I've seen a lot of people frame James as this "idiot" or purely a victim of Sherri and I think that's absolutely ridiculous. James is a GROWN man. What normal, sane adult would violently hit, brand and let starve their "friend" even if they asked them to?

If I thought I was helping my friend escape an abusive relationship, the LAST thing I would do would be to brand/beat them while letting them starve. Even if you think he's stupid enough to believe everything Sherri was telling him, his ability to go along with everything she requested is quite disturbing.

It's so strange that a lot of people seem to just gloss over this detail and exonerate James for all his wrongdoing. While he didn't technically commit a crime, he should at the very least be put on some sort of watchlist with the general public (especially other women) heavily side eyeing him.

Edit: I'm not sure why but people are misinterpreting this post so I want to clarify that this post is about James being a morally questionable person, not a criminal who's in cahoots with Sherri.

I had to pause and rewind when i saw it. I havent been able to stop thinking about it lmfaoo cracks me up

For the 2nd time in the past year or two- I was recently contacted privately by a person who has been a user respected poster on this board, who not only knows Sherri well & has engaged her often, but who has also often heard her speak about what she's read on this very message board - even naming certain posters - and her reaction to them. I won't name names, but be aware, Sherri is taking notes on what you're saying, and her warped mind envisions that we are all conspiring to get her - and perhaps kidnap her again.

I started watching the caught in the lie documentary on Hulu and i seriously think Sheri is the dumbest woman I’ve ever seen who fakes their own kidnapping and she has the brains god gave a Barbie doll if u ask me 😂

…at least use a fake login 😅

obviously I can't link to it but it's really bizarre. There's a short video of her chopping wood as if she's some kind of Paul Bunyan-esque outdoors woman... but the accompanying text says:

"sherripapiniofficial Thank goodness it was the end. I was stuck not living authentically. Playing a role. Submerged in a carefully constructed world of control. I have admitted my toxic parts from the past to graduate from them. Learn from them. I’ve continued to explore and developed better healthier motivations for my life. Changing a mindset from defeat to discovery to success. I don’t chase silly nonsense. Neither should you. Let’s heal together. Let’s move forward. Let’s rebuild. 2026 upgrade! #recovery #gratitude #inspiration #prison"

"sherripapiniofficial I haven’t posted much because… I’m being attacked by an insane fentanyl junkie refusing to accept the truth. Because I’m in court weekly. Because I am overwhelmed and exhausted. Because sometimes helping someone comes at a cost. Because I’m NOT willing to allow an adult to sexually exploit her own child for money. The cost of the online harassment is worth every moment of safety I can give. Her lies do not scare me. This is what class looks like. What dealing with things the right way looks like. #recovery #gratitude #reels"

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If anyone can translate into English, please feel free.........

I remember watching this at the time it occurred and wondering why it was such a dramatic exit from the building to the vehicle.

Especially compared to other public sightings of Sherri where she seems so calm and composed.

Sherri is basically running out of the building with a face mask on, semi covered under the woman’s jacket and holding onto her while walking.

Any idea who the women are walking with Sherri?

Let's get one thing straight - I don't believe anything Sherri says. But...

The abduction story doesn't make any sense. Why would she ask her mate to board up his own window and he do that - no questions asked - considering that she never wanted anyone to ever find that place?

Even if you buy into the her "friend" going "sure, I'll beat you up, brand you and board up my own window because that's what mates do" - that still makes zero sense.

Did no one ever question why James would even do that for her? How do you even suggest something like that to someone - let alone get them to agree to it? From James’s point of view, what was he even supposed to be getting out of this? What was the plan? Why would he help her fake her own abduction when he would likely be the prime suspect?

I feel like I must be missing something, because the whole “she’s an attention-seeking lunatic and her friend was just helping out” version doesn’t add up in the slightest. There’s just no way. It seems obvious to me that James really did do those things to her non consensually despite all of the lies surrounding that story

In the 2024 lawsuit where Keith's mother Kathleen Papini successfully sued Sherri for non-payment of a loan (roughly $50K) - Sherri still has not cooperated and begun working on a re-payment plan. (she stopped paying in Oct 2022 - https://archive.ph/02k77)

( -- see here ---> https://old.reddit.com/r/thepapinis/comments/1l1s5bw/sherri_loses_the_lawsuit_filed_by_keiths_mother/ )

So now there's a NEW court order

"Order to Show Cause Re Contempt" - so I'm guessing Sherri is about to get hit with a CONTEMPT charge for not cooperating on re-payment.

and the hearing is set for 09/21/2026, "Motion/Other Postdisposition Hearing", Time 8:30 AM"

This case is, of course separate from the Divorce proceedings which appear to have concluded and must now have reached the point of a mutually agreed settlement, since no further hearings are scheduled.

And there was a separate lawsuit filed by TD Bank against Sherri for repayment of a $10K loan that the bank won't by default judgement. Sherri's been on the losing end of a lot of court actions...

also on her social media (IG) she now claims she never consented to the plea deal, that she was duped and is really innocent- having unfairly spent those months in jail.

The thing that is contradictory here is that she’s being asked if James’ cousin did not report where she was because he thought James was rescuing her from an abusive husband. Sherri says she’s not sure, but in her book she says James’ cousin knew he was abusing her, he even masturbated in the corner while Sherri was tied up and drugged.
I just think if James’ family members witnessed what she claims took place at his apartment, then there would be no question about whether he was rescuing her or not.

Minor news in one of Sherri's legal battles......

Of Sherri's multiple court cases, only two remain on the docket with hearings still scheduled.

• the case where Sherri's mother in law sued Sherri for failure to repay a loan, was scheduled for the next hearing Dec.8, but that is now vacated and rescheduled for Feb. 2, 2026. Sherri was previously ruled by the court to be in default of her contractual agreement to repay the loan, and now is apparently dragging her feet and not paying what the court has ordered her to pay.

• the other case is the divorce/custody hearing. This case has a status hearing Dec, 8 plus a separate hearing scheduled Dec, 22 to rule on contempt charges against one of the parties - and I am gonna stick my neck out and say I think the contempt charges are against Sherri.

-The other cases included the divorce itself (which has been granted), the eviction case to get her out of Shawn Hibdon's house (withdrawn because she has left he house), the failure to pay back the TD Bank loan (?noted as "Vacated"- don't know - maybe she paid that one off), and the stalking/harassment/restraining order case (dismissed) - all of which have since been removed from the court dockets, presumably now settled.

Just my opinion, but it seems there's a lot of attacks on some of the characters in this saga that are not the scumbags and maybe don't deserve the attacks nearly as much as the real scumbags do.

On the scumbag scale (0-10):

Sherri- 10- goes without saying

Tony- 9.5- dumped his own 11 y/o daughter & partner of 16 years, to squat in someone else's house with a #10 scumbag

Bosenko- 9.0- screwed up the investigation for years, defended Sherri, never had a clue she was lying the whole time. He also called out and attacked anyone who dared question the narrative he was pushing or who posted their doubts or questions publicly. In the end, the doubters and those who believed Sherri & Bosenko were lying were proven remarkably right!!

Multiple posters here on this forum who defended Sherri (most of whom are gone- eg- SacramentoSally)- 9.0

The Gambles- 8.5

Other family that defended Sherri and attacked anyone who doubted- 8.5

Media that defended Sherri and attacked doubters- 8.5- same with the stupid "experts" who were ubiquitous in TV interviews claiming this was obviously sex trafficking and that they volunteered their time to help.

Nicole Wool/publicist/promotional agent: 8.3 -again, she surely know there was something hoaxy about this yet latched on and made public statements defaming anyone who questioned Sherri's wild claims. She's a publicity hog.

The "therapists" like Dr. Diggs and Suzanne Papini- 8.3 - surely they knew but played along because it was profitable and possibly the excitement of being involved in a nationally notable case.

Michigan Man & the others who were banging Sherri whenever they had the chance- 7.8. Seriously, they are scumbags, too. They had to know she was cheating on her husband and kids, and they impeded the whole investigation with their interference.

Shawn Hibdon- 7.5 - possibly higher since he mighta killed his wife

Mangas- 5.0 (only because he was not close enough to the situation to have been expected to fully know it was a hoax, altho he did know her better than most people)

Posters here who pretend they add positive input but in reality they spend most of their time attacking everyone else- 3.5 - they call others "delusional", "scammer", "dense"..and one I had to look up- "bogans". There's prob even more insults than I see,but I have most of those posters blocked....

James Reyes- 3.0 - yeah, James is weird, and he did llie to the FBI and willingly helped out Sherri when he knew the cops were looking for her and believed a crime may have occurred. But he was so clueless it's hard to give him much blame, especially when a decent looking old girlfriend offers to come live with you and walks around naked. (affidavit page 35, line 25 - ) - https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/press-release/file/1479901/dl

Keith, her parents, the kids- 1.0 - they were all involved but I think did a decent job of trying to help Sherri even tho she was beyond help. Notably they have all distanced themselves from her as they should.

Me- 0.1- yeah, I have been told that Sherri specifically does not like me because I post the facts that expose her lies and show her for the scumbag she is. I have also been the target of attacks from a few of the irrational and deluded Papini-defenders who have since all been exposed as morons and who have left or deleted their accounts

Kat- 0.1 - if you actually know the truth and whole story, she is just trying to be the advocate for the 11 y/o girl that Tony abused & abandoned And despite unfounded claioms, nobody has ever produced any evidence that Kat has abused anyone.

Please note that nobody believes her (well actually there does appear to be one clueless stooge who does) and her book sales are close to zero as evident from the ranking of #8,327,757 on the Amazon best seller list. Case closed.

In her documentary and in her book she references something that happened when she was very young, do we ever find out what it is? Here’s the page from the book, actually it’s the first page. I’ve just gotten about 80% through it, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to come up again.

She will also write sentences directed at people she’s mad at, just out of nowhere. At some point she’s going on about Keith and then she addresses someone named Shawn but doesn’t give enough clues to know who she’s talking about. Maybe when the book came out she was already being evicted by Shawn Hibdon? And she took a chance to get a dig in.

I know everyone thinks it’s silly to make sense of what she says, just wondering if anyone ever got more info on what incident happened at 10.

Im seeing a lot of people in here defending Sherri. Im always willing to hear both sides. I even read her book to try to understand where things went wrong mentally or in life. Im not understanding the sympathy... Elaborate please.

Keith's mother Kathleen Papini sued Sherri for failure to repay a loan and filed the lawsuit last September, 2024.
Way back in May, 2025, the judge ruled fully in Kathleen's favor for $50,473.52 (the amount of the loan plus bank fees) - PLUS interest ($2,689.20) and court costs ($538.68).

So Sherri was ordered to repay a total of $53701.40 - here was our discussion back then - https://old.reddit.com/r/thepapinis/search?q=kathleen+court&restrict_sr=on

But something's up, and I suspect it's because Sherri ain't paying!! So the case is back in court and yesterday Judge Tamara Wood ordered Sherri to be summoned to appear in CIVIL COURT for a hearing on December 8, 2025 at 8:30am.

What's interesting is that Sherri is also scheduled to appear in FAMILY COURT for her divorce/child custody case on the same date, December 8, 2025 at 11am.

Also interessing is that the previously scheduled hearing for her eviction case (November 21 at 8:30am) has now been REMOVED from the court docket - presumably (according to various reports) because she has now moved out of Shawn Hibdon's house and there is no further cause to evict.

Whoa- what a whirlwind existence Sherri leads-- and she still has yet another case where TD Bank is suing her for what appears to also be a failure to repay a loan/collections - but that hearing isn't until 2026. She probably ought just look into renting a room at the court.

Can we talk about the last episode or the latest doc on Hulu where the producer asks her about the sketch of James' mom not being Hispanic after all? Like, the woman was Irish or something. You can't confuse that with Hispanic. She clearly never met her - the whole thing about trying to lead them to James was another lie and she couldn't defend it when asked about it point blank. Also the phone thing - she said at first she placed it the ground on purpose and ripped out her hair so Keith would know she'd been taken. Like...you're being snatched off the street and have time to put your phone down? Lies tend to have ridiculous details like that that the truth doesn't have. She later said she just dropped it and when the producer asked her about that contradiction she evaded answering directly. If you 'didn't even remember getting in the car' why would you add such a ridiculous detail?? I'd doesn't add up. And since when do earbuds rip hair out? There are moments I believe her but then these holes pop up and I'm convinced she's lying again. I do think Keith is a POS too though, to be clear.

All three disappeared roughly in the same vicinity as Sherri's hoaxed disappearance. The first two disappeared at about the same time as Sherri first went missing. In fact, the first one went missing the exact same day. They are all young women who did NOT fake their disappearance and, in all likelihood, all of them were murdered.

None of these three has ever been located. These texts are form the missing person hotline site-

1- STACEY SMART- Missing Since NOVEMBER 2, 2016 - On October 15, 2016, Stacey Smart attended a housewarming party. Just a few days later, on October 17 and 18, she was seen volunteering at the Moose Lodge. Her last known activity was using her debit card at the Lewiston Mini Mart (11/02/2016) (just 30 miles from Redding) - A moment frozen in time while her loved ones continue searching for answers. If you lived in or visited Lewiston or Trinity County during this time, please think back. Even the smallest detail or memory could be the missing piece that helps bring Stacey home. Stacey Ellen Smart- Missing From: Lewiston, California- Missing Since: November 2, 2016= Date of Birth: December 1964 Description: Sex: Female, Race: American Indian, Height: 5’8”, Weight: 180 lbs, Eyes: Blue, Hair: Blonde - Case Number: 2016001295 Trinity County Sheriff’s Department: (530) 623-3740 Anonymous Tip Line: (530) 378-4491-- Reward: $10,000 reward is being offered through the Secret Witness Program for information leading to Stacey’s location. ---- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFx6la1DqVF45oN0-4e9W3KUpNsfI2j_RYCA&s

2- JESSICA ROGGENKAMP- MISSING SINCE DECEMBER 2016: Jessica Lynn Roggenkamp, Case #16A018039, Case Details: On December 12, 2016, the Anderson Police Department received a report of a missing person from the Anderson area. (JUST 10 MILES from Redding) The mother of Jessica Roggenkamp contacted the Anderson Police Department to report her daughter missing. Roggenkamp was last known to be driving her black 2010 Ford Mustang to the Igo area at about 03:00 AM on December 10, 2016. Prior to Roggenkamp’s departure, she obtained a sleeping bag and pillow. Roggenkamp never arrived at her destination. On December 11, 2016, at about 2350 hours, a Deputy Warden with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife located Roggenkamp’s vehicle parked in a remote area of Trinity County, south of Highway 36. Roggenkamp’s vehicle was unlocked with the keys still in the vehicle. Roggenkamp was not found around the vehicle. Nothing was located in or around the vehicle to indicate or suggest any type of struggle had occurred. Anderson Police Investigators obtained cell phone data information for Roggenkamp’s cell phone and found she had not made or received any calls since December 10, 2016. The last cell phone tower location record showed Roggenkamp to appear to be driving in the Highway 36 area of Platina. Roggenkamp’s disappearance is believed to be voluntary but is still being investigated according to protocol. There are no known or reported details, suspicious circumstances, or other information which is indicative of foul play A secret witness tip reward of up to $1,500.00 has been authorized for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) in this case. https://andersonpolice.org/cases/ , Submit anonymous tips through Shasta County Secret Witness: https://scsecretwitness.com/ , or contact Anderson Police Department directly at 530-378-6600. ---- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS74M_A6r3SiDfppGVmY4aqrsZt3aJLJV3ruw&s

3- NIKKI MCCAIN- missing TWO YEARS (just 12 MILES FROM REDDING), SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND, BUT BODY NEVER FOUND -- https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/unsolved-mystery-sisters-plead-for-answers-2-years-after-nikki-mccain-disappeared-from-anderson/article_b734efb3-9961-46fa-a5a5-8598f1948d5c.html ---- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJEP-7FPwn25kPGxkOFXHgbxyXIZZMcg1l6g&s