Ohioan Who Made Up Abduction Sentenced For Theft

By: Associated Press | NBC4i.com
Published: January 16, 2009

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TOLEDO, Ohio -- A former Toledo lawyer who made up a story about being kidnapped after a client accused her of taking his money has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from her clients.

Thirty-eight-year-old Karyn McConnell Hancock was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in November to aggravated theft for stealing more than $624,000 from 23 people.

She said she started stealing money from one client to replace money taken from another beginning in 2002.

The former city councilwoman whose father is a municipal court judge was the subject of a nationwide search after she went missing for three days in late 2007.

At first, she said she was abducted in Toledo and driven to Georgia.

She soon admitted that she had made up the story and driven herself to the Atlanta area.