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What Happened To Sherri Papini

by Vartika Singh
Saturday, 28 May 2022, 09:34 IST
What Happened To Sherri Papini

Heart in the mouth, limbs numb with shock, and worrying about death are how anybody would react to close kin being kidnapped. Ransoms, murder, rape, and assault are what kidnappings are done for.

The kidnapping of one leaves the entire community heaving bated breaths.

However, what if a kidnapping is staged, a hoax? It defrauds the kin and community and mocks their care, concern, and mental trauma caused due to near ones in danger. It shatters those worried about death and mocks the severity of true crime cases.

Arguably, the most notorious example of staged kidnapping was one of an American Woman from California named Sherri Papini.

An elaborate web of lies and deceit is what Sherri Papini gifted her husband and children, along with the authorities, as repayment for care and concern about her well-being.

The Premise

It was a normal morning in the Papini household comprising her husband and two children, a boy and a girl, in Redding, California, on November 2, 2016, when Sherri Papini, 34 at that time, left her house for a jog. Unsuspecting any upcoming life-changing events, his husband, Keith Papini, went on his job as normal.

His concerns multiplied manifold when he found out on the turning from the office that his wife had yet not returned from her jog; he then used the application ‘Find My iPhone’ to locate her phone and found her phone and earbuds at the intersection of Sunrise Drive and the the the Old Oregon Trail. Obvious chaos ensued when she could be tracked or found, and the family was beside themselves with worry.

The local authorities were under pressure to find her while the entire community supported the Papini family emotionally and financially.

It wasn’t until Thanksgiving on November 24, 2016, about three weeks later, that she reappeared on the side of County Road 17 near Interstate 5 in Yolo County, about 150 miles (240 km) south of where she disappeared, reportedly being freed by her captors at wee hours of the very morning.

She was found restrained and seemingly assaulted, including chopped hair, burnt, bruised, branded on her right shoulder, and seemingly emaciated.

The family and the community breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and overwhelming sympathy poured at what she reportedly suffered at the hands of the perpetrators.

What Happened To Sherri Papini

The Investigation

Investigation of the case further revealed a lot of new information. Sherri claimed that she had been abducted at gunpoint by two Hispanic women, who spoke mostly in Spanish. She also reported being branded on her right shoulder by a supposed verse from The Book of Exodus.

According to her, the elder one was more meaningful than the two Hispanic women( both always keep their faces masked, according to Sherri). They also played loud music, and the windows were always boarded up. She also told the police about a dark coloured SUV that the two used.

Even with these clues, the local authorities could not track the accused, and how would they have, considering there were no such people in the first place.

The Quest For The Truth

With such an elaborate web of lies, how was the police able to reach the truth?

After searching for the said two women, months after Sherri had returned that the police found a piece of evidence that made them change their tactics. The DNA found on her clothes made them question Sherri’s entire story. The DNA found on her clothes was of a male person while she had claimed that her abductors were women, and it also did not match with her husband.

Shasta county’s sheriff’s office Captain Brian Jackson saw it as it was- ‘the key to crack the case.’

Finally, in 2019 with the help of his FBI colleagues, the mystery of the DNA was decoded. The DNA sample belonged to Sherri’s Ex-boyfriend, which finally explains a lot of inconsistencies in Sherri’s story.

The Truth – Explained

Shayari Papini had staged the entire abduction since the start, complete with all the planning to web lies to befool everyone.

When her x boyfriend was questioned, many of the mysteries unravel. She had told her Ex-boyfriend that her husband abused her and she wanted to get away. He agreed, and then they planned how she would go with him on November 2, 2016.

He was unaware that she had planned to represent it as abduction. She has purposefully starved herself, got herself deliberately and frequently hurt to create the bruises, and even asked him to do so. She had cut her hair herself and asked him to brand her, to which he was reluctant. It was weeks after when she started missing her children that she decided to appear back. The Ex also reported that he never hurt her but allied with her efforts in the hope of getting back with her together.

 A huge bundle of lies and deceit was all it was, and it got a huge media coverage making it notorious and a subject of many case studies and podcasts about staged crimes.

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Vartika Singh

Vartika Singh

Coming from a beautiful city of Agra and a family of defence background, she is an a ambivert with a charismatic personality. An MBA (marketing) 2nd year student who is an enthusiast reader and a writer. She exceptionally enjoy long rides and travelling and is more than what meets the eye.

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