SACRAMENTO — “I’ve got the world’s greatest husband, his name is Keith,” sings Sherri Papini in the trailer for a new Hulu documentary releasing this week about the Northern California woman’s kidnapping hoax that riveted audiences nationwide. Titled “Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini,” the three-episode series focuses on the six-year drama that started with Papini vanishing in November 2016 from her Redding-area home. Her husband, Keith Papini, called authorities for help.
Sherri Papini claimed she had been kidnapped by two Latina woman — a lie, one of hundreds Papini told after she reappeared along Interstate 5 in Yolo County about three weeks after disappearing. She was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI and mail fraud. A federal judge ordered her to pay more than $300,000 in restitution, but prosecutors said in March that Papini has not paid the full amount.
Hulu, which did not respond to requests for comment about the documentary that will begin streaming Thursday, promised “unprecedented” access to Shasta County Sheriff’s Office investigators and Papini’s family and friends. “This limited documentary series intimately explores the jaw-dropping revelations of a relationship that wasn’t what it seemed,” Hulu says on its website. Sherri Papini’s story, which reads like a true-crime novel, has spawned other film projects.
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