as a mexican i can confirm, it is a usual practice that when we kidnap people we blast mariachi music and force our hostages to eat tortillas and rice.
Every time I hear this story, the “I was forced to listen to mariachi music” takes me out because she really wanted us to know that they were Hispanic. I bet those tortillas were good asf too.
My heart goes out to real victims of abductions as well as the countless amounts of Hispanic women who were side eyed, and more than likely harassed, because of her careless, sick need for attention.
@@heartsfromlana I agree, I mentioned Hispanic because of the video context and her lying. However, you're absolutely right the amount of indigenous and native women who go missing and the lack of motivation to find them is frightening and heartbreaking. That's what makes this case much more horrible because she took resources that could've been given to actual victims
@@heartsfromlanathank you for this comment… sadly it seems that those they (news, etc.) raise awareness for can be ignored, selective, or not taken seriously.
@Lana 🔖 As an indigenous mexican I hope that we get the protection and justice we deserve, Native American woman/indigenous woman and Mexican American/Latinas are the most ignored and have little to zero media coverage
Love your videos ♥️ On the same day Sherri faked an abduction. Stacey Smart went missing that day, in the same area, while Sherri Papini was wasting everyone’s time, Stacey Smart has been largely forgotten. Hardly any attention has been placed on Stacey Smart’s case and Stacey is still missing.
Definitely. She could’ve cheated without involving the rest of the world. But at the same time it seems like Sherri wanted to be the center of attention and the victim.
Pathological liars never pick the easier option. Better to fabricate every single second of a lie than tell the easy truth. I currently know someone who’s lying about going to medical school. Literally no one would care if he wasn’t a med student but now he has to keep up appearances to keep up a daily and yearly lie. Pathetic
I'm pretty sure a divorce is mutual and Keith probably wouldn't want one but knowing how much he loved her he probably would let her go if that's what she wanted.
@@hush2633 Uh what do you mean? Keith would have no choice but to let her go, and he doesn’t seem like some controlling psycho so I’m sure he would respect her decision. Way better than what she actually put him through.
yes this woman and her actions are disgusting and she definitely should've gotten much much more time in jail but. that trucker who found her by the roadside and in the 911 call said her name is sherri panini cracks me the hell up for no goddamn reason 😭😭😭
i remember hearing that a girl named stacey smart (i think) went missing the same exact day, and no one knew because they were so focused on this girl. its disgusting and said, and stacy is still missing to this day
Fr fr. The amount of time she got is despicably low. She tore her family apart and caused so much racial tension between white people and Hispanic people within the area. And filled her “story” with stupid, low effort racial stereotypes to really try and drive the point home that the supposed kidnappers were hispanic. If she hadn’t been a well-off white woman with kids and a nice husband, her penalty would have been much worse. Awful. Anyone who does something like this deserves to be in prison for a very long time. Sickening that things like race and culture have such an effect.
Right it would've been far worse. Police would've cuffed her with a smile and called it "ethical". Of course Sherri is going to put the blame on Mexicans knowing the gov is biased against us. They wouldn't waste a second believing we'd harm a white person. And her attempts at stereotyping us were awful😂
I feel like in high school she lost a crush to another girl who happened to be Latina and since then held this absurd grudge against this minority group.
Every time I hear about this it makes me upset all over again. People wasted time on this woman when there’s actual missing people who don’t get the attention they deserve.
If you searching the channel dreading (AMAZING true crime videos) he actually covered a missing woman who was in the same area at the same time and specifically says he feels the media didn’t pick up that case the way they should have because they were too busy with Sheri’s fake kidnapping. It’s heart wrenching.
it hurts even more that its a racist straight white woman because real poc cases dont get this much effort/coverage. and i guarantee if they pulled this type of mess, theyd end up in jail for much longer than 18 months
I agree! We should be advocating for Native peoples instead. So many native people go missing and get killed every year!! Advocate for them not this racist shit.
Yeah it's kind of a given with the system. Legally shot doesn't go down for years in many cases. A person could murder someone but not end up being sentenced until 4 years later.
@@laurenlane7150 i know right, i've seen the interrogation and didn't think she was gone for very long but when she said she faked it for 6 years I was so confused
20:24 HOL UP NOW‼️ the initial 911 caller says “she got kicked out of her boyfriends…” and Sherri screams “NO!” And now we know she _was_ with her lil boyfriend. So was the caller saying that cause he saw her exit her bf’s truck, or did she actually say that not realizing he’d tell 911 and she had her fake story to protect? She really is the worst.
dont think the caller saw her exit her boyfriends truck, cause i think she got of the truck first then ran around a bit before the people found her. she definitely fumbled and told the caller that her boyfriend kicked her out.
I noticed that, too! Because if you'd really been kidnapped and tortured, your priority would totally be making sure the 911 dispatcher got every detail right...not, you know, being rescued ASAP in case the kidnappers change their minds and come back... 🙄🙄🙄
Tbh yes but to me I could care less he was more Than Happy to help Sherri cheat on her first husband but then again he did the first husband a huge favor
I haven't seen anyone mention it in the top comments so this is a reminder that Stacey Smart disappeared the same day as Sherri, only 34 miles/55km away, and was given very little attention because everyone was busy on Sherri's case. She's still missing to this day.
I feel like we can't fault the media for that. She had an incredibly loving husband she didn't deserve, I'm sure Stacey had people who were gunning for her to be found aswell but that man put everythingggg into finding her
Exactly It is so sad because her whole fabricated story would have actually cost people their lives. While the PD was working with her case, they could have actually made progress in a case more worthy. She is so cruel and selfish. All because she craved attention, and not caring how she gets it or what she feels like she needs to do it in order to gain it.
@@Iotuseater Yes it is so sad she took her family and husband for granted. He is the basically the whole reason her story had a lot of attention and awareness brought to it, he was genuinely concerned for her wellbeing and safety. He cared for her so much that he remembered where she would frequently do her running and immediately went there, then knowing that.. She took advantage of it and planted her phone, earphones and made sure to pull out her hair so it was entwined with the earphones… To begin her fabricated story for attention😞 So horrible that she would have cost other people their lives when the PD could have been investigated and making progress with a case more worthy than hers.
This happens with every race tho like that black actor who made up being attacked and hate crimed. Idk why anyone feels the need to do this when the world is dangerous enough as it is being a black or a woman.
she’s clinically insane. i don’t even know how nobody noticed before. imagine being crazy enough to brand yourself (ouch) just to have an affair. james deserves to be to be right in jail with her, because who would abuse their partner for a month just to maintain this lie
Idk if you can call it abuse if Sherri was demanding that he do it but either way he needs to be in jail, if he’ll do all this for some pussy what the hell else he gonna do 😳
She apparently didn’t brand herself to have an affair, because she didn’t actually have an affair. She just stayed in the house and beat herself up with the help of her friend.
@@KLee1028 still tho, who would actually agree to abuse someone, even if it’s “consensual”? Like that’s messed up all in itself. And the fact that he didn’t go to the police while they were searching for her and not coming out clean even after she was found.
@@chuche5651 oh I totally agree, I just think she did it for totally selfish reasons and sort of used that guy to get what she wanted, and he turned out to be a total scumbag too. Just not your traditional “affair” I suppose.
This woman is not, nor has ever been clinically insane. If you read the DSM-5 and their definition of psychosis, you will see that Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder are extremely serious mental illnesses requiring antipsychotic medication, and often hospitalization when having hallucinations and are unable to interpret reality. There are other symptoms, but the ones I listed here are the primarily the ones that present when someone is diagnosed. Sherri Papini craves and acts upon actions that garner her attention and sympathy. She was bored with her life and wanted to cause a crisis that would receive a great deal of both. She is despicable, likely a racist, a self-absorbed narcissist and is totally unable to see her actions for what they are. Please do not trivialize severe mental illness with Sherrri's self-serving actions. It's a slap in the face for those with clinical insanity when these fallacies are created to make an attempt to pin a cause for the despicable actions of a spoiled brat. Also, James was given immunity and has no jail time when he spilled the beans and revealed the true story of this "abduction."
So, she was a stay- at- home Mum, but her kids were at daycare until the late afternoon. And they called her Supermum and "oh so hands-on?" Yeah, right. Also, no wonder she got bored, lol.
I work at a daycare and we legally have to contact the police at a certain point. I've come close when a parent picked up an hour after close, but they ended up grabbing their kid. It's insane to me that they were just like "welp, guess you're sleeping here tonight kiddos!" Like WHAT?
I thought about that as well but if it’s a full time daycare (say they close at 7pm) and previously the kids stayed late the odd day they might have presumed it was just one of those days and the parents forgot to mention it, still odd they didn’t ring to double check but not entirely unexplainable
hearing the family referring to sherri’s arrest as “unethical” was incredibly irritating. my father was deported twice when i was a child, and i was present when he was arrested the first time. he was playing basketball with his friends at our neighborhood park, and he had taken me with him to spend some time with his child. i don’t have a memory of this moment, as i was only 4 years old at the time, but the police were perfectly fine cuffing my father in front of me. i’m not claiming that my father’s arrest was unethical, but if sherri’s family claims that hers was, then my father’s was downright evil.
@@justanittybittylittlefello4067 why do so many people feel like they have no other choice? If illegal immigration is such an awful problem, why not make the immigration process easier? Could it be that the problem for some people, especially those in the government, not really be the “illegal” part, but immigration as a whole?
I love the sister talking about her disappearance lol! It's like she knew all along that Sherri was up to no good. "Uh, she has pretty hair, she likes wearing pants, she told me a funny joke once"
The way she said she was forced to listen to mariachi music and that one of them was wearing hoops, she was fed tortillas, and that post where she said "Latino" or "Latino girls" every sentence or so... she really wanted us to know that they were Latin
Her interview with investigators is just bewildering. I don’t like to lump victims together but she DOES NOT sound like someone who was kidnapped and abused and miraculously survived being sold in a sex trafficking ring…
Yeah.. I mean I know with me and trama I just go numb after and act like everything's fine. And I've been through... horrible things. But when I do talk about it I don't act like I'm a cool mom talking to another cool mom about guys
Lying about serious events that are someone else’s reality is sickening. It only causes more questioning of victims and waste of resources. Victims shouldn’t have to be questioned if they are truly a victim or not, yet situations like this increase that likelihood
i’ve seen breakdowns of the interview footage and my god, they are very hard to sit through because of the amount of CRINGE. she’s so weirdly animated and aggressive, and you can sense the police’s increasing bewilderment. and keith gradually moves further away from her during the interview lol… his subconscious picked up on how bizarre she was being.
She sounds paranoid in them tbh .. sounds more of a mental health victim than she does a rescued person (I would know) The way she described her surroundings and people were just too obvious.
I feel so bad for Keith because he went through hell and back trying to find his wife and she was lying the whole time. Sherri might’ve been a good mother but she never seemed like good wife from what her love life shows. And what kind of mother fakes a kidnapping leaving their kids behind ? I wonder how long she would’ve remained hidden
She’s a horrible mother. How could you ever plan to leave your children for an unknown amount of time just for your own selfish reasons. I could never imagine leaving my son for any amount of time, the pain of missing your child would be crushing. I don’t understand this psychopath at all.
I wouldn't even call her a good mom, either. Good moms don't put their kids through hellish trauma that's likely to permanently emotionally scar them, just because mommy decides she wants an adventure. As a mom myself, I think she's not just a terrible mom, but I think she's actually possibly even dangerous to her kids. I'd be very careful letting her have any unsupervised time with them...ever again.
It’s so crazy how before it was proven that she lied, she was described as this beautiful super mom with this beautiful love story with Keith. Now we hear about how much of a liar and thief she is
the way people can be overly glorified once they’re presumed gone is interesting.. of course there are victims of these crimes who truly were amazing people through and through, but otherwise it’s not as prim and proper as it seems
@@antiknetz Something that made me laugh was how she said "they had a problem with me being white". Like, so is 50% of Latin America? Trust me love, you are not important to them.
Quite funny how you lot refer to brown and blacks as “people of colour” I don’t think you know what colour actually is… it is multiple variations of colours…. Brown and blacks do not have different colours like White people do…. Whites go from red, blue, yellowish to tanned…. Aka golden. Brown and blacks do not change colour ever. They are one colour all the time. People in America are absolutely below 40 in IQ and facts.
I'm a Mexican and i remember my mom taking me to a church with pretty much 0 other people of color and this one kid said Mexicans can't go to heaven because we are darker because of our sins and white people are white because they are pure. I wasn't even a religious kid but damn bruh. That shit hurt 💀
Please don't believe in that, I'm telling you now it's not true. God is not racist, he made all of us and love us all. I'm so sorry you had to go through that, people are so cruel. I'm white just so you know
@@crunchberrychaos1545 what other people like me? You make no sense. How am I supposed to tell complete strangers what to do do I look like superman to you? Jesus just leave a nice comment alone. It's idiots like you who ruin a completely good interaction
@@shadowcat889 Other Christians! I totally get you feeling bad for the dude up there and that it is wrong what he was told. So to counter that, you should go out and tell other Christians ( like at your church)to be good to others and not day hurtful things in the name of Christianity. Maybe even show them the post and say, "People like us have these awful beliefs and we need to correct that by being more welcoming and speaking out against those who misrepresent us."
@@crunchberrychaos1545 no thanks, I don't want to be a super hero and do all that. I was just leaving a kind comment because what that person did to this person is obviously wrong. So yeah please leave me alone, thanks
One wild part of all of this is that the “captors” were so “Hispanic” but they primarily spoke in English? Especially when fighting with one another over who is going to wash her clothing? Like what? Mariachi torture?? So offensive 🤦🏻♀️
honestly this is horrible, but really points out a bigger problem in the justice system. POC kidnappings are barely covered and hardly ever get the help they need afterwards. Its a horrible double standard.
Poor Keith. He seemed like such a kind, caring dude. Shame Sherri for hurting so many people and taking time away from searching for real missing people
Did Keith not know she was cheating on her partner while she was with him? He married a tramp and got bit back in the butt. She wasn’t a good person when she married, and he knew that. He isn’t worth sympathising for unless he didn’t know about that he was in an affair with a married woman.
I’ve always been SO curious about the psychology of James. Romance makes everyone a little less logical from time to time…but I’d like to think my mind could still rationalize: Fake Kidnapping = No win scenario
I remember her episode on Dateline. After watching it my mother and I both were like this lady is lying about being kidnapped. We saw right through her story it made no sense and had way too many holes. The fact it took 6 years for the truth to come out I feel bad for the husband and kids.
I wish she covered more about the holes in her story in this video. Can you elaborate on what set off your “fake” alarm bells when you watched it? To me the story sounded solid even when James confessed everything. She didn’t cover the facts that made the lie obvious very well.
I don’t feel bad for them. I feel like everyone has a crazy family member. I feel bad for the girl that was kidnapped on the same day and got NO attention.
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360what a moronic comment. You can feel bad for the other missing girl AND Sherri’s family. This is more than “a CrAzY FaMiLy MeMbEr 🤪”
It angers me to my core as a young Mexican nb to hear this story & similar stories in which Latine people are harassed, accused, assaulted, kidnapped & murdered & we get no justice, & barely a lick of attention. but when a white woman goes missing & completely fabricates an entire story, everyone still gives her sympathy, compassion, & given more than enough “justice” even if nothing happened My blood boils
Something that's interesting is that you said when she first talked to the doctors after she was found, she had told them that she hurt her foot/leg, but when they checked nothing was wrong. And in the reddit post that she had made, in the bottom half, she talks about how she hurt her leg on the bleachers and her dad had told her not to "let it slow her down" and to "keep walking." She made it sound like this was a really "important" moment for her. Do you think maybe when the doctors were first talking to her after she was found, that in that moment, she said that she had hurt her foot/leg because she was actually mixing up her stories? Clearly the reddit post story inspired her kidnapping story, with all the odd similarities and patterns. So maybe, when she was speaking to the doctors, she slipped up on her lies and accidentally mixed up the two stories - hence, why she said she had hurt her leg/foot but actually didn't. Hopefully that makes sense. Just something I noticed.
It also could just be that she was bringing it up to add context to something more recent but the doctors thought she meant it had just happened. When I called the cops after an assault I tried telling them the events leading up from weeks ago and they were confused and thought everything I said just happened that night. It was my fault for not being clear bc I was talking at a million words per minute but I wonder if she just got them confused the same way. Of course since she’s a pathological liar we don’t know if the high school injury story is real either
I hope she has to payback at least a percentage of the resources she wasted and participate in mandatory mental health counseling. She has the potential to ruin future people's lives and that certainly makes her dangerous. She is an extreme pathological liar and its all to get her own selfish agendas met.
I have to go to bed, but after reading the title I can’t. Gotta meet myself half way and listen to this while I fall asleep. Also- HOOOOW, for 6 years! Girl!!😮
She wasted so many resources. All that time and energy and money that could have helped bring real victims back. she put other real victim’s credibility in question. She hurt her family and her community and for what🤦🏽♀️
A girl named stacy smart disappeared the same day, same town Sherri “went missing” and she still missing, she got zero media attention because of this liar
not only that but she had Keith an amazing man who was loving & cared for her. and she completely took advantage of it. the way so many people would kill to have a man like that. & she acts as if he’s nothing.. smh.
44:16 this is so true, I'm mixed race (my mom being white & my dad being black) and tons of kids randomly yell racial slurs at me in the halls, throw stuff at me ect. so for some random white lady to say she was singled out by non-white-girls/women makes me feel absolutely sick
I don't believe she was, but it can actually happen. Racism isn't uni-directional. There were only a couple of Latinos who did this to me, and never to the scale Sherri talked about. I think she projected so she'd have an excuse to be evil. Narcissistic personalities never see their bad behavior as their fault. They make excuses as to why their hideous actions are just.
Maybe, but most victims who have experienced being singled-out by others because of their race ect. Don't like to make a massive story about it online, normally they wouldn't exagerrate(sorry idk how to spell it) by saying that they've won in a fought against the people being racist to her. The story overall just seems quite unrealistic and in all honesty, I'm struggling to believe it's true.
@@AkumaChakai that's why I can't believe her, either. She is a narcissist. They have delusions of grandeur, are perpetual victims who believe their own lies, and enjoy the smell of their own farts.
My dad worked with Keith at Best Buy and I remember him talking about it when she first disappeared and it was so scary because no one had a clue. It was the biggest thing in the sac area at that time. We were suspicious of her disappearance in the first place but when it was confirmed it was all a lie it was still unbelievable that someone could do that to their family especially their children. It’s something that you never want to believe actually happened
As someone who was bullied in school by "Latina girls", they were not ever violent, just talked a lot of shit, some of it being kind of funny in hindsight even though it sucked to be on the receiving end of it. Pretty creative insults. Frankly, it made me notice the cultural differences and made me want to understand those differences better and ended up making friends through it. If only people didn't just pick stupid reasons to use as a template for their recurring excuses, maybe Sherri would've made a friend too.
@@malegria9641 okay, does that change or make the fact that Sherri is a racist pedo any better? Because I’m genuinely confused about the point of this discourse.
I used to go to a school with mostly white peoples and I had to move school because I would ge bullied for being Mexican. For a while I was never proud of being Mexican and I would hate talking because I have an accent. But now I’m proud to be Mexican and it’s just horrible how people like Sherri hate colored people for no reason
I went to a school in middle school and I was pretty much the only white girl. I got beat up everyday for not being hispanic. Im however close friends with many hispanics now. My bestie is a mexican lady. This lady was just racist.
There was a former student Tara Smith that went to HS with Sheri that actually did go missing when she was 16 years old in the same town and has never been found. She was rumored to be having an affair with her marshal arts instructor or something, said she was going for a quick run, he admitted to seeing her and then says he does not know what happened to her. That is an actual true story and would love to learn more about it. Thanks for the great video as usual!
@@christinajackson6309 right sorry this guy is a child abuser or pedophile if there was a romantic relationship going on (not sure how to phrase it). It would be interesting to see what his statement was to police. I think he was married at the time. There is not much information available when looked it up. There was a 48 hrs episode that I cannot find.
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360 Hi yes am aware that used the term affair instead of saying Tera was allegedly groomed and sexually molested on a possibly regular basis by an adult married man that was her Karate teacher, since she may have thought that he really cared for her. I was honestly not sure if YT would censor that comment and thought it may even be a bit TMI speaking out the victim. I know that Tera was an innocent 16 year old child and this guy was a rapist scum bag. Sometimes I wish the English language had better words to describe things. From the Oxford dictionary, an affair is "a sexual relationship between two people, one or both of whom are married to or in a long-term relationship with someone else". CA age of consent is 18 but approximately half of the 50 states have 16 as the age of consent. crazy right?
At first I was shocked by the 18 months but at the same time since she’s not a direct violent threat, her rotting in jail doesn’t help the situation, especially since she already wasted a lot of money. The $300k fine will have her working full time until she dies and that’s pretty suitable! (Assuming Keith got the house and everything…)
It's really sad how another woman got kidnapped around this time and ofc it was real but she was never found because barely anyone knew she went missing because this attention seeking b was the center of attention.
honestly though, as terrible as it all obviously is, i’m sort of impressed by how far she went. she literally branded her body so no one would know that she was cheating on her husband. that’s a level of insanity i think very few people are capable of. at the same time, it’s really sick bc you know that she got all these ideas to hurt herself from situations like Elizabeth Smart’s and that’s just so disgusting.
I’m white and went to a predominantly Hispanic school before. My sister had issues with ppl but everyone left me alone. It was always sherry / my sister personality types who are the real problem. Gonna assume she bragged about her “pride in her heritage” and I hope those girls did get her for it lol
I know 18 months doesn’t sound like a long prison sentence, but it’s that 309k of a fine that is going to be worse than prison. I know people who have served a week or so, but then owed even 10k and that fine literally ruins their life. When you get a job, every paycheck goes directly towards the fine. She will never be able to enjoy life again with a fine that large. If you do not continuously pay them (if she didn’t work) they’ll just bring you back to jail.
When i first heard this story her mentioning holding the wadded up stuff pretending it was her kids broke my heart. Now, knowing what i know it makes me sick. Like girl... you really missed em huh?
I love how the definition of "supermom" apparently means that she could bake attractive pies and that she spent time with her kids when they weren't in daycare. In that case, I'm not just a supermom...I'm like a super-hyper-ultra-awesome-perfectmom!! Woohoo! My pies are gorgeous and I love spending time with my kids! Heck- I didn't even send them to daycare when I was a stay-at-home mom...I actually stayed at home with them! Somebody give me a damn bouquet and crown! 🙄🙄🙄
Honestly, I hope you do get some flowers because you deserve them. Too many people have kids and shouldn’t :( it’s nice you actually want to be with your kids
@@MsBabyChips Right?! My mom worked more than full-time and took me to work with her, and I doubt she's ever baked a pie from scratch in her life...but she was definitely a supermom! It's almost like Sherri's supporters think that only the most "traditional" mom's who do the bare minimum are "supermoms," as opposed to the truth, which is that supermoms come in all different shapes & sizes!
I'm so sorry for her family and friends. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be worried as hell about a loved one. Scared for their life, not knowing if you'll ever see them again. Only to find out they made this all up?? That's horrible
Please do a video about Stacey Smart. I am watching another video currently after reading a comment while watching yours and it’s so heartbreaking to have a tangible example of limited resources wasted on this woman’s lies
i've heard this case a million times but i love hanging out with you so much in your videos you make me feel like i have a bestie. i'll never get bored of you fr
Grateful for her abductors because without them she wouldn't have gotten home safely?? What an absolutely unhinged thing to say. This whole case is insane!
girl they came out with a hulu documentary about this and i was absolutely WRACKING my brain wondering where i had heard this story from and it was you!!!
Who the heck does this?! She’s crazy. Did the man not realize he could be arrested for kidnapping? She hurt her entire family, this stupid man and many other people. What a piece of work!!
I have to note a few things, just minor details but still (this case fascinated me in the worst way. She’s a garbage human) 1. Sherri told the police there was a nice captor and a mean one. The day she was released the captors were “arguing”, she heard the gunshot, and the NICE captor came and grabbed her and “got her out of there”. So just one let her out. Not both. This is why she launches into the “she saved my life I don’t want to talk about her” when cornered about lying. Basically insinuating that the “good” captor shot and killed the bad one and freed Sherri and that’s how she got let go. 2. James did very little to hurt her other than the branding. She did it to herself. She asked him to smack her in the face with I believe a hockey stick. He said no so she smashed it into her OWN nose to break it. She punched herself. Slammed her legs into corners and dressers. Most of her physical damage was caused by herself. He did do some after she begged but not much. The branding he did do. 3. James was interviewed in his home when he spilled the beans. When they went in they saw the layout was the same she described in her story. 4. They were not going to press charges on her if she’d just tell the truth. They gave her one last chance to save herself by just being honest but she wouldn’t do it. She launched into “James did it? No. No way. James couldn’t of done this!” 🤦🏻♀️ she really was gonna ride this to the end. Poor poor poor keith telling the cops that he’s the idiot husband broke my heart. He felt so dumb. So got. So broken. I felt terrible for him.
Her sister and sister-in-law, were not selling to me that they believe for a second that she was taken. They were so nonchalant. It was almost reading like bad acting.
I had a friend who was like Sherri. She had a hard time controlling outbursts but could handle it enough that she could apologize and explain away everything and cut people off if they saw her as a red flag until she collected enough people who couldn’t see through her at all and fooled them all into thinking she was pregnant right after graduation because she didn’t want her bf to go off to college. She got drunk and admitted some of it to a friend who ended up outing her years later when they had a huge friendship breakup. Wild shit, I could see her doing this.
Wow you've blown up so much! I subbed back after watching your Shane dawson video, I was hooked. Glad to see you're getting recognition you deserve, you'll hit a mill in no time!!
You can always tell the guilty ones when they try so hard and put soooo much emphasis and animation in being relatable about something like “watching those um.. you know… crime shows, I just love watching them YOU KNOW *shrug* like I’m one of those people *shrug* I just like watching them. I know what happens, im one of those moms *shrug* who just love watching those shows YOU KNOW?”
as a mexican i can confirm, it is a usual practice that when we kidnap people we blast mariachi music and force our hostages to eat tortillas and rice.
make me eat churros too...
ohhh my god noooo dont make me eat tortillas and riceee . . . .. maybe some frijoles on the side . . . . .
That’s really hospitable ❤
Damn, makes me wanna innocently stroll through a dark alleyway in the dead of night with no phone or method of protection... lmaooo
yea i did this the other day
Every time I hear this story, the “I was forced to listen to mariachi music” takes me out because she really wanted us to know that they were Hispanic. I bet those tortillas were good asf too.
I lold.. right up there with torture..
right like wtf 😂
And the fact she was fed with tortillas 🤡
@@leticiavellozo and the fact that one of them was wearing hoops 🤡like girl be fr
Lol really though. Funny as hell.
My heart goes out to real victims of abductions as well as the countless amounts of Hispanic women who were side eyed, and more than likely harassed, because of her careless, sick need for attention.
@@heartsfromlana frrr then some white girl wants attention & does goofy shi for it ☠️
@@heartsfromlana I agree, I mentioned Hispanic because of the video context and her lying. However, you're absolutely right the amount of indigenous and native women who go missing and the lack of motivation to find them is frightening and heartbreaking. That's what makes this case much more horrible because she took resources that could've been given to actual victims
@@heartsfromlanathank you for this comment… sadly it seems that those they (news, etc.) raise awareness for can be ignored, selective, or not taken seriously.
@Lana 🔖 As an indigenous mexican I hope that we get the protection and justice we deserve, Native American woman/indigenous woman and Mexican American/Latinas are the most ignored and have little to zero media coverage
In an already racist area!! I grew up there. They were looking for any opportunities to be hateful and she gave them one
I couldn’t imagine being worried SICK about her missing and then supporting her through her “trauma” for YEARS to find out it was all fake. Poor Keith
He it is sad. He filed for divorce
Honestly, I feel soo bad for him! 😩🤦🏽♀️
That would cause some real trauma
He seems like such a genuine man. I feel so badly for him.
And her poor babies
Love your videos ♥️ On the same day Sherri faked an abduction. Stacey Smart went missing that day, in the same area, while Sherri Papini was wasting everyone’s time, Stacey Smart has been largely forgotten. Hardly any attention has been placed on Stacey Smart’s case and Stacey is still missing.
Omfg that's what gets me with fakers. They're wasting valuable time from law enforcement by sending them on a wild goose chase.
that’s so sad
I feel terrible. I didn't know about Stacey Smart's abduction until well after it happened.
The channel "dreading" has a really good video on Stacey smart
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I may be an idiot , but isn’t a divorce easier ? If you don’t wanna be with someone , just leave lol . She’s insane
Definitely. She could’ve cheated without involving the rest of the world. But at the same time it seems like Sherri wanted to be the center of attention and the victim.
Pathological liars never pick the easier option. Better to fabricate every single second of a lie than tell the easy truth. I currently know someone who’s lying about going to medical school. Literally no one would care if he wasn’t a med student but now he has to keep up appearances to keep up a daily and yearly lie. Pathetic
I'm pretty sure a divorce is mutual and Keith probably wouldn't want one but knowing how much he loved her he probably would let her go if that's what she wanted.
Totally insane 😂
@@hush2633 Uh what do you mean? Keith would have no choice but to let her go, and he doesn’t seem like some controlling psycho so I’m sure he would respect her decision. Way better than what she actually put him through.
yes this woman and her actions are disgusting and she definitely should've gotten much much more time in jail but. that trucker who found her by the roadside and in the 911 call said her name is sherri panini cracks me the hell up for no goddamn reason 😭😭😭
Yeah she obviously said that so people would worry.
😂😂😂
I also laughed when I read the caption LOL
Thank you i thought i was the only one😂😂
I was here to type about this exact thing and then I see your comment, I was in tears when he said her name l🤣🤣🤣🤣
i remember hearing that a girl named stacey smart (i think) went missing the same exact day, and no one knew because they were so focused on this girl. its disgusting and said, and stacy is still missing to this day
That is so sad and horrible.
Say her name, Justice for Stacey 🤍🕊
@@chickennoodlesoup13 exactly, i rlly hope the police at least find her body so her family can have some sort of closure
She was a middle aged woman and it was most likely her boyfriend who murdered her.
@@joo069 that could be a possibility. but i cant even speculate because we dont have a lot of info to work with
The irony is that a Latina could NEVER do something so heinous and get 18 months.
Fr fr. The amount of time she got is despicably low. She tore her family apart and caused so much racial tension between white people and Hispanic people within the area. And filled her “story” with stupid, low effort racial stereotypes to really try and drive the point home that the supposed kidnappers were hispanic. If she hadn’t been a well-off white woman with kids and a nice husband, her penalty would have been much worse. Awful. Anyone who does something like this deserves to be in prison for a very long time. Sickening that things like race and culture have such an effect.
Right it would've been far worse. Police would've cuffed her with a smile and called it "ethical". Of course Sherri is going to put the blame on Mexicans knowing the gov is biased against us. They wouldn't waste a second believing we'd harm a white person. And her attempts at stereotyping us were awful😂
The cherry on the irony sundae is that, with all of her dislike of Hispanic people, her boy toy James is Latino. 🤣
@@brianhellums595 Also questioned this “coincidence”.
@@brianhellums595it’s not ironic, she fetishizes latinos while hating latinas
The little fan fiction she wrote felt like it should end with “and then everyone clapped for me” like girl be so fr rn
I feel like in high school she lost a crush to another girl who happened to be Latina and since then held this absurd grudge against this minority group.
@@sorasgirl101 or maybe she's just racist lol don't give her a reason
@@sh4rkss true!
LMFAO Fr 😭💀
😂🤣😂🤣
Every time I hear about this it makes me upset all over again. People wasted time on this woman when there’s actual missing people who don’t get the attention they deserve.
If you searching the channel dreading (AMAZING true crime videos) he actually covered a missing woman who was in the same area at the same time and specifically says he feels the media didn’t pick up that case the way they should have because they were too busy with Sheri’s fake kidnapping. It’s heart wrenching.
And they did their best because of Keith. He tried so hard.
@@empac8631 wow ! Sherri literally took all the law enforcement away from her :(
it hurts even more that its a racist straight white woman because real poc cases dont get this much effort/coverage. and i guarantee if they pulled this type of mess, theyd end up in jail for much longer than 18 months
I agree! We should be advocating for Native peoples instead. So many native people go missing and get killed every year!! Advocate for them not this racist shit.
It's easy to be super mom when you shove your kids in daycare so you can bake cookies and text old boyfriends.
No kidding!! Lol
Honestly sounds kinda valid
Ik I was side eyeing real hard when Hailey said Sherri was a stay at home mom, but that she also put her kids in daycare 🙄
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360 no
wow. I've heard this case but I never knew she faked it for 6 YEARS??? thats so bizarre.
nah it was like 3 weeks just the whole affair (missing date - reveal) lasted around 6 years
Yeah it's kind of a given with the system. Legally shot doesn't go down for years in many cases. A person could murder someone but not end up being sentenced until 4 years later.
Yeah she just wouldn’t admit it . She was too deep and the whole country was lying
She was only missing for 22 days… this is weirdly misleading.
@@laurenlane7150 i know right, i've seen the interrogation and didn't think she was gone for very long but when she said she faked it for 6 years I was so confused
20:24 HOL UP NOW‼️ the initial 911 caller says “she got kicked out of her boyfriends…” and Sherri screams “NO!” And now we know she _was_ with her lil boyfriend. So was the caller saying that cause he saw her exit her bf’s truck, or did she actually say that not realizing he’d tell 911 and she had her fake story to protect?
She really is the worst.
Bro I didn’t notice!! U r right she did tell him that and then came up with the story
dont think the caller saw her exit her boyfriends truck, cause i think she got of the truck first then ran around a bit before the people found her. she definitely fumbled and told the caller that her boyfriend kicked her out.
I noticed that, too!
Because if you'd really been kidnapped and tortured, your priority would totally be making sure the 911 dispatcher got every detail right...not, you know, being rescued ASAP in case the kidnappers change their minds and come back... 🙄🙄🙄
Also, him saying "Her name is Sherri Panini?" was way funnier to me than it should've been
I always just feel so much for Keith. Poor poor guy, he just didn’t deserve this
Tbh yes but to me I could care less he was more Than Happy to help Sherri cheat on her first husband but then again he did the first husband a huge favor
@melixxa Talk about victim blaming. He had an affair with Sherri so he deserves this? Hokay.
@@fillinggaps1975 😂
I wonder how many people instantly thought he killed her.
@@fillinggaps1975 Yes. It’s exactly what he deserves.
I haven't seen anyone mention it in the top comments so this is a reminder that Stacey Smart disappeared the same day as Sherri, only 34 miles/55km away, and was given very little attention because everyone was busy on Sherri's case. She's still missing to this day.
I feel so bad for her. She’s probably dead or sold into some awful situation by now. They might’ve been able to stop that if not for Sherri.
I feel like we can't fault the media for that. She had an incredibly loving husband she didn't deserve, I'm sure Stacey had people who were gunning for her to be found aswell but that man put everythingggg into finding her
Exactly It is so sad because her whole fabricated story would have actually cost people their lives. While the PD was working with her case, they could have actually made progress in a case more worthy. She is so cruel and selfish. All because she craved attention, and not caring how she gets it or what she feels like she needs to do it in order to gain it.
@@Iotuseater Yes it is so sad she took her family and husband for granted. He is the basically the whole reason her story had a lot of attention and awareness brought to it, he was genuinely concerned for her wellbeing and safety. He cared for her so much that he remembered where she would frequently do her running and immediately went there, then knowing that.. She took advantage of it and planted her phone, earphones and made sure to pull out her hair so it was entwined with the earphones… To begin her fabricated story for attention😞 So horrible that she would have cost other people their lives when the PD could have been investigated and making progress with a case more worthy than hers.
The anti Latino Reddit fanfiction took me tf out😂 as someone who’s Afro Latino the way some people have to reach to victimize themselves is crazy
Yes. Yes it is.
Sigh.
Omg Afro Latino? That's so cool :) I've never heard of anyone whose both
@@sophieminter0 you live under a rock? Most Latinos have Afro blood.
This happens with every race tho like that black actor who made up being attacked and hate crimed. Idk why anyone feels the need to do this when the world is dangerous enough as it is being a black or a woman.
Ayyy afro-latin gang!!
she’s clinically insane. i don’t even know how nobody noticed before. imagine being crazy enough to brand yourself (ouch) just to have an affair. james deserves to be to be right in jail with her, because who would abuse their partner for a month just to maintain this lie
Idk if you can call it abuse if Sherri was demanding that he do it but either way he needs to be in jail, if he’ll do all this for some pussy what the hell else he gonna do 😳
She apparently didn’t brand herself to have an affair, because she didn’t actually have an affair. She just stayed in the house and beat herself up with the help of her friend.
@@KLee1028 still tho, who would actually agree to abuse someone, even if it’s “consensual”? Like that’s messed up all in itself. And the fact that he didn’t go to the police while they were searching for her and not coming out clean even after she was found.
@@chuche5651 oh I totally agree, I just think she did it for totally selfish reasons and sort of used that guy to get what she wanted, and he turned out to be a total scumbag too. Just not your traditional “affair” I suppose.
This woman is not, nor has ever been clinically insane. If you read the DSM-5 and their definition of psychosis, you will see that Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder are extremely serious mental illnesses requiring antipsychotic medication, and often hospitalization when having hallucinations and are unable to interpret reality. There are other symptoms, but the ones I listed here are the primarily the ones that present when someone is diagnosed. Sherri Papini craves and acts upon actions that garner her attention and sympathy. She was bored with her life and wanted to cause a crisis that would receive a great deal of both. She is despicable, likely a racist, a self-absorbed narcissist and is totally unable to see her actions for what they are. Please do not trivialize severe mental illness with Sherrri's self-serving actions. It's a slap in the face for those with clinical insanity when these fallacies are created to make an attempt to pin a cause for the despicable actions of a spoiled brat. Also, James was given immunity and has no jail time when he spilled the beans and revealed the true story of this "abduction."
So, she was a stay- at- home Mum, but her kids were at daycare until the late afternoon. And they called her Supermum and "oh so hands-on?" Yeah, right. Also, no wonder she got bored, lol.
Exactly
I thought that was weird too
She would always leave her kids at daycare and then go home and be by herself, until she picked them up in the later afternoon
@@daria75200 oh wow
Haha I wondered that too!
Each time I hear about this case, I get annoyed by the daycare. Like why didn't they call the dad if the mom didn't pick them up
Right it's so strange
I work at a daycare and we legally have to contact the police at a certain point. I've come close when a parent picked up an hour after close, but they ended up grabbing their kid. It's insane to me that they were just like "welp, guess you're sleeping here tonight kiddos!" Like WHAT?
I thought about that as well but if it’s a full time daycare (say they close at 7pm) and previously the kids stayed late the odd day they might have presumed it was just one of those days and the parents forgot to mention it, still odd they didn’t ring to double check but not entirely unexplainable
Couldn't be bothered. Maybe only the mothers number was listed
Everyone in the town was in on it and this was just a social experiment. A prank on Keith.
hearing the family referring to sherri’s arrest as “unethical” was incredibly irritating. my father was deported twice when i was a child, and i was present when he was arrested the first time. he was playing basketball with his friends at our neighborhood park, and he had taken me with him to spend some time with his child. i don’t have a memory of this moment, as i was only 4 years old at the time, but the police were perfectly fine cuffing my father in front of me. i’m not claiming that my father’s arrest was unethical, but if sherri’s family claims that hers was, then my father’s was downright evil.
Why’d he come over illegally twice 💀
Im sorry that happened to you 🥺 but yeah people die everyday at the hands of the police
@@justanittybittylittlefello4067because the immigration process sucks and takes too long
@@justanittybittylittlefello4067 because screw the immigration process
@@justanittybittylittlefello4067 why do so many people feel like they have no other choice? If illegal immigration is such an awful problem, why not make the immigration process easier? Could it be that the problem for some people, especially those in the government, not really be the “illegal” part, but immigration as a whole?
I love the sister talking about her disappearance lol! It's like she knew all along that Sherri was up to no good. "Uh, she has pretty hair, she likes wearing pants, she told me a funny joke once"
I agree they knew something was up
Lolol😂
nah she was struggling to come up with positive things about her lol
The way she said she was forced to listen to mariachi music and that one of them was wearing hoops, she was fed tortillas, and that post where she said "Latino" or "Latino girls" every sentence or so... she really wanted us to know that they were Latin
This happened in my town. Absolutely crazy. We knew she was lying immediately but were treated like shit for it, until everything came out
Yes! I’m from Redding too! I was living in Florida at the time but my mom and I would always talk about it
@@LelaJoonam wait how did everyone know she was lying at first?
how did everyone know she was lying?
@@sammel4184 people here knew here and would talk. It was just super suspicious and didn’t make any sense
@@moonbeamdancer442 ohh okay, that’s crazy that someone would fake this
I'm SO sorry for laughing but the guy on the 911 call saying "Sherri Panini?" took me OUTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Now I wanna panini.. dammit
@@sarahvandenbos3784 😂😂😂 same
Haha looking in this comments for this 😂
Her interview with investigators is just bewildering. I don’t like to lump victims together but she DOES NOT sound like someone who was kidnapped and abused and miraculously survived being sold in a sex trafficking ring…
Yeah.. I mean I know with me and trama I just go numb after and act like everything's fine. And I've been through... horrible things. But when I do talk about it I don't act like I'm a cool mom talking to another cool mom about guys
Lying about serious events that are someone else’s reality is sickening. It only causes more questioning of victims and waste of resources. Victims shouldn’t have to be questioned if they are truly a victim or not, yet situations like this increase that likelihood
i’ve seen breakdowns of the interview footage and my god, they are very hard to sit through because of the amount of CRINGE.
she’s so weirdly animated and aggressive, and you can sense the police’s increasing bewilderment. and keith gradually moves further away from her during the interview lol… his subconscious picked up on how bizarre she was being.
She sounds paranoid in them tbh .. sounds more of a mental health victim than she does a rescued person (I would know) The way she described her surroundings and people were just too obvious.
And the fact that now it is so obvious that she enjoyed the attention. What a disgusting person.
I feel so bad for Keith because he went through hell and back trying to find his wife and she was lying the whole time. Sherri might’ve been a good mother but she never seemed like good wife from what her love life shows. And what kind of mother fakes a kidnapping leaving their kids behind ? I wonder how long she would’ve remained hidden
She’s a horrible mother. How could you ever plan to leave your children for an unknown amount of time just for your own selfish reasons. I could never imagine leaving my son for any amount of time, the pain of missing your child would be crushing. I don’t understand this psychopath at all.
She wasn't a good mother either, being a house wife and dropping your kids off at day care isn't mothering.
I wouldn't even call her a good mom, either. Good moms don't put their kids through hellish trauma that's likely to permanently emotionally scar them, just because mommy decides she wants an adventure.
As a mom myself, I think she's not just a terrible mom, but I think she's actually possibly even dangerous to her kids. I'd be very careful letting her have any unsupervised time with them...ever again.
It’s so crazy how before it was proven that she lied, she was described as this beautiful super mom with this beautiful love story with Keith. Now we hear about how much of a liar and thief she is
the way people can be overly glorified once they’re presumed gone is interesting.. of course there are victims of these crimes who truly were amazing people through and through, but otherwise it’s not as prim and proper as it seems
And dated a 15 year old. What an amazing person she is
That lady a racist pedo.
This is true about everybody they make look like a hero on tv. Most people are dicks or really good pretenders.
her making her kidnappers woc will always have me vexed
k just watched the rest of the video 😭 so she was always a weirdo with latinos
@@antiknetz Something that made me laugh was how she said "they had a problem with me being white". Like, so is 50% of Latin America? Trust me love, you are not important to them.
We do not claim her
Quite funny how you lot refer to brown and blacks as “people of colour” I don’t think you know what colour actually is… it is multiple variations of colours…. Brown and blacks do not have different colours like White people do…. Whites go from red, blue, yellowish to tanned…. Aka golden. Brown and blacks do not change colour ever. They are one colour all the time. People in America are absolutely below 40 in IQ and facts.
I'm a Mexican and i remember my mom taking me to a church with pretty much 0 other people of color and this one kid said Mexicans can't go to heaven because we are darker because of our sins and white people are white because they are pure. I wasn't even a religious kid but damn bruh. That shit hurt 💀
Please don't believe in that, I'm telling you now it's not true. God is not racist, he made all of us and love us all. I'm so sorry you had to go through that, people are so cruel. I'm white just so you know
@@shadowcat889 Maybe you should tell others like you that they are wrong and not to say those things to people.
@@crunchberrychaos1545 what other people like me? You make no sense. How am I supposed to tell complete strangers what to do do I look like superman to you? Jesus just leave a nice comment alone. It's idiots like you who ruin a completely good interaction
@@shadowcat889 Other Christians! I totally get you feeling bad for the dude up there and that it is wrong what he was told. So to counter that, you should go out and tell other Christians ( like at your church)to be good to others and not day hurtful things in the name of Christianity. Maybe even show them the post and say, "People like us have these awful beliefs and we need to correct that by being more welcoming and speaking out against those who misrepresent us."
@@crunchberrychaos1545 no thanks, I don't want to be a super hero and do all that. I was just leaving a kind comment because what that person did to this person is obviously wrong. So yeah please leave me alone, thanks
58:05 “she’s very very regretful of her actions and it will never happen again.”
Oh sweetie…. Cheating is not what you’re in trouble for here.
One wild part of all of this is that the “captors” were so “Hispanic” but they primarily spoke in English? Especially when fighting with one another over who is going to wash her clothing? Like what? Mariachi torture?? So offensive 🤦🏻♀️
Ikr?! The lengths ppl will go to be the victim 😒 (and ya know act racist simultaneously)
honestly this is horrible, but really points out a bigger problem in the justice system. POC kidnappings are barely covered and hardly ever get the help they need afterwards. Its a horrible double standard.
As a mother I can't help by wonder how will her husband ever explain to his kids what their mommy did?
Same here. It's so awful. And to think that people actually were gushing about what an amazing "supermom" she was!!
Hailey being unapologetically Puerto Rican while reading Sherri’s little essay about Hispanic women 😂❤
She is?
is she Puerto Rican???
I need proof on this
@@caylanilisaengels1551she mentioned it in a vlog i think
@@user-jp4cj3ds7p “proof” bruh
Poor Keith. He seemed like such a kind, caring dude. Shame Sherri for hurting so many people and taking time away from searching for real missing people
Did Keith not know she was cheating on her partner while she was with him? He married a tramp and got bit back in the butt. She wasn’t a good person when she married, and he knew that. He isn’t worth sympathising for unless he didn’t know about that he was in an affair with a married woman.
I have sooo much respect for people who don’t disclose any legitimate information of children involved in stories, awesome job Hailey
I’ve always been SO curious about the psychology of James. Romance makes everyone a little less logical from time to time…but I’d like to think my mind could still rationalize:
Fake Kidnapping = No win scenario
he’s DEFINITELY the bad guy. they did everything together and lied together
Yep definitely a bad dude who helped orchestrate all of this
Yes and he didn’t even get any booty out of it.
i know all of this is super serious, but the 911 call and the trucker saying, "her name is ... sherri panini?" cracked me up
She lived RIGHT down the road from me, this was such a huge thing in our community! It was absolutely crazy when everyone found out the truth.
The way she put so much focus on them being Hispanic and claiming mariachi music was torture would’ve instantly made me clock her as faking 💀
I remember her episode on Dateline. After watching it my mother and I both were like this lady is lying about being kidnapped. We saw right through her story it made no sense and had way too many holes. The fact it took 6 years for the truth to come out I feel bad for the husband and kids.
omg it was on dateline??
Is this Gone Girl?
I wish she covered more about the holes in her story in this video. Can you elaborate on what set off your “fake” alarm bells when you watched it? To me the story sounded solid even when James confessed everything. She didn’t cover the facts that made the lie obvious very well.
I thought it was a hoax from the get go too. Heck just from seeing her blank eyes in her photos.
Sherri is a terrible person. I feel so so bad for her husband and kids.
I don’t feel bad for them. I feel like everyone has a crazy family member. I feel bad for the girl that was kidnapped on the same day and got NO attention.
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360what a moronic comment. You can feel bad for the other missing girl AND Sherri’s family. This is more than “a CrAzY FaMiLy MeMbEr 🤪”
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360That doesn't make any sense. Feeling bad for that girl doesn't mean one cannot feel bad for the family as well
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360 weird
It angers me to my core as a young Mexican nb to hear this story & similar stories in which Latine people are harassed, accused, assaulted, kidnapped & murdered & we get no justice, & barely a lick of attention.
but when a white woman goes missing & completely fabricates an entire story, everyone still gives her sympathy, compassion, & given more than enough “justice” even if nothing happened
My blood boils
Idk the Vanessa Guillen case got a lot of attention and still does to this day.
And more than $100 k to help her case! 🤯
@@caitlankelly4367one case out of thousands
Wow she really went “what’s the most stereotypical thing hispanics do.” 😂
Something that's interesting is that you said when she first talked to the doctors after she was found, she had told them that she hurt her foot/leg, but when they checked nothing was wrong. And in the reddit post that she had made, in the bottom half, she talks about how she hurt her leg on the bleachers and her dad had told her not to "let it slow her down" and to "keep walking." She made it sound like this was a really "important" moment for her.
Do you think maybe when the doctors were first talking to her after she was found, that in that moment, she said that she had hurt her foot/leg because she was actually mixing up her stories? Clearly the reddit post story inspired her kidnapping story, with all the odd similarities and patterns. So maybe, when she was speaking to the doctors, she slipped up on her lies and accidentally mixed up the two stories - hence, why she said she had hurt her leg/foot but actually didn't.
Hopefully that makes sense. Just something I noticed.
It also could just be that she was bringing it up to add context to something more recent but the doctors thought she meant it had just happened. When I called the cops after an assault I tried telling them the events leading up from weeks ago and they were confused and thought everything I said just happened that night. It was my fault for not being clear bc I was talking at a million words per minute but I wonder if she just got them confused the same way. Of course since she’s a pathological liar we don’t know if the high school injury story is real either
@@Bettersucksaul I hope the police genuinely helped after your assault, and whoever did that to you was put away for a long time.
Oh God, Sherri will be released next year?! She is a dangerous person and she caused a lot of trauma to her ex-husband and kids.
Ehhh, she just lied. It's bad but i wouldn't call her dangerous...
I hope she has to payback at least a percentage of the resources she wasted and participate in mandatory mental health counseling. She has the potential to ruin future people's lives and that certainly makes her dangerous. She is an extreme pathological liar and its all to get her own selfish agendas met.
@@ereristark425 if she’s capable of all this, imagine what else she’s capable of
Idk. She seems like a danger to herself more. Like put her on house arrest dont waste tax payer money to feed her
I have to go to bed, but after reading the title I can’t. Gotta meet myself half way and listen to this while I fall asleep. Also- HOOOOW, for 6 years! Girl!!😮
What country are you in?? I want to sleep at 3pm too 😴
@@chuck4714 where I am the comment was like at 9pm and I’d love to sleep then too honestly 😅
Me too😅
@@chuck4714 Scandinavia :)
The interviewer looking at the camera took me out 💀 he knew something was off
She wasted so many resources. All that time and energy and money that could have helped bring real victims back. she put other real victim’s credibility in question. She hurt her family and her community and for what🤦🏽♀️
A girl named stacy smart disappeared the same day, same town Sherri “went missing” and she still missing, she got zero media attention because of this liar
not only that but she had Keith an amazing man who was loving & cared for her. and she completely took advantage of it. the way so many people would kill to have a man like that. & she acts as if he’s nothing.. smh.
44:16 this is so true, I'm mixed race (my mom being white & my dad being black) and tons of kids randomly yell racial slurs at me in the halls, throw stuff at me ect. so for some random white lady to say she was singled out by non-white-girls/women makes me feel absolutely sick
America: were the people of colour can never be considered a bully.
I don't believe she was, but it can actually happen. Racism isn't uni-directional. There were only a couple of Latinos who did this to me, and never to the scale Sherri talked about. I think she projected so she'd have an excuse to be evil. Narcissistic personalities never see their bad behavior as their fault. They make excuses as to why their hideous actions are just.
Maybe, but most victims who have experienced being singled-out by others because of their race ect. Don't like to make a massive story about it online, normally they wouldn't exagerrate(sorry idk how to spell it) by saying that they've won in a fought against the people being racist to her. The story overall just seems quite unrealistic and in all honesty, I'm struggling to believe it's true.
@@AkumaChakai that's why I can't believe her, either. She is a narcissist. They have delusions of grandeur, are perpetual victims who believe their own lies, and enjoy the smell of their own farts.
“Hoop earrings” I ascended 😭
My dad worked with Keith at Best Buy and I remember him talking about it when she first disappeared and it was so scary because no one had a clue. It was the biggest thing in the sac area at that time. We were suspicious of her disappearance in the first place but when it was confirmed it was all a lie it was still unbelievable that someone could do that to their family especially their children. It’s something that you never want to believe actually happened
This lady wanted to be oppressed so bad 🤨 embarrassing
Really tho
This woman is the reason real crimes out there don't get solved, very sad
It’s even worse in Florida because the judicial system won’t inflict any harsh punishment to a police impersonator named Jeremy Dewitte.
I remember watching this on the news and feeling so bad for the husband
Watching this in march of 2024 feels crazy
As someone who was bullied in school by "Latina girls", they were not ever violent, just talked a lot of shit, some of it being kind of funny in hindsight even though it sucked to be on the receiving end of it. Pretty creative insults. Frankly, it made me notice the cultural differences and made me want to understand those differences better and ended up making friends through it. If only people didn't just pick stupid reasons to use as a template for their recurring excuses, maybe Sherri would've made a friend too.
Aww ur so sweet
I was defended from bullying in school by the Latina girls and they absolutely were violent. We seem to have had very different childhoods.
@@malegria9641 okay, does that change or make the fact that Sherri is a racist pedo any better? Because I’m genuinely confused about the point of this discourse.
@@malegria9641 not every Latina girls going to have the same personality 😀
@@jnk820 I’m just saying the ones at my school dude
The pseudonyms for the kids really made me look at u with respect. Very sweet and thoughtful.
Her poor husband. I’ve watched several videos on this story and it still blows me away. Great job Haley I love your channel!
I used to go to a school with mostly white peoples and I had to move school because I would ge bullied for being Mexican. For a while I was never proud of being Mexican and I would hate talking because I have an accent. But now I’m proud to be Mexican and it’s just horrible how people like Sherri hate colored people for no reason
i also went to a mostly white school and felt out of place constantly bc i was mexican, now im not fluent in spanish anymore 😢
Always be proud of your heritage
I went to a school in middle school and I was pretty much the only white girl. I got beat up everyday for not being hispanic. Im however close friends with many hispanics now. My bestie is a mexican lady. This lady was just racist.
There was a former student Tara Smith that went to HS with Sheri that actually did go missing when she was 16 years old in the same town and has never been found. She was rumored to be having an affair with her marshal arts instructor or something, said she was going for a quick run, he admitted to seeing her and then says he does not know what happened to her. That is an actual true story and would love to learn more about it. Thanks for the great video as usual!
That’s not called an affair…
He was a pedo and definitely had something to do with it
@@christinajackson6309 right sorry this guy is a child abuser or pedophile if there was a romantic relationship going on (not sure how to phrase it). It would be interesting to see what his statement was to police. I think he was married at the time. There is not much information available when looked it up. There was a 48 hrs episode that I cannot find.
You described grooming and r*pe as an affair… hun.
@@actuallyimnotreallysureyet6360 Hi yes am aware that used the term affair instead of saying Tera was allegedly groomed and sexually molested on a possibly regular basis by an adult married man that was her Karate teacher, since she may have thought that he really cared for her. I was honestly not sure if YT would censor that comment and thought it may even be a bit TMI speaking out the victim. I know that Tera was an innocent 16 year old child and this guy was a rapist scum bag. Sometimes I wish the English language had better words to describe things. From the Oxford dictionary, an affair is "a sexual relationship between two people, one or both of whom are married to or in a long-term relationship with someone else". CA age of consent is 18 but approximately half of the 50 states have 16 as the age of consent. crazy right?
So, like, she did all this for a romantic month away with her boyfriend but actually just tortured herself in a dark room..?
no literally like what was the point, why not relax and drink piña coladas or something 💀
Exactly 😂
At first I was shocked by the 18 months but at the same time since she’s not a direct violent threat, her rotting in jail doesn’t help the situation, especially since she already wasted a lot of money. The $300k fine will have her working full time until she dies and that’s pretty suitable! (Assuming Keith got the house and everything…)
It's really sad how another woman got kidnapped around this time and ofc it was real but she was never found because barely anyone knew she went missing because this attention seeking b was the center of attention.
i think you’re referring to stacey smart. yeah it is very sad
poor keith. I hope he heals and find someone who deserves his love ❤
Ahh the good ol' days when a family of 4 could not only survive, but thrive on a single full time Best Buy income.
i was thinking this 😭😭😭😭
When the sister started talking I laughed so hard it sounds like they were forced to say that about Sherri 😂😂😂😂
You can’t force anyone to any crazy shit like that, not saying she’s innocent but why would he do all that fr
Exactlyyyyy
honestly though, as terrible as it all obviously is, i’m sort of impressed by how far she went. she literally branded her body so no one would know that she was cheating on her husband. that’s a level of insanity i think very few people are capable of. at the same time, it’s really sick bc you know that she got all these ideas to hurt herself from situations like Elizabeth Smart’s and that’s just so disgusting.
“Two Hispanic women, mariachi music, rice, tortillas” girl😐
hoop earrings with a bandana too 🙄
I was actuallly kidnapped in 2011, when I was 10:/ People like this, make voices like mine less heard.
I’m white and went to a predominantly Hispanic school before. My sister had issues with ppl but everyone left me alone. It was always sherry / my sister personality types who are the real problem. Gonna assume she bragged about her “pride in her heritage” and I hope those girls did get her for it lol
Whoa, so it’s ok for everyone but white people to have pride in their heritage? Got it.
I’ve heard this story so many times but never has it been in so much detail, thank you !
I know 18 months doesn’t sound like a long prison sentence, but it’s that 309k of a fine that is going to be worse than prison. I know people who have served a week or so, but then owed even 10k and that fine literally ruins their life. When you get a job, every paycheck goes directly towards the fine. She will never be able to enjoy life again with a fine that large. If you do not continuously pay them (if she didn’t work) they’ll just bring you back to jail.
i’d rather her serve long years in prison tbh. innocent people have to pay off debts, she’s a criminal.
I am sorry but it was really funny when the guy on the phone with 911 said 'Her name is Sherri Panini' 😂
Im so proud of you! I've been watching you since forever. I even remember vividly your first sponsorship. You've come so far
I felt like she wants the attention from someone but never expected this to get this big.
the fact her ex boyf was willing to do all that is wild tho. can we talk about that.
Especially the sexual assult.. like..
When i first heard this story her mentioning holding the wadded up stuff pretending it was her kids broke my heart. Now, knowing what i know it makes me sick. Like girl... you really missed em huh?
I've heard this story so many times but somehow I didn't realize that it took 6 years for her to get caught.
I love how the definition of "supermom" apparently means that she could bake attractive pies and that she spent time with her kids when they weren't in daycare.
In that case, I'm not just a supermom...I'm like a super-hyper-ultra-awesome-perfectmom!! Woohoo! My pies are gorgeous and I love spending time with my kids! Heck- I didn't even send them to daycare when I was a stay-at-home mom...I actually stayed at home with them! Somebody give me a damn bouquet and crown! 🙄🙄🙄
Honestly, I hope you do get some flowers because you deserve them. Too many people have kids and shouldn’t :( it’s nice you actually want to be with your kids
@@bethventuresx8283 Aww, thank you! ☺️
@@maneckineckbeard1749 💐 💓
my pies suck but I raised my kids my damn self, no daycare. I even took my kids to work with me.we are the most perfect awesome moms wow.
@@MsBabyChips Right?! My mom worked more than full-time and took me to work with her, and I doubt she's ever baked a pie from scratch in her life...but she was definitely a supermom! It's almost like Sherri's supporters think that only the most "traditional" mom's who do the bare minimum are "supermoms," as opposed to the truth, which is that supermoms come in all different shapes & sizes!
Every time I hear this story I feel so bad for Keith and their kids…
I'm so sorry for her family and friends.
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be worried as hell about a loved one. Scared for their life, not knowing if you'll ever see them again.
Only to find out they made this all up?? That's horrible
Please do a video about Stacey Smart. I am watching another video currently after reading a comment while watching yours and it’s so heartbreaking to have a tangible example of limited resources wasted on this woman’s lies
i've heard this case a million times but i love hanging out with you so much in your videos you make me feel like i have a bestie. i'll never get bored of you fr
Her sisters look like they are lying about their sister being such a good and nice person 🤣 hell the one can’t even stop smiling and almost laughing.
Grateful for her abductors because without them she wouldn't have gotten home safely?? What an absolutely unhinged thing to say. This whole case is insane!
the clips of her husband crying on the news broke my heart.
girl they came out with a hulu documentary about this and i was absolutely WRACKING my brain wondering where i had heard this story from and it was you!!!
Who the heck does this?! She’s crazy. Did the man not realize he could be arrested for kidnapping? She hurt her entire family, this stupid man and many other people. What a piece of work!!
She was blowing 🤧 & rubbing the hell outta that “broken nose” 🫠😂
I have to note a few things, just minor details but still (this case fascinated me in the worst way. She’s a garbage human)
1. Sherri told the police there was a nice captor and a mean one. The day she was released the captors were “arguing”, she heard the gunshot, and the NICE captor came and grabbed her and “got her out of there”. So just one let her out. Not both. This is why she launches into the “she saved my life I don’t want to talk about her” when cornered about lying. Basically insinuating that the “good” captor shot and killed the bad one and freed Sherri and that’s how she got let go.
2. James did very little to hurt her other than the branding. She did it to herself. She asked him to smack her in the face with I believe a hockey stick. He said no so she smashed it into her OWN nose to break it. She punched herself. Slammed her legs into corners and dressers. Most of her physical damage was caused by herself. He did do some after she begged but not much. The branding he did do.
3. James was interviewed in his home when he spilled the beans. When they went in they saw the layout was the same she described in her story.
4. They were not going to press charges on her if she’d just tell the truth. They gave her one last chance to save herself by just being honest but she wouldn’t do it. She launched into “James did it? No. No way. James couldn’t of done this!” 🤦🏻♀️ she really was gonna ride this to the end.
Poor poor poor keith telling the cops that he’s the idiot husband broke my heart. He felt so dumb. So got. So broken. I felt terrible for him.
Her sister and sister-in-law, were not selling to me that they believe for a second that she was taken. They were so nonchalant. It was almost reading like bad acting.
You did such a good job on this story hailey! Nice to listen to a mystery that didn’t result in murder.
I had a friend who was like Sherri.
She had a hard time controlling outbursts but could handle it enough that she could apologize and explain away everything and cut people off if they saw her as a red flag until she collected enough people who couldn’t see through her at all and fooled them all into thinking she was pregnant right after graduation because she didn’t want her bf to go off to college. She got drunk and admitted some of it to a friend who ended up outing her years later when they had a huge friendship breakup.
Wild shit, I could see her doing this.
really loved the part where you talked about minority struggles and the identity issues we face, i really appreciated that ❤
I mean, every race faces issues and struggles. You remain a victim by acting like one.
Wow you've blown up so much!
I subbed back after watching your Shane dawson video, I was hooked. Glad to see you're getting recognition you deserve, you'll hit a mill in no time!!
"her name is... sherri panini?" has to be my favorite part
You can always tell the guilty ones when they try so hard and put soooo much emphasis and animation in being relatable about something like “watching those um.. you know… crime shows, I just love watching them YOU KNOW *shrug* like I’m one of those people *shrug* I just like watching them. I know what happens, im one of those moms *shrug* who just love watching those shows YOU KNOW?”