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Boston police warn delivery drivers of increase in food drop-off robberies
Boston police are warning local delivery drivers about a recent increase in robberies targeting couriers during food drop-offs. The incidents have been reported in the city's Mattapan and Hyde Park neighborhoods, police said in a press release. In most cases, robbers threatened the delivery drivers — sometimes with weapons — as they tried to drop off the food order. The robbers then stole the food. Boston police are concerned for the safety of drivers working for app-based and independent food delivery services. It recommends that they follow these safety tips: Always be aware of your surroundings, especially when delivering food to an unfamiliar or low-visibility area. If something seems suspicious about the delivery location, consider contacting the customer through the app or calling the delivery company for verification. Let a friend or family member know your route or use apps that allow real-time location sharing. Avoid carrying cash while working and report any customers who insist on paying in cash outside the app's payment system. If a situation doesn't feel right, don't approach. Call the customer from a safe distance or notify the delivery service and leave the area. The Boston Police Department is actively investigating the robberies. Anyone with information about them is strongly urged to contact detectives at (617) 343-5607. You can also provide an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-494-TIPS, texting the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463) or on Boston police's website. Mass. brothers sentenced after exploiting 30-day cosmetics trial in fraud scheme Policy changes at Hampden County jail precede new $600K settlement in inmate's death How to watch Sherri Papini docuseries `Caught in the Lie' for free Three WMass drug investigations net 45 guns, 52 arrests, heroin, fentanyl Man stole police officer's gun, fired it outside Mass General Hospital, officials say Read the original article on MassLive.
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What Actually Happened to Sherri Papini? Inside the Twists and Turns of Her 2016 Kidnapping Hoax
Sherri Papini disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016, from Redding, Calif., and reappeared 22 days later Six years after the disappearance, she was arrested for faking her own kidnapping and admitted to the hoax In the May 2025 docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, Sherri changed her story and claimed that her ex-boyfriend abducted her, claims he declined to comment onSherri Papini made national headlines when she disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016. She was allegedly on a run near her home in Redding, Calif., when she claimed to have been abducted. Her then-husband, Keith Papini, reported her missing that evening, and a subsequent three-week statewide search for her took place. After 22 days, Sherri was found walking on the side of a highway. At the time, she claimed that she was kidnapped by two armed, masked Hispanic women and that they had branded and tortured her while she was chained in a bedroom. Authorities investigated the case for six years and later determined that Sherri had fabricated the abduction and had been hiding out at her ex-boyfriend James Reyes' apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif. In 2022, Sherri was arrested for making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. She was released in August 2023. However, upon getting released from prison, Sherri changed her story again and claimed that Reyes "abducted" her without her consent. "The injuries that occurred ... the bites on my thigh, the footprint on my back, the brand, the melting of my skin — I am telling you there was no consent," she alleged in the four-part docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, which premiered May 26. Reyes declined to comment on her new allegations. Here's everything to know about Sherri Papini, her 2016 disappearance and everything she's said since. Sherri, born in 1982, was living in Redding, Calif., with her husband, Keith, and their two children — son Tyler and daughter Violet — when she disappeared on Nov. 2, 2016. She was 34 years old at the time of her vanishing. Sherri's then-husband, Keith, reported her missing on Nov. 2, 2016, after he came home and found that she and their young children were not there. He later found her phone and headphones about a mile down the road and learned that Sherri never picked up their kids from daycare. After filing a missing persons report, Keith joined their friends, family and dozens of volunteers over the next few weeks to try and find Sherri. Keith also helped raise thousands of dollars in reward money for anyone who had a substantial lead on his wife's location. Sherri's disappearance made national headlines and caused a statewide search for her. On Nov. 24, 2016, 22 days after she vanished, Sherri was seen walking along the side of a road in Yolo County, Calif. — around 150 miles from her home. Her sister, Sheila Koester, previously told PEOPLE, "I feel like it was a whole world effort, just with everyone posting on Facebook and the news coverage we got. It was an amazing Thanksgiving." Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told PEOPLE at the time, "She was able to walk to a nearby church but nobody was there at 4:30 in the morning, and then she walked back and was able to flag down a motorist near Interstate 5 and Yolo County Road 17." Sheriff Bosenko revealed that Sherri was immediately hospitalized for her injuries and was able to give authorities "some limited amount of information." Keith saw his wife for the first time at the hospital later that day. "My first sight was my wife in a hospital bed," Keith told PEOPLE in a statement at the time. "Her face covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of her repeated beatings. The bridge of her nose broken. She has been branded and I could feel the rise of her scabs under my fingers." Keith further claimed that she weighed just 87 lbs. and that her long blond hair had been chopped off. Shortly after Sherri resurfaced, she told authorities that she was abducted by two Hispanic women who were armed and masked and forced her into an SUV. "These Hispanic females are armed, considered dangerous and they have a handgun, at least a handgun with them," Bosenko told reporters during a press conference at the time. Sherri alleged that the women tortured and branded her while holding her hostage, chained in a bedroom for weeks. She claimed that she escaped after one woman let her leave with a chain around her waist, zip ties tying her hands and clamps around her ankles. At the time, authorities believed her and chalked up any inaccuracies in her story to her feeling traumatized. "We don't have any reason not to believe her. She was abducted, held captive for three weeks and then released," Bosenko said at the time. "Traumatized from the experience and then of course very emotional about being released and then being reunited with her husband ... Sometimes people who have been in a traumatic event, their mind shields them from some of the trauma so they do have limited recollection." However, authorities were never able to identify the women who allegedly kidnapped Sherri, and they soon began to think that there was a different version of events than the ones Sherri concocted. Police continued investigating Sherri's disappearance for years after her return. Shortly after she resurfaced, authorities discovered both male and female DNA on the clothing Sherri was wearing when she was found. In 2020, they matched the DNA to Sherri's ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, per KCRA. In August of that year, police brought in Reyes for questioning, and he claimed that Sherri was actually hiding with him in his apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif. He alleged that Sherri reached out to him to try to "run away" from Keith, whom she claimed was sexually and physically abusive (he denied the allegations). Reyes further claimed that it was Sherri's idea to injure and brand herself and lose weight, and that he never physically hurt her. After 22 days together, Reyes alleged that Sherri missed her kids and asked him to drop her off on the side of a road. On March 3, 2022, Sherri was arrested for faking her own kidnapping. She was charged with one count of lying to a federal officer and one count of mail fraud. One month later, she admitted that her kidnapping was a hoax and pleaded guilty. "[I am] so sorry for the pain I've caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me," she said in a statement at the time. "I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done." In September 2022, Sherri was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution, which was spent trying to find her. She reported to prison in November 2022 and was released in August 2023. Just days after Sherri's guilty plea, Keith filed for divorce and requested custody of their two children. "I wish to make it clear that my goal is to provide a loving, safe, stable environment for [his and Sherri's children] and I believe the requested orders are consistent with that goal and the best interests of the children," Keith told PEOPLE in a statement at the time. "I do not want to say anything in the pleadings connected to this matter that would inflame the situation or attract media attention." Nearly two years after she was released from prison, Sherri spoke about the abduction for the first time and changed her story. In the May 2025 docuseries, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, she denied that she had anything to do with her disappearance and alleged that it was not consensual. Instead, Sherri claimed that Reyes abducted her after she asked him to come to Redding, so she could end their long-distance affair (he was allegedly unaware of her intentions at the time). She claimed that Reyes somehow got her into a car and drove her to his apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif., where he held her for over three weeks. 'I remember waking up briefly in the back of the vehicle and not being able to even keep my eyes open," she claimed in the documentary, out May 26. "And then the next time I woke up was when he was getting me out of the vehicle to go inside, and it was dark ... the bites on my thigh, the footprint on my back, the brand, the melting of my skin — I am telling you there was no consent.' Sherri claimed that she woke up naked in a room in his apartment. 'I wanted to leave. So I tried to pull one of the boards off the window and James came in and hit me in the face. And that's the first bruise that I got," Sherri claimed in Caught in the Lie. "And after being knocked out and waking up, that's when the chain was around my waist, secured with a padlock attached to a cable that was attached to a pole in the closet.' After 22 days, Sherri claimed that Reyes "let me off the chain" and set her free. "I said, my husband's going to find me. He's never going to stop looking for you ... You need to let me go. He was like, 'Well, there's too much has happened.' So it all came down to me. It all came down to my coverup, and that's [when] I agreed to ... make up that someone else did it," she claimed. Sherri further alleged that she agreed to lie about the two women abducting her because she didn't want Keith to discover the affair. 'The truth is, I was concealing an affair from my husband, who [was] threatening to take everything from me if he found out that I was having any involvement [with another man]," she said. Reyes declined to comment on the allegations. After being released from prison in August 2023, Sherri was transferred to a halfway house in Sacramento County, Calif., for two months. She is under supervised release until late 2026. Before appearing in the 2025 docuseries Caught in the Lie, Sherri had stayed silent about her life since the abduction. However, Keith told PEOPLE in 2024 that they were still working on mediating their divorce, and added that he did not keep in contact with her. "I don't make contact with her at all. And I don't even allow it," he said. "She's tried but I just can't. That is her power, her voice, and her manipulation." In the midst of their proceedings, Keith was granted full custody of their children, and Sherri was allowed visitation rights. Keith also claimed to Good Morning America in June 2024 that Sherri had a new boyfriend, but he didn't share his name. Read the original article on People
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Sherri Papini Breaks Silence About Her ‘Abduction' in New Docuseries Trailer
Sherri Papini recounts her 'abduction' in her own words — truthful or not — in the new trailer for a four-part ID docuseries premiering next month. Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, out May 26 and May 27 on ID and Max, features the California mother of two talking on camera about her headline-grabbing disappearance in 2016 for the first time since the incident occurred nearly nine years ago. More from Rolling Stone 'Gone Girls': See New Trailer for Netflix's Long Island Serial Killer Docuseries New Docuseries Examines the Infamous 'Stanford Prison Experiment' Feuding Co-Workers Get Medieval on Each Other in 'Ren Faire' 'Haven't you ever lied? And then has that lie blown up?' Papini says in the trailer, while reiterating her version of events that authorities have deemed were fabricated: 'I went missing in 2016. I was gone for 22 days. I was tortured, I was branded, I was chained to a wall. All of that is true. I did keep some secrets from you, though.' In order to prove her innocence — 'I'm Sherri Papini. I was abducted and I was tortured and the FBI said I made it all up,' she reiterates in the trailer — Papini undergoes a lie detector test, the results of which will likely be revealed over the course of the four-part series (though the docuseries' title seems to hint at the answer). Boasting 'unprecedented access to Papini,' ID said of the docuseries in a synopsis, 'Over the course of four-parts, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie retraces Papini's case from the days leading up to her disappearance into her alleged abduction, her shocking return to her family, and the subsequent aftermath that led to her 2022 arrest by federal authorities. For the first time, Papini will share her account of events as she recalls them, offering rare insights into her mindset during her disappearance and the subsequent investigation into her abduction claims upon her return home. Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie will also chronicle the aftermath of her 2022 guilty plea that Papini continues to navigate, including her present custody battle with her ex-husband, Keith Papini, as she seeks joint custody of their children.' ID added that the docuseries 'will delve deeper into Papini's case to include insight from her parents and sister-in-law, the federal authorities who investigated her disappearance and prosecuted her for lying to the FBI, her former lawyer, her psychologist, as well as the podcaster who followed her story closely, among others. Through these interviews and extensive access to archival footage, legal documents, and court filings, a new picture of her case emerges – illuminating an entirely different side of the story.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Best 'Saturday Night Live' Characters of All Time Denzel Washington's Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best 70 Greatest Comedies of the 21st Century
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5 Things We Learned From ‘Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie' Docuseries
When Redding, California resident Keith Papini called first responders on Nov. 2, 2016, he feared the absolute worst. He had returned home from his job to find his two children alone in the house, and his wife Sherri Papini nowhere to be seen. After using the Find My app to track her location, Keith found Sherri's phone lying in the dirt on the side of the road, headphones coiled around several strands of her hair. Local law enforcement brought in the FBI, and the search turned into a national media frenzy. Sherri was found 22 days later, starving, bruised, branded, and claiming to police she was abducted and held captive by two masked Hispanic women. But after a six-year investigation, officials had an alternative hypothesis, eventually accusing Sherri of manufacturing the kidnapping to run away with her former boyfriend, James Reyes. More from Rolling Stone His Wife Went Missing. The Way He Responded Convinced Cops He'd Killed Her Mexican Beauty Influencer Shot and Killed on TikTok Live A Bullet Killed Him. AI Brought Him Back to Life in Court The claims skyrocketed the attention, painting Sherri as a real-life Gone Girl. She was convicted for mail fraud and making false statements to the FBI and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. After leaving prison, Sherri remained out of the public eye, refusing to comment even as her story was turned into a Lifetime original movie (Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini) and the Hulu documentary Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini. But now, Sherri is speaking publicly for the first time since her disappearance about what she says really happened nine years ago. In the new docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, out May 26 and May 27 on ID and Max, Sherri tells her firsthand account of her experience — including the revelation that she did lie about her whereabouts, but was actually held against her will. 'The story that the world thinks they know is that I am a master manipulator who has fooled everyone,' Sherri says in the opening moments of the docuseries. 'The Sherri Papini that's out there, it's not me. She's not real. I've gone from teenage sex worker to criminal mastermind to master manipulator. I poisoned my children. [I'm a] liar, cheater, whore. . . . I'm so f—ing tired of keeping the secret and living the lie. Now I get to tell the truth.' Here's five things we learned from Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie. According to Papini, she and her now ex-husband Keith had an incredibly toxic marriage. She claims he was often emotionally abusive, and controlled her finances, friendships, and even when she was allowed to speak in the home (Keith denied all of these allegations through an attorney statement in the docuseries.) Because of this tension, Sherri claims she started an emotional affair with a former boyfriend James Reyes. The two spoke often on burner phones, but never met up, she says. According to Sherri, when she went for a run that Nov. afternoon, Reyes pulled up and abducted her. 'I remember waking up briefly in the back of the vehicle and not being able to even keep my eyes open,' Sherri says. 'And then the next time I woke up was when he was getting me out of the vehicle to go inside, and it was dark. He had one hand underneath my arm trying to help me walk. And I just remember thinking, 'This is not where I'm supposed to be. I'm supposed to be picking my kids up from day care. I am not supposed to be here.'' Police interviewed Reyes during their investigation, who claimed that he picked up Sherri with consent and allowed her to stay at his house — where she planned her injuries and often refused to eat. (Reyes did not participate in the documentary, declined to comment to filmmakers, and has not been charged with any crimes.) But Sherri claims she was held against her will. Sherri's ex-husband Keith and several members of her family participated in Hulu's 2024 docuseries Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini. The series also included testimony from the case's lead investigators and FBI officials. But according to Denise Farmer, the FBI's lead investigator on Sherri's case, ID's docuseries is the first time investigators have been able to freely speak about the case. During previous interviews, they had public relations officers in the room to make sure they didn't spill any sensitive techniques or confidential case files. This one is different because no FBI minders were present during any law enforcement interviews — allowing Farmer to speak in more detail to the ID team about the investigation and when they first began to suspect Sherri of lying. 'Our work speaks for itself, but we don't speak about our work. We're silent professionals. We don't wanna just tell the whole world how we investigate these cases,' Farmer says in the docuseries. 'That's just not something we're gonna publish. This time is different, because I'm retired now.' Sherri was found on Thanksgiving day by a motorist near Interstate 5, 22 days after she disappeared. When police questioned her at the hospital, she claimed that she was abducted by two Hispanic women who kept their faces hidden behind masks. She kept this claim up throughout the investigation, even self-publishing a book about her time in captivity called 22 Days. In the book, she nicknamed the two women Smegma and Taint, and described several instances of being injured, beaten, and starved. Officials said she lied to keep the kidnapping hoax going, something that eventually led to her and Keith's divorce. 'To go back and watch the footage to see all the people that were affected, and knowing that she's lying — not just lying; she's watching videos of everyone search for her. All the signs, and knowing that her children are at home, and being OK with that? It's painful, and it definitely separates into, this isn't just a lie,' he told Rolling Stone in 2024. This was planned. So it's very painful, and it really shows the level of manipulation and deceit that she put upon us.' But in the docuseries, Sherri claims she lied when she was found because she was afraid of Reyes and that her husband would find out about her emotional affair with him. Sherri had signed a postnuptial agreement, which gave Keith a large portion of their funds if she ever cheated on him. 'The truth is,' she says in the series, 'I was concealing an affair from my husband, threatening to take everything from me if he found out that I was having any involvement [with another man].' Much of the trouble with Sherri's case is her shifting story about what happened to her. During the investigation, Police could not find any record of the two women she claimed had kidnapped her. After speaking to Reyes, they found several people who corroborated the fact that Sherri was in his home. The investigation also confirmed that she and Reyes were in communication prior to her disappearance. Sherri confirms in the docuseries that she was speaking with Reyes, and even might have mentioned in passing a plan to meet up, but never consented to leaving. Her psychologist, Dr. Stephen Diggs, claims in the series that Sherri has self-defeating personality disorder, which makes her susceptible to pleasing behavior. Diggs says this could explain why Sherri kept communicating with Reyes and might have even agreed to meet up with him over the phone. In the docuseries, Sherri even tries to recreate her abduction, but says the exercise doesn't jog any memories. 'I was abducted,' she says. 'I don't remember if I got into the car.' Sherri maintains that while she lied about many things, she is not lying about her interactions with Reyes. For the docuseries, Sherri passed a polygraph saying that she did not ask him to brand her. 'The injuries that occurred, the bites on my thigh, the footprint on my back, the brand, the melting of my skin,' she says. 'I am telling you there was no consent.' Best of Rolling Stone Every Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best The United States of Weed Gaming Levels Up
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Sherri Papini, real-life 'Gone Girl' accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, now says it was all real
Nine years after Sherri Papini was declared missing when she didn't return home from a run in Redding, Calif., the mother of two is changing her story. Sherri, who was dubbed a real-life 'Gone Girl' in 2016, referring to the 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn, speaks out publicly for the first time in the Investigation Discovery docuseries Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, which premieres on Monday on HBO Max. 'Haven't you ever lied? Have you ever lied in the history of your existence?' Sherri asks viewers in the second episode of the series. 'And then has that lie been blown up and broadcasted around the world? It's so much more complex than just pointing the finger and saying, 'You're a liar.' I wish more than anything I could've been more truthful.' The Investigation Discovery docuseries reviews the original story that was reported throughout late 2016: While on a run, Sherri disappeared, and her husband, Keith, called the police. Redding police search for her, and behind the scenes Keith got the FBI involved too. Twenty-two days later, on Thanksgiving, a passing motorist spotted Sherri running across a church parking lot with a chain around her waist and her wrists zip-tied together. Police took photos of the significant bruising across her body, alongside burn marks and a brand on the back of her shoulder blade. At a press conference a week after Sherri's return, the police said Sherri claimed she was taken by two Hispanic women to an unknown location. After four years of nothing coming to light about the alleged perpetrators, the FBI connected DNA on the pair of underwear Sherri had been wearing to her ex-boyfriend James Reyes. They spoke to Reyes, and he claimed Sherri had asked for help to get away from her husband. On March 3, 2022, five years after she was reported missing, Sherri was arrested on a charge of lying to the FBI. She pleaded guilty to faking her kidnapping and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Keith told police he was 'blindsided' and 'in shock' about his wife faking her own disappearance. In April 2022, Keith filed for divorce from Sherri and requested full custody of their son and daughter. Keith was not interviewed in the HBO Max series. He was, however, a major voice throughout Hulu's documentary about the case, Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini, and gave several interviews with news networks about the situation. In the Hulu documentary, he said he has not spoken directly to Sherri in years. The media attention around Hulu's documentary, and Keith's assertion that Sherri intentionally staged the kidnapping to have an affair, is also referenced throughout Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie as the 'media's version of what happened.' Hulu did not respond to Yahoo Entertainment's request for comment. "I wanted to get the truth out," Keith Papini told ABC news station KGO-TV in June 2024. "There's been so many lies out there and misreportings during that time, and I really wanted to land a message of 'This is what happened to my family, friends, the community.' We were all taken advantage of." 'I'm so tired of keeping this secret and living the lie,' Papini says at the beginning of the first episode of the series. 'Now I get to tell the truth.' In Sherri's retelling, she claims she was in communication with Reyes in 2016 through burner phones but had no intention of traveling with him. She said she originally claimed two Hispanic women kidnapped her because she thought somehow it would lead police to Reyes, whose mom, Sherri thought, was Hispanic. Sherri said during the docuseries that she thought sketching a woman who, in her opinion, looked similar to Reyes's mother could help lead the investigation toward him. She said she was having an emotional affair with Reyes because she was scared of Keith, who was 'threatening to take everything from me.' The detectives involved have not investigated Sherri's allegations against Keith. But Reyes, according to Sherri, kept her tied in a room that was boarded up, and she had no idea where she was for three weeks. She claimed she only lied to the FBI about being kidnapped by two Hispanic women because she was worried about how Reyes would react and whether it would impact her children. She ultimately insists that Reyes kidnapped and abused her — that she didn't fake a kidnapping and willingly went with him — and that Keith's behavior had pushed her toward rekindling her previous connection with Reyes in the first place. Sherri said she pleaded guilty in 2022 to orchestrating the hoax because she felt pressure to do so. That's the big question throughout the docuseries: What actually happened during these three weeks in November 2016? The series speaks to psychologists (one of whom is Sherri's personal therapist), police and FBI agents who were involved in the investigation and even has Sherri undergo a polygraph test while filming. The production team hires a private investigator at one point to research some of Sherri's claims. But as one psychologist says in the final episode of the series, 'More than one thing can be true at the same time.' 'My only hope for justice is that the person who held me captive and tortured me comes forward and admits to his crime,' Sherri says in the final moments of the last episode, referring to Reyes, who has not been charged with anything related to her disappearance. 'I was at rock bottom, there's no more. There's no more. What the f*** am I going to do? I mean, really. Do you think that this film will do more harm than good for me?' The first episode ofpremieres on May 26 at 9 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
