More details have been released by officials in the case of a mother who disappeared for three weeks in Northern California after going for a jog---before she was found on the side of a road more than 100 miles away on Thanksgiving Day.
About a year ago, Sherri Papini was reported missing. When she was discovered, Papini was branded, beaten, and her blonde hair was chopped short, police said at the time.
The FBI has released two sketches of women that Papini claimed abducted her for weeks on Nov. 2, 2016, near her home close to the city of Redding. At the time, she was reported missing by her husband, Keith Papini, triggering a massive manhunt.
The first woman was described by Papini as Hispanic between the age of 20 and 30 and 5 feet 5 inches tall. She has coarse, curly dark hair, thin eyebrows, and pierced ears, the FBI said.
“It has taken time for Sherri to recover to a point to be able to provide accurate details to the sketch artist,” the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said in a release this week. “The sketches then needed to be finalized and approved for release by the FBI.”
“Sherri continues to look at photographs of various makes and models of SUV’s in an effort to provide a more detailed description,” the sheriff’s office noted. It added that the women were driving an SUV with a “large rear side window.”
Detectives traveled to Michigan to speak with the man and determined that he wasn’t involved in her disappearance, Sgt. Brian Jackson said Wednesday.
She told detectives she cut her right foot in the fight, but investigators didn’t find evidence of the cut. Jackson said that’s not necessarily a sign that Papini is making up that part of the story – or any other parts of her account.
During the disappearance, her husband took a polygraph test and offered to take another one, detectives told the Bee this week.
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