discussion Thoughts on the Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax?

[Beyonnaise]

 

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Papini, a mother of two from Redding, California, was arrested last month, nearly six years after she was reported missing. On Nov. 24, 2016, three weeks after she vanished, she was found 146 miles south, on Interstate 5, with a chain around her waist.

She had injuries that authorities now believe were self-inflicted and a brand on her shoulder that she blamed on her abductors, federal authorities said last month. She was also emaciated.

 

Shasta County Sheriff Sergeant Kyle Wallace and Captain Brian Jackson, who have worked the case since Papini was reported missing, told "Dateline" in an interview that something wasn't right from the start.

 

A tuft of Papini's hair was found with her phone near the spot where she said she had been abducted. She told detectives she purposefully pulled it out when her captors took her at gunpoint so her husband would be able to know where she was taken from.

 

Papini also refused to fully cooperate with investigators upon her return, Wallace and Jackson said. Her husband was eager to find her kidnappers, but Papini made up a story about her abduction’s being connected with law enforcement. She would often withhold from investigators or refuse to provide certain details.

 

Papini had told police that two Hispanic women took her. But investigators found male DNA on Papini's clothing — DNA that led them to her ex-boyfriend, whom she had been staying with the entire time she pretended to be missing.

 

The former boyfriend told investigators what he knew. He told them Papini asked him to hit her — he would not, but he agreed to hold a hockey stick for her to run into and to pelt her with hockey pucks. He also branded her when she asked him to.

 

"I have never heard of anything like this. Not even kind of," Wallace said. "She was dedicated" to her story.

 

Papini, meanwhile, was charged with mail fraud and lying to a law enforcement officer — the charges stem not from her faked abduction but from the deception, she continued after she returned.

 

The detectives said that had she told the truth when she returned, she would have been criminally clean. But she had already spent too much time crafting the lie. x

Is she the real life Amy Dunne from Gone Girl? I might otherwise call her a girlboss icon but she randomly made up that two Hispanic women kidnapped her so she's just a racist c**t  Apparently she claimed they "fed her tortillas and played annoying Mexican music"

Edited May 9, 2022 by Beyonnaise

[#Beautiful]

I cant believe what I just read...

[livelikemusic]

I believed her story until more details came out... now? She deserves to rot for wasting time, resources and being a downright awful, deplorable human being. I hope her soon-to-be ex-husband gets custody of those children, and keeps them far away from her.

[Konril]

The husband put up so much with her fuckery.

[99sandthe2000s]

I've heard this covered on so many True Crime podcasts and I definitely think it's a hoax + the GoFundMe money that was spent to pay off debt (I think there's a mail fraud/wire fraud charge for that). Also, her randomly blaming "Mexican" women and then her previous Facebook comments coming to light of past ignorance/racism. With the ex-boyfriend/fake captor working with the cops and telling the full story of where she was hiding I think she's definitely going to see some jail time.

 

I found this video interest as the lawyer details the indictment, charges and what we can expect going forward with her criminal case.

 

Threads like this make me think we should have an ongoing True Crime thread to discuss past and ongoing cases I would love to chat about things like that on here!