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Episode 339 - Sherri Papini: The Woman Who Fooled the World

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True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Three weeks after going missing, Californian ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini was found running down a highway with a chain tied to her waist and the word "exodus" burned into her back.

Her story defied belief. Kidnapped outside of her home, by a pair of Latina women and driven hundreds of miles with nothing but mariachi music for company, it seemed almost too strange to be true.

The police investigation that followed was one of the biggest in recent memory - yet it took over four years before the truth finally came out.

And what detectives found, turned out to be even stranger than Sherri's bizarre story...

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