Since Sherri Papini has returned safely to her husband I’ve notice that many stories are slipping the adjective apparent in to qualify abduction, such as this one.
Anyone think there’s more here than meets the eye, or am I being way too cynical? It’s an odd sort of kidnapping, no ransom demand, victim released with nothing but minor scratches and bruises. The police haven’t said anything that would indicate they think her story is phoney but maybe they’re playing their cards close to their chest.
It’s a very odd story. Some people are speculating that her family paid a ransom privately, unbeknownst to law enforcement, and that is why she was released.
But on the surface, it is very suspicious. Very vague descriptions of the kidnappers, with no apparent motive. Shades of the runaway bride story from a few years ago…
I too am in the ‘I’m suspicious’ camp. I’ve just seen enough of these odd stories of abduction that turn out to be staged that this one sets a little ping on my BS meter.
Its too bad that I’ve seen enough of the false ones, that I get suspicious when something like this pops up. But, hey, I’m human and make future judgments based on previous experiences.
“A friend of mine” is in this story up to their eyeballs. They tell me she is some kind of crazy white supremacist who has had all her recent social media scrubbed since she went missing.
Via my own painstaking research (read: what I read on Twitter), someone of her name, using her maiden name, posted a screed on a skinhead website relating some story of how these mean old Latinos used to call her and her dad Nazis and how they used to get into fights all the time for defending their heritage, or some shit like that.
Um, allegedly, I think is what I’m supposed to say here.
Everybody is skeptical about every part of this story, but a Hispanic (or just someone with the name Rodriguez) father in-law does absolutely nothing to discount whatever “the racist story” is.
People (usually women) have been kidnapped and held for years w/o ransom demands. Immediately to my mind are Elizabeth Smart (of course), the women in Cleveland, the young lady in California, and the boy who was located many years later b/c his abductor’s previous victim’s body was found.
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