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<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><br><strong>Sherri &#8216;Supermom&#8217; Papini arrested for staging a 2016 kidnap by &#8216;two Hispanic women&#8217; when she was actually with an ex-boyfriend</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>Prosecutors charged Papini, 39, for lying to federal agents about the hoax and defrauding the state&#8217;s victim compensation board </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>The mother-of-two had been reported missing <strong>in the Sacramento area,</strong> on Nov. 2, 2016, after she did not come home from jogging and her children were not picked up from daycare</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>Papini was found 22 days later on Thanksgiving Day in 2016, after weeks of searching in California and several nearby states </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>She was found tied up on a freeway<strong> </strong>with a broken nose, a ;&#8216;brand&#8217; on her right shoulder and a shaved head, with bindings on her body and injuries</strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>She told authorities at the time that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women, driving a dark SUV</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>Prosecutors said she was actually staying with a former boyfriend nearly 600 miles away from her home and hurt herself to back up her false statements </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>The boyfriend was<strong> identified after his relative&#8217;s at-home DNA test matched samples taken from her clothes six years ago</strong> ;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>Papini was still lying about the kidnapping in August 2020 when she was interviewed by the FBI</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>She also faces mail fraud charges related to reimbursement requests from the state that carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>She&#8217;d been reimbursed more than $30,000 by the Victim´s Compensation Board for visits to her therapist and for the ambulance ride ;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4d3f3f"><strong>Investigators uncovered that she had multiple affairs while married, as family, friends and former co-workers said she &#8216;has a history of lying&#8217;</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sherri-Papini-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401569" width="840" height="684"/><figcaption>Busted for self-kidnap hoax: <strong>California mom Sherri Papini who claimed she was kidnapped for 22 days by two Hispanic women in 2016, has been arrested for faking her abduction ;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>A Sacramento woman who claimed she was kidnapped for 22 days by two Hispanic women in 2016 in a story that shocked and puzzled America, has now been arrested for making it all up six years later. ; ; ;<br>On Thursday prosecutors charged Sherri Papini, 39, for lying to federal agents about being kidnapped and defrauding the state&#8217;s victim compensation board of $30,000. ; ;<br>Mother-of-two Sherri Papini, aka &#8216;Supermom&#8217;, was found on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 &#8211; 22 days after she disappeared while jogging on November 2 &#8211; following weeks of searching in California and several nearby states <br>She was found tied up on California&#8217;s I-5 freeway outside of Yolo,<strong> </strong>with a broken nose, a ;&#8216;brand&#8217; on her right shoulder and a shaved head. ;Papini told authorities at the time that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women driving a dark SUV, even providing descriptions to an FBI sketch artist. ;<br>With no credible leads no one has ever been was ever been arrested, and authorities could never determine what the &#8216;Hispanic women&#8217;s&#8217; motive was. ; <br>Papini cops said was actually staying with an unidentified ex-boyfriend who police say she asked to pick her up.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Intersection-of-Sunrise-Drive-and-Old-Oregon-Highway-LA-California.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401570" width="835" height="476"/><figcaption><strong>Sherri Papini said she was kidnapped at the intersection of Sunrise Drive and Old Oregon Highway while on a jog. She&#8217;s described her captors as two ;Hispanic women who drove a dark SUV</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>When Papini was found on Thanksgiving Day, 2016, police collected DNA samples from her clothes. They ran them against the national criminal database but found no matches.<br>In 2020, however, they were alerted to a potential match after someone in the ex-boyfriend&#8217;s family did an at-home family DNA test. That sample was traced to the ex-boyfriend, who subsequently admitted to the entire hoax. ;<br>An affidavit released by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office for Eastern California details how Papini had multiple affairs and boyfriends, and was described by exes as an &#8216;attention hungry&#8217; woman who made things up for sympathy. ;<br>The ex-boyfriend is not named, but the affidavit states that the pair plotted their escape on pre-paid cell phones which they used to text each other before he picked her up in November 2016. ;<br>She then spent the next few weeks at his apartment, the boyfriend confessed to FBI agents. The events were corroborated by a cousin who saw Papini inside the apartment. ;<br>He also disclosed that he hired a rental car to drive her back to her family&#8217;s neighborhood on November 24, 2016. ; <br>&#8216;In truth, Papini had been voluntarily staying with a former boyfriend in Costa Mesa and had harmed herself to support her false statements,&#8217; an announcement by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office in the Eastern District of California said in a release on Thursday night, adding that Papini maintained the fabric of lies, even after she was confronted her with contradictory evidence by the FBI agents. ;<br>The fraud case stems from the fact that Sherri Papini has since claimed $30,000 from the Victim Compensation Board. Between 2017 and 2022, Papini claimed a total of $30,000 in 35 payments the ; from ;Victim Compensation Board. ;<br>She ; is now being held in federal custody, awaiting her first court appearance. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Illustration-of-two-Hispanic-women-who-Sherri-Papini-claims-abducted-her-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401587" width="842" height="1089"/><figcaption><strong>Papini claims that two Hispanic women driving an SUV abducted her but covered their faces. These sketches were released of them almost a year after she went missing ;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The 55-page affidavit released Wednesday night reveals investigators were suspicious of the narrative from the beginning. ;<br>On November 2, Keith Papini the missing woman&#8217;s husband, reported her missing at 5.50pm after returning home from work. She was nowhere to be found and their two children had not been picked up from daycare. ;<br>Keith told police that he then used the &#8216;Find My iPhone&#8217; app to locate Sherri&#8217;s phone, that was sitting on the side of the road near their home next to her earbuds, which were tangled in blonde hair. ; ;<br>He told authorities he thought it looked as though the phone had been &#8216;placed&#8217; there and that it was positioned strangely. ;<br>Keith said the pair argued like any other married couple but had no serious marital issues. Their last argument was the previous month and was over a messy room, adding that his wife could be &#8216;loud&#8217;. ;<br>Searching through her phone investigators discovered two men&#8217;s phone numbers that were saved under women&#8217;s names, the affidavit claims. ;However, neither was the ex-boyfriend she spent her &#8216;missing&#8217; weeks with. The men were interviewed, as well as one of her old bosses. ;<br></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sherri-Papini-jogging-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401598"/><figcaption><strong>A still video captures Papini (in red circle) running around on the morning she was found after vanishing for two weeks in November 2016</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The day before she went missing, Papini texted one of the men and discussed meeting up in Redding, California, near her home. ;<br>That man lived in Michigan and had been in California for a work trip. He told police he&#8217;d met Papini in 2011 on a work trip and that the pair &#8216;spent the weekend together&#8217;. ;<br>They continued to exchange flirtatious messages for years, he said, but he did not end up meeting the weekend he was in California, before she disappeared. ;<br>The second man told police that he met Papini in 2000-2001 through a ;a Friday Night Live ; youth program. He said she was a liar who liked attention and would &#8216;tell stories&#8217; to get it.<br>He said she once told him she was the victim of abuse in her family. ;<br>&#8216;Man 2 described Papini as an attention-hungry person who told stories to try to get people’s attention. Man 2 stated that Papini fabricated stories of being the victim of abuse from her family, father, and then Man 2 after the couple broke up,&#8217; the affidavit reads. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sherri-Papini-and-her-husband-Keith-Papini-with-their-two-children-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401588" width="837" height="1088"/><figcaption><strong>Sherri Papini and her husband Keith with their two children</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>On the day Papini went missing, her husband Keith said he had first become concerned about her whereabouts when she stopped answering her phone. <br>Investigators also spoke with Papini&#8217;s boss at the Friday Night Live youth program, and he said he worried about having her in the program because she &#8216;was good at ; creating different realities for people so that they would see what she wanted them to see, which got her really good attention.&#8217; ; ;<br>Sherri was married once, to a serviceman, before she met Keith Papini. ;Her current husband told police that their entire marriage was a sham designed to get her onto his medical insurance so that she could receive treatment for a persistent heart murmur. ;<br>When police spoke to the first husband, he said she told him she needed the insurance due to &#8216;complications from regular egg donations&#8217;. ;<br>Papini&#8217;s mother said she&#8217;d told her she &#8216;traveled the world&#8217; with her first husband when in reality, they had only traveled together once. ;<br>The ex-husband told police that after they divorced, he was told by mutual friends that she had a history of lying. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Keith-and-Sherri-Papini-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401590"/><figcaption><strong>FBI said that while Sherri Papini [seen with her husband Keith], set up up a kidnap hoax, &#8216;In truth, Papini had been voluntarily staying with a former boyfriend in Costa Mesa and had harmed herself to support her false statements&#8217;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sherri-Papini-12.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401573" width="838" height="547"/><figcaption><strong> Sherri Papini, [photo], is charged for lying to federal agents about being kidnapped and defrauding the state&#8217;s victim compensation board of $30,000. Her first husband told police that after they divorced, mutual friends revealed that &#8216;she had a history of lying&#8217; ; ;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>She faces a mail fraud charge related to the reimbursement requests that carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison, while lying to a federal officer has a maximum five-year sentence.<br>&#8216;Everyone involved in this investigation had one common goal: to find the truth about what happened on Nov. 2, 2016, with Sherri Papini and who was responsible,&#8217; said Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson. That 22-day search and five-year investigation not only cost money and time, he said, &#8216;but caused the general public to be fearful of their own safety, a fear that they should not have had to endure.&#8217;<br>The mother-of-two, dubbed a &#8216;supermom&#8217; by her sister Sheila Koester, 36, disappeared while out jogging on November 2, 2016.<br>On the day she went missing, her husband Keith said he had first become concerned about her whereabouts when she stopped answering her phone. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sherri-Papini-missing-person-poster-1-1024x532.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401593" width="850" height="441"/><figcaption><strong>On Nov. 2, 2016 Keith Papini reported to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office his wife Sherri was missing with suspicious circumstances. It turns out she&#8217;d arranged with an ex-boyfriend who picked her up.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Area-where-Sherri-Papini-was-found-near-the-I-5-freeway-outside-of-Yolo-California.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Area-where-Sherri-Papini-was-found-near-the-I-5-freeway-outside-of-Yolo-California.jpg" width="838" height="467"/><figcaption><strong>The area where Sherri Papini was found near the I-5 freeway outside of Yolo, California, on Nov. 26, 2016, 22 days after she disappeared</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>When he discovered she hadn&#8217;t picked the kids up from daycare, he flew into full blown panic.<br>&#8216;I couldn&#8217;t find her, so I called the day care to see what time she picked up the kids. The kids were never picked up so I got freaked out, I hit the Find My iPhone app thing,&#8217; he said. &#8216;I found her phone; it&#8217;s got like hair ripped out of it, like, in the headphones.&#8217;<br>Her phone was discovered a mile away at the intersection of Sunrise Drive and Old Oregon Highway – neatly placed on the ground and with the headphones tidily wrapped around it.<br>Keith, who said at the time that his wife would never leave him or their children voluntarily, also launched an appeal – a GoFundMe account raising cash to pay for the search which eventually raised close to $50,000.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sherri-Papini-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401584" width="835" height="544"/><figcaption><strong>Sherri Papini, neighbors said, had begun to make more frequent appearances by 2017, according to local residents</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p><br>After being found three weeks later, with her hair hacked off and branded with a threatening message, ;Papini claimed she had been kidnapped by two Hispanic women who could not be identified because they constantly covered their faces. ;<br>Papini said the women had been driving a dark-colored SUV with &#8216;a large rear side window&#8217; at the time of the kidnapping but has so far been unable to give details of the make and model.<br>However, police also revealed that male DNA that did not belong to husband Keith was found on her clothing and said she had been texting another man before her disappearance.<br>Cops investigating the kidnapping had discovered Papini&#8217;s texts and tracked down the man in Detroit, Michigan on November 9 &#8211; a week after she disappeared. ;<br>Following her return, Papini was said to be living a quiet existence at her family home which occupies a shady plot of land on the outskirts of Shasta Lake; a small town of 10,000 people in Northern California.<br>Further skepticism about why she disappeared emerged after it was revealed she had previously run away as a teenager.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Keith-and-Sherri-Papini-3.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Keith-and-Sherri-Papini-3.jpg" width="839" height="851"/><figcaption><strong>After spending the past year living as a recluse, the mother-of-two seemed to be getting back to normal when she went for pizza with her husband Keith in Redding, California in 2017</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>And according to the Sacramento Bee, uncovered documents from 13 years ago outlined how Papini&#8217;s mother, Loretta Graeff, called police asking for help after her daughter was allegedly self-harming and trying to blame the wounds on her.<br>The incident report, filed in December 2003, is just two lines long and reads: &#8216;RP states her 21y/o daughter that was living with her was harming herself and blaming it on the RP.<br>&#8216;RP states female is coming back to live with them and she wants advice.&#8217;<br>The newspaper also found two other incidents involving Papini, where her father and sister both claimed she damaged their property.<br>In 2000, Richard Graeff said his daughter &#8216;burglarized his residence,&#8217; before Sheila Koester, &#8216;alleged her back door had been kicked in and she believed Papini was the suspect&#8217;, the Bee reported.<br>In retrospect, &#8216;we are relieved that the community is not endangered by unknown, violent kidnappers,&#8217; said Sean Ragan, special agent in charge of the FBI&#8217;s Sacramento Field Office.</p>

