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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 2: Imagine coming home and calling out to your children and

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Speaker 2: your spouse, and no one answers.

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Speaker 1: You know immediately things have gone sideways. You launch a.

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Speaker 2: Desperate search, finding your taught children still at daycare, but

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Speaker 2: where's your spouse. Then you find your spouse's cell phone,

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Speaker 2: the cord wrapped neatly around it, attached to earbuds, and

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Speaker 2: some of your spouse's hair caught tangled up in that cord.

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Speaker 2: You know everything has gone sideways. Of course, I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about the case of Sherry Peppini, the missing mom who

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Speaker 2: faked her entire disappearance, going so far as to brand herself. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you heard me, brand herself, you know, like with a

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Speaker 2: hot poker, brand herself with something that looks like hieroglyphics,

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Speaker 2: and lose about forty pounds, beat herself and chop off

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Speaker 2: her hair to make her disappearance more believable. We find

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Speaker 2: out the entire time her husband is sick, her children

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Speaker 2: are crying from mommy. The whole world has turned upside

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Speaker 2: down looking for Chery Peppini. She was hold up in

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Speaker 2: her old boyfriend's apartment. Good grief woman, I'mancy Grace. This

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Speaker 2: described Stories, Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation.

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Speaker 2: In series six sem one eleven. In The Last Days,

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Speaker 2: I Break and the Cheery Peppinie Fake Kidnapping case, Chery Peppinie,

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Speaker 2: everybody who cost police thousands of man hours and tens

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Speaker 2: of thousand of dollars in the search has just walked free.

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Speaker 2: That's right, California Moms. Sherry Pepini has been released from prison.

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Speaker 2: How did the whole thing start?

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Speaker 3: Hello? Can I help you? Yeah? So I just got

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Speaker 3: home from work, and uh, my wife wasn't there, which

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Speaker 3: now from like daycare. So I was like, oh, maybe

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Speaker 3: she went on a walk. I couldn't find her, so

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Speaker 3: I called the daycare to see what time she picked

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Speaker 3: up the kids. The kids were never picked up, so

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Speaker 3: I got freaked out. So I hit like to find

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Speaker 3: MyPhone app thing and it said that her. It showed

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Speaker 3: her phone like at our end of our driveway. We

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Speaker 3: our driveway, at the end of our street, but just

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Speaker 3: drove down there and I saw her phone with their

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Speaker 3: thinking like somebody like, let's hers.

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Speaker 2: Grab thank you, and someone grabbed her. Now take a

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Speaker 2: listen to our cut one from Channel seven kr c R.

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Speaker 4: Keith Papini came home last Wednesday and his wife, Sherry Pappini,

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Speaker 4: was nowhere to be found.

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Speaker 5: In normal days, I would open the door and my

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Speaker 5: families comes and runs and gives me a hug.

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Speaker 4: But there were no welcoming hugs. So he searched in

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Speaker 4: the house and their property, but learned the children were

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Speaker 4: still at daycare. He found Sherry's phone down the street.

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Speaker 5: That's when I knew she'd been, in my opinion, taken

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Speaker 5: or abducted.

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Speaker 4: Now days later, family, friends, the community, and law enforcement

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Speaker 4: are still looking for Sherry.

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Speaker 5: It's the worst thing in the world. It's the worst

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Speaker 4: Time going by slowly and their children don't know their

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Speaker 5: It's hard waiting.

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Speaker 6: You know, you're waiting.

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Speaker 5: You're waiting for a phone call, You're waiting for something

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Speaker 5: to tell us. You know, this is the direction, or

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Speaker 5: this is the house, or this is the car, and

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Speaker 5: that is It's very difficult right now, but.

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Speaker 4: Keith is determined to find her.

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Speaker 5: If she's listening, I wanted to say that we're trying

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Speaker 5: the best we can and I'm so sorry that I'm

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Speaker 4: The family believes she was abducted and has this message.

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Speaker 5: Bring her home, Bring her home, Just bring her home.

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Speaker 2: We all know that Peppini was on a very tight

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Speaker 2: schedule that she never missed picking up her children. Take

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Speaker 2: listen to her sister in law, Sherry Peppini are cut five.

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Speaker 7: There's no way she would do anything to disrupt her

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Speaker 7: They're on a very they're on a very tight schedule,

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Speaker 7: every day gardening and doing projects, and there's there's just

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Speaker 1: It's terrible.

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Speaker 7: She's an incredible human being, best mom I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: You're hearing the sister in law, Suzanne speaking I Nancy Grace,

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Speaker 2: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us

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Speaker 2: here at Fox Nation. In series XEM one eleven. Sherry Peppini,

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Speaker 2: a name that echoes and echoes and echoes. She's been

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Speaker 2: panel to make sense of what we know right now.

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Speaker 2: Matthew Mangino, former prosecutor, highly respected attorney, author of the

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Speaker 2: Executioners Toll, Doctor Angela Arnold, psychiatrist joining us out of

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta jurisdiction at Angela Arnold, MD dot com. Mona

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Speaker 2: Kay private investigator at Mona Ka Investigations joining us out

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Speaker 2: of Omaha. Emmy Award winning investigative reporter Christy Missourich and

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Speaker 2: special guests joining us. Sheriff Michael Johnson from the Shasta

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Speaker 2: Counties Sheriff's Office to Sheriff Michael Johnson.

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Speaker 1: This case has been hanging.

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Speaker 2: Around the Sheriff's office neck an Albatrosso to speak Sheriff

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Speaker 2: Michael Johnson, familiar with the extensive search for Sherry Peppini.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to the Shasta County Sheriff presser.

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Speaker 8: The deputies last night when they responded, they conducted a

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Speaker 8: search of the area and canvas area with local neighbors

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Speaker 8: investigators as well. They were also able to utilize the

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Speaker 8: and they Reached helicopter came out and illuminated the area

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Speaker 8: They also used search canines for scent work. Local area

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Speaker 8: roadways were checked as well. Ms Puppini has been entered

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Speaker 8: into a national computer per missing persons. She is considered

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Speaker 8: at risk due to the suspicious circumstances.

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Speaker 2: To Sheriff Michael Johnson joining us in Shasta County Sheriff's Office,

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Speaker 2: it's a real honor and privilege to have you with us, Sheriff.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for taking time away from your extremely busy

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Speaker 2: schedule to be with us, Sheriff. You guys went all

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Speaker 2: out and your search for Sherry Peppini.

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Speaker 1: Explain what your search entailed.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Nancy, there was three really different parts to this investigation,

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Speaker 9: and when you're talking about the search, that's really like

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Speaker 9: what we call the phase one of the investigation. She

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Speaker 9: went missing, and immediately you heard there was several different

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Speaker 9: was absolutely the first phase where we just want to

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Speaker 9: Time's never on your side when somebody goes missing, So

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Speaker 9: the sooner you can locate them or get a lead

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Speaker 9: that personal live. So there was allied agencies asked to

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Speaker 9: lend us resources, and most of those resources were in personnel.

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Speaker 10: As you heard, we had.

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Speaker 9: Dogs, that had helicopters, we had everything, an all out

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Speaker 9: search in the community. The community even joined in, you know,

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Speaker 9: printing flyers and volunteer people coming out and looking for her.

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Speaker 9: It was an all out effort to find Sherry.

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Speaker 2: At the beginning, I remember exactly how this whole thing

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Speaker 2: went down, and the Sheriff's office and other agencies spared

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Speaker 2: no resources trying to find Sherry Pepinie. And what I

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Speaker 2: hear about the helicopter on most people never seen it

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Speaker 2: in real life, but seen in the movies. The helicopter

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Speaker 2: but in a suburban area, looking for her, flying over

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Speaker 1: Describe how that works, Shriff.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's you know, they have infrared technology. They have

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Speaker 9: a lot of different high end technology that goes into this,

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Speaker 9: not just in the helicopter, but on the ground as well.

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Speaker 9: There's efforts, there's people where a night vision, there's everything,

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Speaker 9: all all expense paid to locate this woman. And and

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Speaker 9: the that's one of the keys here, Nancy, is when

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Speaker 9: you talk about the exhausting efforts of all the agencies

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Speaker 9: into this initial search and throughout this investigation, and the

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Speaker 9: find out in the end that it's a fraud, it's

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Speaker 9: very frustrating. Then one thing I should tell you also,

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Speaker 9: and I could remember that during the time Sherry Peppini

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Speaker 9: went missing, I was actually the neighboring police chief at

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Speaker 9: the time, I was not the sheriff, So I was

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Speaker 9: the attempt to find Cherry. So everybody was involved.

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Speaker 2: And now to find out it's nothing but a big

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Speaker 2: fat lie. I mean, this woman knows no bounds in

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Speaker 2: her lies. Take a listen to our cut eight Allison Sutton,

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Speaker 2: a motorist who spots the missing mom on the side.

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Speaker 1: Of the road.

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Speaker 11: I saw a blind, a blonde woman standing in like

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Speaker 11: that V shaped area that gets created between the right

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Speaker 11: I wasn't quite sure where I was when I saw her.

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Speaker 11: I just caught a glimpse of her. The area where

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Speaker 1: Have you ever done that? You've driven by something and

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Speaker 1: you went whoa, whoa, whoa? What was that?

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Speaker 2: That's what Alison Sutton is telling our friend Craig Melvin.

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Speaker 11: I saw her very very quickly. Her face looked I

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Speaker 11: thought her face was dirty. But based on what I

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Speaker 11: was very, very dark. I did not notice restraints. It

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Speaker 11: And like I said, it was a flash because that

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Speaker 1: You didn't go back after that?

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Speaker 11: I had my fourteen year old daughter in the car

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Speaker 11: with me, and we talked about going back, but the

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Speaker 11: nine to one one operator had me feeling confident that

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Speaker 11: law enforcement would take care of the person that I saw,

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Speaker 11: and so we chose to get back on the road

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Speaker 2: Crime stories with Nancy Grace breaking news in the case

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Speaker 2: of a California mom who faked her own kidnap, even

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Speaker 2: going so far as to brand herself, beat herself, and

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Speaker 2: starve herself to make it all look real. Then a

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Speaker 1: Seriously, it was all a big fake.

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Speaker 2: How much money and man hours did this woman cost us?

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Speaker 2: When real people were suffering, real people being kidnapped, real

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Speaker 2: people being aggravated, assaulted, real people being raped, real women

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Speaker 2: being snatched away from their children and vice versa, and

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Speaker 2: she pulls this stunt.

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Speaker 12: Listen, we are very esthetic to report that Shery Peppini

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Speaker 9: Been treated at a area.

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Speaker 12: Thirty this morning, chess Cunty Sheriff's Office was notified that

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Speaker 3: We learned that she was released by.

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Speaker 12: Her captor on our rural road A near I five

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Speaker 2: Peppini admits it's all a big lie. I remember when

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Speaker 1: Has walked free.

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Speaker 2: Christi Msuri joining us Emmy Award winning investigative reporter. Do

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Speaker 2: you remember everybody looking for Sherry Peppini, the grid searches,

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Speaker 2: the neighbors in fear, no woman would go for a

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Speaker 1: Christy Musurich.

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Speaker 13: It was the face scene around the world on billboards, signs,

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Speaker 2: I mean, whoa Take a listen to our cut eighteen.

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Speaker 2: This is Susie's CBSLA.

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Speaker 14: After years of sticking to her story that she was

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Speaker 14: Cherry Peppini vanished from her reading home in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 14: Weeks later, she was found wandering along the five Freeway,

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Speaker 14: bruised and branded. Now, at that time, she told police

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Speaker 14: instead of being abducted, she was actually hiding out with

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Speaker 14: planned the entire hoax. Her lawyer says, Peppini signed a

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Speaker 1: You know what joining me, Sheriff Michael Johnson.

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Speaker 2: It was the Shasta County Sheriff's office, and you're then

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Speaker 2: no way to count the man hours spent on finding

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Speaker 2: this spoiled brat mom of two that goes missing on

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Speaker 1: Both of her kids are in daycare. I don't know

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Speaker 2: She's obviously fabricating a crime in her pink jogging suit.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if she had her hair blow dry before

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Speaker 2: she took off. But long story short, to go shack

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Speaker 1: I'm so mad I could chew anl and a half.

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Speaker 1: Sheriff doesn't tell.

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Speaker 9: Them most like a supermom to me, Does it to you?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it doesn't, No, it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are plenty of times moms feel tired.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to clean the guinea pig cage, or

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Speaker 1: They're exhausted.

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Speaker 2: But hiding in your ex boyfriend's apartment for several weeks

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Speaker 2: leading up to Thanksgiving, having your entire family and abject

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Speaker 2: fear that you're dead, I mean, and what it did

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Speaker 2: to the sheriffs and the.

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Speaker 1: Local police out in a helicopter at night, set at

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Speaker 2: Real crimes sheriff with real victims that are suffering.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and you hit all the points. It's frustrating to

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Speaker 9: had into this investigation. And it wasn't too well into

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Speaker 9: I'm sure, we had well more than that into the

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Speaker 9: other agencies. And that is the frustration, Nasty is who

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Speaker 9: we put all these this effort into Sherry Peppini and

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Speaker 9: trying to recover her and do it Will Bratt and

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Speaker 9: chasing down false suspects and.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what if you had actually made an arrest?

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Speaker 2: She tried to blame it on what too hispanic females.

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Speaker 9: Yes, she sure did. And and you know what, in

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Speaker 9: the meantime all this is going on, we have other

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Speaker 9: legitimate cases that are not getting the attention that they should,

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Speaker 2: Reminds me of Jesse Smolett, the big race faker and

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Speaker 2: his fake hate crime.

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Speaker 1: At least we knew he was alive, Okay, we didn't

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Speaker 2: He was dead and that his children would be left

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's another thing.

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Speaker 2: It's not just the money Mona K joining me private

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Speaker 2: investigator Mona K Investigations, Ode of Omaha. Mona when used

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Speaker 2: or at least me when I would work a case

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Speaker 1: I worked it.

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Speaker 2: I worked it hard, out on the street till one

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Speaker 2: not be any glitch in front of the jury, riding

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Speaker 1: Their evidence out, anything.

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Speaker 2: I could do to further justice. There was no rest,

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Speaker 2: There were no dinners out nothing. It was proved the case,

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Speaker 2: investigate the case, and by the time you're in it

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Speaker 2: you're so emotionally attached to it that anything other than

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Speaker 2: I looked at my cases. They were like my children

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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's true. I mean, you become very invested in

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Speaker 15: the cases that you work, the people you work for,

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Speaker 15: you know, her family, the community. But you work endlessly

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Speaker 1: Yes, and it's exhausting.

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Speaker 2: Monique into you Sheriff Michael Johnson joining us, the Chessa

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Speaker 2: County sheriff, the elected sheriff, you know, sheriff. It's not

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Speaker 2: like on TV and movies or in one scene you're

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Speaker 1: It's not like that.

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Speaker 2: You go days, weeks, months working a case. I've had

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even tell.

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Speaker 2: You what criminal investigators, lawyers, and sheriffs like yourself go.

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Speaker 1: Through to make a case and to think the whole time.

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Speaker 2: Sherry Peppeni is propped up on the sofa at her

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't get it, what she put you.

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Speaker 2: Guys through and her own family is it's I don't

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Speaker 1: Sheriff. Why am I the only one angry here?

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Speaker 6: You're not.

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Speaker 9: I do feel I do feel sorry for her unsuspecting

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Speaker 9: when you talk about this woman had a very elaborate

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Speaker 9: Our investigators had to chase down so many leads and

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how many times that I would comment

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Speaker 1: And I'd read the facts.

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Speaker 2: I still got pages and pages and pages of notes

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Speaker 2: which she goes so far to beat herself and starve herself,

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Speaker 1: Sheriff? Yes, she was, Oh, dear Lord in Heaven with

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Speaker 1: what It's never been told what she was branded? What

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Speaker 1: What religious saying. Yeah, yes, oh you know.

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Speaker 2: This is straight Matthew Mangino, former District Attorney Lawrence County,

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Speaker 2: Which I don't like one bit that you pu old

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Speaker 2: it's straight out of like a fifth grade girl's novel,

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Speaker 1: Because the woman.

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Speaker 2: Had a broken nose, she was starved, she had cut

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Speaker 1: But would she actually brand herself?

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Speaker 2: Would she go through all that break her own nose

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you know, she went to great

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Speaker 16: The the attention that she might get after she comes

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Speaker 16: back twenty two days later. I mean, you know, this

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Speaker 16: it inhibits people from money to get involved in the future.

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Speaker 16: When someone says they're missing, it's a diversion of police efforts.

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Speaker 16: You know, it's costly to the community.

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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, man Geno, I want to analyze something you

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a euphemism. Hey, Sheriff Michael Johnson,

440
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 2: did you hear that Matthew Mangino.

441
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: Police efforts. Think about it.

442
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: How many women were being raped at that moment, how

443
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 2: many stores or homes were being robbed or home invaded?

444
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 2: How many missing children were being abducted at that moment.

445
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 2: What other crimes were happening? Were people domestic violence, people

446
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 2: women getting beaten, children getting beaten and molested.

447
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: That's what was happening when Sherry Peppini.

448
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 2: Had the sheriffs up in their helicopter and doing grid

449
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: searches and putting up flyers.

450
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about that, Mangino?

451
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: All right?

452
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 16: And I agree with you, and it goes beyond that.

453
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 16: I mean the fear that they created in the community,

454
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 16: that hey, you know this, this young woman was abducted

455
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 16: and no one knows where she's at, and then when

456
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 16: she finally returns, there's this racist element that she creates.

457
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 16: Two gun wielding his Spanish got her capted for three weeks.

458
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 2: You know, I remember when Susan Smith killed her children

459
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: and blamed the black guy.

460
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: Blame the black man. All right.

461
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: So I was sitting in court Jackie with my trial partner,

462
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: who helped me a great deal turn into a judge

463
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: by the way, herman Slim and the composite of the

464
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 2: fake kid napper of the children came out of Mike Hermann.

465
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 2: That looks a lot like you look at this. Oh,

466
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: I said, actually, I think you were import with me

467
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: when a children where I've dug to so you know

468
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: you're safe. But what he just said, Sheriff Johnson, did

469
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 2: you hear that, the element of blaming the Hispanic women.

470
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 9: Yeah, of course. And you know what that doesn't You

471
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 9: got a nerve? What that does a law enforcement is

472
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 9: it gives us you know, she created this these sketches,

473
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 9: and so now we're contacting people and questioning people that

474
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 9: even resemble that falsely. You know, it's it's unfair.

475
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: He just gave me a flashback, Sheriff Johnson. You know the.

476
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: Big albums of purps mugshots. I remember sitting up at

477
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: like one o'clock in the morning, I found a witness

478
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: and just going through page after page after page, looking

479
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 2: to see if any of these people look familiar as

480
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: the killer.

481
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: It was triple homicide on my dad. But I could

482
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: just see you putting together those two composites.

483
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: I remember them well, and showing them to this person

484
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: and that person.

485
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so intensive. Sheriff Johnson. I know it is,

486
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, Sheriff Johnson.

487
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: I've still got you. We heard Matthew Mangino. I think

488
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 2: it's a pretty good guess on his part. Two say

489
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: she did it for attention. Did we ever figure out

490
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: why she did it?

491
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 9: You know, that's the one thing that I was waiting

492
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 9: for to come out in the trial.

493
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Speaker 12: No.

494
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 9: All I can tell you is that calculated, narcissistic type

495
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 9: of behavior that she displayed through this whole thing is

496
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 9: all self serving right up now until the end when

497
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 9: she enters a plea agreement. The only reason she pled

498
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 9: in this case is because she's trying to save herself.

499
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 9: This for selfish reasons. Again, and they put out this

500
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 9: statement of remorse by her, which I'm quite sure she

501
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 9: didn't say. It was crafted, probably by her attorney. Yeah,

502
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 9: and just don't buy any of it. So I was

503
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 9: hoping in the trial we would get a better idea

504
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 9: of why she did it. But if I had to guess,

505
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 9: I'd just say it's that same typical selfish behavior.

506
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 2: Oh, the whole thing about Oh I'm bored, I'm bored

507
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: being a stay at home mom. You know how many

508
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 2: working moms that have to work. Would love to be

509
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: a stay at home mom because they're trying to be

510
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: the stay at home mom and do all the things

511
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: that mom does and work at the same time.

512
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: I mean it's.

513
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 10: Hard, Nancy.

514
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: Uh oh, here it comes, dra Angie Arnold. I don't

515
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: get this.

516
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: I just did it for attention. There's something else there.

517
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 2: And don't sell he's insane because she's not.

518
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: She's crazy. She's crazy like a fox. I'm telling you that.

519
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 10: And she is also not a narcissist. She is a sociopath.

520
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 10: Is the definition of a sociopath. She knows the difference

521
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 10: between right and wrong, and she has no conscience because

522
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 10: this is not the first bad thing that she's done

523
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 10: to her family. It has escalated and escalated and now

524
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 10: this and like you said, how selfish? And then how

525
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 10: could you be thinking of anyone? She's not thinking of anyone.

526
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 10: And by the way, typically sociopaths and narcissist are not

527
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 10: really capable of love. So she's got this family you

528
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 10: know that she can portray and of course she looks

529
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 10: like the best mom in the world because she's not.

530
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 10: Her entire life is okay.

531
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: You do know that just didn't make any sense. At all.

532
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: She looks like the best mim in the world because

533
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: she's not okay, but that like you, But I know

534
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: that didn't make any sense.

535
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Greasee.

536
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: Cherry Peppini walks out of jail. What will be her

537
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: next stunt? Don't think this is over. I mean, when

538
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: you don't know a horse, look at it's track record,

539
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: and boy does she have a track record. All kinds

540
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: of family problems way back when, dating back till before

541
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 2: she was married. And this porn guy falls for Chery

542
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: Peppinie's line of crap, marries her, they have children, and

543
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 2: now this well in the last hour, Sherry Peppinie walks free.

544
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: But how did this whole thing actually happen? Sheriff, do

545
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: you remember? And you don't have to or Christy jump

546
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: in if you know this.

547
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: There have been a lot of issues with her before this,

548
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: in that she had kicked in her family home, like

549
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: her our original family, like mom and dad family or

550
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: thank to burglary, there have been some something in her

551
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 2: background that's it's like a waving a big wig flag

552
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: in front of a bull. I mean, you can't help

553
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: but notice that what was it she had done.

554
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: In the past, Sheriff Johnson.

555
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't recall.

556
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: That one, so I recall it.

557
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 9: Hey, I do.

558
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 13: I hate Nancy rolling back from this A sheriff rolling

559
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 13: back from this case. She scams an ex boyfriend, telling

560
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 13: him that her her husband is beating her and her

561
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 13: family is not helping her. And she weaves this narrative

562
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 13: for almost a year before she disappears. That's why he

563
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 13: allows her to hold up in his apartment.

564
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of the drama, the story she came up with,

565
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: take a listen to our cut eighteen sissy Sue CBSLA.

566
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 14: After years of sticking to her story that she was

567
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 14: abducted by two women, Sherry Peppini is importedly ready now

568
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 14: to come clean and admit that she faked it all.

569
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 14: Cherry Peppini vanished from her reading home in twenty sixteen.

570
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 14: Weeks later, she was found wandering along the five Freeway,

571
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 14: bruised and branded.

572
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 6: Now.

573
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 14: At that time, she told police two women had kidnapped

574
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 14: and tortured her, but last month, prosecutors charged her with

575
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 14: making it all up. They say, instead of being abducted,

576
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 14: she was actually hiding out with an ex boyfriend in

577
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 14: Costa Mesa and now Peppini has reached a deal with

578
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 14: prosecutors and will admit that she planned the entire hoax.

579
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 14: Her lawyer says Peppini signed a plea deal with federal

580
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 14: prosecutors today she will plead guilty to lying to a

581
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 14: federal officer and to mail fraud.

582
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: You know, what if you'd made an arrasre Sheriff Johnson.

583
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: What if you actually found a Hispanic woman, or, as

584
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: I believe she said, two Mexican women. What if you

585
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 2: actually found somebody that matched that sketch to the point

586
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 2: that you arrested them based on what Sherry Peppini.

587
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 9: Said, Well, you know what had happened then did I'd

588
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 9: be in a lawsuit for a false arrest, A.

589
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: Big fat lawsuit too, I found at sheriff listen to this.

590
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: When she was eighteen, her sister accused her of kicking

591
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 2: in the back.

592
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: Door of the family schaste Lake home.

593
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 2: The same day, her parents, Richard and Loretta, called police

594
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: to document the incident as vandalism and claimed she had

595
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,959
Speaker 2: taken off to somewhere in Redding. When she was twenty one,

596
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 2: her parents made another call to the cop, saying she

597
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 2: stole money from the father's bank account. Then the mother

598
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: reported Sherry was harming herself and blaming her injuries on

599
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: her the mother, and the mother was afraid that she,

600
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 2: the mother, would be getting dragged into defects Department Family

601
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 2: Children's Services, So she called herself and went, hey, my

602
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 2: daughter is hurting herself.

603
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: And blaming me.

604
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: I mean, Sheriff Michael Johnson, when you don't know a horse,

605
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 2: look at her track record.

606
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 9: Yes, indeed, and all that was taken into iteration. And

607
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 9: as the things started to unfold, and you know what

608
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 9: another hard part of this was nacy is as we

609
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 9: started to unfold this lies that are being told by her,

610
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 9: we had to lay silent while we took you know,

611
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 9: some we took some criticism from the media, the family

612
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 9: and everybody else, and we were knowing that this was

613
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 9: a lie, and but we had.

614
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: To keep all I hope it wasn't may.

615
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 9: Quiet until we all the facts.

616
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 2: Now, I mean at the beginning, Sheriff, I find it

617
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: hard to believe I would have criticized you because.

618
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 16: I didn't see you at the beginning.

619
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 2: I know, but I always assume it's a Sheriff Johnson

620
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: because at the beginning her story stumped the whole thing something.

621
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 2: It just wasn't right, the whole thing. And we thought,

622
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 2: and then showing up on Thanksgiving Day.

623
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: What now?

624
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 9: I said, yeah, and there was there was little uh,

625
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 9: and you hit on a couple of them some of

626
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 9: the evidence. At the front of the investigation. We were

627
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 9: scratched in her head and not thinking thing right as well.

628
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: But I mean, what are you gonna do?

629
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 2: Bad mouth a victim who's had her nose broken and

630
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 2: lost all that weight, chopped her hair off and branded herself.

631
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: I mean, who would have thought? Then you've got the ex.

632
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: Boyfriend dragged into the whole thing. Hey, another thing, Sheriff Johnson,

633
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 2: I agree with you. Her her statement says, you know,

634
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 2: she didn't write this. I'm deeply ashamed from my behavior

635
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 2: and so sorry for the pain. I cause I don't

636
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 2: believe that for one minute. I don't think she's sorry

637
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: she did it. She's sorry she got caught, Sheriff.

638
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 9: Yep, that's exactly right. That's what she's sorry about. She's

639
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 9: sorry that she got caught.

640
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not sorry you did it, but I

641
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 2: sure don't want to go to hell for it. Okay,

642
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: So Christy, Missourich, explain to me what her sentence is.

643
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: She pleads guilty. What's her sentence.

644
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 13: She'll be sentenced this summer. But in signing up.

645
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 2: This, I thought she already said, Oh wait, I see

646
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars.

647
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: You're absolutely correct.

648
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 13: It's thousand dollars in restitution that's mandated.

649
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 2: Yes, But what I'm saying is the thirty thousand dollars

650
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 2: she stole from a victim's compensation fund to pay off

651
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: her credit cards.

652
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: What lovely, But tell me that.

653
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 2: She had thirty thousand dollars a credit card debt and

654
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 2: then paid it for the victims compensation fund.

655
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 13: Yes, and go fund be sites. Also that family and

656
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 13: friends had set up so when she returned back home,

657
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 13: she had a payday. And again her story got so insane.

658
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 13: Her memory was hazy because her head was covered by

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Speaker 13: a pillowcase. But she heard mariachi music playing. But maybe

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Speaker 13: that didn't happen because she might have been hit by

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Speaker 13: a stun gun.

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Speaker 1: Did you just say mariachi music?

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Speaker 13: I absolutely did.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Monique, probably an investigator with mony Qaue Investigations. Omaha,

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Speaker 2: the not just stereotypes, but the harmful and hateful stereotypes.

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Speaker 2: This one is conjuring up right now, I mean again,

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Speaker 2: it makes me think of Jesse Smilette. They star an

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Speaker 2: empire who conjures up hatred for Black Americans, hatred for

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Speaker 2: gay people, and then claims he was attacked with bleach

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Speaker 2: to make his skin white and put a noose around

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Speaker 2: his neck. Some of the most hateful things, just straight

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Speaker 2: out of hell that you could say. And now you've

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Speaker 2: got this woman claiming to quote Mexican women abduct her,

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Speaker 2: beat her, torture her, and play mariachi music.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right, I read that.

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Speaker 9: She.

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Speaker 15: I believe she said that she had to listen to

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Speaker 15: horrible mariachi or Hispanic music while she was being you know,

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Speaker 15: kidnapped and tortured in a closet. That was part of

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Speaker 15: the torture. Was listening to that type of music.

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Speaker 2: Well, not everyone would think that that was torture. Take

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Speaker 2: a listener. Cut twenty th three. This is Lila Lusiano

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Speaker 2: at CBS.

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Speaker 12: Cherry described her assailants as two Hispanic female adults.

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Speaker 17: According to the FBI. She accused the women of brutally

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Speaker 17: torturing her. The hunt was on and new fears settled

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Speaker 17: in Rudding, where Ladinos were less than ten percent of

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Speaker 17: the population. A lot of people would tell me, you know,

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Speaker 17: and they had to be standing, and they had to

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Speaker 17: be They said, well, that doesn't give them a good

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Speaker 17: name either.

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Speaker 1: But so there was shame in the community.

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Speaker 18: I guess she specifically picked out a gender and a

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Speaker 18: race to name as the suspect. So any Hispanic woman

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Speaker 18: at that time, I'm sure it's getting a eyebrow raised

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Speaker 18: and looking in there wondering, oh, whether she could be

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Speaker 18: connected or one of the suspects.

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Speaker 17: So people were being questioned and stopped and asked questions

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Speaker 17: by law enforcement.

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Speaker 15: Yes, they were afraid to go out together in one

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Speaker 15: car or a van.

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Speaker 1: To women, he'd be suspicious, Yeah, to be suspicious, or

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Speaker 1: to be stereotyped, to be insulted and take a listener

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Speaker 1: cut twenty Kelly Hartungu.

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Speaker 19: ABC Sherry Peppini says she's ashamed of her behavior and

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Speaker 19: sorry for the pain she caused. Just as she gets

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Speaker 19: ready to plead guilty in court. So the agencies who

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Speaker 19: spent more than five years uncovering her lies, they feel

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Speaker 19: some relief and closure, but also frustration because taking this

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Speaker 19: plea deal means she'll likely spend months, not years, in jail.

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Speaker 19: Sherry Pepinie back in federal court to waive indictment, opening

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Speaker 19: the door to plead guilty in her own kidnapping hopes.

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Speaker 20: She had no other choice because she's caught and she

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Speaker 20: knows as if this thing comes to actually goes to

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Speaker 20: trial and we start parading in the witnesses and all

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Speaker 20: the evidence, so we've got she's got no where to go.

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Speaker 20: I'm very confident we would have got a conviction if

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Speaker 20: that went to trial.

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Speaker 21: Facing trial for thirty five felony charges and the possibility

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Speaker 21: of as many as twenty five years in jail, the

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Speaker 21: mother of two, accepting a plea deal, her recommended sentence

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Speaker 21: reduced to no more than fourteen months. Through tears in

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Speaker 21: the court room, Peppini dabbing her eyes with a tissue,

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Speaker 21: her attorney consoling her as she nervously answered the judges

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Speaker 21: questions to ensure she understands what happens now, dabbing.

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Speaker 2: Her eyes in the courtroom, people are consoling her. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Sheriff Johnson's the one that needs to be consoled. And

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Speaker 2: everybody that's spent their time, blood, sweat and tears trying

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Speaker 2: to find Sherry Peppini. Now she's like dabbing her eyes

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Speaker 2: in the court. You know what, just stop, Peppinie. You've

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Speaker 2: done enough, Angie Arnold, for Pete's sake.

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Speaker 1: Is is this Shery Peppenie's world and we're just living

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Speaker 1: in it? Is it all about her?

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Speaker 10: Well, she thinks it is, and she's creating this world

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Speaker 10: that she wants to live in. She feeds off of

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Speaker 10: this chaos, and she creates more and more chaos to

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Speaker 10: keep us all wondering, like we all are on this

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Speaker 10: show right every I'm wondering. This is terrible. This is

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Speaker 10: a terrible thought. I'm gonna share with you.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, go ahead, don't hold back now.

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Speaker 10: I'm wondering how much fun her and her boyfriend were

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Speaker 10: having shaving her head, giving her bruises. I mean, I wonder,

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Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, we're all going, oh my god, this

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Speaker 10: poor woman, her beautiful blonde hair was shaved and everything

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Speaker 10: it was probab. They were probably enjoying every minute of it.

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Speaker 10: They were getting some sort of odd satisfaction out of.

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Speaker 15: Doing this to her.

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Speaker 10: On top of everything else.

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Speaker 2: In the last days the Ultimate Hoaster kidnap Mom, Sherry

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Speaker 2: Peppini walks free.

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Speaker 1: There was no kidnap. She faked the whole thing, and

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Speaker 1: I'm still to this day not entirely sure why she

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Speaker 1: did it.

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Speaker 2: Then she reappears three weeks later on Thanksgiving, wearing a

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Speaker 2: chain around her waist and arm, claiming to Hispanic women

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Speaker 2: kidnapped her at gunpoint. That's right, blame the Hispanic women.

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Speaker 2: Her life all fell apart after investigator found her DNA

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Speaker 2: on a piece of clothing that led back to her

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Speaker 2: ex boyfriend, who dropped her off there in Woodlam when

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Speaker 2: she decided to reappear on Thanksgiving, I bet that some

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving meal Sherry peppini. Let me tell you it ain't

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Speaker 2: over yet. Goodbye friends,