Okay, I just read the story. . .
A convience store clerk in Longview Washington is now claiming that "sometime" in December a woman came in to the store who matched the description of Laci Peterson- mid-20's, short brown hair, pregnant- with an approx. 45 year-old man. . .
The clerk claims that the man left the pregnant woman standing at the counter and stepped out of line to get something he forgot, and she remarked to the pregnant woman that she should be wearing a coat on such a chilly day.
The woman then supposedly told the clerk she didnt have time to take a coat because she had been kidnapped by the man with her, he had a weapon, and, This is serious. I was kidnapped. Call the authorities when I leave.
The clerk says that when the man came back to the counter, he asked what they had been talking about, and the clerk replied; "She just told me you kidnapped her" and that seemed to make the man angry.
The clerk then claims she said in a teasing way that her husband always kidnaps her to take her to dinner, and the man relaxed and laughed and said, Yeah, I guess I kidnapped her. And then the two then left the store.
The clerk claims that she then tried to find the number for the police in the phone book. . . but got "distracted" and "forgot" about the incident until she saw a story about the situation on CNN late last week. . .
Wellll. . . with the caveat that anything is possible. . . it sure sounds like a bizzare story to me and one that makes little or no sense.
I doubt too many kidnappers step away from their hostages in a convience store to grab an extra bag of chips; and it would surprise me that a person who had to look up "9-1-1" in the phone book, and then "forgot" that an armed kidnapping victim had begged her for help 5 minutes earlier because she got "distracted" would be able to remember what the the person looked like or what they said weeks later. . . and what kind of a numbnuts would tell a potential kidnapper that the victim had just told her to call the authorities???
The police are going through the surveillance tapes at the store for the month of December to see if maybe they can spot the incident the woman is talking about. . but personally, whether the clerk is making an honest mistake or is just a nut-job, it would very much surprise me if they find anything of consequence..