Police have released sketches of Sherri Papini’s kidnapper suspects, with the images depicting two masked women alleged to be involved in last year’s abduction of the California mother, CBS News reported.
Papini was reported missing on Nov. 2 after failing to pick her children up from day care. A truck driver found her bound in restraints, and branded, on the side of the highway in Yolo County on Thanksgiving Day.
Her husband, Keith Papini, found her mobile phone about a mile from their Redding home and reported his wife missing, The Independent reported.
Speaking about the moment he was reunited with his wife, Keith Papini shared a statement with “Good Morning America.”
"Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see upon my arrival at the hospital nor the details of the true hell I was about to hear," he said, per ABC News.
“My first sight was my wife in a hospital bed, her face covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of repeated beatings, the bridge of her nose broken."
Sherri Papini later described her captors as two Hispanic women who attempted to hide their identities by covering their faces.
According to a statement by the Shasta County Sheriff, the two female suspects were “the only two people Sherri had contact with during her 22 days of captivity.”
The sketches were only being released now as the sheriff's office said Sherri Papini needed time to recover to the point where she could provide accurate details to the sketch artist.
Additional information has since emerged that could help investigators crack the case, investigators said.
It is believed that the suspects drove a dark colored SUV with a large rear side window.
BBC News reported that male and female DNA had been collected from Sherri Papini’s clothing and body after she was discovered, although no sample has been identified.
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