SHASTA LAKE, CA — It’s been almost exactly a year since California “supermom” Sherri Papini was allegedly abducted while jogging near her home in Redding – and then freed by her captors three weeks later.
On Wednesday, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office released new details in the mysterious case, including FBI sketches of the suspects (above). They also announced that the DNA of two other people was found on Papini when she was discovered partially clothed and shackled alongside Interstate 5 on Thanksgiving Day last year. Investigators revealed that they collected male DNA from the clothing that Papini was wearing when she was found — and female DNA on Papini’s body.
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Papini told police that her kidnappers covered their faces and usually had a bag over her head, but she described them as two women who spoke Spanish most of the time. She said that one of them had long curly hair, pierced ears, thin eyebrows, and a thick accent.
The second captor was described as being older, with thick eyebrows and straight black hair with some gray.
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Sherri Papini [Shasta County Sheriff’s Office]
The department also revealed that Papini’s texts with a man in Detroit, Michigan, are being investigated. Officers traveled to the Michigan city on November 9 last year, according to the Redding Record Searchlight. Authorities revealed that Papini had planned to meet the man when he was in California a few days before her abduction. Police later said that he was not involved in the incident.
Papini vanished on November 2, 2016, while she was out for a jog in the small town of Mountain Gate. Her husband, Keith Papini, reported her missing after he realized that she had not picked her children up from daycare — and her cell phone and headphones were found around a mile away.
She was found three weeks later on the side of Interstate 5 in Yolo County with her hair cut, a chain around her waist, and hose clamps around her wrists. According to her family she was “emaciated” and suffered multiple bruises, a branding, and a broken nose. Papini was rescued after flagging down a driver who dialed 911. Police are reportedly still unsure of a motive for the apparent kidnapping.
Authorities have said that Keith Papini passed a lie-detector test related to his wife’s disappearance. After his wife disappeared, he launched a GoFundMe account to raise funds for the search. Managed by his sister Suzanne, who now lives in Long Beach, California, the Bring Sherri Home Safe appeal eventually raised a total of $49,070 – just short of the $50,000 goal. It is not clear what has happened to the money.
The case is still under investigation, and anyone with information is asked to call the Sacramento FBI office at (916) 746-7000.
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Main image: Sketches of suspects in Sherri Papini case [FBI]
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