Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
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What are the shocking allegations against Sherri Papini?
What she now claims actually happened. Her then-husband speaking his truth. I mean, essentially, you were the target of one of the biggest hoaxes perpetrated on America in years.
Next tonight here, the desperate search for a missing mother in California. Sherry Papini. Sherry Papini. Why did you lie? I didn't do anything wrong. Right now, you're not telling the truth. Which is doing something wrong?
branding hockey pucks against her arms and legs. I wish I could just say, I don't remember getting in the car. And you're trying to get there, and you're trying to get to this moment where I can't tell you.
There were definitely lots of people saying, oh, this is BS. It's an obvious hoax. and now it all comes crumbling down.
This is very weird for me, because I know that you know everything about everything.
It's important to remember, there was no trial, so she's never spoken for herself.
Oh.
Sherry Papini, world famous for her disappearing act in California in 2016. First, she claimed she'd been kidnapped and her captors had beaten, bound and unbelievably branded her. Then she admitted she just made it all up. She pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and now after prison, divorce and public humiliation, she has something to say for herself in a new documentary. It's called Sherry Papini Caught in the Lie, which premieres on May 26th on ID and streams on Max. The Sherry Papini that's out there, it's not me. She's not real. It's just this version of me that has been created.
She's never spoken for herself. So what the public knows of Sherry is the interviews that she did the police interrogations where she is very actively misleading she is very actively lying there's this like there's this version of the story of oh you're only talking now because you got caught and also thank god it's about time
How did it come to this? Well, it's kind of a strange story. It all began, naturally, with that once upon a time of crime. A 911 call.
911, what is your emergency? So I just got home from work and my wife wasn't there, which is unusual.
She was reported missing at about 5.30 p.m. on November 2nd.
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.
My name is Sergeant Kyle Wallace with the Shouse County Sheriff's Office. I was the lead investigator for the Sherry Papini investigation.
Okay, what's your last name? Yes, Papini, P-A-P-I-N-I. And your first name? Keith.
The whole Sherry Papini story was just a huge bombshell to this area. The search is intensifying for a wife and mother who disappeared while jogging in Redding, California.
How did Sherri Papini's disappearance unfold?
The briefing was, we have a lady that's out jogging, came up missing, her husband came home not to find her, and then the kids were still at daycare. Sherry was last seen about a mile from her home in Mountain Gate. Search teams are looking everywhere, trying to piece together what happened to Sherry Papini. She is considered at risk due to the suspicious circumstances. There was definitely a sense of fear. We just knew that a young woman had been taken somewhere near the I-5 freeway. Her family suspecting something went terribly wrong. Someone took our daughter, snatched her out of the thin air.
What does it feel like to have that thought that somebody has abducted your wife?
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the shocking allegations against Sherri Papini?
0:51–4:21
2
How did Sherri Papini's disappearance unfold?
4:21–8:35
3
What evidence was found during the investigation?
8:35–9:15
4
How did Keith Papini react to his wife's disappearance?
9:15–12:34
5
What led to the discovery of Sherri Papini?
12:34–32:30
6
What was Sherri's condition when she was found?
32:30–56:26
7
What are the new claims made by Sherri Papini?
56:26–1:03:45
8
How has public perception changed regarding Sherri Papini?
1:03:45–1:25:27