Bonnie Sweeten Abducted Herself and Daughter to Florida?

It now seems that the carjacked and abducted Pennsylvania mother, Bonnie Sweeten, wasn't carjacked or abducted after all. According to Philly.com, Florida authorities are now searching for Bonnie Sweeten and her 9-year-old daughter, but not because they are missing through foul means. Just a few hours after Bonnie Sweeten claimed to be calling police from the trunk of a black Cadillac, she was in an airport terminal buying southbound tickets to Florida.

Authorities claim to have been a bit skeptical of the seven 911 phone calls Bonnie Sweeten made on Tuesday. Starting at 2 p.m., Philadelphia Police received a 911 call that there had been a car accident, but when they arrived, there were no vehicles. A second 911 call informed the police that Bonnie Sweeten was now in the trunk of the car that hit her and that she believed they had taken her SUV as well.

One website, Blink on Crime, reported that witnesses told the police that two black men had forced a woman into the trunk of a Cadillac while a little girl was forced into the SUV. It is unclear if this is indeed the case, but Sweeten told the police that she and her daughter had been kidnapped by two men.

"Her story (911 calls) just wasn't adding up," one investigator said.

Sweeten's missing SUV was found early Wednesday morning. One of the 911 calls was traced to an area 20 miles from the supposed collision site.

But while Bonnie Sweeten was making phones calls that weren't making sense, she now seems to have been on her way to the airport. Using fake identification and cash, a camera at Philadelphia International Airport caught her buying two one-way tickets to Orlando, Florida.

But why the convoluted ruse?

Authorities have learned from multiple sources, according to Philly.com, that Bonnie Sweeten was having financial difficulties.

But it is now understood why the FBI and Pennsylvania authorities were so guarded with their statements from earlier in the investigation. Problems with consistency tend to make law enforcement officials suspicious. And when a story tends to go south, sometimes, as in the case of Bonnie Sweeten and Julia Rakoczy, they literally go south.

But now Bonnie Sweeten will face far more problems than just her previous financial woes. Making fraudulent calls to the police and causing a statewide manhunt, not to mention an Amber Alert and FBI involvement in a suspected kidnapping, will no doubt incur not only jail time but some hefty fines and some reimbursement payments.

But the ruse and the drama are still unexplained...

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Sources:

Philly.com

Blinkoncrime.com