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talk some true [Music] [Music] cry hello can I help you yeah um so uh I just got home from
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work and uh my wife wasn't there which is unusual and my kids should have been there by now from like daycare so I was
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like oh maybe she went on a walk um I couldn't find her so I called the daycare to see what time she picked up
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the kids the kids were never picked up so I got freaked out so I hit like the find my iPhone app thing and it said
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that her it showed her phone like at our end of our driveway we don't have really
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good service okay not the end of our driveway but the end of our street I just drove down there and I saw her
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phone with her headphones cuz she started running and it's I found her phone and it's got
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like hair ripped out of it like in the headphones so I'm like totally freaking out thinking like somebody like what's
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your grabbed her okay what's your address okay what's your last name yes Pini p a p i n i and your first
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name uh Keith ke i t h uh yes okay did you go pick up your children no I'm going to call my mom and
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have her do it okay what's your wife's name I'm going to like knock on every door uh Sherry s h e r r i and same last
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name yes she white female yes what's her date of birth uh it is a June 11th 1982 is her vehicle there or does she
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not have a vehicle she has a vehicle is at the house okay the vehicle is at the house she's running okay yes I'm in it
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right now driving and I took a picture of her phone on the ground before I picked it up okay how tall is
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she 53 5'4 how much does she weigh 100 lb eye color uh like a bluish blue okay hair
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color blonde do you know what she was wearing is there something always I'm assuming
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she went running so athletic typ okay there's not an outfit she always wears or anything like that she run with a dog
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or by yourself by herself okay what time were the kids we started running again and we
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live in a when's the last Super M when's the last time you heard from her uh she sent me a text asking me if I
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was coming home for lunch what time was [Applause] umh give me one second she sent me at 10:47 asking me if I was
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coming home from lunch from work and I said sorry long day and that was the last never spoke to on the phone any
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other cont okay what time are the kids supposed to be picked up way before 5:30 she usually goes to
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like 445 4:30 [Applause] 4:45 okay are you headed back to the house or where you at right
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now I'm at the end of the driveway where uh I'm at the old Oregon Trail and sunrise where they meet cuz that's right
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where I found her phone on the ground telling me that something happened to her is way I'm looking at it
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there's like then there was hair like in the headphones like it got ripped off like the gra yeah no I I understand I
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understand okay I'm sorry I know you're trying to keep me calling but obviously what kind of vehicle are you in
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I'm in a black seia Optima oh my God okay and I live I mean we live down kind of a skety street so definitely I don't
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know if I'm allowed to knock on everybody's door but I will if I'm allowed to do that well let's just have
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the officers contact you so they can start you know processing everything figure out what's
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going on okay and I understand you're freaking out a little bit we want to we want to
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make sure we get your kids make sure they're okay yeah I'm gonna call my mom and have yeah they your phone yes do you
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want me to wait right here for somebody or if you want to head back to your residence so they can contact you there
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and in case she does return okay okay we'll have him contact you at your residence call us back if
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anything changes right all right so they're going to call in the number you just take down the 35 they'll probably
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call you when they're on their way and they're going to come out in person okay okay thank you you're
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welcome okay bye [Music] byebye that call came into Shasta County California Sheriff's Office office on
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Wednesday November 2nd 2016 at 5:41 p.m. now the caller identified himself as Keith Pini he comes home from work to an
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empty house his wife and kids should have been there what he does not say on the 911 call but what was later reported
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is he did try to call and text Sherry but received no answer later he finds his wife's phone and head phones he
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finds this about a mile away from their house at the intersection of Sunrise Drive in Old Oregon Trail there is hair
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to which he says appears to have been ripped off of her head he reports her missing obviously his wife is Sherry
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Pini date of birth June 11th 1982 she's 5 foot 3 in tall 100 lb she has blonde hair and blue eyes Keith went on to tell
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911 that he found sher's car at the house and that he drove her car down the road to search for her and the phone
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while the 911 operator was asking questions about Sherry Keith interjected that he took a picture of the phone as
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he had found it he said he had no idea what Sherry was wearing but assumed running clothes he reiterated that she
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had just started running again Keith told the operator that he last heard from Sherry when she sent him a text
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asking if he was coming home for lunch this text received by Keith at 10:47 a.m. now the kids were supposed to be
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picked up between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. he says so sometime between 10:47 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. something happened to Sherry
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where was 34-year-old Sher Pini she was was nowhere to be found and her iPhone was disturbingly left on the side of the
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road near their home yeah not only did Keith call his wife and text his wife to say hey where are you I can't find you
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he also called the kids school and said hey what time did my wife pick up the kids and then they replied she hasn't
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been here to pick up the kids so this is super weird everything as he describes it very unusual he's expecting to see
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his wife he's actually fearing that she's been grabbed as he says it now the call came in just shortly before 6:00
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p.m. and the police were at the pini's mountain gate home at 6:30 p.m. an official search got underway a
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helicopter searched the area using a night Spotlight patrol cars drove around the area the Shasta County Sheriff's
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Office investigators they blocked off this area where the phone was found and they're looking for any clues that they
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could find as to what could have happened to this woman now there is a photo available online of something
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found in that area that police labeled with a number three evidence marker it's not clear what it is but it looks like a
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black and pink belt or fanny pack of some sort fancy police have never addressed this item publicly Keith and
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Sherry's sister Sheila both made very public tier filled pleas for the safe return of their wife and sister
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Billboards went up with Sherry's image the community came together attending prayer vigils and balloon releases a
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$50,000 reward was offered for information leading to Sherry's whereabouts $10,000 of this which came
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from the secret witness organization and the rest of which was raised by supporters of the family yeah and this
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is a pretty large sum come from this organization this secret organization but they said that when they saw the
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pleads on TV that they said we have to help we have to do something yeah it it's not a secret organization it's just
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in the title secret witness organization so the search captain really turns up nothing all they really come up with
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here is the phone the headphones that are attached to the phone and as the husband says hair that is attached to
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the hair the headph it appears to have been ripped off of her head yeah he also makes the claim that he took the picture
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of the phone before he touched it I don't know if it matters if I believe him or not but I actually don't believe
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that statement I know that he showed a photo to the Sheriff's Department of the phone
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itself but again it see it seems like a weird thing to do just off of just general Instinct I think I would
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naturally just grab the phone and pick up up the phone before thinking to take a photograph of it yeah I'd almost
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assume that somebody would have to pick up a phone first to figure out if it's their wife's phone you know what I mean
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like you couldn't just tell from right at a shock you're like oh you would grab it to verify that it it is in fact her
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phone right like and then you're like oh my god do should we address the 911 call
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first before we get too far into the search for Sherry yeah because I mean we just play so it's on everybody's Minds
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the first thing I want to point out here is for people not familiar with this Cas
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I have seen Keith and other interviews and so where you hear him on the the 911 call a couple times you hear
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him kind of laugh I think that's more of like or like a giggle I think it's more
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of a uh like nervous tick yeah that he has it's it's not you know he's not being light of the situation in fact
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he's the one pushing the issue that he believes that she was grabbed so ignore the the giggles because he kind of just
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does that and then you'll also hear the the the heavy breathing or the exhaling that's another thing that I've seen him
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do in several interviews as well it's you know he's he's stressed out also upset about the situation yeah but he
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was in a panic to try to find her he drives down to their where they get their mail and then he's running around
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outside the car trying to look for any clue of his wife I don't find it odd a lot of
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people find a lot of things odd about the 911 call I actually find very few things strange in the 911 well if you
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don't understand his natural demeanor I think you would but like you said watch a couple more interviews get to know the
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person and then I think the 911 call makes a lot more sense yeah yeah and I mean I don't find it strange that he
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assumes she's been abducted or grabbed as he says it I don't find that strange in the least
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bit uh some people point to that that you know he kind of jumped to that conclusion rather quickly phone is on
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the ground right right the the only thing I find strange about the call is where he says several times that that
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she started running again it's almost like it's almost like too much information and rep repeated again and
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again as if you're really trying to sell that idea but she did though because her
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family was going to run in some local charity run and uh and so she started running again and some people point to
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his statement or his question rather 2911 where he ask if he's allowed to knock on the doors of of people in the
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neighborhood again I don't find that to be strange because what I what I get the
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general sense I get from Keith and his communication with 911 is he's trying to tell them that he
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needs help that his wife is missing but he's also trying to be very upfront and very Cooperative almost like you know
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911 is the expert right here I don't want to do anything that's out of turn I don't want to step on anyone's toes I
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don't want to knock on doors and then the police show up and go well why the hell did you knock on doors the reason
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why I think people find that odd is he brains it up and he gets cut off by the dispatcher MH and then he brings it up
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again almost as if it was like rehearsed you know or he had some script and you cut me off from my script so now I got
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to go back to my script or she just didn't answer his question right and he brings it up again so what we know here
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is that the the call comes in and really they truly find nothing when they go looking for Sherry now the day after she
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went missing on November 3rd the Shasta County Sheriff's Department gave a press
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conference this would be one of the very few times that the sheriff's office would make public statements regarding
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this case Sheriff Tom basenko pledged that he would not generally release new information while the case was being
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investigated now he confirmed finding Sherry's earbuds and phone near her home he said that the Sheriff's Office was
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was checking with local registered sex offenders there were four men living within a mile of the Pini home that were
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registered sex offenders and hundreds more in the surrounding areas yeah basenko also said that about two dozen
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search and rescue Personnel were combing the area around the home and the search
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would be expanded as needed he emphasized that Sher Pini did not have any physical or mental health conditions
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that would explain her disappearance and that there were no history of calls for
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major incidents at the Pini home news articles from the early days of the search simply state that Sherry's family
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believed that she was abducted While She Was Out jogging now one thing that makes
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this case frustrating and difficult to cover is the lack of reliable information available really the
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information that we have the only information that we have other than the tiny bit
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addressed by basenko at the press conference comes from two people Sheila coaster who is sher's sister and Keith
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Pini now Sheila and Keith both gave numerous interviews to Major media sources like People magazine in 20120
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right Keith in particular is very very publicly visible bringing awareness to his missing wife's Case by making the
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rounds of the various news shows right but we've seen that before with uh Christopher Watts yeah so let's take a
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quick look at who the penis are okay Captain what do we know about Keith and Sher yeah well they both grew up in
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Reading California this is an overwhelmingly white conservative religious community party Keith and
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Sherry were childhood sweethearts they met in grade according to Keith and then later reconnected as adults yeah I
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believe the big thing that you see uh reported over and over and over is they they kissed one time in seventh grade
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apparently Keith kept all of the notes that they passed between the two of them when they were in middle school yeah he
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seems to be very enamored with his wife he talks constantly about how beautiful and perfect she is and says that he is
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head over heels for for her Sherry had been married once before and there is some question as to whether she was
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married when she took up with Keith yeah there's some weirdness there now regardless the couple the couple had a
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fairy tale wedding in 2009 and the couple has two children Violet and Tyler ages 2 and four now there are lots of
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photos and family photos online of both the couple and the family now Sherry is quite striking
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with very long Almost White looking blonde hair big blue eyes and a big smile kind of like the boltergeist girl
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all grown up she was this is one thing that's kind of confusing here captain and it's very unclear she was either
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working part-time for AT&T and or staying at home with the kids yeah or she had recently quit
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working at AT&T it's it's it's a little tricky yeah it seems like most reports state that she was a stay at home home
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mother the two kids they were enrolled in daycare this is a couple days a week that they would attend this daycare yeah
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now Sherry liked to dabble in arts and crafts and she was active on her Etsy and Pinterest accounts Keith was an
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audio video specialist in The Geek Squad at the reading Best Buy from what it looked like online he's probably making
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about $50 to $60,000 a year now the two owned a two-story home this is the home that they lived in in the community of
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mountain gate it was actually Keith's childhood home it is not believ that that they owed any money on this home
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apparently they purchased it for $128,000 from Keith's parents now they also had two cars Sherry's friends and
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family all describe Sherry as a super mom who always liked things to be perfect whose kids were angels and who
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could make a mean pie crust from scratch Keith's mom and stepdad lived nearby and
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were very very involved in their daily lives Sherry's parents lived in Arizona well how about you take us through the
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day she went missing well as as we said most of what we know about the day that she went missing November 2nd 2016 this
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comes directly from Keith right he says he left for work around 6:50 a.m. and Sherry was there at the house to see him
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off Sherry dropped the kids off at daycare as usual sometime between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. he told the 911 operator
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that Sherry text him at 10:47 a.m. to see if he was coming home for lunch he says he didn't have his
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personal phone on him while he was doing an installation so he didn't respond to her
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until 1:39 p.m. we don't know if this was a regular thing meaning for Keith to go home for lunch right but I do want to
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point out that the Best Buy where he worked was a 20-minute drive from his house so it seems like this was very
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likely a not not a regular thing a little strange right well yeah I mean if you consider that if you if you get an
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hour for lunch let's say you're going to spend 40 minutes that driving you know to and from my guess here is because he
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does do installations that he may come home if he happens to be doing an install
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somewhere closer to his home yeah that makes a lot of sense yeah that that's kind of what I'm guessing and so I'm
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guessing that's probably not a regular thing for her to text him either are you coming home for lunch this might just be
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a oneoff or something that happens once in a while or it's one of those things that if he's out don't come home right
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don't come home yeah I got a boyfriend over uh no but it could be one of those things where he's out on service calls a
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lot oh and so it doesn't matter where he's at he just goes home for lunch because it's hard for them to track his
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whereabouts there are reports that Sherry was seen at an eyebrow salon at the Mount Shasta Mall that morning and
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at a Michael's craft store uhuh and that some of the items she purchased at Michaels were found at their house but
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this is kind of a weird statement that I found amongst these things not all of the items were found
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there is what one report States okay I don't know what that means they don't go in into any detail there yeah well I'd
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like to see a detailed list of what was bought Keith also said that it appeared that that Sherry was in the midst of
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wrapping a Christmas present for him this was a homemade US flag pillow which was found partially wrapped again here
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here's the thing we don't know if any of this is actually correct as none of it has been verified publicly by law
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enforcement we also know that there are are several neighbor Witnesses who believe that they saw Sher heading out
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on a run that day the problem is that none of them agree as to what time they saw her so neighbor John Bishop
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says he saw her around 9:00 a.m. that she was out near the mailboxes another neighbor says it was
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closer to 11:00 a.m. and then some tree technicians working in the area supposedly saw her around 2:00 p.m. this
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was the time that sheriff basenko said he believed she was last [Music] seen this show is sponsored by better
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2023 all right we're back cheers mates cheers to you captain and just a quick reminder
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whatever okay back to our missing person case Captain there was a GoFundMe page that was set up this was immediately it
00:29:43
and it was started by Sherry's family yeah now we find a little more information there it says that they
00:29:51
believe that Sherry was last seen on Sunrise Drive at approximately 2 p.m. and she was either jogging or walking
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alone they also point out that jogging or walking alone is normal for her again I find it odd that the family
00:30:09
keeps talking about how normal it is for her to be running just seems again it just seems a big bit above and beyond
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but I think it goes back to the fact that her family a bunch of members were going to run into in this race and they
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were going to wear costumes or something and was going to raise money for something so I think it's I think it was
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something that was on their mind all of their minds and they're all training for
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this event mhm I I just find it weird that they keep pointing out how normal it is to be yeah and I kind of find it a
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little weird and I think a lot of people find it a little weird that you start a
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GoFundMe page right away yeah I don't know about that for me it's just weird the way that they they phrase
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that kind of kind of stuff it's like like if I Disappeared like he was last seen driving which was normal for him he
00:31:03
was very it was very normal for him to drive places it's it's not like he was last seen walking he normally walks with
00:31:09
his legs right we're not talking about some abnormal behavior we're talking about jogging or running you know it's
00:31:16
uh mine would be like they found him with a beer can in his hand and his pants down but that was normal for him
00:31:23
see that's abnormal behavior you would need to point out that it's normal for a person or for that person to be doing
00:31:30
that that's just where I'm I'm going with that now she was last seen wearing a running top now one of the family
00:31:38
members did post a picture of this top online it was a black and pink running jacket remember uh Keith wasn't able to
00:31:47
give a description of what she was last wearing because he wasn't home at the time that she stepped out to go jogging
00:31:54
yeah and just like you pointed out a little more clarification here Keith told police that Sherry was in the
00:32:01
process of training For an upcoming Thanksgiving Day Road Race and that he believed she was heading out for a run
00:32:10
that day and then abducted by someone while she was out there now much of what happened when Keith got home we heard
00:32:19
from him on the 911 call he says he pulled into the driveway expecting to see his son come running out
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uh found no one in the house and he tracked Sherry's iPhone to near the mailboxes where he then drove after
00:32:35
jumping into Sherry's car well this how he did it was uh the track my phone app correct yeah so some people point out
00:32:44
here if it's weird that he switched cars you know no one's really sure why he got
00:32:50
into her car after just arriving home in his car yeah um I want to point out a couple things here
00:32:57
it sounds to me in the 911 call that he is saying that he's expecting to find his wife and kids when he goes looking
00:33:05
for her phone using the Find My Phone app uh I'm just wondering if they only had car seats maybe in her car and so he
00:33:15
he you know very mindful of this he jumps in her car to go retrieve them that's one thought I have the other
00:33:22
thought I have I think by this point he's probably already called the daycare and and and ask has my wife picked up
00:33:29
the kids yet could be we don't know that to be to be the case I'm just wondering
00:33:35
why why anybody would do this uh why somebody would switch the cars there seems to to me there there's either a
00:33:43
reason for it or it's just just a complete weird thing here yeah so my my other thought would be is
00:33:51
if if it was just as simple as those were the first keys that he saw and I'm only kind of of circling around this
00:33:58
Captain because I've seen several people point out that they think this is extremely strange and bizarre that he
00:34:04
chose to take her car regarding the official search for Sherry Sheriff PCO acknowledged early on that the
00:34:12
circumstances of her disappearance seem to be suspicious but he said that Sherry's disappearance could be
00:34:19
voluntary but it also could be involuntary yeah he said law enforcement was proceeding with an open mind and
00:34:27
continued to investigate all angles including the following checking with family friends and Associates of sher's
00:34:35
looking at surveillance video from local homes and businesses they did this they
00:34:40
found nothing they were checking local motels and hotels they were looking into the
00:34:46
family's finances sher's bank cards and her license were found in their home they were pouring over cell tower data
00:34:57
and phone records and social media accounts they were also canvasing the neighbors and speaking with people in
00:35:04
the area as we stated they were checking on registered sex offenders in the area
00:35:10
apparently there are about 900 in that county flicky flicky they were following up on more than 400 tips and supposed
00:35:19
sightings including one highly publicized sighting of Sherry at a truck stop that turned out to be a case of
00:35:27
mistaken identity yeah well hold on cuz I love the report that some lady thinks it's her so she goes up and says hey
00:35:35
Sherry is this you and the lady seems absolutely confused so they reported that she went up to Sherry and Sherry
00:35:44
was completely confused right it's just like well yeah she was really confused cuz she's not
00:35:50
Sherry there you go there you go they were also reviewing missing persons cases from around the nation to
00:35:56
determine if any of them were possibly related to sher's case now investigators filed 20 search warrants although it's
00:36:05
not disclosed exactly what they were looking for with these warrants but the Shasta County Sheriff's Office officials
00:36:13
discovered that Sherry had been married before and they checked in with her ex-husband his name is David dfus age 32
00:36:21
at the time he was living out of the state of California yeah so he didn't live anywhere close to her and in fact
00:36:29
he had not had any contact with her as far as police could find and about six years or more yeah the two filed for
00:36:38
divorce papers in September of 2008 this was uh less than a year after they were
00:36:45
married by the time the divorce was finalized in January of 2009 Sherry was living with Keith Now searches for
00:36:53
Sherry continued with the search parties combing the wood woods and police following up on tips but one strange
00:37:00
thing LED people to scratch their heads in this case very early on this is Sheriff basenko brought in search dogs
00:37:08
to track sher's scent but they didn't hit on anything as he told CNN quote the dogs didn't hit on anything which makes
00:37:16
it a little bit abnormal he goes on to say and now it's almost ideal weather conditions we've had its in the fall
00:37:26
here on the west coast in this area so it's a little bit cooler and we've had some
00:37:31
rain and that helps too for the scent conditions and the dogs didn't hit on any scent if Sherry had run or walked
00:37:40
from the house to the mailbox area her scent should be it should have been detected by these trained
00:37:47
canines okay now a family friend wait let's let's Ponder this for a second so what you're saying is that she gets
00:37:57
dressed puts her running shoes on she takes off running that the dog the dog should have followed the scent down the
00:38:06
driveway out to the road mhm and they don't hit on anything nothing do they I mean I'm guessing that they hit onor
00:38:17
scent in the house yeah so here here's where this becomes a big problem and that's why I
00:38:24
was very quick to point out in this case we're trying to present all the facts however the the facts quote unquote
00:38:33
facts that we have come from sher's husband and from her sister regarding law enforcement they
00:38:43
spent a lot of time investigating this disappearance however they not saying anything they've not said much publicly
00:38:50
uh and what they have released it's like they choose to release some things and then other things are not commenting on
00:38:56
again with with the dogs not finding a scent we know that that happened because that's what the sheriff said publicly
00:39:02
what I'm wondering remember we have her husband who says it appeared like she was wrapping gifts at the house right
00:39:10
and I found a gift that was partially wrapped and it's the family it's her family that are saying she was out
00:39:17
jogging and she was abducted well we we have possibly an eyewitness well we have three people
00:39:24
that say that they saw her out side that day nobody saying that she was abducted
00:39:29
when they saw her I also think if she was training if it was so normal for her to be out running by herself that some
00:39:39
of the people that could have saw her it could have just been mistaken on which day they saw
00:39:44
her yeah we we'll get into the Neighbors in a little bit but one thing I want to
00:39:49
throw out there is a a possible Theory again the only people that we have saying that she was out jogging and she
00:39:58
was abducted While She Was Out jogging is her family what if what if they're just wrong what if she was actually you
00:40:05
know the dogs aren't going to lie to you um people lie these dogs aren't going to
00:40:10
tell a lie so unless there's just some weird reason that the dogs aren't effective I I get that I do get that but
00:40:19
what I'm questioning is is there a chance that she was actually abducted from the home yes and that the phone was
00:40:25
just later tossed out the the a vehicle window by her abductor right or by by you know her for whatever reason at all
00:40:35
it I think what they're doing is finding the phone is leading them to believe oh
00:40:40
she was spotted outside a couple times we found her phone it was normal for her to run she was abducted while she was
00:40:46
jogging which just might be wrong we have a family friend and this is Mike Mangus uh he was a local reading news
00:40:54
anchor at the time he was the one that managed to get the story covered on Good Morning America remember we said the
00:41:02
family was really trying to get this story out there and their family friend Mike helped this get on a national level
00:41:10
yeah well it never hurts cases to become popular when there's a a pretty girl going missing right so we have a whole
00:41:18
bunch of stuff going on and in the wake of all of this we have Sheriff basenko who admitted to People magazine
00:41:27
that quote there were no real viable leads end quote in this case and then he tells KRCR
00:41:35
TV they reported basically the same thing this report came out on November 17th that no credible information has
00:41:42
been learned relating to Sherry's disappearance he goes on to say I know the family believes that she was
00:41:49
abducted we don't have anything to lead us that way nor to dissuade us that she wasn't a abducted in any way in other
00:41:59
words it sounds like law enforcement was kind of clueless as to what was going on
00:42:04
and they were a little bit upfront in public about that now for people that are not familiar with this
00:42:10
case the weird thing that we're trying to point out here is law enforcement seems to have some question about this
00:42:18
disappearance about this woman going missing whether it was voluntary or involuntary yeah and if it was
00:42:27
voluntary is somebody else is anybody else in on this whole hoax if it was involuntary who else is involved in this
00:42:35
real kidnapping yeah on November 15th 2016 TV KO bi5 reported that the FBI had become
00:42:46
involved in the effort to find Sherry which by now had consumed hundreds of manh hours despite this reporting
00:42:53
Sheriff basenko felt the need to address the the FBI's involvement he did this on
00:42:58
Tuesday November 21st saying that people were asking him why the FBI was not more
00:43:05
involved and he said quote we have bulletins out Statewide Nationwide and Mrs Pini has been entered into
00:43:13
Nationwide computer system for missing persons other agencies are assisting the Shasta County Sheriff's Office such as
00:43:22
the Reading Police Department as well as the FBI it became clear that the FBI's role was simply one of assisting with an
00:43:33
investigator or two and providing the resources of its cellular analysis survey team but the Shasta County
00:43:42
Sheriff's Office their Major Crimes unit they were in charge of this investigation just to be clear so more
00:43:50
than two weeks after Sherry vanished the SC s o stated that Sherry was considered
00:43:59
a missing person at risk with suspicious circumstances in another confusing angle
00:44:07
the California Department of Justice initially categorized Sherry's disappearance as voluntary missing adult
00:44:15
rather than missing at risk labeled by the sheriff's department according to local media uh there's a local media
00:44:23
Outlet reading.com missing at risk essentially means there's no evidence of a crime yet but
00:44:30
there's also no history of leaving the home or anything else to indicate a person's disappearance was willful
00:44:38
Sherry's family said that Sherry would never ever leave her children voluntarily in their minds and an
00:44:47
abduction was certain now regardless of theories Sherry was gone there was no doubt about that but there was no Ransom
00:44:57
demand and neither the pinis nor their extended families none of them were wealthy and this was this was released
00:45:05
by the sheriff now the only evidence of an abduction was the phone being found by the side of the road by Keith himself
00:45:14
and Sheriff basenko told 2020 quote it looked like it could have been placed there along with the earbuds
00:45:21
being placed on top of the phone screen the phone is seems didn't look as though it had been roughly pulled out of
00:45:30
sher's hands her headphones jerked out of her ears and dumped there instead according to the sheriff the the
00:45:39
headphones were neatly positioned on top of the phone as it lie on the ground now basenko said on the Today
00:45:47
Show the phone had been set in some grass with the screen facing up and then the earbuds to the phone were loosely
00:45:55
coiled and appeared to have been placed on the screen it did somewhat appear to be that it was placed their
00:46:04
purposely he goes on to say quote we believe it was a few pieces of her hair that was there with the earbuds and the
00:46:13
phone I have nothing really to add to this Captain it's these are statements by the sheriff if he thinks that it
00:46:21
looks like somebody could have neatly placed it there I'm going to have to go with that statement I didn't find the
00:46:26
phone the the phone is is weird in itself because that's the indicator that she was taken outside of the home and
00:46:35
what we know about the phone again like everything else goes back to Keith and what Keith is telling us about what
00:46:42
happened that day but again we have the dog sent evidence that possibly she did not run out of the house
00:46:51
mhm naturally like with any investigation the police took a hard look at Keith now whether he was considered a
00:47:01
prime suspect at the time they always do really would depend on whom you would ask basenko stated that Keith had been
00:47:11
100% Cooperative he handed over his computer the family's computer phones and records with no hesitation he had an
00:47:20
alibi we know he was at work that day Keith's stepfather Rodriguez who had a very active social
00:47:29
media presence in this case posted online defending Keith he said Keith had been interrogated numerous times and had
00:47:37
an alibi verified by the GPS on his work vehicle he also never lawyered up had his whereabouts confirmed by cell phone
00:47:46
tracking as well and provided the police Total Access to the home and cars without a warrant on the night Sherry
00:47:54
vanished look all that seems good but remember what his job is he is an expert at
00:48:03
technology he's a geek he's a geek he's on the Geek Squad y so if you take offense at that he shouldn't have signed
00:48:10
up for the Geek Squad now uh he also handed over all of his electronic devices this is where I find something
00:48:20
of of very strong importance I believe to this case and it's something that we typically don't like Captain but we have
00:48:29
a statement and this comes from the sheriff himself says Keith took a polygraph on November 7th that lasted
00:48:37
according to 2020 4 hours oh that's that's a long test God that sucks uh so he took a polygraph test on on
00:48:48
November 7th and Sheriff basenko told 2020 that Keith passed this lie detector test and that Keith was not a suspect in
00:48:57
The Disappearance of his wife yeah now we know that Keith what don't we like about that though cuz I like that no I
00:49:06
four hours I like that whole thing but but we often say that we don't like polygraph test I don't like him coming
00:49:13
out saying that he's not a suspect I mean I'm I'm glad you took a polygraph test you're doing everything you can hey
00:49:20
we got the husband let's try to rule him out it's normally the husband so get him to take this long and depth
00:49:28
polygraph test he passed I'm not making statements to maybe the cops are making statements
00:49:35
that he's not a suspect anymore because they don't want the heat on him through social media and through the media MH
00:49:42
maybe that's the case because there's a lot of times that the wife goes missing and the heat on the on the husband gets
00:49:49
pretty bad yeah and I'm guessing that not just the lie detector test but all things
00:49:58
encompassed in their investigation I'm guessing that what the story he's telling them they have no reason to
00:50:05
believe that he's being dishonest they have no evidence to suggest that what he is saying or what he believes to be true
00:50:12
is not the truth and I think that's where you get the he's not a suspect type thing okay now Keith gave an
00:50:19
interview to People Magazine on November 10th so this stuff is all happening very
00:50:26
quickly as it should in this case but what we're seeing that we don't always see in in these types of cases are very
00:50:34
public on a national level moves to interviews and things like that this is on the 10th Keith says that there was no
00:50:43
way that Sher left on her own accord he said she is my wife I know everything about her I know that my wife would
00:50:50
never leave me and never in a million years leave our kids after almost 2 weeks official searches
00:50:59
for Sherry ended and the family felt that they needed to take the situation under their control Sherry's friend Lisa
00:51:09
Jeter contacted a man whom she had seen speak out about human trafficking in the
00:51:15
area this man was reading native Cameron gamble gamble called himself an international kidnap and Ransom
00:51:24
consultant he was a former Air Force senior Airman and now trained military law enforcement and private citizens on
00:51:33
how to evade and Escape capture gamble believed that Sherry had been abducted and asked Keith for
00:51:41
permission to try an aggressive approach to getting Sherry back it's not really clear how this all came about gamble
00:51:50
says someone put him in touch with an unnamed man who offered to donate money to act as a reward payment to whomever
00:52:00
returned Sherry safely a sort of reverse Ransom if you will the anonymous donor offered to put
00:52:09
up $50,000 to pay off the captors if they released Sherry 12 Days After Sherry vanished gamble posted a video of
00:52:20
himself making the offer and speaking directly to the captors saying quote I've been retained by an individual who
00:52:27
wishes to remain anonymous an individual who has come forward to offer a cash reward for a ransom for Sher pini's safe
00:52:36
return to her family I don't know your motive I don't know who you are I don't care I simply care about getting Sherry
00:52:45
back gamble said the money would be paid upon Sherry's release without law enforcement presence and with no
00:52:52
questions asked as for the Anonymous donor he initiated the website Sherry pen.com and posted a note to the reading
00:53:03
police in Shasta County Sheriff's Department that said please don't threaten me I have received legal
00:53:09
counsel and what I am doing is within my rights according to Cameron gamble the video went viral now when that failed to
00:53:17
flush out the perpetrators gamble posted a second video on the day before Thanksgiving November 23rd
00:53:26
2016 saying that the reward was now off the table instead if they didn't let Sherry go the donated funds would be
00:53:35
added to the reward fund already established to pay anyone who came forward with information leading to
00:53:42
sher's abductors essentially putting an approximately $100,000 bounty on the abductor heads as
00:53:51
gamble called it in this video he says quote the world has been looking for Sher Pini and now the world is going to
00:54:00
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