Northern California officials have released few details in the case of a mother who went missing for three weeks last year, but a sheriff gave a small update this week.
Sherri Papini, 34, went missing in November before showing up on the side of a road 150 miles south of her home in Redding, California. She said she was tortured, starved, and held captive by two Hispanic women.
“We would just appreciate our time to heal and privacy,” Papini’s sister, Sheila Koester, told the Sacramento Bee newspaper on Monday.
After a Nov. 30 news conference, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said his department wouldn’t release information about her case as it is being investigated. He didn’t go into details during a recent interview with the Sacramento Bee.
“The investigation is still ongoing. It is a priority case,” he explained. “We’re still being assisted by the FBI in the case. We’re waiting for some evidence to be processed by the California Department of Justice.”
The Bee reported that some public records have been blacked out, with the Shasta Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies denying the paper’s requests for information.
