Sherri Papini’s Big Adventure: From Her House to the Big House?
Posted on
March 26, 2022 by
R.V. Scheide
In the 1995 neo-noir film
The Usual Suspects, actor Kevin Spacey plays the role of a small-time con artist who, under questioning by a U.S. Customs agent reveals the mysterious criminal mastermind
Keyser Söze has been killed during a bloody seaport shootout the night before, As it turns out, the small-time con artist played by Spacey is, spoiler alert,
Keyser Söze himself, who has based his false testimony on random objects scattered around the agent’s cluttered office, as the agent belatedly discovers shortly after
Söze is granted bail and set free.
It’s an unexpected but satisfying turn of events at the film’s end. Now, imagine that same ending, except this time the federal agent is prepared for
Söze’s subterfuge and exposes him as a withering criminal fraud, and you’ll have some understanding of the trouble alleged kidnap-hoaxer Sherri Papini is in.
On Nov. 2, 2016, Papini, a then-34-year-old mother of two disappeared while jogging near her Mountain Gate home north of Redding. She left behind only her iPhone, which her husband Keith found near the spot of her alleged abduction, with tufts of his wife’s blond hair intertwined with the neatly coiled up headphone wires.
The case immediately attracted international attention, thanks to the petite blue-eyed blonde’s good looks, her supposed status as an over-achieving “supermom” and the various local grifters who arose in the wake of her disappearance seeking to capitalize on her apparent misfortune.
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