KIDNAPPED: Sherri Papini

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

PAVE Studios

True Crime

4.4 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

When Sherri Papini vanished during a jog in 2016, the search gripped the nation. Morgan and Kaelyn revisit the twists in this bizarre kidnapping case: a frantic husband’s 911 call, a nationwide hunt, Sherri’s shocking roadside reappearance, and the clues—DNA, text messages, and a mysterious ex-boyfriend—that unraveled the truth. Was this a miraculous escape, or the most elaborate hoax in recent memory? Episode Sponsor:We want you to learn another language, so we're teaming up with Babbel to gift you 55% off subscriptions - but only for our listeners - at https://Babbel.com/CLUES. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t Miss out on all things Clues! YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @morgsyabsher | @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding 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	Hey, Kulminati, it's Morgan and Kaelin. If you're loving clues, you need to check out
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0:33.0	Music This is crime house.
0:48.0	All right, guys, today's case is truly stranger than fiction.
0:53.1	In 2016, Sherry Papini seemed like the perfect mom with a perfect life. But everything changed when she went missing during a routine jog one November day. A massive search turned up nothing until 22 days later when Sherry mysteriously reappeared. The story she told police was terrifying.
1:13.5	But when investigators tried to ID the perpetrators,
1:16.1	they learned the truth behind Sherry's abduction
1:17.9	was a lot more complicated than she was letting on.
1:20.7	And there's still plenty of lingering questions to this day.
1:38.4	Thank you. lingering questions to this day. Hi, friends. Welcome back to Clues, where we sneak past the crime scene tape to explore
1:42.2	the key evidence behind some of the most gripping true crime cases.
1:45.5	I'm Kaelan Moore, and I'm going to be the one digging deeper into the timelines, the backstories, and the case files on these cases.
1:51.5	And I'm your internet sleuth, Morgan Absher. I'm diving into the Reddit forums and anything else I can find online to pull out the threads that just don't add up.
2:00.0	More on this case and the clues that defined
2:01.8	it after a quick break. This will be an interesting one today. We talked about it before we
2:10.0	started doing this episode. One of the reasons, this is a little bit of an older case. A lot of
2:14.5	people know this one, but Sherry is currently on a book tour. She is on a- On a tour. Her side of the story, really trying to get that out as the main narrative of the story. And so Morgan and I thought it would be nice just to have on clues an episode where we break everything down how it actually happened. Not this new version that's coming out in this book this year. Yeah, with the
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