Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it, leaving her motive unanswered in the carefully planned hoax that set off a three-week search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016.
More than five years after she said she was kidnapped and tortured, Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to two of the 35 felony counts, including lying to federal agents and mail fraud.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Northern California woman pleaded guilty Monday to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it, leaving her motive unanswered in the carefully planned hoax that set off a massive three-week search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016.
She also agreed to pay restitution topping $300,000. That includes the cost of the search for her that covered several Western states, and the subsequent investigation into the “two Hispanic women” she said had kidnapped her at gunpoint. He suggested “a very complicated mental health situation," and said her long-delayed acceptance of responsibility and punishment is part of the healing process.
Both cautioned that they have not examined Papini and that many factors in the case remain unknown to the public.
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