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On November 2, 2016, Sherri Papini was abducted, while she was jogging. Her husband, Keith Papini, filed that she was missing after she did not pick up her kids from daycare and never returned from jogging.

Her watch was found on the side of the road. Most of her friends thought her husband was the main suspect because she would tell them that he would abuse her and pretend he was a super abusive person, so he was the police’s first suspect.

However, she was found three weeks later on Thanksgiving after the whole neighborhood searched for her. She even was thrown a welcome home video when she was found. She was found bruised and branded, her blonde hair was cut, and she was chained. 

When Papini was found, she claimed two Hispanic women had taken her and beaten her and contended that the branding wasn’t a branding. It was a message. In  2020, which is four years after the incident, They found a DNA match to the clothes she was wearing, which was not connected to two Hispanic women but instead to her ex-boyfriend.

The ex-boyfriend told the police everything that had happened, that Papini he got into contact around December of 2015 on a prepaid phone and that she asked him to purposefully harm her, so it would make her story more believable. 

Papinihad earned over $300,000 dollars from all those who donated to her cause and from multiple victim organizations. She maintained this lie until her trial when she finally pled guilty to a lighter sentence, ultimately only eight months.

Recently, her ex-husband, Keith, allowed her to see her kids one day a week.

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Source:

https://www.eonline.com/news/1328252/how-sherri-papinis-kidnapping-hoax-was-exposed-and-what-happened-next