False Rape Allegation, Charges Filed

Story here. Excerpt:

'For a year now, people in one Springfield neighborhood have been staying indoors as a precaution and on Friday they learned it was all for nothing.

One year ago, a neighbor in the north Springfield community reported she was attacked, raped and bound by a man that jumped out of the woods behind her house. The Greene County Sheriff's Department, Springfield Police Department, canine unit and the Missouri Highway Patrol helicopter spent two hours looking for the suspect, but never found anyone.

On Friday, 28-year-old Karla Forest was charged with making it all up. Investigators found not only did her story have a few holes in it, but forensic evidence showed scrapings on her body were created by her own finger nails.'