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Sherri Papini, the California mother of two convicted of lying to the FBI after faking her own kidnapping nearly a decade ago, is speaking out publicly for the first time in a new four-part docuseries.
Sherri Papini, the Redding mother who faked her own kidnapping, is now out of a halfway house eight months early in her 18-month prison sentence.
The Shasta County mother who was charged with multiple counts of mail fraud and making false statements for a staged kidnapping in 2016, is out of federal prison six months early.
The Shasta County mother who was charged with multiple counts of mail fraud and making false statements for a staged kidnapping in 2016, is out of federal prison six months early.
The Shasta County mother convicted of faking her own kidnapping is out of prison early.
The Redding mom who faked her own kidnapping six years ago turned herself in for her prison sentence on Tuesday.
The Redding mom who faked her own kidnapping was sentenced to 18 months in prison in September.
The video was released one day after Papini was sentenced to 18 months in prison for making false statements to investigators. This new video shows investigators laying out their case in a methodical manner and it shows Papini's emotional performance under pressure.
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday released video footage of Sherri Papini's interrogation. In it, investigators urge Papini to confess to faking her kidnapping.
Video shows the moment Sherri was confronted by investigators with evidence showing her so-called kidnapping was fake.
We see the moment Sherri is told that investigators have DNA and polygraph evidence showing that she was with her ex-boyfriend in Southern California and not kidnapped, as she had claimed.
The judge who sentenced Papini said the sheer number of people that were impacted by her conduct – including the officers who took time away from other victims to investigate...and the real victims who had their cases ignored or put on the back burner -- was enough to make the sentence serious.
The Redding mom who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping will be serving 18 months in prison.
A Redding mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend.
A Redding mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend.
She is now due to turn herself into authorities in November.
The Redding mom who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping six years ago is scheduled to be sentenced Monday morning.
The California woman who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology is set to be sentenced on Monday.
Her disappearance sparked a three-week search and she was found on Thanksgiving Day with injuries, in Yolo County, that included a "brand" on her right shoulder.
Federal prosecutors suggested Papini should serve one month in custody and seven months under home detention.
Eight months in prison is what federal prosecutors sentenced to for fabricating her own abduction.
Days after Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to faking her 2016 kidnapping, her husband, Keith, says his marriage is over.
Sherri Papini was in court Monday, where she formally admitted to faking her own torture and kidnapping.
The Redding mom who admitted to faking her own kidnapping nearly six years ago has officially pleaded guilty on Monday.
Sherri Papini was in a courtroom Wednesday for the first time since she admitted her 2016 kidnapping was all a hoax.
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