She had bruises in various stages of healing indicating she had been physically assaulted multiple times over a period of time," according to a police news release. She was emaciated and had a quarter-inch-thick chain around her waist and host clamps on her wrists. Sheri was admitted to hospital and later told police that two Hispanic women armed with a handgun had abducted her while she was out jogging, bundled her into their car, beaten her and held her captive in a basement before one of them finally left her on the side of the road. He also said that she’d been thrown from her abductor’s vehicle with a chain around her waist attached to her wrists and a bag over her head.
According to her husband, the bridge of her nose had been broken. Her hair had been cut and she was very underweight. She was bruised and battered and burned by a branding iron. After running to the back of the church to find it closed, she then ran back to the road and flagged down a truck driver, who called the police. Three weeks after her disappearance on Thanksgiving Day, November 24 Sherri was dumped on the side of County Road 17 near Interstate 5 in Yolo County, about a hundred and fifty miles south of where she was kidnapped. The ransom was then doubled to a hundred thousand dollars before the offer was pulled the day before Sherri was found. This had nothing to do with Sheri’s family or the police. Apparently, he facilitated a mystery donor, who was a famous wealthy entrepreneur, who initially offered fifty thousand dollars reverse ransom for Sherri’s safe return. But Cameron was later said to be a bit sketchy and labelled a fame-seeker and an opportunist. He professed to be an expert ransom consultant. A man named Cameron Gamble got involved in the investigation. Keith took a lie detector test and passed. Officers told the media they were keeping an open mind.Īn emotional Keith made several media interviews and started a go fund me page to fund finding his wife and it raised just under fifty thousand dollars. Police used tracker dogs and they didn’t pick up any scent around the area where the phone was found. The headphones seemed neatly wrapped around it and as for the hair? Wouldn’t that have just blown away? It’s almost like someone set the scene, wrapping a few hairs around it for good measure. The placement of Sherri’s phone just didn’t seem right. But police would also have looked at the evidence that Keith presented to them. They made enquiries with nearby hotels and motels to see if there were sightings there. Sherri had been previously married, so a call-on was made to her ex-husband, who was out of state. Police deputies made a public appeal, saying they considered Sherri to be at risk, due to the circumstances of her disappearance. Someone who would never have voluntarily left her children. The story hit the news in a big way as Keith made good use of the media to bring attention to his wife’s case. Sherri was five foot three, about one hundred and five pounds and she was thirty-four years old. He came to the conclusion that his wife had been abducted while out jogging that morning.
Her pink running jacket was also found nearby. Keith took two photos of Sherri’s phone in situ on the ground before calling nine one one. He found it lying in the grass, with strands of her blonde hair wrapped around the headphones. So where was Sheri? Keith asked his mother to pick up his kids, and then scouted around the area and pinged Sherri’s phone. He was taken aback when they said that the children were still there. He was getting worried by now, so he rang the children’s nursery to see what time his wife had picked up the kids. He jumped into Sherri’s car to go and find his family, but strangely, there was nobody there. He pulled out his mobile phone and opened the find my phone app, which showed Sherri’s phone to be about a mile away, near their mailbox.
He went outside, still not unduly worried, but there was no sign. When he came home, he called out for his wife. There was nothing out of the ordinary as Keith went to work. It was a crisp cool day when Sherri and her husband went about their normal business.
She and her husband Keith were described as a fairytale couple, and he worked at not far away, at Bestbuy. Sherri was a stay at home mom to her two children, four-year-old Tyler and two-year-old Violet. On the second of November in two thousand and sixteen. Here are my findings: So we go to the rural community of Mountaingate in Redding, in California. I'm an ex-police detective and I've just uploaded a Youtube video on this case.