At about 3 a.m. Sunday, Tonya K. Massie, 39, went to the emergency room at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center to "gain treatment of injuries she incurred on a reported kidnapping," said Poplar Bluff Police Capt. Mike Elliott. Hospital personnel called the police. The responding officer, patrolman Jim Gerber, requested assistance from the department's Criminal Investigation Bureau.
The alleged kidnapping occurred at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday when a man got into her car while it was stopped at a stop sign in the North Westwood Boulevard area, Elliott said. Massie reported seeing a knife in the man's hand.
"She alleged she was taken over into Carter County and held over there, and she alleged a sexual assault," Elliott said.
The detective division, including officers assigned to narcotics and cyber crimes, began to work on the case, Elliott said. In addition, officers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control and the sheriff's departments in Carter and Howell counties were called in to help, he said.
"During the course of the investigation, there were some discrepancies" found, Elliott said.
Massie, he said, also contacted officers wanting to drop the report, but "due to public safety, we had to complete the investigation," Elliott said.
At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Massie was reinterviewed, Elliott said.
Elliott said officers were able to prove the time frame and locations she had alleged were not true, at which point "she admitted she had falsified the story."
Massie was arrested on suspicion of making a false police report and booked at the Butler County Jail.
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"During the course of the investigation, there were some discrepancies" found, Elliott said.
Massie, he said, also contacted officers wanting to drop the report, but "due to public safety, we had to complete the investigation," Elliott said.
At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Massie was reinterviewed, Elliott said.
Elliott said officers were able to prove the time frame and locations she had alleged were not true, at which point "she admitted she had falsified the story."
It seem as though stories about a rape report turning out to have been false are so common-place that no one bothers to comment on them anymore. At least as far as this story, and the story from near Hay, KS from yesterday (10/72010), are concerned, it may be because so little information is provide by the press to the reader.
But both seem to have some commonalities. Both seem to be, likely-as-not, the all too common rape-lie-as-alibi scenario that woman who fear being caught in their infidelities concoct, including the (eventually) standard shtick about a stranger kidnapping them and raping them.
And (not trying to be snarky this time, just saying…) in both cases, LE acted prudently and properly, investigating as they should, and ultimately revealing the lies.
All pretty run-of-the-mill, at least as these stories seem to go anymore.
So, just to add a bit of a spark (I hope), I’m going to drag back out my pet theory that, in those specific instances of stranger kidnap/rapes, within a given locale, and within a time frame of a few months to a year, there are as many such reports that turn out to be false, as those that are not determined to be false (and may be true).
As I’ve done before, I did a quick search of the news papers archive for reports of such rapes (unlike possible date-rapes, they tend to make the news), to see if there are other local stories of kidnap/rapes in the recent months.
In the case of the story from Hays, KS, the closest and most recent account of such a rape came from almost 200 miles away in Wichita, KS, on July 13, 2010. Since it was the only one from this year, I’d say my pet theory is, once again, holding up.
In the Poplar Bluff, MO incident, the South East Missourian’s site shows just one other such incident this year – and that only and attempted rape, from June in Cape Girardeau, MO – about 80 miles away.
I’m going to declare my pet theory two-for-two WRT these recent stories.
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