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Self-confessed kidnap hoaxer mom Sherri Papini now claims she really was abducted

Sherri Papini went missing in 2016 for 22 days and later confessed to faking her own kidnapping, but now she says it was her ex-boyfriend’s doing

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2025

Sherri Papini spills shocking secret about her ex and sister on ‘Viall Files’

The Papini plot thickens ...

We Got This Covered · Jun 12, 2025

Sherri Papini eviction drama: Another Sherri Papini ex is trying to kick her out of his home

Sherri Papini, the California mom whose 2016 fake kidnapping shocked the nation, is once again making headlines — this time for getting kicked out by yet another man in her life. Her ex-boyfriend, Shawn Hibdon, is now trying to evict her from his home, and the situation is just as…

We Got This Covered · Jun 3, 2025

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‘Sherri Papini is suing me!’: California woman, whose ex ‘abandoned’ her and her daughter for Papini, speaks out

Wherever Papini goes, drama follows.

We Got This Covered · May 30, 2025

Sherri Papini’s ever-changing story for her cell phone still doesn’t make sense

Papini's story has always been riddled with inconsistencies.

We Got This Covered · May 30, 2025

I agreed ‘to make up that someone else did it’: Even Sherri Papini’s mom doesn’t believe Papini’s new kidnapping story

Papini blames everyone but herself.

We Got This Covered · May 28, 2025

Sherri Papini made her kids ‘breathe in’ rubbing alcohol to make them sick, ex-husband says

‘Well, when we got sick, we did it every single day,’ the daughter of so-called ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini told her father

The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2024

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Kidnap hoaxer Sherri Papini spars with ex-husband over $3,200 Best Buy spree

The 41-year-old made national headlines in 2016 after she faked her own disappearance

The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2023

Moment mum who faked her own kidnapping to hide at ex's house is confronted by police

Sherri Papini vanished for 20 days back in 2016 before mysteriously reappearing, claiming to have been kidnapped and tortured - but police rumbled her web of lies

Daily Mirror · Sep 23, 2022

Sherri Papini: New video reveals moment detectives told ‘super mom’ they had cracked kidnap hoax

The 40-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying about faked 2016 abduction

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2022

Sherri Papini invented a wild kidnapping hoax. The true story is even stranger

Sherri Papini disappeared from her Northern California neighborhood in November 2016, but she made it home in time for Thanksgiving.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 19, 2022

Sherri Papini’s husband files for divorce after she pleads guilty to hoax

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Keith Papini, who loyally stood by his wife’s side for six years as Sherri Papini maintained she had been kidnapped, filed for divorce Wednesday, two days after she pleaded guilty to charges that the whole thing was a hoax.

Tribune News Service · Apr 22, 2022

Woman who faked her own abduction after she 'vanished on jog' faces jail

Sherri Papini, 39, mysteriously showed up on Thanksgiving Day at the side of a road about 120 miles away, 22 days after she was reported missing having apparently vanished during a run.

Daily Record · Apr 19, 2022

Mum Sherri Papini admits faking own kidnapping for 3 weeks after she 'vanished on jog'

Sherri Papini mysteriously reappeared on Thanksgiving Day at the side of a road 120 miles away 22 days after she was reported missing having apparently vanished during a run in Redding, California

Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2022

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The Independent UK · Mar 12, 2022

‘I didn’t believe it for a moment’: Inside the case of ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini charged with faking kidnapping

A small city in California lived in fear after Sherri Papini claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint by masked Hispanic women. Five years later, she’s finally been charged with making it all up. Bevan Hurley writes

The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2022

‘I didn’t believe it for a moment’: Inside the case of ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini charged with faking kidnapping

The Guardian - US · Mar 4, 2022

California jogger Sherri Papini staged own violent kidnapping, FBI says

Papini’s 2016 disappearance was long cloaked in confusion, as a friend raised funds for a ‘reverse ransom’

The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2022

Why did it take five years to charge ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini with fabricating her own abduction?

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Los Angeles Times · Mar 4, 2022

California woman arrested on suspicion of faking 2016 kidnapping that caught national attention

Sherri Papini, whose alleged kidnapping and reappearance three weeks later made national headlines in 2016, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of lying to the FBI, federal prosecutors said.

The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2022

Prosecutors: Woman faked kidnapping, defrauded California

A Northern California woman whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a frantic three-week search more than five years ago has been arrested

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