Channeling Houdini: The Disappearance of Sherri Papini

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On November 2, 2016, husband and father of two young children, Keith Papini, arrived home to discover his wife, Sherri, was missing. After using an app to locate her phone, he found it lying on the side of the road about a mile from their house. Keith dialed 911 and reported the incident, hoping the disappearance was just some type of a misunderstanding. But Sherri never came home that day, or even the next. Weeks passed, and there was still no word from someone described as a loving mother and devoted spouse. Early Thanksgiving morning, however, a beaten, battered, and frightened woman was spotted 150 miles away trying to flag down help at the entrance ramp to the I-5 freeway. It was Sherri Papini, who promptly offered a harrowing tale of abduction, captivity, and ultimately, freedom from her imprisonment. Yet, to this day, her captors remain unidentified, and the details surrounding her disappearance have caused some to question the integrity of her story. So, was Sherri telling the truth about her ordeal, or did she have reason to fabricate an abduction? Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological analysis of the event in an effort to answer that question once and for all.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to Cold Case Murder Mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.4	returning for another installment of madness as we journey beneath the surface of
0:15.1	one of the more baffling cases of the last decade, the disappearance of 34-year-old wife and
0:20.4	mother of two, Sherry Papini.
0:23.8	Now just a quick note here, I'm putting something together for Patreon supporters.
0:28.9	It's been a while since I did something like that, so we're going to be answering questions and doing
0:34.0	shout-outs and things of that nature so if you've been supporting me on
0:37.5	Patreon thank you very much appreciate it and a followed bit behind in that and
0:42.0	I'm going to try to catch up now.
0:44.0	So again, thank you and let's get going with the episode here.
0:49.0	On the morning of November 2nd, 2016, Sherry dropped her kids off at daycare near their home in Redding, California.
0:56.4	A small rural community located about 2.5 hours north of Sacramento.
1:01.6	While her husband Keith went to work as some type of manager of the Geek Squad at Best Buy.
1:07.0	Shortly before 11 a.m. Sherry texted Keith and asked if he'd be coming home for lunch. Keith's job apparently took him to the homes of various customers in the region
1:16.8	so I assume he might have stopped home on his lunch break on days when he worked
1:20.5	close to the house but on this day he declined. He wouldn't have time and that was their last contact. So Keith
1:29.8	gets home in the early evening and sees his wife's vehicle is there. But when he goes
1:35.1	inside, Sherry is nowhere to be found. Worse, his kids aren't home either. Sherry
1:41.7	normally picked him up at daycare between 4.30 and
1:44.5	445 p.m. though she never arrived that afternoon. There's no evidence in the
1:50.1	home to suggest something sinister happened, but Keith does find a partially wrapped
1:54.8	gift that seems as though it was abandoned at some point in the process of wrapping.
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