Bonnie Wilder

[fabgourmet]

Was she ever caught? Was she known to strike again?

Gutsy lady....

[carot]

id love to know what happened her...
mayby crystalDawn knows

[crystaldawn]

id love to know what happened her...
mayby crystalDawn knows

Sorry I don't. I've tried to find out numerous times on the internet but its very hard since we don't know her real name. Maybe since to my knowledge this segment never aired on Lifetime that could mean she was captured. I think there's a good chance they got some good tips the night it aired since they had an actual photo of her.

[unsolved88]

Did anyone notice the horrible muumuu "Bonnie" was wearing in the photograph? It was blue with white stripes. Stripes are the worst things
you can wear when you're overweight! I'm surprised she hasn't been noticed for her bizarre fashion sense alone. :D

[deedeee]

I am trying to remember this episode :confused:

Did she embezzle lots of money, a fraudster? If it is the episode I am thinking of she was extremely brazen!

[greatgarrett2]

I am trying to remember this episode :confused:

Did she embezzle lots of money, a fraudster? If it is the episode I am thinking of she was extremely brazen!

'Bonnie Wilder' went to work at a Department Store in Georgia, I believe. According to her co-workers, she came off as a little eccentric and never talked deeply about herself. Then, one night at closing, after she made requests to each cashier (I believe) to take their cash upstairs to her office, she went to the vault and took thousands of dollars out and placed the money into her purse.

Everyone else just assumed she had one last order of business and so didn't think much of it. While everyone went for their cars to go home, 'Bonnie' hailed a taxi. The next morning, the employees found the cash missing and so was 'Bonnie Wilder'. Apparently she's targeted stores in Florida and other parts of the South.

I tried googling 'Bonnie Wilder' and not much comes up.....

We have to remember 'Bonnie Wilder' was a fictitious name.

I don't believe she has been caught and all they (people at the Georgia store and the authorities, I believe) have of her is the lunchroom photograph.

My guess is that she could be using someone else's identity or a fictitious one in another state. Either that, or she's probably dead. I believe Lisa Penz, a co-worker at the Georgia store, lives in fear that 'Bonnie' could be using her identity somewhere, according to the segment.

[justins5256]

I'm too lazy to do it myself right now, but has any one tried contacting the PI interviewed in the segment? She might still be around.

[unsolved88]

They also said that "Bonnie" had helped overturn a store policy that called for a search of employee handbags at the end of every day. She claimed that such a policy was detrimental to staff morale and the management people agreed. Co-incidence?!? I THINK NOT!!!

[greatgarrett2]

They also said that "Bonnie" had helped overturn a store policy that called for a search of employee handbags at the end of every day. She claimed that such a policy was detrimental to staff morale and the management people agreed. Co-incidence?!? I THINK NOT!!!

That's why she probably made the request.....AH I see! Now I remember.....that's it.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Yeah. I used to be a waitress at the Cracker Barrel. We tried to say that having them search our bags at the end of the night was crap, too... but then they gave us clear vinyl bags to carry our things in. I bet the place Bonnie Wilder worked for wishes now that they had thought of that... (but as an ironic sidenote, people still found ways to smuggle Ribeye steaks out of there, and that's all I can say on this matter. :D )

[wiseguy182]

Well I could certainly understand some businesses checking bags, but not Cracker Barrel. That restaurant chain has had a series of questionable practices. I could go off on a rant, but I'll just simply say I avoid that place like the plague.

[RightOnDude]

Was she ever caught? Was she known to strike again?

Gutsy lady....

"Gutsy" ... yeah that's one way to put it! She definitely had a lot of "guts"

[Awsi Dooger]

Well I could certainly understand some businesses checking bags, but not Cracker Barrel. That restaurant chain has had a series of questionable practices. I could go off on a rant, but I'll just simply say I avoid that place like the plague.

You're not the only one, wiseguy182. I'm fortunate here since we don't have Crackel Barrel, but in a couple of weeks I'll be forced to deal with that place multiple times while on vacation in Florida and North Carolina. My mom and younger sister are among the brainwashed, believing there's something magical about the place.

This probably won't go over too well, but what the hell. Another reason I don't like Cracker Barrel is I always get the feeling that among the 200 or so people eating there at any given time, maybe 20 would have similar political leanings to mine.

Good veggies, but otherwise I gladly pass. Unless I want to waste an hour in a rocking chair waiting for my name to be called.

[wiseguy182]

I work at a hotel (as I've mentioned before), so I get to communicate with people from all over the world. I once had a guest that wanted to know a place that was close by that was open for breakfast. Really the only one was Cracker Barrel, so I had no choice but to mention it. He says he's travelled all over the country and that every Cracker Barrel he's been to, the service is painstakingly slow. Doesn't matter which state you go to, he said, and I can believe it. I've only ate their once simply because I like to try just about everything once and it was really slow. On a hiliarious sidenote, he ended up going to the IHOP, which was a good 10 minutes or so away.:D

They've also had a bad reputation for discriminating against African-Americans and gays, which is not good. So much so that they had to totally revamp their hiring policies in an effort to salvage their reputation.

And other reasons I hate Cracker Barrel, but I just realized I'm getting way off-topic, anyways.....

welcome back, Awsi:wave:

[Awsi Dooger]

I work at a hotel (as I've mentioned before), so I get to communicate with people from all over the world. I once had a guest that wanted to know a place that was close by that was open for breakfast. Really the only one was Cracker Barrel, so I had no choice but to mention it. He says he's travelled all over the country and that every Cracker Barrel he's been to, the service is painstakingly slow. Doesn't matter which state you go to, he said, and I can believe it. I've only ate their once simply because I like to try just about everything once and it was really slow. On a hiliarious sidenote, he ended up going to the IHOP, which was a good 10 minutes or so away.:D

They've also had a bad reputation for discriminating against African-Americans and gays, which is not good. So much so that they had to totally revamp their hiring policies in an effort to salvage their reputation.

And other reasons I hate Cracker Barrel, but I just realized I'm getting way off-topic, anyways.....

welcome back, Awsi:wave:

Thanks wiseguy182. Yeah, I was busy for almost two months and it limited my internet time. Volunteered for two campaigns. One win and one agonizing two point defeat.

I've heard similar things about Cracker Barrel. I knew that's what you were getting at. It's a Tennessee-based company. To the extent those problems still exist it's likely they are more prevalent in the South. I don't think that's an outrageous statement but I have a feeling we've strayed far enough and time to halt.

Absolutely they are slow. Agonizingly slow. Popularity is part of that so I understand the waiting time before being seated. But when it gets to the point you're staring at the entrance to the kitchen wondering where the heck your order is, that's when I'm mumbling to myself and wishing we had chosen anyplace else. I've had a couple of times they never ever served the biscuits and we walked out in disgust.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Actually, from the former waitress/hostess perspective at the Cracker Barrel... I think it's slow so you stay in the store area and end up paying an arm and a leg for an old-school Raggedy Ann doll...

[Awsi Dooger]

Actually, from the former waitress/hostess perspective at the Cracker Barrel... I think it's slow so you stay in the store area and end up paying an arm and a leg for an old-school Raggedy Ann doll...

Yeah, I'd love to have back all the time I've wandered through the store area. Actually, some of the items are interesting, like the little pamphlets showing what happened in a particular year.

My sister has a weird quirk regarding Cracker Barrel. She loves the place but refusues to eat in the ones that are backwards. Almost every Cracker Barrel you enter the restaurant to the left from the store area. But there are some odd ones with the restaurant on the right. My sister wants nothing to do with those. She even has it memorized, which ones are like that. I'm talking restaurants more than a thousand miles from where she lives. But they drive long distances so often and eat at Cracker Barrel so frequently she'll chastise her husband when he sees a sign and asks if she wants to eat there. "Are you kidding me? That a backwards Barrel! Don't you dare go there."

[An 80s Guy]

Could someone post a picture of her.I do not remember this case mabey a picture will make me rememeber.

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

They also said that "Bonnie" had helped overturn a store policy that called for a search of employee handbags at the end of every day. She claimed that such a policy was detrimental to staff morale and the management people agreed. Co-incidence?!? I THINK NOT!!!

Coincidence? Yeah right. She did that on the account of her own deviousness.

[An 80s Guy]

Did America's Most wanted ever profile her??

[Mastermind]

Time to bump this thread up.

For those of you not up to speed, Bonnie Wilder was an extremely heavyset woman who scammed a retail store she worked at in Georgia(?) out of thousands of dollars. "Bonnie Wilder" is not her name, nor the name of the person whose identity she stole.

Any updates?

[crystaldawn]

Here's the update:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=209181

[TracyLynnS]

I just watched this one today and came here to see if there had been any new info since the crime was profiled on UM. Kinda funny to see that the thread was bumped on the same day that I watched the segment and came looking for it.

Totally off topic: Like Awsi's sister, I don't like the "backwards barrels". And every time I go to a Cracker Barrel... sheesh... All I can think is that they have the word cracker right in their name. What was they a thankin?