Cell Phone Records Cast Doubt on Abduction Story Investigators said friends and relatives noted she was scared in the days prior to her disappearance.Īuthorities had already noted that Sweeten had withdrawn about $12,000 from several bank accounts over a period of days. Sweeten also had recently told a friend, investigators said, that she was feeling suicidal. On the message she told her husband she loved him and if she didn't see him again to tell the children she loved them.Īs the investigation developed, investigators became increasingly skeptical of her abduction tale, which was told against the backdrop of a probe into Sweeten's alleged involvement in the theft of about $300,000 from her former employer, an attorney in Upper Makefield Township, sources close to the investigation told ABC News. Shortly after first 911 call, Sweeten called her husband Larry's cell phone and left a tearful voicemail, describing the carjacking and how she feared for her life. She called a second time moments later to say she had been tossed in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men, according to police."This was a total fabrication on her part," Henry said this evening. when she called 911 to say she had been in a minor car accident in Bucks County, a Philadelphia suburb. Sweeten and her daughter were last heard from about 1:45 p.m. Jenkinson expected to get her license back later that day. She obtained the license on Tuesday by telling Jenkinson that she needed to borrow her driver's license to photocopy it in order to roll over Jenkinson's 401k account. While Sweeten's motive for fleeing was unclear, Henry indicated that domestic and financial problems were likely at the root of it.Īccording to court documents, Sweeten used former coworker Jillian Jenkinson's drivers license when she bought airline tickets to Orlando after reporting the abduction. Her 9-year-old daughter, Julia Rakoczy, was with authorities in Orlando and was to be picked up by her biological father, Anthony Rakoczy, Henry said. Sweeten will not face any federal charges at this time, the prosecutor said. — - A Pennsylvania woman who vanished after calling 911 to say she had been abducted and stuffed in the trunk of a car along with her young daughter apparently faked the abduction, booked a flight to Orlando, where she checked into a hotel under an alias and then took her daughter to visit a Disney theme park, law enforcement sources told ABC News.īonnie Sweeten, 38, was taken into custody in Orlando after being apprehended by the FBI and Orange County police at the Grand Floridian resort and is being charged with false reports and identity theft, Bucks County, Pa., District Attorney Michelle Henry said this evening.
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