The other girl wasn't out jogging. That is what she told her parents she was going to do but she was really going to meet her married, much older martial arts instructor she was having an affair with. They found a note she had wrote to him saying their relationship was immoral in the eyes of God and they had to stop. He admitted to meeting her and dropping her off before he went to "pray" alone for 5 hours out in the wilderness. They never arrested him for the murder but they searched his house and sent him to jail for 7 years for owning guns while being a felon basically over punishing him for a crime because they couldn't get him for the murder he most likely committed.

So, no it really isn't an interesting twist because it isn't nearly as similar as people writing headlines want to make it seem to get the clicks.

Sleuths,

Anyone been following this case?

Last I read about it was how their neighbors are sick and tired of the fake news media trying to get glimpses of the reward donation keeping victim.

oh hai

DNA evidence, new clues revealed in mysterious Sherri Papini abduction case

Here's another crazy puzzler that I'm not buying the family's take at all: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...022-story.html

Nothing about this adds up. You don't need a gun in Joshua Tree where snakes and coyotes are the biggest dangers. Why go hiking in the desert in July? Why was he out there scouting 2 weeks earlier? Why couldn't he go for help instead of shooting her in the head? Feels like all parties involved, including the cops, just want the whole thing to go away. Which is fair I guess, since the possible (likely) bad guy is dead.

huh? Do you think the dead guy was not the killer or something? If you think he is, well, he's dead so assigning honorable motives or whatever is probably more comforting for all the survivors so what's the problem.

Of course the dead guy was the killer. He shot her then he shot himself. No one disputes that.

The problem is I'm not buying he shot her out of mercy. He was there two weeks earlier scouting the place. He used to date her but now she was into someone else. He led her somehow to a remote box canyon off trail. He never tried to look for help apparently - even though searchers were everywhere. None of it makes any sense.

By your logic we should never investigate or try to get to the bottom of any crime if the bad guy is dead?

I have no problem with this. Police have limited resources, and their function is to bring the guilty to justice, not bring closure to the victim's family. Of course there's nothing stopping a family from investigating on its own.

Yeah on a practical level - fine. However, obviously they need to investigate enough to make sure no one else was involved (which I assume they're doing).

But I'm still calling bull**** when I read this stuff.

There is something off about this case. Maybe it is because she made all those anti-Mexican postings and then is kidnapped by Mexicans. Just not a lot of sympathy for the typical young, white female victim that you ordinarily see.

http://nypost.com/2017/10/25/cops-sa...y-dont-add-up/

Cops say details in ‘abducted’ jogger’s story don’t add up

First, authorities found that the California mom had male DNA on her clothes when she was picked up by cops, despite her claims that she was kidnapped by two women.

Then they discovered that an incident Papini told cops about — in which she fought back against one of her captors and cut her foot — apparently never happened.

“When she was being processed at the hospital … no evidence of a cut was seen in the photographs,” Sgt. Brian Jackson told the Record Searchlight newspaper in Redding, where Papini lives.

I don't know about you, but if I ever decide to buy a sex slave those two qualities would be of the utmost importance.

Here we go again! Literally zero information included as to why sex trafficking is a plausible explanation other than it's not impossible.

http://people.com/crime/leah-rose-at...ad-speaks-out/

Maybe they should have asked her what's up?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...sted-fraud-fbi

The California mom who claimed she was kidnapped, then beaten and branded as she was held captive for three weeks, was arrested Thursday on charges of lying to federal authorities and mail fraud.

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Ex-Boyfriend said he helped her create some of the injuries, although he never laid his hands directly on her; for example, she told him, 'bank a puck off my leg,' so [he] shot a puck off her leg, lightly," the complaint states.

The Piece of Evidence That Broke Open the Sherri Papini Case
https://people.com/crime/the-piece-o...i-papini-case/

I wonder when she’s gonna make an onlyfans