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The summer of 2020, the number of
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coronavirus cases at home and abroad
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continue to climb. Everyone was wearing
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masks, and these were masks that
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looked like the masks that Sherry had
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described to law enforcement.
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So we were having a lot of therapy around
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that. Oh,
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no! In terms of us as a couple and the
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kids and family, it didn't really...
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change our lives that much, like it
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did so many others, because she
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was already kind of at home a lot during
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that time.
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I was here every single day, and
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that's what Sherry ultimately wanted.
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Okay, Violet, look at Daddy. Look
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at Daddy. She loved it because I could
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protect her and make her life
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comfortable. We
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were doing really, really well at
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that moment.
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And then out of the blue, got a call
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from Kyle. He says he wants to talk.
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And he wanted to meet at the FBI office.
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So I was like, OK, if the FBI's
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involved, this is probably something
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good.
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So obviously it's been a long road,
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incredibly long road. Sorry to come.
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Before we get too far, obviously,
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just like always, thank you for
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coming. We appreciate you taking the time
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to come back to us. As always, your
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presence here is voluntary. You can go at
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any time and. All
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we want is truthful statements because
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it's a crime to lie to federal officers.
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So there's always been DNA out there and
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we we've done testing after testing and
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we've just hit wall after wall after
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wall. But recently
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we found some familiar DNA hit.
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So what that does, it just tells us
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somewhere in this family tree is where
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the DNA comes from. So with that we open
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up the investigation. We started finding
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some interesting things.
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It's August 10th. I'm with FBI Agent
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Peter Jackson. Hello, good morning.
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My name is Peter. What's up, man? How
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you doing? Yeah. Hi, how you doing?
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Doing good. I'm Kyle Wong from the
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Sheriff's Office. Do you have a couple
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minutes we can talk? Sure, just right
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here or-- Inside-- it's completely up to
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you. The initial knock on the
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door, he seemed just like a
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normal. I
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would say, how do I say this? Try to
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be nice. So you just say like
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burnt out. So what can I help you boys
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with? We're here regarding Sherry Papini.
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OK. I'm just trying to figure out how you
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know her. When was the last time you
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talked to her? Obviously, you
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know, she had gone missing for a
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while. Yeah, we're here for a reason.
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Yeah. You know, we're not here to jam
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you. Oh, yeah. But we do want to
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understand the truth of what happened
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with Sharon. Can I come in?
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Yeah. Oh, shit. Here you go.
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Where'd you fly? All
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right. Yeah, . Absolutely. You need help?
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You went around the house-- or around the
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car. While we were looking for the bird,
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he gave Peter permission to go walk
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through the house.
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Did he go back under? No, no,
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he's under this truck. I want to be as
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helpful as I can, but it's a
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bird underneath a car. I can't really
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crawl on my hands and knees to help him.
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I'm just there standing in his pocket so
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that Peter could look through the house.
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In looking at the house, it was
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important to look at bathroom layout,
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the bedroom.
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Will you come to me?Nah, he's
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learning easy, baby. Come here,
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Josh. Come here. 23 doesn't get into that
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yard. That yard is savage over there.
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Peter and I matched back up. I had
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whispered to the the detective, this
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is the place.
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The description that Sherry provided was
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inside the house,
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the general look of the bedroom.
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The actual layout of the closet,
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with the way the lag bolt was and the way
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it was organized, it was very much
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like the the drawing she had done with
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Keith.
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So if you look at this closet. I
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haven't even looked at the picture
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yet, but I've seen it that way. Can I
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look at it?
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The closet that she described to me,
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there's probably one in the world
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that looks like she
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described, that she drew a picture of
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that I kind of added to, that I gave
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to the FBI that he references.
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Yes, I just found the original one of
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that that I was trying to explain.
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It's such a uniqueWay
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to, I guess, build a closet using the all
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thread pipe and that she was chained to
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it. It's got to be it. I mean, we're here
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for a reason and that's the picture that
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they show. It's a little bit different,
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but it's pretty,
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excuse my language, it's pretty fucking
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similar, but
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it's different.
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Is it more metal or like beefier like?
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Stronger this side of it a little bit
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more, basically the width of a
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plywood, sheet of plywood. We wanted
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Keith in the room because we knew that
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just showing the photos and putting them
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out there for Sherry to see that there
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was going to create some type of dynamic
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between the two of them that hopefully
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was beneficial to us.
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So that's fine.
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Is there anything in there that looks?
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Of interest or notable. So
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there's, I mean to me, I see a
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table there that somewhat looks like
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something you've described to me in the
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past. And then I see wood paneling
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talking about the room. Yeah, we
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noted both of those things back in August
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2017. And then we spoke with you
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about and you showed us this picture of
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the table. Do you remember that,
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Sherry? Yes. And so when we
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were trolling through this, you
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know, Facebook page, we saw just
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the edge of that table. Denise got it.
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Denise said, hey, Peter. So we're
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like, well, where was that photo
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taken, right? And so we were trying
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to figure that out. And
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so you took those pictures? I don't think
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so. I'm not even sure. Maybe. I know it's
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a long time ago. That was when I first
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moved in here. My brother, Nick.
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It's this table. Where's that table? That
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table is gone. That one's been broken for
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a while. OK. Kids jump on it, broke
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it down. One didn't break. Oh,
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wow, Doc. Here's the crazy thing.
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This is the table Sherry says she was on
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when she was branded. Yeah. Yeah.
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She showed us this picture. Just
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said, hey, it looks like
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this, which looks exactly like your
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table. So we just want to understand
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what's going on here. Yeah, no, I
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mean, I had that table here literally
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just about a month ago. 'Cause that
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really is the only choice. Either she
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came down here on her own, and I
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don't know why, or you arranged
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for these gals to go up there and get
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her. You know what happened,
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and now's your opportunity to tell us.
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Yeah, just, I don't have much for
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you guys.
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First, the closet, and then the
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photo. This is the very
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first time I've ever had a
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tiny bitOf potential evidence that is
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accurate that could potentially lead
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to these two women.
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We're showing you all of this
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because ultimately this is the house
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that they give out. We
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talked to the people that live there.
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Sorry, we we
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we found the house, we found who was
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involved. We've talked to who is
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involved. We talked to family
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who who knows that you were
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there and talked to a couple
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people that or talked to one guy who did
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see you during this event. There's
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there's a lot of truths and then there's
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the unknowns all thread through the
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thing. That's just and that's just weird.
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It's unique to this place like that's a
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pretty custom. You can't just go out to
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IKEA and buy a closet that looks like
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this. Yeah, exactly right. So
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once, once we have all those things
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and we start talking to the person who
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lives here, who had lived there,
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who still lives there, start talking
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to his family and starting that whole
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investigation, peeling one thing back
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after another, after another,
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doing the same thing we've done for the
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last four years. It led
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us to a specific person,
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but not a female. It led us to the
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car that picked you up, but not an
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SUV. So there's lots of different
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aspects that are truths and
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falses.
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And we're we're to the point now that
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nobody would have ever imagined that this
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would have blown up the way that it did.
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So I've been a cop 15 years.
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I've never seen the media scale that that
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this garnered pretty quickly.
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All we want is to to have the truth
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because the DNA came back, like I
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said, to a specific person. That
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specific person told us very specific
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things. His family then
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told us specific things.
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So if we can talk with Keith or
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without Keith here, what would you
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like?
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Do you want to step out or do you want to
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stay? Obviously, I want to stay.
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She's just sitting there looking to me
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like for me to do something, to
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step in so we can step out of the
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room, let you guys talk. He makes me
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feel safe in you. Absolutely. He makes
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you feel safe too. If you continue
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on, I know you can change your mind.
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Absolutely. We gave them
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time to talk to each other so we could
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listen to their conversations.
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You need to stop waiting. Tell me the
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truth. I
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don't. I don't
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know. I don't know. I don't want them to
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find her. You're not listening to me. But
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tell me why. Because she saved my
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life. Tell me. Honey, there's
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obviously somethingObviously, sometimes
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this is going to be really bad if you
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don't know me. Look at how you're being
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right now. I am. I am fucking with you. I
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don't want to go down that road. I don't
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want to. Tell me why. Because she saved
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my life, and she's the reason why I get
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to hold my children every single day.
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Tell me the truth. I know the
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truth. If you don't want her started,
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then that's up to you.
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You're not making sense, then.
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To the point where I'm getting scared.
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So you need to tell
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me what's going on immediately.
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Obviously, you can hear her going
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into the I don't want her caught, the
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quote, unquote, nice kidnapper
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because she saved her life and let her
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go. As soon as that started
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happening, we rushed back into the
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interview room. You seem scared. No,
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I'm
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not scared. As a
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friend, I should have called and
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warned Keith. As a
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friend, I should have let him
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know, like, I was going to ruin
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his life in a minute. But as the lead
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investigator, that's not my job. The
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relationship that I built was for this
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time. I'm ready to move on andand throw
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the dart and throw the rock and see what
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happens to the water. But Sherry,
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look at me. What do you want?
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I don't want her to get in trouble. She's
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not going to get in trouble. So the DNA
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came back to James Reyes.
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The DNA that was on you belongs to
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James Reyes.
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I know she's screaming for me right
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now, and I can't-- I don't know where
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you are. We
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knew we were at the right place. Now he
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was just getting her to tell us
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his story. I mean, I'm not I'm not
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trying to lie, you know? OK, I'll
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be honest. I didn't kidnap her. You
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know, I just-- friend
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in need asked me for help. There's no
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way it's James. There's no way.
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There's no way. The DNA doesn't lie. His
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DNA-- His DNA was on you. There's no way.
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Mario's saying it's not. I love
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you.
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Me and Sherry dated back in late
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2002, three, into maybe five,
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six. You know, we were alive at the
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time, but that was young love. I
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always got the feeling from James that he
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would do absolutely anything for Sheri.
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I told her. I was like, I could get
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in trouble, you know, but
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whatever.
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This was at a Dave & Buster's, so
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this is me. And this is James
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Reyes. I
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went to visit Sheri and James in
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2004.
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She had said she had met this guy,
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James Reyes,
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and she had moved down to Costa Mesa with
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him.
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She liked that he was kind of like a
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man's man, you know, really into
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hockey. Getting hurt all the time didn't
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bother him. And
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they seemed happy. I know
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you're nervous. No, I I'm fine
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talking. I talk. I mean, I'm good.
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Whatever happens, happens. That's how
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life is, right? Free will. So what
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did she have planned out? She sent me a
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care package and it had the directions in
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it.
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Some contact was reestablished in the
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2015 timeframe between him and
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Sherry over some burner phones that they
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shared between themselves. She was trying
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to get away from her husband and I don't
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know their deal. OK. You know, I
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didn't get deep into that because because
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there's always two sides to every story.
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Yeah. So I don't know, your husband
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beats you, your husband raped you.
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But that that was just a friend calling
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me and I'm like, well, I'm. So
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then what happened next?
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You know, I went and got her in what
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car? A rental car. It's
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like a Challenger. Did you even get out
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of the car? No. So you unlock the door
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and she gets in. Yeah. Front seat,
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front seat. Backseat. You're saying?
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Absolutely. It was just you and her in
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the car. There were no females involved.
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I don't know anybody. There's no girls. I
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mean, this is, yeah, there's
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no way, man. She stayed there the
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majority of the time of the ride down
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to Costa Mesa, which is probably
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a 8 to 9 hour drive. Yeah, I
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mean, I drive back, come back to
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where? Here.
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She walked into the house all by herself.
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He rearranged his house for Sherry to be
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on the back.
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She asked me if there's a way to seal the
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window up, and I was like,
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oh, good. Who put the boards up? I
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did. I just screwed him in
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there for her. Essentially, James
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just did what Sherry asked for 22 days.
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So during that 22 days, she has some
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significant injuries. Yeah. So there's a
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brand on on her. Yeah. There's
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significant bruising. I helped her. I
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mean, I didn't punch her or anything.
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I didn't even put hands on her or
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anything. She just was just
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like, uh, bank a puck off my leg.
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So I shot a puck off her leg.
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Created a bruise. Yeah. Another time,
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Sherry ran from across the house and hit
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her nose directly on the hockey stick
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that he held out, ultimately
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fracturing her nose. What about the big
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one on her arm?
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This one I feel like was this.
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Cross-check. It was like this. It's
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a hard time to think about. Don't beat
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yourself up. She hurt herself for some
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stuff here. You know, I was gone all day,
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eight, 10 hours. So you go to work, she
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comes in tit for tat every day,
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she's eating what she wants, how does,
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like, what food?She wasn't starving
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like, Hey, you don't get to eat.
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She would just minimize what she was
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eating. She chose to eat-- Like,
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she'd make food, like me and you
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eating every day, but just having
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half a banana. When did she get the rash?
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I went to Walmart and bought all kinds of
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cleaning stuff, and she did scrub the
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floor. She tried to take
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stains out, and then she's like,
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I got a rash. That's for the
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burning.
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It has some type of meaning of
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something, and I I can't remember. If
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I knew what it was, I'd tell you. How
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was the tool? We bought it. It was like
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a, what do you call it? A wood
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burning tool. I can't even say it
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did a good job. You know what I mean? I
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just, that's scary. You ever burned?
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Have you ever done that to someone? I
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truly don't believe there was anything
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malicious in James's heart. I truly think
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he was there to help a friend. I don't
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know of any friend that would burn me if
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I asked them to. It's a unique.
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Relationship. Because I don't think the
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average American can believe any of their
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friends would do the things that James
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did for her and then never reap any
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rewards. He was manipulated just like
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everybody else. And then one day Sherry
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just said she wanted to go home.
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Thanksgiving Day, I was just like, I'm
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ready to go. And I was like, seriously, I
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was bummed. Were we going to end up
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together?Like, I don't know where her
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thought was with this, but she couldn't
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be away from her kids anymore.
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Everybody's got a plan until reality
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hits, right?And so I'm guessing on her
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end that she had made-up when she
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was, she was ready to go and that's what
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she needed to have for whatever,
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whatever, whatever the situation was with
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the plan. Sherry asked for
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chain, asked for the locks, asked for the
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zip ties. James had some of the stuff at
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his house but had to go to Ace Hardware
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for the other stuff. She told him to
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drive home in the middle of the night and
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she got in the back seat. Started
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chaining herself up. She told
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James to get rid of his cell phone, just
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destroy it and randomly throw it out the
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window. And then she just asked him to
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pull over. He did. She got out of
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the car without a goodbye, just ran
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off. According to
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James, obviously he was shocked and
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turned around and drove home.
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She. Saying that she got kicked out
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of her boyfriend's.
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You've told us so many truths in this
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situation. The reason why you can
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describe the room is because you stayed
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in the room in the dark for hours, for
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days on end. The reason why you lost so
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much weight is because you stopped
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eating. The reason why you got a rash on
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your arm was because you cleaned his
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house. The reason why the brand
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is because he went to the store, bought
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the brand new tools and branded you. The
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reason why your nose was broke is because
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of a hockey stick.
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I know all of those things and I know
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there was no sex. I know all of that
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because he passed a polygraph test that
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said it's not an abduction.
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She asked me to come to get her. No,
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I rented a car, drove up and picked her
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up. He he passed the
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polygraph to us, Sherry. If that's not
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what happened, what did happen, Sherry?I
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don't know.
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It's a shout.
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So James is involved. So James is
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involved. But I don't. James picked you
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up. You called James to pick you up. You
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mailed him a letter with your address.
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You used a you used a burner phone.
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You're saying since your marriage you
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haven't called James?No, I have called
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James. Because earlier you said you
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hadn't contacted James.
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His phone records show that you do. You
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did. The phones don't lie, the
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DNA doesn't lie, Sherry. His
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polygraph doesn't lie. So you can go a
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couple different directions now. His
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story-- I've already told you lying to me
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is a crime. So you walk out the door
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telling lies, and that's a crime. I
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think we need my lawyer. This
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isn't making any sense. What's not making
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any sense, Sherry?Can I talk to you
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outside real quick?I'm very late. That's
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fine. I go out.
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I'm trying to, like, get distance away
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from this person that I thought I knew.
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Like, I was ready to die for her. And so
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I'm, like, really upset. And he's like,
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well, you need to watch out because
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she might try to harm herself or kill
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herself. And
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when he said that, I was like, what is
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happening?So it's your opportunity to
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say, were there issues between you and
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Keith?Is that why you needed to leave?I
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mean, we read your text message. We're
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already aware of some issues, but
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enlighten us if that's the case. If there
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was a valid reason for you to leave, let
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me know what that was. James said you had
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your jaw broken by him and that's why it
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came and got you, because you were in an
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abusive relationship.
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So were you in an abusive relationship
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with him?Have
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you told other people in your life that
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Keith has abused you in the past when
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that wasn't true?
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Or there was an incident at a party that
538
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,360
you got hurt playing like, I don't know,
539
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,920
Wii or Pictionary or something. And then
540
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,520
you told other friends that Keith hurt
541
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,240
you when there was witnesses at the party
542
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,000
that said you just that you got hurt
543
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,800
during a party. But then you go tell.
544
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,320
James that you were being hurt, you were
545
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,200
being abused and you couldn't come
546
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,640
forward because Keith has friends of law
547
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,520
enforcement. If all of that's, is that
548
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:04,880
true?
549
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:09,840
Yeah, I was like
550
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,680
looking for, you know, crying,
551
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,120
thinking about her, like not eating or
552
00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:20,280
being tortured and
553
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,360
and it's just hard to watch, you know,
554
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,760
something that's also, you know
555
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,440
Like I would ever, ever do those things
556
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,000
to anybody, let alone my wife.
557
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,520
Has Keith ever been abusive towards you?
558
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,000
We're not talking about my husband. I
559
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:38,480
love my husband.
560
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:42,800
So why leave?
561
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,520
Is James lying to us?Did a female point a
562
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,080
gun at you?Yes or no?I am done speaking
563
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,560
to you until I talk to a lawyer. I will
564
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,480
not arrest her. I am. With
565
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,360
my children because of her.
566
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,160
I don't understand.
567
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,120
I'm walking, pacing back and forth in the
568
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,240
hallway, back and forth in the hallway. I
569
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,360
wasn't shouting, I wasn't crying. I was
570
00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:12,400
just like just muted.
571
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,960
And I look up and I see a US Marshal was
572
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,520
there. So I I was under the impression
573
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,680
they were gonna arrest her and.
574
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,600
And they're like, you guys can go.
575
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,640
I'm just what?She's trying to tell me how
576
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,640
much he loves me. She's like, this, this
577
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,000
can't be. And I'm like, just don't talk
578
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,680
to me. Just don't talk to me. And I'm
579
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,480
walking. She stopped and said,
580
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,960
you know, maybe James was involved, but
581
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:44,880
he wasn't there.
582
00:26:54,010 --> 00:26:55,690
She never saw him. She didn't know he was
583
00:26:55,690 --> 00:26:56,890
there if he was involved.
584
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,720
And I'm just trying not to listen to her.
585
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,520
She's talking. I was like, I don't want
586
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,400
to hear it. I don't want to hear it. You
587
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,600
can get your lawyer, do your thing,
588
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:08,800
whatever you're going to do. Take her lie
589
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,040
detector test. But I can't. You can't
590
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,840
stay in the house. I couldn't handle
591
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,040
being around her. I didn't know what to
592
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:15,360
think.
593
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,560
Sherry called me and
594
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,680
said, Pammy, can I come to
595
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,560
your house?Keith's kicked me
596
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,200
out and I went, what?So I
597
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:44,800
told her she could stay here.
598
00:27:51,060 --> 00:27:52,780
They didn't arrest her. They said they
599
00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:54,260
were going to call me the next day. Then
600
00:27:54,260 --> 00:27:55,700
they pushed off the next day. They said
601
00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:57,020
it was going to go out and be released to
602
00:27:57,020 --> 00:27:58,580
the media. Then it didn't. Then it
603
00:27:58,580 --> 00:28:01,180
didn't. Then it didn't. Meanwhile, every
604
00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:02,820
single day, Sherry's like, I told you so.
605
00:28:02,860 --> 00:28:03,780
I told you so.
606
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,520
It was very difficult for me to navigate
607
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,400
that time.
608
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,320
My mom was watching the kids. It wasn't
609
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,880
something that I felt that we could tell
610
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,320
them. I didn't even know what was going
611
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,880
on yet. I just didn't know what to do.
612
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,280
I went to Dale's and we spoke.
613
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,560
He's always been like a father figure.
614
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,720
He basically said you can, you know, cut
615
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,960
her out of your life while at the same
616
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,320
time you, you know, you weren't handed
617
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,400
proof. You were basically handed another
618
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,040
version of the story. From James Reyes,
619
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,560
who if if I was caught
620
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,040
and I'm the kidnapper, I'm not going to
621
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,120
go, yeah, I kidnapped her. I'm going to
622
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,960
go, no, she told me to do it, you know?So
623
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,240
I was told a story by James Reyes. I was
624
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,360
told a story by my wife, and I wasn't
625
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,080
given any evidence
626
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,040
to suggest to me the
627
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,360
amount that I needed to to overweigh
628
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,000
that. If it turns out
629
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,520
that it is true that she was abducted,
630
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,760
can you live with yourself after that,
631
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,560
making that decision that you
632
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,280
essentially, you know, abandoned your
633
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,640
wife, took the mother of your children
634
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,280
away, or can you
635
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,080
continue to support her until
636
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,240
it's proven otherwise?
637
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,040
And when he framed it that way, I the
638
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,800
decision for me was easy.
639
00:30:08,130 --> 00:30:10,050
We were hoping she would have admitted to
640
00:30:10,050 --> 00:30:12,130
it during that confrontation,
641
00:30:13,090 --> 00:30:15,730
because the evidence at that point still
642
00:30:15,730 --> 00:30:17,570
wasn't strong enough for her to be
643
00:30:17,570 --> 00:30:20,450
arrested. Anything she
644
00:30:20,450 --> 00:30:21,650
was wearing would have, like, thought I
645
00:30:21,650 --> 00:30:22,810
would have purchased, you know. What
646
00:30:23,450 --> 00:30:25,970
about the wood burning tool?Cash. Just
647
00:30:25,970 --> 00:30:28,280
cash for everything. Yeah, I'm just
648
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,080
going. I was just going by how she was
649
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,560
playing before you even left here. Yeah,
650
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,680
I didn't plan any of this stuff out. But
651
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:34,880
now we're looking at it and trying to
652
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,280
figure out, OK, well, how can we prove?
653
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,640
How can we prove that?This was all
654
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,520
consensual. Did she call you afterwards
655
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,280
or text you afterwards?No, I
656
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,880
haven't. I haven't talked to her since
657
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,800
then. I
658
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,360
believe that James did all of those
659
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,760
things because she asked him to, but I
660
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,080
couldn't prove it. All she would had to
661
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,680
have done is say that he did it. How do
662
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,680
we prove that he didn't do it?I
663
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,440
was brought into the Sherri Papini
664
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,160
investigation sometime towards the end
665
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:07,440
of 2020.
666
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,120
My role was more collecting additional
667
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,600
evidence to corroborate James Reyes'
668
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,360
stories. What do you call it?A
669
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,120
wood-burning tool?Where's the tool?I
670
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,960
think she tossed it. I think we tossed
671
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,080
everything. I mean, I was going to keep
672
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,720
the little burner on, just because I was
673
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,120
like, well, I'll work on wood or
674
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,800
something. I mean, it's a tool, but she's
675
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,560
like, and toss that. I mean, like, she
676
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,120
threw away everything. Started
677
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,040
combing through social media,
678
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,800
discovered a secret Pinterest board.
679
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,440
Where Sherry had
680
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,400
saved photographs of different
681
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,440
branding equipment. It was
682
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,320
just interesting. You do not call James
683
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,240
and ask him to come. We did a lot more
684
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,520
review of the interviews to try and
685
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,280
glean any little bit of information. You
686
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,480
know, I went and got her. In what car?A
687
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,880
rental car. We were the corroborate by
688
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,480
the people who rented the cars for him
689
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,560
and the dates he was absent from work.
690
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,920
Still, we felt that we really needed to
691
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,280
get a little bit more. So I think I
692
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,840
issued another 31 federal grand jury
693
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,640
subpoenas.
694
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,440
And he was involved. So James is
695
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,720
involved. So James is involved. But I
696
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,600
don't-- James picked you up. I'm so
697
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,240
confused at this point. The
698
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,000
very first night I went in,
699
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,120
to the sheriff's office. Day one,
700
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,040
and I spoke to Kyle Wallace, and
701
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,040
I told him,
702
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,200
Check out James. Fuck. I
703
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,280
mean, I feel like I should be in the loop
704
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,840
on this, but I don't know. James, David.
705
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,000
She had a boyfriend after him. His name
706
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,120
was James, and he was a little abusive.
707
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,600
During her kidnapping, when everybody's
708
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,920
searching for her, we had like a war room
709
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,640
and a select few were involved.
710
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,240
I built this timeline. You see where it
711
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,520
says hockey player, abusive
712
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,160
James Randall Reyes. Sherry used to
713
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,360
complain that James used to hurt her a
714
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,240
lot. So that was obviously a suspect.
715
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,560
When Keith and Sherry's parents initially
716
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,960
told us the separation of
717
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,520
contact was more than a decade,James'
718
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,920
phone wasn't in her cell phone. There
719
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,240
wasn't conversations that we found.
720
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,680
So we really focused on James Reyes.
721
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,440
And without going through all the
722
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,880
names, we can skip to
723
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,680
James Reyes right here. And then next to
724
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,520
it, it's assigned a person, which was
725
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,320
Dale. We were there. We
726
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,720
simply were. We were at James Reyes'
727
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,120
place day one, right off the get-go
728
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,080
we had. Folks positioned there
729
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:57,920
for two or three days,
730
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,280
feeling full well early on that that was
731
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,480
probably our answer.
732
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,160
We always look back at the one door we
733
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,040
didn't knock on and the one question we
734
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,200
didn't get answered was there.
735
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,760
We were guided that that probably wasn't
736
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,280
the resource that we needed to put our
737
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,960
time and effort on. I won't say where
738
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,760
that guidance came from. So we honored
739
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,440
that. I think his name was just
740
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,640
missed. for whatever reason.
741
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,720
It's kind of hard to believe now that
742
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,280
that we were right there in our own
743
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,160
investigation.
744
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,280
And the sheriff's office and I
745
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,880
unfortunately grew kind of a bad taste
746
00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:42,160
because of the way that they were
747
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,600
conducting their investigation.
748
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,520
Ultimately, at that point, it's just
749
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,080
betrayal on Keith's view. He was
750
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,880
betrayed by me. He was betrayed by
751
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,840
Sherry. I can't imagine what Keith had
752
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,640
to go through. Pilot's doing a
753
00:34:58,640 --> 00:34:59,200
makeover.
754
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,560
Hello to Daddy. Hello, Daddy. Turned
755
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,640
into a week, turned into two weeks, three
756
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,920
weeks, four weeks, two months. I didn't
757
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,000
say go! There's no follow-up at all, and
758
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,120
there's no arrest made.
759
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,440
Every day was, you know, I love how much
760
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,280
I love you. And they were just messing
761
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,400
with us. They were trying to pin us
762
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,560
against each other. I was just sick of
763
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,960
everybody. Like, what?Can someone tell
764
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:27,440
the truth?
765
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,960
At the time, we were still looking for
766
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,480
the last part of the puzzle.
767
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,240
Part of the plan, again, was for you to
768
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,800
get a throw phone. Yeah, well, she wanted
769
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,760
a throw phone. So when you drove up
770
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,080
there, you gave her the throw phone. She
771
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,640
had a throw phone. She already had one.
772
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,640
Yeah. When the prepaid phones came into
773
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,120
play, first we
774
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,760
collected the call logs from
775
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,600
phone to phone. We were able to
776
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,560
show that the two numbers were in
777
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,160
communication on the day of Sherry's
778
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,800
disappearance. That was a big,
779
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,880
important factor. And
780
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,480
then we discovered her phone had
781
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,280
gone from the cell site nearest her
782
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,960
houseand road tripped down
783
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,000
from Redding to Southern California.
784
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,080
We felt that we had the evidence that was
785
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,640
necessary to finally prove what had
786
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:25,280
happened.
787
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,760
Oh, jeez. About that time,
788
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,440
It's just very strange and very odd to be
789
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,280
in the house with her.
790
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,080
You know, there was definitely this weird
791
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,040
tension in the house.
792
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,080
Sherry was on edge more at that time. We
793
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:04,640
both were.
794
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
We started arguing a little bit more.
795
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,720
One day we were outside and I was trying
796
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,400
to work on something she wanted me to do.
797
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,040
She moved like a wheelbarrow, like a
798
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,960
foot, and I didn't even have anything in
799
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,640
it. Can you?
800
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,920
Can youAnd she was like taking pauses in
801
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,920
her sentence that were not natural. The
802
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,440
point she was trying to make is like, can
803
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,000
you do this for me 'cause I'm too tired
804
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:33,360
to do it.
805
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,560
Well, I'm just under a lot of stuff.
806
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,000
I need an outlet because you don't
807
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,120
understand because of the 22 days.
808
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,040
It was the first time I said something
809
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,960
and I was like, it's a it's a
810
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,160
horrible thing that has happened and we
811
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,760
will never forget it. But can we go, can
812
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,280
we go a fucking day without hearing about
813
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,640
it?And
814
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,880
she just, you know, didn't skip a beat
815
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,520
and just looked right at me and said
816
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,880
I have to live with the fact.
817
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:13,520
that you never found me.
818
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,080
And it just like--
819
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,040
I mean, it like-- it hurt. It It was a
820
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:21,600
punch.
821
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,560
One day, we set
822
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,280
up in and around her neighborhood.
823
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,320
Our plan was to let her leave the house.
824
00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,040
We had hoped that if she left the house,
825
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,760
she would leave the house alone so that
826
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,080
we wouldn't have to worry about her
827
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,720
children being with her. We had sat
828
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,200
there from about 7:00 AM until
829
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,840
probably 2:30 or 3:00 in the afternoon.
830
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,120
We were getting ready to call it and say,
831
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,960
we're not going to get her today, when
832
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,800
one of the other agents called out over
833
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,320
the radio that she was leaving the
834
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,280
property. She
835
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,760
took off, and she was driving pretty
836
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,720
fast. We all followed her
837
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,600
all the way into downtown Redding
838
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,600
to the Redding Music School. It was
839
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,600
at that point when we realized that she
840
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,960
had her children with her.
841
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,760
We didn't want to cause a scene. We
842
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,000
decided we would create a ruse.
843
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,480
I went into the music school. And I just
844
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,680
said, excuse me, do you drive a black Kia
845
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,480
Optima?And she looked up at me. I said, I
846
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,640
think maybe somebody just bumped into
847
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,120
your car outside. And she exclaimed,
848
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,720
oh, oh my gosh. And she jumped up, and
849
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:57,040
she ran out the door.
850
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,520
Unfortunately, her two kids followed her
851
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:02,320
out the door.
852
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,120
At which point, an FBI agent stepped out
853
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,360
and said, Sherry Papini, you're under
854
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:11,000
arrest.
855
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,240
Are you chained up?She threw her
856
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:18,880
keys and her phone to her son
857
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,960
and said, call your father.
858
00:40:32,450 --> 00:40:35,210
I came home and within 15
859
00:40:35,210 --> 00:40:37,570
minutes I get a call from Sherry. But
860
00:40:37,810 --> 00:40:39,810
it's not Sherry. It's
861
00:40:41,570 --> 00:40:44,290
the piano teacher. They got her. They got
862
00:40:44,290 --> 00:40:46,960
her. The FBI. They took. They
863
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,880
they took Sherry. You You need to come
864
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:49,680
and get your kids.
865
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,920
Sherry called me. She said that
866
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,560
I needed to help her. I needed to save
867
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,080
her. I needed to fix the
868
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,480
situation for her.
869
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,320
Breaking news. A Shasta County woman who
870
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,760
disappeared five years ago was just
871
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,520
arrested. Accused of making the entire
872
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,880
story 39 year old Redding woman lied
873
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,080
about being kidnapped at gunpoint by two
874
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,160
Hispanic women with a former boyfriend in
875
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,600
Orange County harmed herself to support
876
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:27,680
her false statements.
877
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,360
I went and got the kids. They were so
878
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,920
confused. They're like, did somebody hit
879
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,920
Mommy's car?I shut down after
880
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,320
that. Of course, Sheila called me
881
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,680
multiple times. My family members called
882
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:44,400
me and I just.
883
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,320
It was the first time that I was afraid
884
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,440
to answer somebody's question.
885
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,120
Did she do this?Because I couldn't give
886
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,000
him an answer. I
887
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,240
was shocked. What?
888
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,160
Were there even any Mexican girls?
889
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:07,200
The FBI now says Papini gave herself
890
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,560
those injuries. Over the past few years,
891
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,080
she's received more than $30,000 in
892
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,080
victims. It impacted our whole community.
893
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,760
The 39 year old charged with making false
894
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,560
statements to a law enforcement officer.
895
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,720
Papini is also charged with mail fraud
896
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,920
for taking $30,000 from the state's
897
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,000
victims. Thousands in therapist
898
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,880
treatments for and resources spent on
899
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,760
finding suspicious looking Hispanic
900
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,520
women. Papini could face up to 20 years
901
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,400
in prison. Carry Papini was taken to
902
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,800
Sacramento where she's in jail there. Her
903
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,920
case will be tried in federal court.
904
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:53,020
Sherry. Sherry, the judge. Have you
905
00:42:53,140 --> 00:42:53,500
cheated on
906
00:42:58,460 --> 00:42:59,900
your husband?You're cheating on your
907
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:05,820
husband?Are you scared to go into prison?
908
00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:06,900
Are you scared to go
909
00:43:10,860 --> 00:43:12,220
to prison?Are you scared to go to prison?
910
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,480
What about all the hard people who
911
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:15,520
donated money?
912
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,840
What was it like in jail?
913
00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:50,380
The next day, she
914
00:43:50,380 --> 00:43:52,300
wanted to talk to me for the first time
915
00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:53,660
since she's been arrested.
916
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,360
She wanted to meet me at my aunt's house,
917
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:02,960
Aunt Pam. I
918
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,720
drove over there to the house, and
919
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,960
I opened the door, and there's no one in
920
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:08,560
the room.
921
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,920
And then out of the back bedroom, she
922
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,320
runs to me with her hands up in the air
923
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,480
and leaps onto me with her arms wrapped
924
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:19,120
around me.
925
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:25,600
And she grabs my hand, pulls me
926
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,360
to the back bedroom, and just fully
927
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,320
undresses. She wants to have sex with
928
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,400
me. What are you doing right now?
929
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,960
Like, we need to talk. Like, what is
930
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,520
going on?Like, you you were just
931
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,240
arrested. Did you read the criminal
932
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:44,120
report, the 55 pages?And
933
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,880
she's tugging on all my clothes, trying
934
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,520
to get my clothes off. I'm I'm telling
935
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:48,560
her no, noOh, babe,
936
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:50,800
come on.
937
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:55,600
Come
938
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,840
on. You're so mean.
939
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,560
I mean, all this stuff is hitting me,
940
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,960
and she tells
941
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,320
me that she wants to take a
942
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,400
plea deal if
943
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,240
I take this plea deal. It's
944
00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:22,960
only going to be like 6 months with an
945
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,240
ankle bracelet. So she's like, who cares?
946
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:27,040
Like I I I've been staying home the whole
947
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:28,920
time anyway. This isn't a big deal. What
948
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,560
do you mean?Like you said you didn't do
949
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,440
this?I was
950
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:34,960
really taken aback by it. I didn't know
951
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,520
how to respond other than like, I don't
952
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,200
think it's a good idea. Like, Are you
953
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,840
sure?And she's like,
954
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,920
yes, I just want to make love to you. I
955
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,800
just want to feel love. She didn't care.
956
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,080
I remember just feeling just this, it's
957
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,320
just this weird feeling. I mean, I open
958
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:53,760
the door and I just kind of like run. Of
959
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,680
course she's yelling for me to come back
960
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,080
and I'm just like finally feeling like,
961
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,200
OK, this must be true. This must be true.
962
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:02,800
She did this.
963
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,000
It's all a lie.
964
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,520
Do you have anything to say to law
965
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,480
enforcement that has taken five and a
966
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,040
half years to try to solve this crime?
967
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,800
Yeah, this is a-- it's a long process. A
968
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,320
turnabout in the case of Sherry Papini.
969
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,280
She now admits that she faked her
970
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,640
kidnapping and she will plead guilty in
971
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,040
court. Her lawyer
972
00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:31,240
basically told me it took us a while to
973
00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:32,280
get it out of her, but
974
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:35,720
she said James Reyes picked her up.
975
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,480
And she had a burner phone with her,
976
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,160
and she watched.
977
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,280
She watched you and everyone else search
978
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,280
for her during the 22 days on her phone.
979
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,160
This is where Sherry Coppini was last
980
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,600
seen yesterday around. Police contact us.
981
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,720
She has babies and we just want her help.
982
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,880
Police have suspended the ground search
983
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,680
for the missing 34 years. There's a large
984
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,480
influx of Mexican cartel.
985
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,320
We're trying and uh
986
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,240
we're trying the best we can and I'm so
987
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,680
sorry that I'm not there. Bring her home.
988
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,440
Bring her home. Just bring her home.
989
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,160
And I rememberI was just dead
990
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:23,760
inside.
991
00:47:29,090 --> 00:47:31,170
This morning, Sherry Papini facing trial
992
00:47:31,170 --> 00:47:33,890
for 35 felony counts and up to 25
993
00:47:33,890 --> 00:47:36,290
years in prison, taking a plea deal in
994
00:47:36,290 --> 00:47:38,450
the 11th hour. Sentence today to more
995
00:47:38,450 --> 00:47:40,690
than 18 months in prison months was a
996
00:47:40,690 --> 00:47:42,850
surprise to me. Jerry has said pretty
997
00:47:42,850 --> 00:47:45,050
much everything positively said in the
998
00:47:47,050 --> 00:47:49,170
sentence. The judge noting tersely people
999
00:47:49,170 --> 00:47:52,000
don't like to be conned. The woman
1000
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:53,720
whose own lawyer described her as having
1001
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:55,880
chameleonic personalities will have to
1002
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,280
report to federal prison.
1003
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:10,000
We went on that ride a couple times
1004
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,920
there, Sherry and myself. And
1005
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:14,400
that's me and her.
1006
00:48:19,940 --> 00:48:22,740
My heart was broken. It's awful. It's
1007
00:48:22,740 --> 00:48:25,300
terrible what she did. This
1008
00:48:25,380 --> 00:48:28,180
blonde hair, blue-eyed supermom.
1009
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,520
Telling a big fat giant lie like this.
1010
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,200
You can live with somebody. You can think
1011
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,080
you know somebody. Every deep,
1012
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,920
dark secret you think you know, you don't
1013
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,680
know. You don't really
1014
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,640
know. It's just
1015
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:47,280
really sad.
1016
00:48:58,220 --> 00:48:59,980
I wanted to believe that it was real.
1017
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,280
We just know how she left and where she
1018
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,800
went. None of the lies, which makes any
1019
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:06,880
investigation hard.
1020
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,920
If I had a guest, I believe Sherry
1021
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,720
left for control of the relationship.
1022
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,840
She had a severance package from AT&T.
1023
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,680
That money paid for daycare. That money
1024
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,440
paid for cosmetic surgery. That
1025
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,320
paid for how she lived her life. Keith
1026
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,560
was open about he wasn't going to pay for
1027
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,280
daycare if she was at home. I think her
1028
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,520
lifestyle was going to change once she
1029
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,480
ran out of money. I don't think she
1030
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,360
was ready for that, but I think she left
1031
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,040
because that's how she knew to get away
1032
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:41,760
from conflict.
1033
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,960
I wish she would have made different
1034
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:47,600
choices.
1035
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:51,200
I think
1036
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,040
she wasn't getting the
1037
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,040
attention that she wanted with being at
1038
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,000
home. I think she just really
1039
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,880
wanted to feel important.
1040
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,880
Um.. She always has.
1041
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,480
Sherry and I used to play catching frogs,
1042
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,040
tadpoles, catching bugs, just
1043
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:22,400
kind of being in nature.
1044
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,360
I would sayBecause of the trauma that
1045
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,680
her and I had experienced as children,
1046
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,800
Sherry sought out for that
1047
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,040
positive love and attention and that
1048
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,040
she... would exaggerate
1049
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,040
a lot and wasn't honest a
1050
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:41,520
lot.
1051
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,320
Do you still--do you still have love for
1052
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,200
Sherry?Oh. I don't think
1053
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,600
that will ever go away. Like, when you
1054
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,280
have a sibling, you always love them.
1055
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:56,240
Um..
1056
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,240
And I still don't know why she
1057
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:04,400
chose to do what she did.
1058
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,080
I don't think I'll ever know why.
1059
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,080
I think it's that's the hard part that
1060
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,360
all of us have to
1061
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:19,200
process.
1062
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:22,320
Oh, wow.
1063
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:27,840
I just couldn't believe
1064
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,200
that this woman was in my life
1065
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,000
and how well everything was going.
1066
00:51:41,340 --> 00:51:42,420
You know, I thought when I was going to
1067
00:51:42,420 --> 00:51:43,380
look at these, I'd be like, yeah, you
1068
00:51:43,380 --> 00:51:45,340
know, I'm kind of-- I don't want to say
1069
00:51:45,340 --> 00:51:46,140
over it, but...
1070
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:51,180
it's just hard going back from...
1071
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:56,960
all these memories in in our time as a
1072
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:57,600
family.
1073
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I would say that this process of
1074
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,040
looking back... Scene seven, take one,
1075
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:05,200
mark.
1076
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Here we go. It forced
1077
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,120
me to confront a lot of the things I've
1078
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,360
never dealt with. The first day,
1079
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:17,720
the first day with the zip ties.
1080
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,760
And that helped me start connecting dots.
1081
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,720
These are some of Sherry's books that
1082
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,240
that she had left here. I think she was
1083
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:30,320
definitely trying certain things out. I
1084
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,320
feel there's features of Elizabeth Smart
1085
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,120
that Sherry stole from her story.
1086
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,920
This man successfully kidnapped me. He
1087
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:39,360
successfully chained me up.
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You have Gone Girl.
1089
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:46,560
I think a little bit, obviously, too,
1090
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,200
about... Tara Both were out
1091
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,720
jogging when they vanished. Both went to
1092
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,080
the same high school at the same time in
1093
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,680
the 1990s. That one hurts
1094
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,080
because, you know, of course we know the
1095
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,240
family. And then she
1096
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,360
allowed me to take her over to that house
1097
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,720
after the fact. And she just lying
1098
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:10,200
straight to their face is something that
1099
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,320
has been very difficult for me.
1100
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,160
I was so ashamed. I was embarrassed
1101
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:21,520
knowing that...
1102
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:28,160
she, you know, manipulated everybody
1103
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,440
and that I felt responsible.
1104
00:53:36,610 --> 00:53:38,930
You know, I was so adamant that she could
1105
00:53:38,930 --> 00:53:40,330
never leave her kids. It's like
1106
00:53:43,730 --> 00:53:45,730
a little playhouse, huhThat's cool, yeah.
1107
00:53:46,290 --> 00:53:47,010
Hi, guys. Hello.
1108
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,280
That's pretty cool. Yeah, I'd rather have
1109
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,280
this for a playground at school. Yeah, I
1110
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:54,560
know. Oh,
1111
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,560
pickles, oh, that's a good coat name. One
1112
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,960
day, after Sherry was already in
1113
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,600
prison, as I go
1114
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,600
and lay my daughter to bed,
1115
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,240
I I push off the
1116
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:12,320
bed, and I kind of make a little grunt
1117
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:13,600
sound like, Ah You know, I was a little
1118
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:14,240
bit sore.
1119
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,440
Violet... She's like, Daddy, are you
1120
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,680
sick?And she goes,
1121
00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:25,200
why don't you do Mommy's trick?I was
1122
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:26,400
like, Mommy's trick?Like, what are you,
1123
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,720
what are you talking about?And she's
1124
00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:31,680
like, well, you just breathe in this
1125
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,680
rubbing alcohol. And
1126
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,680
I was like, what?And she goes to
1127
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,160
the bathroom and she knows right where
1128
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,360
the rubbing alcohol is. She wads up a
1129
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,320
thing of toilet paper and just soaks it
1130
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,320
and then hands it to me to breathe.
1131
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:50,960
And I I was like, how often did you do
1132
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,360
this?And she said, well,
1133
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,600
when we got sick, we did it every single
1134
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:55,920
day.
1135
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,200
Nice. You're a pro. You can now live with
1136
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,920
the goats. And the next thing I know, my
1137
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,600
kids are at getting forensic
1138
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,560
interviews done. Find out Sherry
1139
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,040
would soak rags of alcohol and put it in
1140
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,800
a Ziploc bag and tie a
1141
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:16,400
string.
1142
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,480
would tie a string around their neck onto
1143
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,040
the Ziploc bag so that the fumes would--
1144
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,480
so that they would continue to smell the
1145
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,720
fumes to make them not feel good so that
1146
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:32,240
she could take them to the doctor. I'm
1147
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:36,080
gonna get one more.
1148
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:41,440
So obviously, after that point, I...
1149
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:46,440
It really made things a lot easier to
1150
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,000
think of her in a different light, as if
1151
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,560
she didn't exist. Do you want to go pet?
1152
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,560
Go real slow.
1153
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,760
Now the kids are in my care, so they're
1154
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,320
safe.
1155
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,720
Breaking news Sherry Papini, the Shasta
1156
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:10,960
County mother convicted of faking her own
1157
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,760
kidnapping, is now out of prison early.
1158
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,360
She is now in a halfway house in
1159
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,840
Sacramento ahead of her projected release
1160
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:19,520
date. That's about six months earlier
1161
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,920
than expected, Sherry Papini saying in a
1162
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,080
statement. I am deeply ashamed of myself
1163
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,240
for my behavior. I will work the rest of
1164
00:56:26,240 --> 00:56:28,240
my life to make amends for what I have
1165
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:28,800
done.
1166
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:37,120
She's on her own path now.
1167
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,640
I spent a lot of time just being angry
1168
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,640
with her, trying to figure out why she
1169
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:46,240
did what she did.
1170
00:56:57,420 --> 00:56:58,860
It's definitely a lot smaller than...
1171
00:57:03,740 --> 00:57:04,660
she made it sound.
1172
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,080
It's tough. I've imagined this house so
1173
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,040
many times, and I've had a picture of
1174
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,040
it in my head over
1175
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,720
the years from all the details that
1176
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,840
Sherry gave me, and
1177
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,680
It's like a lot of it's here and a lot of
1178
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:43,360
it's not here. It's
1179
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,240
like at this point, what's new?A liar's
1180
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,200
lying. But I spent a lot of
1181
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,960
time, a lot of nights,
1182
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:58,200
trying to figure out
1183
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:00,800
this whole thing.
1184
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,600
This is a... You know, something that
1185
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,440
just gets boxed up for her, maybe if the
1186
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,360
kids want to see it. But it's, I
1187
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:16,400
think it's just too painful for me to
1188
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:18,880
look at it.
1189
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,160
I don't know about closure.
1190
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:28,480
Obviously she needs help.
1191
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,200
So I just keep thinking about my kids.
1192
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:41,600
I'm so protective of them.
1193
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:46,000
Will I ever truly
1194
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:48,880
trust someone again?
1195
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,080
I mean, to to be here instead of with her
1196
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:57,000
family and to watch on TV, everybody
1197
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,440
search for her, and I just can't. I
1198
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,320
don't understand it. I can't get past
1199
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:03,520
that.
1200
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,720
I just need to make sure I'm
1201
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,000
the best dad I can be to those kids.
1202
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:18,000
I mean, because they have to grow up in
1203
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,880
this world. At the end of the
1204
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,600
day, you know, their mom left them
1205
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,760
and lied to them and kept them in a
1206
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,400
bubble. So they
1207
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,240
just don't want to be around her.
1208
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:35,840
It's just sad.
1209
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,040
I remember I asked my son,
1210
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,520
I'm like, Hey, you know, let's play,
1211
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,840
like, if you had a new last name, what
1212
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,600
would it be?And we had all these names
1213
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:51,920
that we were throwing out there.
1214
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:54,960
Like, Oh, what about this one?And what
1215
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:55,960
about this one?And
1216
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,560
he just kind of is like, Is this, is this
1217
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:01,920
about, like, mom or something?He's like,
1218
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:02,960
I like our last name.
1219
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:06,960
I don't think we should have to change
1220
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:08,880
our last name because of what she did.
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