Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this episode we discuss the Hulu documentary about Sherri Papini, a woman from Redding, California who was reported missing by her husband. A few weeks later Sherri was found by a motorist, bound and chained on the side of the road, 150 miles from her home. Sherri told her husband and the police she had been abducted, but she provided little to no detail about the abduction and what was revealed did not lead anywhere and simply did not add up. It took several years of investigation uncover the true story behind the mystery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Psychlegal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about popular |
| 0:06.9 | culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm the therapist, Tess Brigham. And I'm |
| 0:11.6 | Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And we're back today with the new Hulu doc, the perfect wife, |
| 0:19.3 | the mysterious disappearance of Sherry Papani. |
| 0:23.7 | And we're going to give you a synopsis of this case. |
| 0:28.7 | But I'm sure everyone out there has some recollection of this case because this was a big deal. |
| 0:34.3 | It was on the news a lot in 2016. |
| 0:37.0 | And then again, when she got caught. |
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| 0:49.9 | Okay. |
| 0:50.7 | And Brooke. |
| 0:51.7 | Okay. |
| 0:52.7 | So the Sherry Popini case gained national attention in 2016 when Sherry Pupini, a 34-year-old, mother of two from California, disappeared while out for a jog in Reading, California. She was reported missing on November 2, 2016, after she failed to pick up her children from daycare. |
| 1:12.1 | Her husband, Keith Pupini, reported her missing and initiated an extensive search |
| 1:16.5 | effort by the entire community. |
| 1:18.9 | She was missing for 22 days before being found on November 24, 2016, Thanksgiving Day, |
| 1:25.4 | in Yolo County, on the side of a rural road around 150 miles south of where she was last seen. |
| 1:32.6 | Pippini was bound by chains and other restraints on the side of the road after flagging down a passing motorist for help. |
| 1:40.2 | She told the police that she had been kidnapped but was released by her captors. |
| 1:45.0 | Sherry Papini was emaciated and had sustained multiple injuries, including extensive bruising, a broken nose, and branding marks on her body. |
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