#169: Project Taken (Abduction of Sherri Papini)

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

He ran an anti-abduction training program called “Project Taken.” He would teach young girls how not to get kidnapped. He was not someone to mess around. Ex-military man. Specialist in kidnapping prevention. International hostage negotiator. He did it all. Well, nobody expected he would find himself wrapped up in one of the strangest, most bizarre kidnapping cases in all of true crime history. The kidnapping of Sherri Papini. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bramble.
0:01.0	Better being better, boo.
0:02.6	Welcome to this week's main episode of Rotten Mango.
0:05.6	I'm your host Stephanie Sue.
0:07.8	And a young woman is walking around campus.
0:10.4	She's kind of walking through the hallways, ignoring all the flyers on the wall.
0:14.6	Project Taken, the flyer says.
0:16.8	Yeah, like the movie, take it.
0:18.9	Project Taken.
0:19.9	50,000 women a year are stalked or kidnapped.
0:23.3	That's what the flyer says.
0:25.2	You never need us until you do.
0:28.3	While passing this row of flyers, the student bumps into this creepy, balding man, and he's
0:34.1	staring menacingly at her.
0:36.5	And she's, oh, sorry, and trying to walk away.
0:39.4	And he's just giving her the dirtiest stare in the world.
0:42.8	Later, he abducts her in the parking lot, imprisons her in a tool shed, stroking her shoulders
0:49.4	with his latex, gloved hands, and there's dramatic music playing in the background.
0:55.5	He whispers in her ear, it was so easy taking you.
0:59.3	Don't cry.
1:00.6	Don't be scared.
1:02.5	And a voice goes off in the student's head.
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