I’m just excited to see there’s a Yolo County.
To be frank, it sounds like the plot of a Jonathon Kellerman novel; specifically this one–
GONE:
"It’s a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault. But before long, doubts arise about the couple’s story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. ‘’
And of course it could also be perfectly legit.
Sounds like the Tawana Brawley story.
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How so, aside from them both being female and found several days after their disappearance?
Which consists largely of the limousine liberal UC Davis grads who never left the college town, and a relatively rural outer community. Kinda like the US in miniature. 
I agree that something smells about this case, though. Can anyone name a case where a woman was abducted, held a significant length of time, and then released largely unharmed (other than possible sexual abuse, inferred) - and it wasn’t some kind of hoax or stunt?
See my post #17 above.
Okay, I’ll accept that one, although two days is an odd time period.
It seems like kidnappings of women or other sexually vulnerable people have two outcomes:
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[li]Abandoned, released or killed within a short time (1-24 hours).[/li][li]Held for an extended period (weeks or more) with various outcomes, rarely just released.[/li][/ol]
If it goes on much longer than 24 hours and they are just released, it seems to always be some variant of a hoax, a stunt or an extended coverup for something else. The case you cite falls just outside the norms and given the conditions, I’d bet more on her turning up as a corpse than released. Mental illness was involved, though.
I’ve got a '69 Ford bought originally there and it still has a Yolo County parking sticker in the window.
When in doubt, blame the victim.
Especially the female victim, b/c no matter what they have to do to get it women LIVE for attention. When men want attention they do classy, subtle things like shoot up schools and malls and places of worship.
Nobody’s blaming the victim. There’s something about this that does not add up, so it’s either a truly bizarre case or it’s going to turn out to be some kind of deception.
The single thing that makes my BS detector ring is the complete silence about what’s supposed to have happened. In any kind of real kidnapping, we would have been given the gist of the events by now, not “she’s being reunited with her husband and wants privacy.” The two are not mutually exclusive, but the lack of details is nearly always a red flag.
Naw, nobody’s blaming the victim. They’re just suspicious that she wasn’t actually kidnapped. Oh, and she’s crazy, so…
Real life is messy and filled w/ stories that are often incomplete; we’re so used to TV and film wrapping up stories in neat packages of easily understood results that it has become usual to expect all the details about what happened to someone else (which will never affect the daily life of you or I, so it’s really only for entertainment value) as though that is normal.
Unless you’ve gone through a kidnapping from either of the obvious three sides (victim, abductor, law enforcement) it’s presumptuous and dumb to say what is clearly real and what is obviously false.
I think “blaming the victim” would be saying she shouldn’t have been out running alone, and especially not dressed in tight clothing or whatever.
If this story is real, LE are letting people down in a big way. No descriptions at all of the Hispanic women. Old, young, tall, short, heavy, skinny…
Not asking for help from the public means not real?
Um, no. But if there are armed criminals abducting hapless joggers, I would hope LE would provide details so people could protect themselves, instead of giving vague descriptions that describe large swathes of the population. I wouldn’t want to be Latino in Yolo county right now, especially on top of the current political climate.
Nice, compound statements from five different people with no context. You’re better than that.
FTR, my comment that “mental illness was involved” refers to the kidnapper in the Huskins case, not either/any of the victims. While it could be argued that no one who stoops to kidnap is quite right in the brain, there’s a difference between regular criminals (ransom/rape/slavery) and someone who does it because of the fireworks show in their head.
I still contend that I am in no way blaming the victim by saying there is something seriously wrong with this case as it’s been disclosed so far. The lack of details or even an outline of what happened during those three weeks is telling, IMHO. (Even “She was held in a dark, silent basement.”) I don’t think one has to have been a kidnapper, been kidnapped or worked a kidnap case to question the way the tale is being told here.
If it turns out to be a genuine abduction by third parties unconnected to either the husband or wife, I will sincerely apologize for even seeming to “blame the victim.”
Speculation about the “victim” on a message board is just meaningless talk, so what does it matter?
If this was an actual abduction, I’ll eat my hat.
LA Times: Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman who was missing for three weeks, was found on the side of a road Thursday chained and “heavily battered,” according to police dispatch logs.
This may be BS. BUT, I grew up in Colusa County (the county north of Yolo County and a couple of counties south of where she was abducted), University in Yolo County, and I can attest there are more than a few fucking strange ass folks that do weird things. Not saying this is not a hoax, but the police dispatch logs tend to align with abduction.
Or: The daily news is only a first draft of history.