She Faked Her Own Kidnapping & Ruined Her Life Instead: Sherri Papini | What Happened

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As a Latina, mental illness or not, she lost my sympathy when she chose to blame fictional members of the Hispanic community, and insult Mexican music while she described her 'ordeal'.

i live close to where sherri was “found.” it’s heartbreaking because there was another missing woman who disappeared at around the same time, and she didn’t receive nearly as much attention. she is still missing to this day if i’m not mistaken. edit:: her name is stacey smart. she disappeared the same day as sherri.

to the women that do this: THANK YOU for setting real victims back another 5 to 10 years

As a Mexican woman myself, you have no idea how pissed I am about this. Every time a hispanic does a crime, the constant comments of people saying…”this is why these people need to be deported” and “this is why we need control on our borders”. Not once was there an apology in those commenters that said that after this came out. Honestly, when a white person does a crime it’s always downplayed or minimize but anybody in the minority it’s ALWAYS about race. But we mention this and people will always say, “stop putting race into this, this has nothing to do with race”. There is no f-ing win with us. Smh

I remember living in Northern California when this happened and the local news Facebook comments were wildddd. An old classmate said “uhmm are you sure? Because she is the biggest liar I’ve ever met” and dropped her racist blogs lmao

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I love how Swoop is all “Who do you think is sus? What could possibly be going on here?” And the title of the video is literally “she faked her own kidnapping!” Lol

Sherri Papini should face a harsher punishment than what she was given. When i was 8, my mother was abducted at knife point out of her bed, as I lay next to her! My mother survived the hands of a murderer and rapist. She was able to get away from the MONSTER that raped her and almost killed her and he was caught. I remember the affect that it had on me as a child and the affect that it still has on me today, and most of all, what it did to my mother. Shes never been the same 35 years later. Im disgusted by what this woman did and by what she did to her family and children. All for a lick at fame. Well, she got her fame all right. God bless and prayers to anyone who has had to go through actual abuse/crime/trauma, etc... Thanks SWOOP!!!

Imagine how traumatized those 2 poor children must be. They will never get over all of this.

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Redding is my hometown and also where i currently live. I need yall to know that shari was not a "well liked" member of the community. She was a nobody like the rest of us. As soon as she was found... people started questioning her story immediately. She now lives in shingletown ca (30 miles east of redding) with a man whose wife mysteriously died at the beginning of the pandemic. All that being said, Nikki Cheng Saelee-McCain is currently missing. Her case has gotten minimal coverage in the press, not surprising as she is not a pretty white blonde woman. She is beautiful, but just not the right kind of beautiful for the press. Her case is disturbing. Please look up Nikki. Her family deserves to have her home. Edit: RIP Tara. I was very young when this happened. And let me tell you, Tara's parents have never stopped fighting to make sure their daughter is never forgotten. They are truly inspiring people.

There’s even more info into the personal lives of those around her on a Hulu doc. It’s so sad. At one point Keith learned Sherri would pretty have the kids inhaling bleach/rubbing alcohol to make them “feel better” when they were sick. The kids would get sicker until they were so visibly ill she could proudly take them to the doctors. That’s not even including how she traumatized those babies with her hoax kidnapping.

Sherri couldn’t even be creative enough when it came to describing her “captors.” It’s basically a recreation of the blog post she wrote years ago about being “bullied” by two Hispanic women. She really couldn’t let that go, huh?

Somebody in the comments notes that Keith was NOT paying his mom “$500 per day”, but rather $500/month. REAL huge difference those news agencies really screwed up on.

As someone with ED, the fact she got down to less than 90 lbs stood out to me the most. Self harm and branding can be endured with an adrenaline rush - like tattooing or BDSM. But anorexia is a different type of self harm that takes discipline to ignore all the signals your body sends you. Once the neuro signals have switched to respond to low levels of serotonin in response to hunger, the feeling of intense hunger becomes very addictive. But to do so with the speed of losing that much weight so quickly with the intention of fabricating abuse has GOT to be a mental health disorder separate from ED.

One of the most interesting thing about this case is analyzing Keith with the knowledge that he is innocent.

This story has bugged me for SO long and then when I saw the Netflix doc about the lady who actually was kidnapped and not believed, it made me just straight up angry!

30:39 she could've gotten Keith killed by telling her ex she was being abused, and it turned out the ex wanted to 'take care' of Keith in order to protect her instead of coming up with the kidnapping story.

I never understood why she described the actual place she was hiding out. She would've been smarter if she had created a room that wasn't real. It was awesome when the detectives found her exes house and discovered the exact room.