Sherri Papini Changes Story, Denies Kidnapping Was a Hoax and Alleges New Abductor

However, the docuseries hired a private investigator and discovered his mom is Irish. Sherri brushed off the discrepancy, replying, “It had very little to do with his mother and her ethnicity. It was about trying to alert them to his identity without saying his name out loud.” 

She added, “Quite frankly, I don’t give a f–k if she’s Hispanic or not. It was about James, it wasn’t about her.”

Meanwhile, lead investigator on the kidnapping case for the FBI, Denise Farmer, is confident in the outcome of the case. 

“It was building a picture of a person that liked to embellish,” the now-retired special agent said of the investigation. “People lie for a number of reasons, for self-esteem, for attention, for sympathy and she was ticking all those boxes.”

“She’s a liar and she’s a convicted liar,” she emphasized. “We have proved what happened, we have the facts, we have the evidence. She can spin it however she wants.”