'20/20' revisits phony kidnapping case through new interview with Keith Papini.
Sherri Papini’s ex-husband reflects on living under her hoax, years after learning about her phony kidnap plotJune 28, 2024, 6:12 AMKeith Papini spoke with ABC News’ Matt Gutman in a June 2024 interview about moving on after his former wife Sherri Papini masterminded her own disappearance.The ex-husband of the California mom who faked her own abduction and lied about it for years during their marriage recently spoke with ABC News for the first time since her arrest.
Sherri Papini leaves the federal courthouse after Federal Judge William Shubb sentenced her to 18 months in federal prison, in Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 19, 2022. Federal prosecutors had asked that she be sentenced to eight months in prison for faking her own kidnapping in 2016.Sherri Papini, a then 34-year-old mother of two, went missing on Nov. 2, 2016, while out for a jog in her Redding, California, neighborhood.
Shasta County Sheriff's Office released this photo of Sherri Papini, who was reported missing on Nov. 2, 2016.Given her reticence to speak, officers had her husband sit in with her during one interview and ask the questions about what happened. After her return, investigators collected Papini's clothing so that it could be tested for any biological material.
"That is how she used to deal with things as a child. When things got hard, she would just run away," Asia Coleman, one of her friends, told the Shasta County Sheriff's Department during an interview. Detectives told ABC News that Sherri Papini lied to Reyes, telling him she was being abused by her husband Keith.
"I'm like, 'oh, this is probably going to hurt.' I mean, I've never done this," Reyes told investigators. Sherri Papini at first deflected questions about Reyes' story, maintaining that she did flirt with other men, and stuck to her story that it was two women who abducted her.Former Shasta County Sheriff's Deputy Capt. Pat Kropholler talks with"20/20" about his office's investigation into Sherri Papini's disappearance."I'm the idiot husband who stayed around the whole time," he told investigators.
In her statement to the judge before sentencing, Sherri Papini said she was willing to accept responsibility for her actions.
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