Overview

• Investigation Discovery's four-part docuseries, 'Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie,' premieres May 26–27, revisiting her controversial 2016 disappearance.
• In the series, Papini claims her ex-boyfriend James Reyes abducted her, chained her, and branded her, contradicting her previous admission of a hoax.
• Papini alleges she initially fabricated the story about two masked women to conceal an extramarital affair from her then-husband, Keith Papini.
• DNA evidence tied Reyes to the case, and he told the FBI — passing a polygraph — that Papini orchestrated the entire scheme, including self-inflicted injuries.
• Following her 2022 guilty plea to making false statements and mail fraud, Papini served less than a year of her 18-month federal prison sentence.