The break in the case, FBI agents said, was DNA from a tea bottle taken from an ex-boyfriend’s trash can.
Her arrest this week returned Sherri Papini to the headlines more than five years after her high-profile disappearance from a Northern California neighborhood.
The criminal complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court accuses Papini of making false statements to federal investigators and committing mail fraud in connection with receiving money from a state-run victims’ compensation fund.late Thursday that did not address the allegations but criticized investigators for arresting the woman in front of her children.
For three weeks, Sherri Papini was the subject of an intensive search in California and neighboring states. The sheriff of Shasta County said at the time that all of the department’s deputies were working full-time on the case. She said she did not know why they decided to release her, but that she was put in a car, where she fell asleep, and then was put out on the roadside in a rural area.Shasta County sheriff’s investigators had taken possession of the underpants Papini was wearing when she returned home. They asked for help from the state Justice Department in finding possible matches for male DNA that was on the garment.
During that time, he said, she did not leave the house, partly because she was afraid of being recognized. She cut her hair and ate very little — he said he believed she was trying to lose weight.
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