California jogger Sherri Papini staged own violent kidnapping, FBI says

Papini’s 2016 disappearance was long cloaked in confusion, as a friend raised funds for a ‘reverse ransom’

The kidnapping of Sherri Papini, who disappeared during a jog in the northern California woods and, by her own account, was abducted, chained to a pole for three weeks, half-starved, beaten, branded and then released, was a fabrication, federal authorities said.

According to the FBI, whose long investigation culminated in Papini’s arrest on Thursday, she spent the 22 days of her supposed captivity at an ex-boyfriend’s house in southern California and either inflicted the injuries on herself or got the ex-boyfriend to do it for her, according to the FBI.

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