TOLEDO, Ohio — A lawyer and former city councilwoman was getting treatment after admitting she fabricated her tale of being kidnapped at gunpoint last week, her husband said Tuesday. Police said she probably will be charged with filing a false report.
Karyn McConnell Hancock, who was found Saturday in Georgia, was not abducted outside Toledo’s juvenile court building last Wednesday or forced into a vehicle, police Capt. Ray Carroll said.
Instead, she drove by herself from Toledo to the Atlanta area, where she was found outside an amusement park, investigators said.
The 35-year-old Hancock had been having psychological issues for several years, her husband, Lawrence Hancock, said at a news conference. The couple have a 3-year-old son, and she is six months pregnant with their second child.
“She experienced a meltdown and attempted to handle those matters without the assistance of professional help,” he said.
In the first few hours after her disappearance, her husband said, he thought she may have just needed to get away and figured she would come home soon. He did file a police report that night.
Then on Thursday afternoon, his wife called him, saying she had been abducted and thought she was going to die. The family went on national television asking for help.
