US EditionSherri Papini claims ex-boyfriend abducted her in 2016 hoax kidnapping case
- Sherri Papini, a California woman, was found on November 24, 2016, injured on a highway about 146 miles from Redding after disappearing while jogging.
- Papini initially claimed two Latina women kidnapped and held her captive for three weeks, but authorities later concluded she stayed voluntarily with ex-boyfriend James Reyes.
- In 2022, Papini admitted in court to lying to federal investigators and committing fraud through the mail, resulting in an 18-month prison sentence after she publicly accepted responsibility and expressed remorse.
- Papini now asserts that Reyes actually kidnapped her and caused her injuries, urges him to tell the truth, and says prison was safer than exposing her emotional affair to her ex-husband, Keith Papini, who filed for divorce in 2022.
- The former couple continues to dispute custody of their two children amid differing narratives and Papini’s recently self-published memoir that contests earlier statements.
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The Independent (US)Self-confessed kidnap hoaxer mom Sherri Papini now claims she really was abducted
Sherri Papini went missing in 2016 for 22 days and later confessed to faking her own kidnapping, but now she says it was her ex-boyfriend’s doing
Sherri Papini, who admitted to faking her own kidnapping, claims she actually was abducted
Papini, 43 — who lied to the FBI in 2016 by claiming two Hispanic women had held her captive for three weeks — said she was in fact kidnapped during that time period by her former boyfriend James Reyes.
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