Sherri Papini is seen after she was released from Sacramento County Main Jail in March That includes the cost of the search for her that covered several Western states, and the subsequent investigation into the 'two Hispanic women' she said had kidnapped her at gunpoint. Papini also agreed to pay restitution topping $300,000. Prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence on the low end of the sentencing range, estimated to be between eight and 14 months in custody, down from the maximum 25 years for the two charges. She is scheduled to be sentenced July 11. In a deal with prosecutors reached last week, Papini agreed to plead guilty. She had been charged with lying to federal investigators and fraudulently obtaining $30,000 from the state's victim compensation board. Police say she was instead with her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, who she tricked into harboring her by claiming she wanted to escape her abusive husband. Papini's antics were eerily similar to those of the main character in Gillian Flynn's smash-hit thriller novel Gone Girl, which was later turned into a thriller starring Rosamund Pike as a vanishing wife. The fraudster's antics were likened to the plot of smash-hit thriller Gone Girl She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11īy Andrea Cavallier For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press.Papini also agreed to pay restitution topping $300,000.Prosecutors recommended reduced sentences estimated to be between eight and 14 months in custody, down from the maximum 25 years.Papini agreed to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors reached last week.Papini maintained her story about being kidnapped when FBI investigators confronted her with evidence which detailed how the entire story was a hoax.
It's believed she had spent her time 'missing' at the home of an ex-boyfriend.She reappeared three weeks later 200 miles away from where she was last seen.The mother-of-two had told cops she spent two weeks in captivity, beaten and starved by Hispanic women in November 2016.Sherri Papini, 39, of Redding, California pleaded guilty Monday to making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud.Sobbing Sherri Papini pleads guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it as she tearfully tells judge: 'I feel very sad'