Sherri Papini’s loved ones who do – or no – think she was kidnapped

With a famen -famous kidnapping forger Sherri Papini tell a different story in the upcoming Inquiry Discovery documentary Sherri Papini: caught in the lieDo those close to it come to a new understanding of what happened in 2016?

Papini, now 42, was out jogging near her Redding, California, the home of November 2 that year when it appeared to have disappeared. The story caught attention from the media across the country, and the question “Where is Sherri?” grasp the nation. The answer did not arrive until 22 days later: about 150 miles from Papini’s home, a motorist came across the mother of two walking in a car park. With a chain still around her waist, it was emptied and marked by burns, bruises and even a brand on her right shoulder.

In the account he gave to authorities, two Hispanic women had been kidnapped in Gunpoint. But not everything was added: Detectives found male DNA on her clothes that did not match her husband, Keith Papini. Was traced back to ex-boyfriend, James Reyes. In an interview with researchers, he admitted that she had been in her apartment in Costa Mesa, California, for those three weeks, explaining that he believed he helped him to “run away” from an aggressive marriage. She said every piece of harm was caused on her application. “I didn’t kidnap it.”

Ultimettella papini walking back his initial story From what happened, and in April 2022 he promised guilty to one account each of making false statements to a federal officer and postal fraud. Eventually, just less than 11 months spent an 18 -month prison sentence, going out in 2023. It was also ordered to pay more than $ 300,000 for losses during the extensive search for it.

At the ID show, Papini once again changes his narrative, and in an explosive charge, pointing to Reyes as his captitor. Recognizing that they had been having an emotional relationship and that she had plans to meet him on November 2, he says that he did not leave with him of her own free will: “There was no consent. And he still did. injury That happened. The bites on my inner and external thighs. The footprint on my back. The brand. Melt my skin. I can’t do it myself, and I tell you, no permission was obtained. “

Papini therapist, Stephen Diggswho specializes in treating personality disorder, says he believes her, and a new polygraph adds partly support to her claims, but what about her inner cycle? Keep scrolling for responses from her mother, father and others close to her.

Richard and Loretta Graeff’s parents

Papini has been living with her parents, and their once distant relationship has become a close one. Yet asked for a point-empty, “Do you feel you know today what happened with Sherri?” her father, Richard GrefefSimply, “you would have to ask Sherri.”

Her mother is more defining, highlighting the turbulent relationship of the papinis: “When James showed up and Sherri went with him, he didn’t kidnap,” Loretta Grefef he said. “It was more, ‘I want to have a little happiness in my life because it’s been very hard.’ And yet, I understand this completely because I had two weddings before Richard – I know very well about that.

Loretta does not release Reyes of all guilt, noting, “If they say she did this alone, I don’t think anyone could ever believe that she could arrange this on her own. I mean, this is totally unimaginable. How do you take branding iron and brand your own back?”
Her father intervened, “I don’t think he turned out the way she planned.”

According to signing her plea agreement admitting to the false, Papini wrote “deep shame” that she was “sorry for the pain I have caused my family, my friends, all the good people who suffered unnecessarily.”

Suzanne Papini’s sister -in -law formers

Keith’s sister, Suzanne PapiniHonestly she and her brother are not near – “I don’t know Keith very well as an adult” – and Sherri “felt like a brother or sister in a way I hadn’t had before.” In fact, Suzanne once took Sherri in, and she is clearly emotionally talking about his sister-in-law at times. (Sherri and Keith divorced in May 2023.) “I don’t need to believe that anyone believes in them,” said Suzanne.

As for November 2, 2016, Suzanne supports the idea that Sherri was unaware of what would happen that day. “I think she believed that (she and James) are going to go on a date during the day. And she knew she was going to be at that location because they were communicating,” said Suzanne. “But I saw her body. I saw her luxury. She has no kind of historical context of being into sexual habits that abusing physically. And it is also very problematic for me, if she were true that she had arranged all this, even if she went to someone and said,” Hit me in the face “and” hunger, burn me, burn me, burn me, burn me Me, Be Me, Bunte Me, Burne Me, Burne Me, Burne Me, Burne Me, Bunte Me, Bunte Me, Bunte Me,

Reyes – who passed a polygraph during the investigation – was never accused of anything. In the new dock, a researcher talks to him briefly in Nogales, Arizona, where Reyes says he has been inclined to his father -cu. From Latest allegationsReyes says he is aware and “I will have to contact my California lawyer.”

Sheila Koester’s sister

Older sister papini, Sheila KoesterSupporting her even after she remembered her initial story about being kidnapped. While Koester was not interviewed for Sherri Papini: caught in the lieShe spoke about the case at Hulu’s Perfect Wife: Sherri Papini’s mysterious disappearanceof 2024.

“I wish she would have made different choices. I think she didn’t get the attention she wanted to be at home. I think she really wants to feel important – she always has,” Koester explained. “I would say because of the trauma that she and I had proved it as children, Sherri tried to love and that positive attention. It would exaggerate much and it wasn’t honest.”

Sheila was asked if she was “still with love” towards Sherri, and answered her, “I don’t think that will ever disappear. When you have a brother or sister, you always love them. I still don’t know why she chose to do what she did. I don’t think I’ll ever know why.”

The four hours Sherri Papini: caught in the lie Tunes on finding an investigation on Monday, May 26, and Tuesday, May 27, at 9 pm ET. Chapters will also be available for streaming on Max.