Sherri Papini leaves the federal courthouse in Sacramento, California, Sept. 19, 2022. – Credit: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Sherri Papini, the Redding, California, mother who faked her disappearance, plans to open up about her 2016 kidnapping hoax in a forthcoming Investigation Discovery docuseries. The ID docuseries, slated for 2025, will feature exclusive interviews with Papini and […]
The entire chapter of the Bakersfield, California, Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was arrested as part of a kidnapping, robbery and assault probe, authorities said Tuesday. Those arrested included five active members of the club’s Bakersfield chapter, as well as two others who are members of Sons of Hell, a motorcycle club that answers to the […]
GENEVA COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) — A woman accused of luring a man on a fake date where he was nearly stabbed to death has pled guilty on the day her trial was meant to start. On Monday, June 24, Shalyn Diaz pled guilty to one count of attempted murder in the kidnapping and stabbing of […]
Sherri Papini dominated national headlines in 2016 after the California woman claimed to be kidnapped, held captive and tortured for 22 days. Years later, it was unraveled as nothing more than a hoax. Keith Papini, Sherri’s husband at the time, revealed in a new interview how she was known to exaggerate stories and lie, but […]
Jun. 23—A guilty plea has garnered a 23-year-old man a 10-year federal prison sentence after an attempted armed kidnapping at Waterrock Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Evan William Blankenship pled guilty to possession and discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence while other charges against him were dismissed as part […]
A man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in the attack against former US house speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was convicted on Friday of aggravated kidnapping, a conviction that mandates life behind bars without the possibility of parole. A San Francisco jury also found David DePape guilty of first-degree burglary, false imprisonment of an […]
Sherri Papini, a California mom of two, disappeared while jogging in 2016. She resurfaced 22 days later on the side of a highway with injuries, claiming to have been kidnapped. She kept up the tale with her husband, Keith Papini, their kids and investigators for years. While she did disappear, the rest of Sherri Papini’s […]
Phoenix police arrested a woman on Tuesday on suspicion that she kidnapped and abused three juveniles with zip ties and weapons. Police were called to an apartment complex near Indian School Road and Interstate 17 on Monday after three kids knocked on the door of a home and claimed a woman, later identified as 33-year-old […]
Jun. 19—A Johnstown woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2022 murder of a man in Indiana County. Taylyn Edwards, 20, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to a charge of first degree murder in the death of Hayden Robert Garreffa, 19, of Ebensburg. As part of the mandatory life sentence, Edwards will […]
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Anthony F. Pereira II is being tried in the killing of his 66-year-old mother and kidnapping of a 48-year-old woman. Pereira, left, sat Tuesday with his defense attorney, Harrison Kiehm, at Circuit Court in Honolulu. 1 /1 CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Anthony F. Pereira II is being […]
Originally appeared on E! Online Keith Papini is finally speaking out. Seven years after his ex-wife Sherri Papini‘s kidnapping was revealed to be a hoax, the father of two shared his perspective on why his former partner faked her abduction, saying that he believes it was born out of a desire for him to be […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was convicted of kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son by forcing them into her car outside a New Hampshire mall and bringing them to Vermont while he was searching for his estranged wife. Everett Simpson, 46, was […]