Posted on 11/29/2016 2:20:32 PM PST by Red Badger
REDDING, Calif. -- The husband of a Northern California woman found bound along the side of a road three weeks after vanishing says the woman was “branded,” burned, had “chain marks” and her hair cut off and weighed only 87 pounds after her rescue.
Keith Papini said in a statement released to Good Morning America that investigators told him to “brace himself” before he was re-united with his wife at a hospital Thanksgiving Day because of her battered condition. Investigators say Sherri Papini, 34, was abducted Nov. 2 after going for a jog near Redding.
Her husband told Good Morning America the woman’s captors threw her from a moving car with a chain around her waist and a bag over her head, and she used the bag to flag down a passing motorist. She was found about 150 miles south of where she disappeared.
“Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see upon my arrival at the hospital, nor the details of the true hell I was about to hear,” Keith Papini said. “The mental prison I was in over the past three weeks was shattered when my questions of my wife’s reality became known.”
Keith Papini said the woman was emaciated, her “signature long, blond hair” had been cut off, and her face was “covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of repeated beatings, the bridge of her nose broken.” He said the woman had “severe” burns, red rashes, and scabs.
“Sherri was taken from us for 22 days, and suffered incredibly through both intense physical agony and severe mental torture,” Keith Papini said in the statement. “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.”
Speaking on Good Morning America, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko confirmed the details about Sherri Papini’s condition, but said his office had not yet publicly released the information. He wasn’t able to confirm Keith Papini’s account of the woman being thrown from a moving vehicle, saying the information he had indicted the woman was dropped off, bound, by her captors.
Investigators were on Sunday able to conduct their first in-depth interview with the woman, Bosenko said. Based on information she gave police, investigators are searching for two Hispanic women armed with a handgun and driving a dark SUV.
Bosenko said investigators still haven’t been able to determine a possible motive or whether the abduction was targeted or random.
In the statement, Keith Papini blasted those who had speculated on social media that the woman’s abduction was a hoax.
“Rumors, assumptions, lies, and hate have been both exhausting and disgusting. Those people should be ashamed of their malicious, sub human behavior,” he said. “We are not going to allow those people to take away our spirit, love, or rejoice in our girl found alive and home where she belongs.”
add Drew Peterson - He adiosed wives # 3 & 4 - no bodies ever found - convicted of murder of wife # 3 based on double hearsay.
Thanks for the link; post. Very interesting. HOORAY Sherri Papini.
To lose that much weight in only three weeks she must have eaten very little.
Hey, back off. Why so personal and angry a reaction?? “STFrig up”, “YOU DON”T KNOW CR*P”, “Get a life - unworthy of a Freeper”? Wow...sorry you’re having such a bad day.
I never said she or the husband were complicit in this, only that things didn’t make much sense. Was there even a demand for ransom? As far as a “hoax” is concerned, that has been known to occur.
Nothing wrong with speculating on the details of a crime, which is a public event. Sheesh.
....was this story out there?. First I heard about it was when she was found
You’re wicked.
Yes......
“Keith Papini said the woman was emaciated, her “signature long, blond hair” had been cut off, and her face was “covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of repeated beatings, the bridge of her nose broken.” He said the woman had “severe” burns, red rashes, and scabs.”
If that was my wife, I would be more like “Um, I’m - ah, we’re just glad she, um - is home. I, ah, can’t talk.”
Perhaps they kidnapped the wrong woman and it took them three weeks to figure it out. I don’t find it to be much of a stretch to imagine this might be the case.
They grabbed the wrong trophy wife and sent a random letter to her husband. He gets home from work and sees her in the kitchen making dinner and throws the letter away thinking it was a hoax or a stupid prank. In the meantime, the dumbass lesbian wetbacks are sitting around wondering why that stupid, pinche gringo hasn’t responded with payment. They become so agitated and upset that they beat the crap out of their hostage demanding to know why her husband won’t pay the ransom. When they finally realize their mistake, and lacking the courage of their convictions, they drive her to a rural location and throw the woman out if the van and haul ass out of the county.
FYI...wetbacks, lesbians and douchebags are not the sharpest tools in the shed. JMHO.
A great many explanations and theories about this event on here. I, too, have an opinion. I think it is all due to climate change.
Weird. I have no good theories. The police and FBI will talk to her and something will get settled.
When it all comes out, it’s going to be really weird.
( Grin!)
Pig.
Bush's fault. (Ducking)
This erroneous information is what happens when Barney Fife is in charge of the investigation.
The area is a hell hole overun by drug cartels . Barney Fife and his people wont go in to some of the areas up there because it is too dangerous.
Papini hire professionals to get his wife back. If he hadn't she would be buried with the other 45 women missing in same area. Thank goodness they decided to think outside the box...one of these sex trade kidnappers flipped and went after the reward. Thank goodness she is alive. You naysayers are idiots.
Read more: 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#ixzz4RUNowsnn
any local freepers know if any of this is true?
My guess is a HS grudge held for 10 years........................
Racism.
The sheriff is supposed to hold another press conference today with some new details about the two Hispanic women. I haven’t been able to find anything online, but I’m guessing that the “message” branded into her is probably something racial.
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