Sherri Papini

2022 - 3 - 4

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Sherri Papini, husband allegedly paid off credit cards with $49000 ... (New York Post)

Sherri Papini's once sympathetic tale grows more loathsome with each passing day. The California “super mom” didn't just fake her own abduction: Papini and ...

Papini, 39, of Redding, Calif., was found beaten and bound on a Yolo County road by local sheriffs on Thanksgiving morning 2016. Just one month later, on Dec. 6, he wrote a $31,818.13 check to himself from the GoFundMe account, prosecutors allege, much of which was used to pay down credit card debt. Federal prosecutors in California also claim in court papers Papini used $49,070 donated through the “Bring Sherri Home Safe” GoFundMe page, toward credit card debt and other personal expenses.

Volunteer Who Feels Duped by Sherri Papini's Kidnapping Story Reacts to Her Arrest (unknown)

Volunteer Who Feels Duped by Sherri Papini's Kidnapping Story Reacts to Her Arrest: 'Honestly, I Was Shocked'. Papini vanished for 22 days in 2016, stumping ...

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California jogger Sherri Papini staged own violent kidnapping, FBI ... (The Guardian)

Papini's 2016 disappearance was long cloaked in confusion, as a friend raised funds for a 'reverse ransom'

The government security contractor, Cameron Gamble, said in a statement: “It is disheartening to learn of the recent criminal complaint filed against Papini and the negative impacts it placed on those who sacrificed their time and resources to help her. They also talked to two of his cousins who saw Papini at his apartment during her “captivity”. Papini was initially listed as a “voluntary missing adult” before the California department of justice, under heavy public pressure, changed the designation to “disappearance under suspicious circumstances”. An ex-husband told investigators she had “fabricated stories about being the victim of abuse” both during and after their marriage. One friend, working with an anonymous donor and a government security consultant, even concocted an elaborate scheme to offer $100,000 or more for Papini’s release – a sum they called a “ reverse ransom” because her captors never asked for money, or anything else. Sherri Papini seemed to be just another small-town northern California mom, when, a little over five years ago, she disappeared in the woods.

Ex-boyfriend who hid Sherri Papini for 22 days is revealed (unknown)

Sherri Papini was arrested this week on suspicion of lying about her 2016 disappearance in California; The mother-of-two told cops she spent two weeks in ...

Sherri Papini's kidnapping stoked racial division and fear. Investigators say it was all a lie (unknown)

Sherri Papini said she was abducted by two Latina women in Northern California. But authorities say she was with an ex-boyfriend in Orange County.

He said she “wiped her mouth off with her underwear” and then fell asleep, leaving the substance on her underwear, according to the affidavit. In the final update, he said his wife remembered one of her kidnappers trying to pour a sticky substance down her throat. “She stabbed our community in the back with every step she took.” We are confused by several aspects of the charges and hope to get clarification in the coming days.” She told her ex-boyfriend that the Shasta County police had refused to help her, but local law enforcement said there were no records of abuse reports from the Papini home. Several men whom she had dated told investigators that she fabricated stories about being the victim of abuse in her home. He was not interviewed by federal investigators but spoke to reporters about the relationship, telling the Sacramento Bee on Thursday that Papini was a habitual liar. It put a crimp into the joy of being outside by yourself at the time.” She slipped into the back seat and at one point took a nap as he drove her to Southern California. During the time she was missing, prosecutors said, she never left her ex-boyfriend’s home in Orange County. As Papini told it, two Latina women held her at gunpoint and kept her in a small closet during three weeks of captivity. Sherri Papini disappeared in 2016 while on a run around her Shasta County neighborhood.

California Woman Is Charged With Faking Her Own Abduction in 2016 (unknown)

Three weeks after she vanished, Sherri Papini was found over 140 miles from her home. According to the authorities, her account of being kidnapped was a ...