6 episodes
HOAX: The Sherri Papini Story CAKE MEDIA
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- True Crime
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3.9 • 70 Ratings
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Premier: Wednesday June 29th, 2022.
On November 2nd, 2016, California mom Sherri Papini went out for a jog and vanished. Three weeks later, she was found on the side of the road, badly beaten up and claiming she'd been kidnapped and tortured. But it was all fake. Like a real-life "Gone Girl," Sherri Papini had completely fabricated her abduction.
Journalist Abby Schreiber explores one of the most bizarre true crime sagas in recent memory, diving into the graphic lies Sherri told to the colorful characters who pop up during the investigation, all in an effort to discover whether any clues from Sherri's past foreshadowed all of the lies and deceit in her future.
This is a CAKE MEDIA Original Production
Credits:
Created by:
Jessica Devine and Abby Schreiber
Written and hosted by:
Abby Schreiber
Executive produced by:
Elena Murdock
Sound design and editing by:
Gus Hurteau with additional help from Jacob Stein and Jason Rabinowitz at The Pop Ups Studios
Original art by:
Keitha McClocklin
Graphics by:
Katherine Deck
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Episode 5: Sherri’s Sentencing
After pleading guilty to lying about being kidnapped, Sherri Papini was charged with Making False Statements and Mail Fraud. Finally, her big day in court arrives where she’ll learn her sentence. After a dramatic memo from her defense lawyer and stunning statements in court, the Judge makes a shocking decision.
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Episode 4: The Unraveling
After years go by with little news about Sherri’s case, law enforcement makes a huge breakthrough that blows everything wide open. When DNA from the clothing Sherri was wearing in captivity shows that it belonged to an unknown male, the police use some of the same methods used to crack cold cases like the “Golden State Killer” and ultimately trace the sample to Sherri Papini’s ex-boyfriend. After authorities interview the Ex, they learn a stunning revelation: Sherri’s kidnapping was all made up…
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Episode 3: Who Is Sherri Papini?
As investigators continue to look into Sherri’s case, new details emerge about her life before she went missing. Her past includes a first husband, problems with her parents over the years, and a shocking rumor that she once posted on a white supremacist message board. With this new information, will investigators be able to track down her captors? Or will they conclude that the whole thing was made up?
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Episode 2: A Supermom Returns
After Sherri is unexpectedly found on the side of the road, her family is overjoyed by her return. But their happiness quickly turns to horror when they see what’s happened to her: she’s apparently been burned, beaten up, and branded. After law enforcement interviews Sherri about her ordeal, new—and surprising—details emerge about her alleged abductors and her time in captivity.
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A Supermom Disappears
On November 2, 2016, Sherri Papini, a young mother of two kids in Redding, California, went out for a jog…and vanished. As law enforcement begin to hunt for clues, her worried husband shares the story of her disappearance with the media, prompting a mysterious anonymous donor to come forward and offer a “reverse ransom” in an effort to get Sherri released. The donor taps a self-described “abduction expert” to negotiate with Sherri’s alleged captors as days tick by and the case heats up. But, just as things look bleak, a major new twist develops three weeks after Sherri first went missing…
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Customer Reviews
Misrepresents Keith and def not a court reporter
KP is not a duped husband. He’s not in on it but he was not searching for Sherri, did not pass the polygraph, lied about her injuries and attacked critics while spending the GFM on a new truck, etc. Also, he didn’t file for divorce until after a year of the final FBI interview - not until the media got the news out about the hoax. Watch how the FBI agents treat him during that final interview - they also know he’s not duped. He’s not the villain but he’s far from deserving sympathy. Their poor kids do.
Oh, and we know exactly what Sherri was listening to on her fateful “jog”. Speculating about it was a waste - a little digging would have paid off.
This podcast could have been an email.
Definitely not a deep dive. Just doing mindless tangents isn't drilling down. Didn't end up even finishing it.
terrible writing presented by a middle aged woman pretending to be a teenager
the writing and journalism on this was awful. the asides were distracting, stupidly irrelevant. the presenter is a older millennial who talks like an idiot valley girl. i was very interested in this story, but had to stop listening because it was just that bad.