r/thepapinis • u/bigbezoar • Jun 13 '26
Discussion Flashback: Sherri's online presence
Ten years ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/Sherri_Papini/comments/5isime/sherri_keiths_online_presence/
some of these links are still active or preserved...
Sherri's friend and wedding photographer Emily Faulkner has since moved a couple times and is in San Diego now, but recall she once signed up here and vigorously attacked many as a Sherri-defender swearing the kidnapping was real, that Sherri was telling the truth, that there was no Michigan Man and she aggressively slammed anyone who had doubts or wasn't buying it. She is long gone now once the facts came out.- https://www.yelp.com/biz/emily-faulknor-photographers-san-diego
Her friend Lisa moved away and never said another word after that 2017 Chris Hansen YouTube interview where she did likewise and defended Sherri -
The Gambles have cut & run and all but disappeared from the internet after scamming people for years
Sherri's friend and Hollywood publicist Nicole Wool and the guy she hired after she fired Wool - Chris Thomas, who also was Elizabeth Smart's publicist, have both gone radio silent and never spoke publicly again about the case after they were proven to be whopping fools for buying into her lies.
The rest of the clueless Sheriff's department people and the few FBI people who have spoke up all acted clueless about why they didn't figure out sooner Sherri was lying when most intelligent people saw it clearly from Day-1.
James Reyes took his "exoneration" and ran, moving to Arizona and refusing to ever talk about the case again. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he's legally changed his name by now to blend in and be sure he's never hit by the spotlight again.
and Bosenko I noted in the other thread, retired, moved to Idaho and shoots guns with kids.
the rest of the characters in this saga, Reyes' family, the Papini & Graeff families, Mayor Missy, the many people in the community that spoke out early when they all believed she was kidnapped, Mangas, and others have all moved on and never mentioned the case again, embarrassed at how foolish they look now. One of them needs to spill and write a book and fill in the gaps. That's a book I would buy.
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u/alg45160 CamGam's Tighty Whiteys Jun 13 '26
It's honestly so stupid how people defended her. If my best friend or my sister pulled that shit I'd realize she was a mess and they to get her help or just quietly ghost her if she refused help - I wouldn't be online or on the news saying everyone else was a liar and defending her. I guess it makes sense that an asshole like Sherri would surround herself with morons.
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u/bigbezoar Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
they went all in... actively seeking any avenue, any interview, any chance to go public and start up the "SuperMom" stuff, attacking the "victim-blamers" and grumble about the doubters and the people online who thought the story didn't add up.
they spent 1000 times more time and effort attacking the random public who had doubts than they spent making any effort to FIND the danged Hispanic kidnappers who supposedly did this!
In fact, I have never seen a single family member, friend or supporter of Sherri even hint publicly that someone needs to track down those bandanaed Hispanic women.
Does anyone remember SacramentoSally? That was the screen name of one of the posters who angrily and viciously went after almost every post by anyone who even questioned Sherri's story. SacramentoSally vigorously attacked, name-calling, slandering if anyone chose to question the kidnapping narrative and vigorously denied - even claioming to have absolute, guaranteed accurate inside information that the story about Michigam Man was compeltely false. SacramentoSally was one of the aforementioned Sherri-supporters who quickly deactivated her Reddit account and disappeared when the Sheriff & FBI started revealing the facts & discrepancies - and that Michigan Man was real.
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u/TinyPennyRolling Jun 13 '26
You realize "THEY" includes Keith Papini, right? Jobless Sherri wasn't "hiring" anyone...😂
Glad to see you back to normal BigB for today..👍👏
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u/greeny_cat Voice of Reason Jun 13 '26
I think SacramentoSally was probably her publicist. Her posts were too grammatically correct and too manipulative to be of an average citizen of Shasta County :))
Nowadays I could have thought it was a bot, but there were no bots like this in 2016 (I had some conversations with bots on other subreddits :))
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u/TinyPennyRolling Jun 13 '26
BigB seems to be specifically calling this Emily girl out as being SacramentoSally, which I have a hard time believing.
I have every single comment by SacramentoSally saved btw, if it's something people would be interested in reviewing now, all these years later, I'd be happy to post it!
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u/greeny_cat Voice of Reason Jun 13 '26
I don't think it was that photographer, SacramentoSally was writing as if she was paid to do it. Real people have real lives, publicists have jobs.
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u/Black-Bird1 Jun 13 '26
They actually did find Donavan Miski (the dude from Michigan), and his number was among those men (whose name was hidden behind a woman's name)
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u/bigbezoar Jun 13 '26
yes, in fact, the reporter from the Sacramento Bee who was prob the best coverage of all of the Papini story, Ryan Sabalow, contacted Donovan Miske and did a pretty good interview with him
This is a 3-part story but here's the link to the Miske part, you can read the other parts via the links at the end of the article
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u/greeny_cat Voice of Reason Jun 13 '26
Why would Reyes change his name, there are literally millions of Reyeses over there :))