Good Spouse: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini has reached 3.6 million views on Hulu, shattering a document on the streamer (by way of Selection). Throughout its first week – the three-part documentary premiered on June 20- it turned the most-watched Hulu docuseries ever, a title beforehand held by 2022’s Captive Viewers: A Actual American Horror Story.

Good Spouse: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini dives deep into Papini’s 2016 kidnapping hoax. The Hulu docuseries options interviews with Papini’s inside circle (together with her then-husband, Keith Papini) and investigators who labored on the case.

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On November 2, 2016, Papini vanished from her northern California neighborhood whereas jogging, triggering a frenzied search that turned information all over the world. Papini resurfaced on Thanksgiving 2016, three weeks after her mysterious disappearance. She advised investigators that she had been kidnapped by two Hispanic girls and held captive and abused – offering vivid particulars about her ordeal. Past her phrases, bruises, damaged restraints, and a disturbing model corroborated her story. Papini claimed she had been launched by one in every of her captors.

In March 2022, after DNA proof led investigators to Papini’s ex-boyfriend James Reyes’ house, Papini was arrested on federal expenses. In accordance with Reyes, Papini had contacted him, claiming she was keen to depart her husband. James picked her up on November 2 and took Papini to his house, the place she willingly stayed for 3 weeks.

Keith Papini’s Combat For the Reality

In April 2022 – almost six years after her identify made international headlines – Papini pleaded responsible to 1 depend of false statement-making and one depend of mail fraud, taking a plea deal that dropped different counts. Simply days later, Keith filed for divorce, in search of sole custody of their two youngsters.

Throughout a latest dialog with MovieMaker, Good Spouse director Michael Seaside Nichols (Welcome to Leith) explains the documentary’s timing, citing the significance of giving Keith a platform to share his reality.

“Talking for Keith, he simply bought a divorce in 2022. So, up till very not too long ago, he was nonetheless on this. So he is simply come out the opposite facet. We began manufacturing in 2023. So, for Keith, it was actually important for him to, to get his story on the market, as a result of he’s so fearful that Sherri might be believed, as a result of he believed her. The FBI believed her. Legislation enforcement believed her, the broader kind of world believed her. And so he actually needs to have his story on document, as nearly like a protection in opposition to what she might do, as a result of she remains to be telling a lie proper now. She’s nonetheless sustaining this lie. And so for Keith, he is actually fearful about custody points together with his youngsters. And so for him, his youngsters are the stakes in eager to get his story on the market. And in order that was a giant a part of his motivation, I feel.”

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