Sherri Papini takes lie detector test in new docuseries about kidnapping hoax

Sherri Pope was not easy.

In 2022, the Californian mother of two was sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own abduction so she could return to her ex -boyfriend. Her disappearance resulted in a three -week multipurpose search before appearing on Thanksgiving 2016.

Now, the 42-year-old renews her disappearance and lays the detector test of lies in the investigative discovery (ID) Docuseries of true crime, “Sherri Pope: caught in a lie.”

Fraud abduction to Sherri Pope’s insists that she has been ‘tortured’ for weeks, in the first interview since his disappearance

Sherri popely reluctantly agreed to a lies detector test. (ID)

“She really didn’t want to do any of these things, but I think she saw it as her shot to get her story out, and she’ll do everything she needs,” director Nicole Rittenmeyer told Fox News Digital.

“We made sure to be in close contact with her therapist,” Rittenmeyer explained. “We had safe words in case she couldn’t handle things. She had emotional support, and people were there for her so she could hug.”

Sherri Pope’s shows that she reacts again to moments before her alleged abduction. (ID)

Despite Pope’s hesitation, she eventually agreed make both of the documents And let it be filmed. She now claims she was a victim of a violent abduction.

The lies detector test was conducted by polygraph expert Brett Bartlett, a retired police officer with 20 years of experience in law implementation.

In the documents, Bartlett told the Pope to trust her when she claimed that she was not free to leave the home of her ex -boyfriend James Reyes and did not ask him to brand her on her right shoulder.

Polygraph expert Brett Bartlett is a retired police officer with 20 years of experience in law implementation. (ID)

When the pope asked if she was planning traveling to southern California She said no with Reyes. However, Bartlett told her, “Your body tells me differently.”

Sherri Pope received the support of close friends and loved ones, including former sister Susanne to Pope. (ID)

“I remember making a plan with James,” he said to the Pope. “Leading it further. So we could talk. [I kept] telling him I want to be with him. A lot of him took him to be interested. “

Rittenmeyer said the pope was “very anxious” after the cameras stopped rolling.

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Brett Bartlett believed that some of the Sherri Pope’s answers gave in a polygraph test, but noted that some other answers had to be more explored. (ID)

“She was very angry with herself that she wasn’t so forthcoming,” Rittenmeyer said. “… I felt like he was staying, and the polygraph opened it.”

November 2, 2016. Papini’s husband Keith Pope reported that his wife had disappeared after discovering that he was not at home and did not pick up their kindergarten children. Her handbag and jewelry were behind. An extensive search for a missing mom followed.

Sherri Pope admitted that she was in the apartment of her ex -boyfriend James Reyes at the time she disappeared. (ID)

Only on November 26, the driver would notice the tortured Pope 150 miles from her house. It was covered with bruises, burns and rashes and was still related to limitations. The meat on the back was still torn with blurred brand, and her long blond hair was interrupted. He told the Pope’s authorities that two masked Latin American women had forced her to SUV under weapons and kept her captive.

FBI poster suspects in the abduction of sherri pope. (FBI)

Investigators began to question the Pope’s story. They later discovered evidence to contradict her stories. In reality, the authorities said, Pope resided with Reyes nearly 600 miles away from his home and injured himself to support his false statements.

Dr. Stephen Diggs said Sherri Pope has a personality disorder. (ID)

He eventually admitted to the pope that it was all fraud, and she remained in Reyes’ apartment all the time she disappeared.

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Sherri Popei claimed that she was not satisfied with her marriage, but that she was afraid she would lose her two children. (ID)

In the documents, she said Pope had an emotional relationship with Reyes after not satisfied with her marriage and feared she lost her children. But the abduction was not agreeable, she claimed. The Reyes DNA was found on the clothing she wore when she was recovered.

Rittenmeyer said this was the first time to publicly share this account.

Monica de la Mora, or “Mo”, talked about what it was like to be behind the bars with Sherri Pope. (ID)

“She never shared it with anyone, except for us and very close members of her family,” Rittenmeyer said. “This will be the first time that Shasta County Sheriffs will hear this story when they look at her with the other viewers.”

Sherri Pope told her to finally speak after therapy because she felt ready to share her truth. (ID)

Fox News Digital addressed Sheriff’s Shast district, Keith’s lawyer and Reyes for comment. According to the documents, Reyes fiercely denies the abduction and abuse of papinia.

“He claims that any damage he inflicted on her was in her direction,” the documents split. “He has not been charged with any crime regarding Sherri’s disappearance.”

Asked by FBI agents, Reyes claimed that the Pope had planned “everything”, including the decision to use tools to light wood to mark his shoulder. He passed the polygraph test.

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Sherri Pope shows the scars of her brands. (ID)

Keith’s lawyer told the documents that each allegations of “serious abuse, manipulation and lying” were false and “denied the mountains of documentary evidence and objective, undeniable facts”.

Keith Pope’s ex -husband Sherri Popei submitted a divorce request in 2022. (ID)

In the documents, the Pope claimed that the descriptions he gave two masked Latin American women were to represent Reyes’s mother. She hoped investigators would use him to find Reyes without saying she had abducted her. But Rittenmeyer told Pope’s mother’s mother Irishman.

Sherri Pope’s shows here talking to a family law lawyer Chase Kinney. (ID)

“Ok. I met her twice,” he replied to the Pope. “It had very little to do with his mother and her nationality. It was an attempt to warn them of his identity without saying his name. Honestly, I don’t give AF – if she’s a Latin American or not. It’s about James. It wasn’t about her.”

Rittenmeyer said the documents will describe in detail. “Specific personality disorder that she has. “

Docuseries claimed that the personality disorder of Sherri was contributed to her actions. (ID)

“I have entered into this understanding that the conventional wisdom of Sherri is that she is a sociopath, a narcissist who faked the abduction of fraud to attract attention,” Rittenmeyer said.

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Former investigators associated with the Sherri Pope’s case also declared themselves. (ID)

“[But]… There are certain ways in which Sherri’s personality manifests very theater and can feel performing. And so, given what we understand about her, I think the basic human nature is incredibly skeptical. I didn’t believe anything she told me. If she told me that my mother loved me, I wanted to get a second and third source, because, even as her lawyer says, she is a convicted liar. “

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“What I learned … is that her special form of personality disorder results in many pleasant,” Rittenmeyer continued. “There is an effort to please, which served us well when we were doing renovation and polygraph because she did not want to do these things, but she did them.

Lawyer Bill Portanova represented Sherri Pope and spoke of his famous client in the documents. (ID)

“… we assume that people are lying because they try to deceive because there is financial profit or something they try to get over us. And in the case of her personality disorder, she lies as a protective mechanism. It’s like non -payment. She got a lot of therapy, and she is much better than it was much more.

Sherri Pope with her parents, Loretta and Richard Graeff. (ID)

202. Pope accepted the objection for recognition She admitted with prosecutors inventing a story that encouraged her angry search. In the same year, Keith submitted a divorce request.

“I am deeply ashamed of my behavior and I am so sorry for the pain I have inflicted on my family, my friends, all the good people who unnecessarily suffered because of my story and those who tried so hard to try to help me,” she said in a statement at the time. “I will work for the rest of my life to change for what I have done.”

In the documents, Sherri Pope asked how people would watch her after her testimony. (ID)

He called on the guilt agreement to pay the Pope to pay restitution over $ 300,000.

Sherri Pope is unwavering that now tells the truth. (ID)

But today the Pope’s unwavering is that she was a victim.

“Have you never lied? And then, is the lie blowing out?” He said to the pope in the documents.

The parents of Sherri Pope spoke about her upbringing. (ID)

Rittemeyer said that the Pope, now with his story, “works to be a better person.”

Director Nicole Rittenmeyer told Fox News Digital da Sherri Pope to work to be a “better person”. (ID)

“I think the person I interviewed with very different from that … Shasta district,” Rittenmeyer said. “She went through it. She served her time. She did a lot of therapy … If there is a lesson to take away from this movie, I don’t think it’s lying. You event, and you’ll get out of control.”