Mum who faked her own kidnapping dumped by husband days after admitting hoax

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police search in 2016 when she faked her own kidnapping, has been served divorce papers by her husband just days after she admitted staging the hoax.Papini said she was “deeply ashamed” of what she had done after being charged with mail fraud and making false statements to an FBI agent and now faces a jail term of up to 25 years if convicted.

Prosecutors allege she fraudulently obtained $30,000 (£23,300) from California's victim compensation board.“I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done,” she said.During the three weeks that his wife was missing Keith Papini made repeated appeals for information leading her recovery and was himself investigated by police.Papini had disappeared while she was out jogging in November 2016.

After she had been missing for some time her husband used the Find My Phone function to locate her iPhone and headphones which were found dumped by a roadside with some of Papini’s blog hair tangled in them.A later report from FBI Special Agent Courtney Lantto noted: “Husband thought the cellphone had been placed, which he described as weird."When Papini’s phone was examined, police found that two men’s the numbers were in her contacts under disguised names.After Papini’s deception came to light it was revealed that she had been staying with ex-boyfriend, James Reyes during the period she was missing.The bizarre “abduction” came to an end on November 24, 2016.

Responding to reports of a distressed woman running along a major road, police found Papini.“Papini had a chain around her waist that one arm was bound to, with additional bindings around her other wrist and each ankle,” Special Agent Lantto wrote.“Papini was transported to Woodland Hospital where she underwent several.