a sexual encounter with that certainly isn’t out of realm of possibilities just yet.

She then claimed that threats were made against her family by the man if she didn’t follow the man’s instructions.

Hmm, I’m beginning to think that the man I think she might have been having an online affair with didn’t exactly turn out to be the man she thought he was when she hooked up with him in North Dakota.

Her husband claims that his wife told him that she was grabbed in the parking lot of a Winnipeg 7-11 just after midnight after returning from a visit with a friend, and that along the way she had stopped to get a drink. That’s when four men jumped her and forced her into a car. Three of the men apparently left the scene after she was forced into a car.

Hmm, no screams could be heard, or did she scream at all? No witnesses either? Naw, I’m not buying her story so far, are you?

She was threatened with a gun and told to drive.

Gagnon has also told police that she recognized one of them from the Spike bar, that he had be staring at her all night, but that she never talked to him.

Nobody can explain how they got across the border without being detected, but it is possible isn’t? Of course they would have had to cross at an unmanned border crossing, but aren’t there CCTV cameras there? Where or where did they cross the border, on somebody’s farmland, or a trail through the bush?

Gagnon has described her kidnapper as being Hispanic and dressed in all black, about 5′8″ tall, medium build and cleft palate. Don’t forget he had a gun too.

Gagnon has said she managed to escape after her kidnapper got out of the car to change a flat tire. Alrighty then.

A “real” kidnapper with a gun would have forced her to change the tire at gunpoint don’t you think? He wouldn’t have been so stupid to leave her in the car untied with keys in the ignition after driving 2500 miles with her would he? He went through an awful lot of trouble to kidnapped this woman, even threatened her family, how could he be so stupid?

Naw, I’m still not buying the woman’s story. Are you?

My theory (you knew I would have on if you pay half attention to what I write in Crooked in Canada), I think she met somebody online, got to know him a little, even got a little frisky with him, and that she agreed to meet him in North Dakota. They might have even planned to run away together (that could explain why her bank account was drained, though Gagnon does say that she was forced to empty her account), but somewhere between North Dakota and Georgia things took a turn for the worse and Gagnon realized that she had made a mistake.

There you have it, she planned to leave her husband for another man without telling him, then told her husband that she was going to meet up with a friend, emptied her bank account and drove to North Dakota to meet up with a man who as it turns out is a really dumb kidnapper, but could have been a man she was planning to have a long-term relationship with in the U.S. Then of course, the relationship soured and she ditched him and drove to the nearest police station, concocting a wild and unbelievable story about a kidnapping. I could be wrong about all this though.

Her husband believes her story, but I think he’s in either denial, or covering for his wife after she came clean about her real intentions on Sunday night. I could be wrong about that too.

Nevertheless, I don’t believe the story the woman is telling. I hope somebody in the Gagnon household, or the police, prove me wrong.

Winnipeg woman paints peculiar tale of cross-border kidnapping