It was a news story that simultaneously made your stomach turn and was also completely engrossing, simply due to the fact that you could never tell what was going to happen next.
It had been three weeks since her mysterious disappearance when the wife and mother of two, Sherri Papini, turned up, visibly shaken up and covered in bruises at the side of the highway miles away from her home in Northern California.
According to ABC News, Papini went missing during a jog in her neighborhood in Redding, California, on a seemingly average day in November 2016. After three long weeks of community searches and hundreds of hours of police work, Papini was found on a highway and she told investigators that she had been taken by two masked Hispanic women and held against her will for weeks.
It was soon discovered that every single detail was a blatant lie as the distraught Papini was actually the mastermind behind her own disappearance. There was never any kidnapping as Papini had been staying with an ex-boyfriend during those few weeks. He was unaware of what was unraveling in her personal life.
At the center of those whose lives were permanently altered the day that Sherri Papini put her fake kidnapping plan into motion were her husband, Keith Papini, and two children.
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According to People, after years of investigating Papini’s claims, she was arrested for mail fraud and making false statements and served 18 months in prison. Shortly after her arrest, her husband Keith filed for divorce.
To hear more about how Sherri Papini’s husband took the news of his wife’s ultimate betrayal, as well as what an ex-boyfriend had to say about her, watch the video shared by Wonderbot.
