The Hoax of Sherri Papini

Bruised… starved… her long blonde hair cut off. A chain around her waist.

And a story that shocked everyone: In November 2016, 34-year-old mother of two,

Sherri Papini, disappeared while jogging near her home in Redding, California.

Her husband came home to find her missing — her phone on the ground, earbuds ripped out.

A sign of a struggle… or so it seemed. For 22 days, the country searched. Posters,

vigils, GoFundMe campaigns — strangers prayed for her safe return. And then,

on Thanksgiving morning… she appeared on the side of a highway, 150 miles away.

She said she’d been abducted by two Hispanic women at gunpoint. But detectives couldn’t