Report: California Woman Found Chained to Object, Beaten

Report: California Woman Found Chained to Object, Beaten
A section of road along County Road 17 from the Interstate 5 overpass in Redding, Calif., shown on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, is where Sherry Papini, a 34-year-old wife and mother was found on Thanksgiving Day. Authorities are looking for two armed women they believe abducted Papini on Nov. 2. Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight via AP
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A Northern California woman was chained to an object and had been badly beaten when found near an interstate three weeks after she disappeared while jogging, according to a newspaper citing a police-dispatch recording.

The Sacramento Bee reported that it acquired an audio clip of the exchange between dispatchers and officers in the moments after 34-year-old Sherri Papini flagged down a passing motorist near Interstate 5.

“CHP is on scene and advised that she is chained to something,” a radio dispatcher told a responding officer. “CHP is advising that she is heavily battered.”