Keith Papini
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71 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Sherry Pippini arrested on charges that she allegedly lied to federal agents about being kidnapped. News breaks that the mother of two has been arrested.
Sherry was sentenced to 18 months and was ordered to pay restitution. She served just under a year in federal prison and is now free.
Keith, a couple of times you said her face, her poor face.
I will say that no, it's not on her face, no. She lost almost 15% of her body weight in 22 days. That is traumatic physically.
And over the next six years, investigators would piece together how Papini had lied about everything, from her fictional abduction to injuries which were largely self-inflicted. DNA from her clothing eventually leading them to her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes.
Authorities say Papini's allegations of abuse against her husband were unfounded and that James Reyes had no knowledge of her plan. And with Reyes's cooperation, investigators now believed they had solid proof Sheriff Papini's kidnapping was a hoax.
I sat down with Keith Papini nearly eight years after I first met him to hear how he says he was fooled by Sherry's lies for so long. So many people watching this would wonder, was his spidey sense going off? Didn't he notice that something was off?
We have reached out to James Reyes for comment, but have not heard back. The Shasta County Sheriff's Office fully investigated James, corroborated his story with a polygraph, cell phone records and witnesses, and has cleared him of any crimes. The sheriff's office declining to comment on Sherry's latest allegations, saying, quote, we are choosing to focus on current public safety matters.
911, what is your emergency? So I just got home from work and my wife wasn't there, which is unusual.
Found her phone and it's got like hair ripped out of it, like in the headphones. So I'm like totally freaking out thinking like somebody like grabbed her. What's your wife's name? Sherry, S-H-E-R-R-I.
Okay, what's your last name? Yes, Papini, P-A-P-I-N-I. And your first name? Keith.
They were a very nice couple, sweet, sweet young people. She's just very kind-hearted and different from other girls that I have dated throughout the years. She's just so down to earth.
We have a unique story. Years later, we kind of reconnected, and I remembered that I kept her notes that she wrote me. I took her out on a date, and I handed her a box, and of course it was like all our little love notes back and forth.
Yeah, yeah. No, like we were always meant to be, for sure.
It was a little cold in the morning, but it was a nice day. I went to work, and I didn't get home until around 5 o'clock.
I looked in a few different rooms, and I couldn't find anybody. So I thought, OK, maybe they're outside. I looked around outside and couldn't find them.
Then I called our daycare type place. First thing I said is, what time did Sherry pick up the kids today? And when she said the kids are here, that was like, something is wrong.
It's about a mile away, actually, near our mailbox. I wasn't looking for a phone. I was looking for Sherry. When I didn't find Sherry, I parked, and I got out. And now I'm looking for a phone because it's saying it's here, it's here.
I knew something was wrong. My first thing was somebody took her.
I remember hiking, looking for evidence, looking for Sherry. Then we start to see some birds circling. They're like, you know, there's a lot of birds starting to circle over there. And I just went to my knees and I thought, am I really, am I really hiking out here to look for my wife? And do I even want to, I don't want to find her right now, but I do want to find her.
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