Sergeant Kyle Wallace

We called in a polygraph examiner to polygraph Keith.

Everything that he did that day, we were able to corroborate. He was with another coworker that we were able to say that he was with him all day.

I got a call from Keith. Keith was frantic, yelling into the phone. They found her. She's been located, telling me CHP down in Sacramento area had Sherry.

My name is Sergeant Kyle Wallace with the Shouse County Sheriff's Office. I was the lead investigator for the Sherry Papini investigation.

That's where I met her a couple hours later. First walking into the hospital room, Sherry was pretty hostile, which I didn't expect.

Looking at her injuries at the hospital, I was shocked by them. Her kidnappers had ranted her.

Looking at her injuries at the hospital, I was shocked by them. I've been to several homicides. I've been to several domestic violence situations in my career, but the totality of the injuries for it to be all over her face, her arms, her legs, and her chest and her back was just alarming.

She really wasn't having any part of talking. We made the investigative decision to keep Keith in the room to hopefully start getting the information.

On November 2nd, Sherry said she was on a run in her neighborhood. She initially saw a black SUV going north.

She said the younger female got out with a handgun and Sherry just froze. She was instructed to get into the vehicle.

Scared. I was scared. Everything from day one had your hairs up on the back of your neck just trying to figure out what was going on.

Again, Keith had to be present for the interview. She wouldn't allow us to talk to her alone.

We're here for you. I'm here for you.

She said she was put into a bedroom. Sherry described that bedroom with just a single bed, no other artifacts inside the room.

Do you know what you were affixed to? Was it a tether? Was it like a rope?

Was the cable affixed to the wall and like the cable was loose?

Because her chain rattled, the females branded her for punishment.

So the FBI field officer and myself went down to James' residence to do the confrontation.

Obviously, he was a little reluctant. He was scared. We're here guarding Sherry Papini. OK. And just trying to figure out how you know her, when was the last time you talked to her.

We're just trying to understand if she was truly abducted, if she lied to everybody and got on 20-20 and is a liar. Are you willing to tell us what happened yesterday? Can we go sit and talk?

She instructed James to get a rental car, leave his cell phone at his house, and drive the nine hours or so to get to Redding, California to pick her up.

Sherry asked him to put up the plywood to block out the window. I think James thought it was strange, but he was also just helping a friend.

It's a weird situation.

Keith right next to her, jumping up and down, saying it's the right one. So he thinks this is a break in the case. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Yes. We talked to the people who lived there. We found the house. We found who was involved.

She just went into her cocoon state where she just tried to control the interview by crying, putting her head in her hands, not answering questions.

He didn't believe me. I agree.

He just came home to an empty house, which was unusual for him.

He thinks they're just on a walk, but as time passes and they're still not home, started looking for his family.

The community responded. There was hundreds of volunteer searchers within the first couple of days.

It was really a wide variety of our community coming together to help the Pepini family.