Posted on 03/04/2022 6:26:14 AM PST by ApplegateRanch
California mom Sherri Papini who claimed she was kidnapped for 22 days by two Hispanic women in 2016 in a story that shocked and puzzled America, has now been arrested for making it all up six years later.
On Thursday prosecutors charged 'supermom' Papini, 39, for lying to federal agents about being kidnapped and defrauding the state's victim compensation board of $30,000.
The mother-of-two was found on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 after weeks of searching in California and several nearby states 22 days after she disappeared while jogging on November 2.
She was found tied up, with a broken nose, a 'brand' on her right shoulder and a shaved head. Papini told authorities at the time that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women, even providing descriptions to an FBI sketch artist.
No one was ever arrested, and authorities could never determine what the 'Hispanic women's' motive was.
When Papini was found on Thanksgiving Day, 2016, police collected DNA samples from her clothes. They ran them against the national criminal database but found no matches.
In 2020, however, they were alerted to a potential match after someone in the ex-boyfriend's family did an at-home family DNA test.
They then traced that sample to the ex-boyfriend, and he admitted the entire hoax.
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If I gave a rat’s a$$ and FR search wasn’t so stone aged I’d go back and find the FReepers who called me a “tin foil hat” rack, but.......nah....can’t be bothered.
It was reported that 5-10% of all covid swabs (your DNA) was sent to the national DB.
Maybe yours...not mine
Never tested never jabbed.
Overweight, COPD, high blood pressure and 77, testing is useless for me. If I get it, I’m dead.
I remember people angrily arguing that she was telling the truth.
“Believe women”.
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