Audrey Seiler

Audrey Seiler

Audrey Seiler is a native of Rockford, Minnesota and a former University of Wisconsin student, who faked her own abduction in Madison, Wisconsin [1]. At 2:30 a.m. on March 27, 2004 Seiler was seen on a surveillance camera leaving her apartment without her coat and purse, leaving her apartment door open, suggesting she expected to return quickly.^{[citation needed]} Police initially investigated her disappearance as an abduction. She eventually admitted that the whole thing was a hoax and as of 2005 is paying monthly restitution (scheduled to total $9,000) to the Madison Police Department, which spent an estimated $100,000 on the case.^{[citation needed]} The case was investigated with the help of the FBI and garnered attention from many national news sources (Fox News [2], CNN [3], CBS [4], the National Review [5]) as well as local papers and television stations (Channel 3000[6]). The morning news broadcasts on NBC, ABC, and CBS aired a combined 98 minutes of coverage, leaving some to ponder the existence of Missing White Woman Syndrome.^{[citation needed]}