# Sherri Papini purported abduction (Update: She has been sentenced for faking her own kidnapping) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976 "2016-11-25T17:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/81 "2016-12-01T03:58:42Z")
She isn’t all sweet supermom either, not that she deserved to be brutalized. Check out her [pinterest page.](https://www.pinterest.com/spapini/) I don’t think she likes Muslims very much. Look at the “cultural differences” category. Also, the first pic under “likes.” But if you want to really enter creepy, bizarro world, take a gander at [this video](https://vimeo.com/57336088) the “negotiator” put out a few years ago. WTF? Why yes, I have been following this fucked up case too closely. Why do you ask?😛 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/82 "2016-12-01T04:59:44Z")
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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/83 "2016-12-01T08:00:38Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > She isn’t all sweet supermom either, not that she deserved to be brutalized. Check out her [pinterest page.](https://www.pinterest.com/spapini/) I don’t think she likes Muslims very much. Look at the “cultural differences” category. Also, the first pic under “likes.” And scrubbed. That link has been sanitized. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/84 "2016-12-01T08:22:08Z")
A very strange case. From my experience “kidnap and trash” typically involves loan sharks, drug dealers or pimps. It is usually done to send a message, express displeasure. It is rare for them to last longer than a day or so however and more to the point there is not a shread of evidence that she was involved by in such activity. Lack of trafficking or ransom demand makes it unlikely to be an everyday kidnapping A case of mistaken identity maybe? That might explain the delay in releasing her. In kidnap and thrash cases the perpetrators are banking on the victim not going to the authorities, since they would implicate themselves too. In a case like this, with an innocent third party that’s not the case at all. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/85 "2016-12-01T08:30:17Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > My “friend” tells me (sorry, no source or link) Papini posted somewhere on social media, bragging how she “broke the nose” of some Hispanic woman who was involved in some sort of altercation with her father at a football game. Things may have been said, ice may have been thrown, punches exchanged and noses broken. > > Can payback be a bitch? I really wish I knew where this shit was coming from, but I don’t want to admit I give a fuck! 😃 [Here’s a link](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3980270/Sheriff-s-office-investigating-bizarre-blog-spewing-hatred-against-Latinos-purportedly-written-kidnapped-mom-two-Sherri-Papini-ex-husband-says-malicious-prank-isn-t-racist.html) to an article that contains the letter your ‘friend’ is referencing. It’s thirteen years old and pretty silly, with over-the-top self-aggrandization and it has some fairly unbelievable action going on. Papini’s husband has stated that she didn’t write the letter, that it was written by somebody else as a malicious prank. Panini’s ex-husband, from whom she’s been divorced since 2007, also says she didn’t write it and that she never found out who did. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/86 "2016-12-01T08:44:24Z")
References to “Panini” are auto-correct’s fault, not mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/87 "2016-12-01T14:17:55Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > References to “Panini” are auto-correct’s fault, not mine. 😃 Yeah. Sure. Was this “auto correct” driving a black SUV? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/88 "2016-12-01T16:36:03Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > References to “Panini” are auto-correct’s fault, not mine. 😃 Well, that would have explained the [del]grill marks[/del] burns. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/89 "2016-12-01T18:00:04Z")
I’m not going to get into the evidentiary back and forth at this point, but apropos of nothing other than this turgid Real Detective prose below I would be willing to send them all to jail. This (to me) is transparently someone trying to do PR work for her version of the story. Why would someone in the middle of dealing with their wife being kidnapped and beaten etc. even engage in crafting this pile of glurge unless they felt their version of events was under threat? Were I in his position and innocent doing something like this would be at the bottom of the pile of my “must do” list. If my story was starting to unravel it would be at the top. > [@](#): > > The officers warned me to brace myself. My first sight was my wife in a hospital bed, her face covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of repeated beatings, the bridge of her nose broken. > > Her now emaciated body of 87 pounds was covered in multicolored bruises, severe burns, red rashes and chain markings. Her signature long blond hair had been chopped off. She has been branded, and I could feel the rise of her scabs under my fingers. She was thrown from a vehicle with a chain around her waist, attached to her wrists and a bag over her head. The same bag she used to flag someone down once she was able to free one of her hands. Sherri was taken from us for 22 days and suffered incredibly through both intense physical agony and severe mental torture. My reaction was one of extreme happiness and overwhelming nausea as my eyes and hands scanned her body. I was filled with so much relief and revulsion at once. My Sherri suffered tremendously, and all the visions swirling in your heads of her appearance, I assure you, are not as graphic and gruesome as the reality. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/90 "2016-12-01T18:05:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Why would someone in the middle of dealing with their wife being kidnapped and beaten etc. even engage in crafting this pile of glurge unless they felt their version of events was under threat? Quite possibly _even if their version is true_, they already have scads of people calling them liars and want to defend their loved ones. Not saying that’s the case, but I find it perfectly reasonable that innocent people will try to convince the public of the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/91 "2016-12-01T18:27:13Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > [Here’s a link](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3980270/Sheriff-s-office-investigating-bizarre-blog-spewing-hatred-against-Latinos-purportedly-written-kidnapped-mom-two-Sherri-Papini-ex-husband-says-malicious-prank-isn-t-racist.html) … Why the hell do they call her a “supermom”? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/92 "2016-12-01T18:35:48Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I’m not going to get into the evidentiary back and forth at this point, but apropos of nothing other than this turgid Real Detective prose below I would be willing to send them all to jail. This (to me) is transparently someone trying to do PR work for her version of the story. Does it not seem normal to you that a husband would seek to be supportive of his wife under such circumstances? Still, regarding the statement itself, I felt at the time I read it that that statement wasn’t really written by Papini’s husband, or at least not most of it. It read to me more like something written by a lawyer or perhaps a professional spokesperson and then maybe altered in a couple of ways afterward. It was sort of an odd mixture of primarily educated writing combined with a few amateur bits. At any rate, I’m sure Keith Papini and Sherri’s entire family are thoroughly disgusted and disbelieving at all the suspicion and intrusion into their lives that has occurred since she was found and his statement was in response to that. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/93 "2016-12-01T18:37:53Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Why the hell do they call her a “supermom”? It appears to be something her friends playfully tagged her with, probably as a result of over-zealous parenthood, and the media picked up on it and ran with it. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/94 "2016-12-01T19:28:54Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > To expand on that, the injuries make me think female-on-female violence. Cut hair, broken nose, bruises and brands. Attacks on her looks without deeper injuries and damage. It sounds like a “Leave my guy/girl alone” message even without a branding message. > > I figure a medium sized tough woman and her BFF would not have that much trouble with a 100 pound woman whos working out for endurance rather than strength. Jogging along a known path at a known time of day. Yes, it screams someone yelling "I am going to get that BITCH!. I am not doubting her story at all, even though it is incomplete. But the Why of the abduction is the real mystery to me. Not the did-it-happen but the Why. People do get kidnapped, and tortured, held for ransom, and killed by strangers for random reasons. But this seems like a targeted attack. It wasn’t just to kill her, rape her, rob her, get rich quick, but to seemingly make her suffer. For What and Why? They knew her, so what was this about? I think she and her husband know. Information? Revenge? A relationship gone bad? Extortion? Are these people in the Witness Protection program and somebody found them? We wouldn’t know about that. She was bruised, battered, tortured and starved. And released alive. No one does this to themselves to get attention. I think it happened. Why? Find the Why. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/95 "2016-12-01T19:41:39Z")
This woman is totally racist and sexist for blaming her fake abduction for attention on Hispanic women. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/96 "2016-12-01T19:45:56Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > She was bruised, battered, tortured and starved. And released alive. No one does this to themselves to get attention. I think it happened. There is no question that it happened. But it’s well within the range of something someone might do, with or without help, to… make some kind of point. As pointed out above, she does not have any truly serious injuries - broken limbs, head injury, bullet or stab wounds. A broken nose isn’t trivial, but it’s also “fixable” - and could have been an accident. It seems very odd that someone risked federal kidnapping charges, and risked holding her alive for three weeks, just to beat her like a puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/97 "2016-12-01T19:48:48Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I’m not going to get into the evidentiary back and forth at this point, but apropos of nothing other than this turgid Real Detective prose below I would be willing to send them all to jail. This (to me) is transparently someone trying to do PR work for her version of the story. Why would someone in the middle of dealing with their wife being kidnapped and beaten etc. even engage in crafting this pile of glurge unless they felt their version of events was under threat? Were I in his position and innocent doing something like this would be at the bottom of the pile of my “must do” list. If my story was starting to unravel it would be at the top. Hold on, weren’t you the same person who said that the hiker that had to amputate his hand when a huge boulder fell on it staged the whole thing as part of some bizarre fetish? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3395966&postcount=3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3395966&postcount=3) Perhaps your intuition isn’t all that spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/98 "2016-12-01T20:26:01Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > There is no question that it happened. > > But it’s well within the range of something someone might do, with or without help, to… make some kind of point. As pointed out above, she does not have any truly serious injuries - broken limbs, head injury, bullet or stab wounds. A broken nose isn’t trivial, but it’s also “fixable” - and could have been an accident. > > It seems very odd that someone risked federal kidnapping charges, and risked holding her alive for three weeks, just to beat her like a puppy. As I said above, its possible that it was a case of mistaken identity and they were unsure what to do once they realized. If you are a drug baron and you need you discipline some errant street dealer, then inflicting minor injuries like this is understandable, you know that there will be no complaint to the cops. OTH, you pick someone up by mistake then you are in a whole heap of trouble since they **will** tell the Cops. On the other hand, outright killing might bring more attention than a kidnapping. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/99 "2016-12-01T20:27:52Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Hold on, weren’t you the same person who said that the hiker that had to amputate his hand when a huge boulder fell on it staged the whole thing as part of some bizarre fetish? > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3395966&postcount=3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3395966&postcount=3) > > Perhaps your intuition isn’t all that spectacular. I have no words, only giggles. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976/100 "2016-12-01T20:30:37Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > As I said above, its possible that it was a case of mistaken identity and they were unsure what to do once they realized. If you are a drug baron and you need you discipline some errant street dealer, then inflicting minor injuries like this is understandable, you know that there will be no complaint to the cops. > > OTH, you pick someone up by mistake then you are in a whole heap of trouble since they **will** tell the Cops. On the other hand, outright killing might bring more attention than a kidnapping. How many drug barons do you know who shy away from killing as a first resort. Didn’t you see _Scarface_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherri-papini-purported-abduction-update-she-has-been-sentenced-for-faking-her-own-kidnapping/772976.md?page=6)