Bogus kidnap, attempted rape report leads to charge

Police: Woman fabricated the story because her boyfriend forgot their anniversary

By Lee van der Voo

The Lake Oswego Review, Aug 31, 2006, Updated Oct 30, 2009

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In the end, the detailed description sounded just too detailed to be true.

Lake Oswego Police announced Friday that a local woman was cited for filing a false police report in connection with her report of kidnapping and attempted rape earlier last week.

Elizabeth Ann Brown, 22, Lake Oswego, was cited for filing the bogus report, Lake Oswego Police Capt. Mike Hammons said.

“The investigation into this matter revealed that Ms. Brown allegedly filed a report of kidnapping and attempted rape because her boyfriend had forgotten their anniversary,” Hammons said. “She left the house after an argument and made her claim upon returning.”

Her report, made the evening of Aug. 22, triggered a search for a man who was said to have dragged her into a wooded area off Boones Ferry Road to try to rape her.

At the time, Brown, who told officers she was not injured in the alleged attack, provided police with a detailed description of her assailant.

The suspect was described as a white male in his late 40s, approximately five feet, five inches tall, weighing roughly 160 pounds. Brown added that he had collar-length, straight, brown hair, a receding hairline and was balding on the top of his head.

She said the man was sporting a full, scraggly beard at the time of the attack and was dressed in a green military field jacket, dark pants and white tennis shoes. Finally, she noted he was also carrying a red backpack and described him as extremely dirty, with very bad body odor and green teeth.

“It’s an unusually accurate description,” Hammons said at the time.

It was also fiction.

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