Update of The Story of Kidnapped Woman called her husband

Reports have it that a woman called his husband to inform him that she had been kidnapped but the husband could not reach her before she was killed. Now authorities are trying to know exactly what happened to her.

Rita Maze, left, and her daughter.

 Authorities are seriously questioning the incredible story of the Montana woman who was found dead in Washington after having told her husband and police that she'd been kidnapped and was calling them from the trunk of her own car.

The body of Rita M. Maze, 47, of Great Falls, Mont., was found shortly after midnight Wednesday in a parking lot outside Spokane, Wash., International Airport, They said she'd made the phone calls from the trunk of the car, where she said a man she didn't know had forced her after having struck her on the head.

They were no longer saying that Thursday after the Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office said in a preliminary report that a determination of Maze's manner of death was "pending an investigation"  not a homicide, as authorities had characterized the case a day earlier.

The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to Maze's chest and abdomen, according to the report, which added no further details.