Plattsmouth, Neb. ? A Kansas woman who reported being kidnapped and raped last week appears to have made the story up, Cass County Sheriff William Brueggemann said Tuesday.

The 41-year-old woman from Leavenworth, Kan., was found by a passer-by last Wednesday, slumped over the wheel of her car north of Plattsmouth in southeast Nebraska.

She said she had been raped and abducted from her Leavenworth home, driven to Iowa, raped again and then left in Nebraska.

Numerous law enforcement agencies in Nebraska and Kansas investigated the case, contacted people who matched the description of the suspect and continued to interview the woman, Brueggemann said.

Investigators began to doubt the woman’s credibility and physical evidence gathered in the case was inconsistent with her account, Brueggemann said.

On Monday, the woman told investigators she had come home from running errands on March 12 and had found her home broken into. She said that under stress from financial and marital problems she fled the home and falsely reported being abducted and raped, Brueggemann said in a news release.

Reports on the case will be forwarded to the Cass County attorney’s office for determination of any charges to be filed against the woman, he said.