Investigation Discovery has landed the primary interview with Sherri Papini, the girl on the middle of a media uproar after she faked her kidnapping and later pled responsible to orchestrating the hoax. The interview will function the centerpiece of a multi-part docuseries that ID is ready to run in 2025.
Manufacturing is underway on the Papini docuseries, which can be produced by Asylum Leisure Group and Girl Moon Leisure for Investigation Discovery. In accordance with ID, the sequence “will function unique interviews with Papini about her disappearance and the following media firestorm and federal investigation that adopted. The docuseries additionally will function unprecedented entry to archival footage, authorized paperwork, and courtroom filings in addition to intensive interviews with these near Papini and the investigation — providing new insights and potential solutions to the questions that also swirl round this case almost a decade later.”
This reps the most recent high-profile docuseries challenge for ID, following the smash hit “Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Youngsters TV” and the latest four-part occasion “Fallen Idols,” in regards to the controversies and accusations swirling round Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and his late brother, Aaron Carter.
“Sherri Papini drew worldwide consideration when she went lacking after which once more, when she returned. Whereas many views have been instructed, there’s one standpoint that the world hasn’t heard and that’s from Sherri herself. Investigation Discovery will current a brand new facet of Sherri Papini’s case – instructed by her in her personal phrases,” mentioned Jason Sarlanis, President of ID.
Papini’s story has additionally been on the middle of the Hulu docuseries “Good Spouse: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini.” In accordance with Hulu, “Good Spouse” scored 3.6 million viewers in its first week of availability, making it the streamer’s most-watched docuseries ever.
Papini disappeared from her Northern California dwelling in 2016, and was lacking for 3 weeks. After a large hunt, she was discovered on the facet of a highway, bruised, chained and claiming she had been kidnapped. She later pled responsible to orchestrating the hoax and was sentenced to 18 months in jail.