Sherri papini, 40, pleaded guilty last spring to staging the abduction and lying to the fbi about it. As part of a plea bargain, she is required to pay more than $300,000 in. Investigation discovery announced on monday that sherri papini, who was arrested in 2022 for orchestrating her own 2016 kidnapping, will tell her story for the first time in a. A us woman with a very complicated mental health situation has admitted faking her own kidnapping and lying to the fbi six years after she claimed it happened. Federal investigators said papini fabricated a false narrative by saying she was abducted by two hispanic women. What happened to sherri papini? When sherri papini surfaced 22 days after disappearing, her story about being abducted didn't add up. Her ex keith papini broke his silence on the years of lies that ensued. Sherri papini pleaded guilty in 2022 to faking her own disappearance and lying to the fbi about it. She was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was released in 2023. The case is back in. The federal agency joined the investigation on nov. 9, 2016, a week after papini was reported missing. Tom bosenko, who was the shasta county sheriff when papini. Sherri papini reappeared at the side of a highway in california on thanksgiving in 2016, claiming she had been kidnapped by two hispanic women when she vanished three. Sherri papini, the northern california woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and making false statements in court monday. Sherri papini disappeared from her northern california neighborhood in november 2016, but she made it home in time for thanksgiving. Missing for 22 days, papini. Where is sherri papini now? Sherri was sentenced to 18 months in prison in september 2022 for committing mail fraud and lying to a federal officer about being kidnapped. Papini, 39, was arrested and faces charges of making false statements to a federal law enforcement officer and engaging in mail fraud, according to the u. s. Sherri papini's theatrics are what got her caught, detectives say. Papini went missing for three weeks and returned with a wild story of being abducted and abused. Sherri papini leaves the. As police and volunteers scoured the neighborhood for clues, keith appeared on national tv to tearfully appeal for her safe return. And then, just as suddenly as her alleged. District court judge william shubb ordered papini to turn herself in to begin her prison sentence by 2 p. m. Federal prosecutors had requested shubb to order.
