I keep going back to the fact that she was found approx 150 miles away from where she was abducted.
She had to have gotten there somehow!
That piece of information, and the fact that she had two small kids who needed their mom for those 22 days are what is convincing me that this was not staged.
You can't fake the love that I see in those family pictures IMO...and with no prior (known) drug abuse habits, I cannot see any other reason why she would have voluntarily left her husband and very small children for over three weeks, just to return malnourished, branded, beaten, had her hair chopped off, and experienced a high degree of mental trauma (chained and dropped off in the wee hours of the morning in the middle of no where.)
No three week sex-a-thon (no matter how good the sex may be!) with an acquaintance or anyone would be worth that!!! Again, JMO. Maybe it is just me talking as a mom who loves her husband and kids to bits, but I cannot fathom how any mother in what appears to be an outwardly happy marriage can do that. It makes no sense to me. JMO
I know that people leave their families all the time, but usually there is some sort of sign of trouble before that happens and I have not seen any evidence of anything (drugs, major debts, another man/woman, etc.)
I have no explanation for LE's release of the info regarding her texting a man....they have done it for a purpose, but for the life of me, I have no clue why. I would be really interested to know if he was Hispanic though.
If this was a hoax for publicity (which was suggested early on), I can almost guarantee that she would have hit the talk show circuits to talk about her horrible experience. Instead, there is radio silence from her. Crickets. This is very telling IMO.
It could mean that the police have instructed her to stay quiet, she is too afraid of the public assault that would come with people dissecting her every word and looking for lies, she is terrified of repercussions from her abductors, or she is lying and doesn't want to get caught in a lie. I tend to think that it is a mixture of the first three suggestions, IMO.
This is all JMO, MOO, and a mishmash of thoughts that have been jumbling around my head since this thread re-opened.
Nothing stated above is meant to offend anyone or be presumptuous, I have just wanted to get these thoughts down for days now. JMO
I see evidence that the kidnapping could have been staged (or SP's version of it, at least):
1. Pictures of family just a few days before the disappearance, with the entire family wearing bandannas and two of them with bandannas covering half of their faces.
2. Cell phone found with earbuds neatly coiled on the phone.
3. SP's history of blaming others for injuries that may have been self-inflicted. (You may say this is not a clue, but if anyone checked my history, they would not find a call to police in which anyone said I injured myself and blamed someone else for it).
4. SP's mother posted on FB about the presidential election and other matters, while SP was missing. Very peculiar behavior. Would you be able to do that if your daughter went missing and a huge search was launched to find her? Only if you know things weren't as they seemed, right?
5. SP seems to have selective memory about what happened during the 22 days. She can remember smashing one of their faces into the toilet, but can't remember what the vehicle looked like and took a year to remember enough about her captors to produce a sketch.
6. No motive. SP doesn't even know the motive.
7. Bound with one hand free.
8. LE being elusive on several matters, including the extent of SP's injuries compared to what KP said about them. LE pointing out inconsistencies in SP's story, like the cut on her foot she says she sustained, but wasn't there.
9. KP said to his kids, "she will be home by Thanksgiving". (I do not think KP was involved in SP's disappearance, but I do think he knows why she disappeared.)
10. SP shows up on Thanksgiving! This stands out to me more than anything else. Even if KP hadn't mentioned the holiday to his kids, the fact that SP could re-appear, alive, the survivor, on Thanksgiving morning, is very suspicious to me.
11. She was not sexually assaulted. (Again, what was the motive if not sex or ransom?)
12. LE has never been concerned that others might be in danger from the two Hispanic women, even though they don't know the motive, and the women are still out there. This makes absolutely no sense, no matter which way you twist and turn it.
13. SP texting with another man with plans to meet up, prior to her disappearance. That man has been cleared, but this is evidence that SP lived part of her life on the sly.
14. A prior internet entry by a Sherri Graeff (SP's prior husband is adamant that SP didn't write it) that states she had to constantly defend herself against Latinos in high school, a group of Latino girls would "constantly rag and attack" her, she had to "
constantly stick up for herself instead of knuckling under what the Latino girls said and wanted", a Latino girl took a swipe at her and SP "lunged back at her,
slamming her head between the bleachers" (sound familiar?) This is WAY TOO coincidental.
15. Also stated in this blog post: "on the way up the bleachers when I had rebuffed the
Latinos, I had split my leg open and it was hard for me to walk. But when my dad picked me up from the police department, the only thing he kept saying to me was, "Sher, I'm proud of you. You did the right thing. Keep on walking. Don't let your leg slow you down. Keep walking."
You say you can't fake the love seen in Papini family pictures. ANYONE can fake love in pictures, posts, etc. We see it all the time on FB. People want to paint the picture of a happy family when what really happens is a completely different story.
You also suggest LE might have instructed SP to stay quiet. But in the latest press release, they say SP and KP are free to talk. They're not doing it, perhaps because they have no answers for so many questions.
