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Sherri Papini of Redding leaves the federal courthouse accompanied by her attorney, William Portanova, right, after her arraignment in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Papini is scheduled to appear in federal court, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, where prosecutors are asking that she be sentenced to eight months in prison for faking her own kidnapping in 2016. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California ‘chameleon’ awaits 2016 kidnapping hoax sentence

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, a &quot;missing&quot; sign for Redding, Calif., resident Sherri Papini is seen near the location where the mother of two is initially believed to have gone missing while jogging. In March 2022, Papini was arrested on charges of faking her own kidnapping in 2016. She signed a plea deal on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 , in which she will plead guilty of lying to a federal officer and mail fraud, her attorney, William Portanova, first told The Sacrament Bee. (Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

California woman admits she faked 2016 kidnapping

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, a &quot;missing&quot; sign for Mountain Gate, Calif., resident Sherri Papini, is seen along Sunrise Drive, near the location where the mom of two is believed to have gone missing while on an afternoon jog. Papini, whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a frantic three-week search more than five years earlier, was arrested Thursday, March 3, 2022, on charges of lying to federal agents about being kidnapped and defrauding the state's victim compensation board of $30,000. (Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

Sherri Papini’s family ‘appalled’ by arrest in faked abduction

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, a "missing" sign for Mountain Gate, Calif., resident Sherri Papini, is seen along Sunrise Drive, near the location where the mom of two is believed to have gone missing while on an afternoon jog. Papini, whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a frantic three-week search more than five years earlier, was arrested Thursday, March 3, 2022, on charges of lying to federal agents about being kidnapped and defrauding the state's victim compensation board of $30,000. (Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

California woman faked kidnapping, defrauded state, feds say

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

This sketch released by the FBI shows one of two suspects in the mysterious case of a young mother who was found battered and bruised but alive along a freeway after she was missing for three weeks. Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Jackson said the sketches are being released 10 months after Sherri Papini disappearance because of Papini's difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like. Papini disappeared Nov. 2, 2016, while jogging near her home in Shasta County, about 215 miles (350 kilometers) north of San Francisco. (FBI via AP)

New details revealed in California mom’s disappearance

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, a &quot;missing&quot; sign for Mountain Gate, Calif., resident Sherri Papini, 34, is placed along side Sunrise Drive, near the location where the mom of two is believed to have gone missing while on a afternoon jog. A Northern California sheriff has released new details in the mysterious disappearance Papani, found battered and bruised along a freeway after being missing for three weeks. The Shasta County sheriff's department said Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, that investigators collected male DNA from the clothing Papini was wearing when she was found Thanksgiving morning and female DNA that was discovered on Papini's body. The samples have not been identified. (Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

New details revealed in California mom’s disappearance

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

The Latest: Abductors of California woman hid faces

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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, a &quot;missing&quot; sign for Mountain Gate, Calif., resident Sherri Papini, 34, is placed along side Sunrise Drive, near the location where the mom of two is believed to have gone missing while on a afternoon jog on Nov. 2. Papini was chained to an object and had been badly beaten when found near an interstate three weeks after she disappeared while jogging, according to a newspaper citing a police-dispatch recording. (Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

Husband of California mom found by freeway details ordeal

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

Search continues for missing Northern California mom

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