In the days leading up to her disappearance nearly a year ago, Sherri Papini exchanged text messages with a Michigan man whom she had planned to meet. And even though she said her abductors were women, she had male DNA on her clothes when she was found. 
 
 Papini also told detectives she fought back against one of the two women who she said abducted her and held her captive 22 days last fall. 
 
 Investigators provided the new details on Wednesday – along with a pair of FBI sketches of her abductors and a 911 call made by her husband, Keith, recorded on the day she disappeared. It’s the first new information released by the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office about the case in almost a year. Sgt. Brian Jackson said there was no particular reason for the timing of the new information, other than detectives hoped it would generate new leads. 
 
 Papini, 35, disappeared after reportedly going for a jog near her home outside Redding on Nov. 2. The case of the missing young mom attracted media attention around the country and the world. 
 
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 Sherri Papini described one of her captors as a Hispanic woman with thick eyebrows. FBI 
 
 Then, early on Thanksgiving morning, Papini suddenly resurfaced on a darkened roadside along Interstate 5 in Yolo County. She told detectives she had been held captive by two Hispanic women, but said she could provide few details about her abductors because they kept their faces covered and spoke in Spanish. Her family hasn’t done any interviews for nearly a year. 
 
 Nicole Wool, a Los Angeles public relations professional who had issued a statement to the press earlier this year on behalf of Papini’s family, didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment from The Bee. The Papinis didn’t respond to a message left Wednesday at their home. But Keith Papini, Sherri’s husband, issued a statement to the Record Searchlight in Redding expressing gratitude for the community’s support and asking for privacy. He said the family hopes the release of additional details will speed the arrest of her alleged captors. 
 
 The Sheriff’s Office revealed Wednesday that Papini and the Michigan man texted each other in an attempt to meet when he was in California on business. Detectives traveled to Michigan, interviewed him and determined he was not involved in her disappearance, Jackson said Wednesday. 
 
 The man wasn’t identified. 
 
 Sherri Papini described one of her alleged captors as an Hispanic woman with thin eyebrows and pierced ears. FBI 
 
 Jackson said Wednesday in an interview with The Bee that Papini recounted fighting back against the younger of her captors, slamming the woman’s head into a toilet when she was allowed to leave the room where she was being held in order to take a shower. 
 
 But Papini’s story contained inconsistencies, Jackson said. 
 
 She told detectives she cut her foot in the fight, but investigators didn’t find evidence of the cut. Jackson said that’s not necessarily a sign that Papini is making up that part of the story – or any other parts of her account. “Obviously, in any investigation, especially something of this nature where there’s trauma and it’s a prolonged thing, it’s not abnormal to have inconsistencies,” Jackson said. 
 
 Jackson said that during an examination of Papini detectives found DNA from two people — a man and a woman – on her. Jackson declined to reveal what materials the samples came from, such as a hair or bodily fluids. 
 
 “We’re not releasing exactly what the samples came from, so that when we get a chance to interview some suspects, we can maybe have an edge on them,” he said. 
 
 Jackson said a woman’s DNA was found on Papini’s body, while the man’s DNA was on her clothes. The male DNA was not from her husband, who has been ruled out as a suspect. Jackson said the DNA was uploaded into a criminal database this spring, but so far, no matches have come back. 
 
 Detectives reiterated Wednesday that Papini showed no evidence of sexual assault. 
 
 Jackson said Papini’s hair had been cut to shoulder length while she was abducted, and he revealed where Papini had been branded – her right shoulder. 
 
 The details of what was seared into her skin weren’t released. Detectives themselves are working to decipher what the brand says. Jackson said it contained “obscure letters,” and Papini has allowed detectives to use “alternate light sources and filters” to try to make out what the markings are. 
 
 Jackson said that Papini told detectives that just before she was released, she could hear her captors having an argument, followed by a gunshot. She said the younger of her abductors then took her from the room where she was held captive, drove her down a winding road and dropped her off near Interstate 5. 
 
 “That was something that was followed up on between us and Yolo County,” Jackson said. “We haven’t been able to confirm any missing persons, any unknown types of homicides in the Yolo County area, or even in our county or any combining counties. That’s some additional information we’re still following up on to confirm and verify.” 
 
 Papini was found wearing light gray sweatpants and a dark gray sweatshirt. A chain circled her waist and her left wrist was tethered to the chain with a zip tie. Papini also had hose clamps around her ankles, which Jackson said “appeared to have acted as pain-compliance restraints.” 
 
 In the 911 tape released Wednesday, Keith Papini told a dispatcher he came home from work and his wife and their children weren’t home. He said no one had picked up his kids from day care, and Papini had texted him that morning, hoping to meet at home for lunch. 
 
 He said he used an iPhone locator app to try to track down his wife, only to find her phone near the start of the dirt road on which the family lives in the town of Mountain Gate, north of Redding. 
 
 “I just drove down there, and I found her phone with her headphones because she started running again, and I found her phone and it’s got her hair ripped out of it, like in the headphones,” Keith Papini said frantically and breathing heavily. “I’m totally freaking out, thinking that somebody, like, grabbed her.” 
 
 Investigators said last year that the phone was placed, screen up, with its headphones coiled neatly on top. The only sign of Papini was a few of strands of her blonde hair. There was nothing to suggest a struggle, detectives said. 
 
 Keith Papini passed a polygraph test and has offered to take an additional one, detectives said Wednesday. 
 
 Detectives said Papini and her family are in frequent contact with them, and she continues to look at photographs of various makes and models of SUVs in in the hopes of a more detailed description. 
 
 After his wife was found, Keith Papini told ABC News that she suffered profoundly in captivity. The bridge of her nose had been broken and she weighed only 87 pounds, down from the 100 she normally weighs. Bosenko said last year that there was no indication that Papini was involved in a hoax. 
 
 But the lack of clarity about what happened to Papini has prompted scrutiny of her background. 
 
 Records obtained this spring by The Bee through the California Public Records Act revealed that Papini’s family members at one point had accused her of harming herself and blaming the injuries on others. 
 
 In a December 2003 incident report filed with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, Papini’s mother, Loretta Graeff, alleged her daughter had hurt herself and blamed the injuries on her. The report is only two sentences long. It doesn’t say whether the department found evidence that Papini – then 21 years old – had in fact harmed herself. 
 
 The call by Loretta Graeff was one of several made to law enforcement by members of Papini’s family between 2000 and 2003. In 2000, her father, Richard Graeff, alleged his daughter burglarized his residence. Three years later, he alleged she made unauthorized withdrawals from his checking account. In 2000, her sister, Sheila Koester, alleged her back door had been kicked in and she believed Papini was the suspect. The reports provide no details about arrests. Detectives did not respond to questions about whether Papini had ever been charged with a crime. 
 
 More than 20 search warrants were issued as part of the kidnapping investigation. Detectives said Wednesday they remain sealed. 
 
 The case has become a favorite of amateur internet sleuths. Entire Reddit threads have been devoted to Papini’s case. 
 
 A racist online post they dug up fueled skepticism about the Papini’s story. 
 
 An essay posted on a now-defunct website called Skinheadz.com was signed by a “Sherri Graeff” – Papini’s maiden name. The writer said that while growing up in Shasta County, she got into two fights with Latinos who targeted her because she was “drug-free, white and proud” of her “blood and heritage.” 
 
 The essay portrays the writer as a fierce fighter who inflicted damage. “It took three full-sized men to pull me off of her,” the post reads. “I broke her nose and split her eyebrow.” 
 
 Bosenko has said it’s not clear if Papini wrote the post, but he said the fights the author described weren’t noted in sheriff’s records. Papini’s friends and family have said the post was written by someone else. 
 
 Jackson, the detective, said Wednesday he hopes the newly released details, FBI sketches and a $10,000 reward will generate tips that will prove more fruitful than the more than 600 others detectives have received since last year. 
 
 He suggested more information is about to be released. “There’s some additional information that we’re hoping to put out in the next months or weeks, once we get through this week’s events,” Jackson said. ||||| Contributed photo of Sherri and Keith Papini 
 
 Sherri Papini went missing Nov. 2 from the area of Old Oregon Trail and Sunset Drive in Mountain Gate. She is pictured with her husband, Keith. 
 
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 On the same day authorities confirmed the FBI has joined the search for missing mom Sherri Papini, an anonymous person set up a website offering a reward for Papini's immediate release. 
 
 Authorities, however, have not confirmed that Papini has been kidnapped, or if so, who may have her. 
 
 The reward is offered to “the person who has Sherri Papini,” according to the website, sherripapini.com. It asks that whoever may have her contact a local negotiator to arrange the transfer of money and Papini's release. 
 
 That negotiator is Cameron Gamble of Redding, who operates a missionary service called Project TAKEN and who says he is a kidnap and ransom consultant. He said he did not write the letter or set up the website, but rather the anonymous person did and put Gamble's contact information in it. 
 
 “We are offering this reward with no strings attached," Gamble told the Record Searchlight Thursday. "We have not been talking with the police on this. We’re acting independent from the family as well.” 
 
 The person offering the reward does not live in the area and did not want to be identified, Gamble said. 
 
 The letter states: “I am willing to pay you in whatever way you can creatively think about where you feel safe and where nothing can be tracked to you. I will not communicate with the police, (and) sheriff’s department regarding any details about this offer.” 
 
 Gamble said the reward is being offered through Wednesday and then it is off the table. 
 
 Papini’s sister, Sheila Koester, said she had no knowledge about the letter and that the Papini family members had no association with the website. 
 
 “I have no idea. It’s nothing that I knew of,” she said. 
 
 Koester said she had a friend help her design a different website, www.HelpFindSherriPapini.com, to give the public information about her sister’s disappearance – what she may have been wearing the day she went missing, a Google map of the area she went missing from, and numbers to call if they have any information about Papini’s whereabouts. 
 
 Unlike the website Gamble is working with, Koester emphasized that anyone with information about her sister’s disappearance continue to call the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 Papini disappeared while jogging during the day on Nov. 2 near her home in Mountain Gate just a few miles northeast of Redding. 
 
 The day she was last seen her husband found the 34-year-old woman’s cell phone, headphones and a few strands of hair in the area where she was jogging off Old Oregon Trail. 
 
 Other than that, there have been few leads to go on, according to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office has classified Papini’s disappearance as suspicious, but authorities are not even sure she has been kidnapped. 
 
 The letter says the person who set up the website has an email, BringSherriHome@gmail.com and a phone number to a disposable cell phone. But the letter cautions against anyone calling the number except whoever may have abducted her. 
 
 “A note to scammers who will try to pretend you have Sherri. This phone does not have call waiting. If you call and pretend to have Sherri you may be preventing the real person from reaching us," it says. "My hired negotiator has negotiated ransom releases for people all over the world, so he will determine immediately if you are lying.” 
 
 The website was established via a company that allows people to set up websites anonymously. 
 
 Sheriff Tom Bosenko said he had concerns about the letter and the website. 
 
 “No. 1, if she is being held by someone we think we or the family would have been contacted by the abductors by now if they wanted to hold her for ransom,” Bosenko said. 
 
 Offering a reward through an attempt to directly contact someone who may have kidnapped her could lead someone possibly exploiting the situation, he said. 
 
 "I think this may bring some con artist out of the woodwork trying to collect some of the money,” Bosenko said. 
 
 The FBI has been supporting the investigation since the first week of November, when Papini was reported missing, Bosenko said. The federal agency is offering investigative support. 
 
 The Sheriff's Office gave an update on its investigation Thursday evening, saying it has served about 20 search warrants to obtain data – electronic, bank records, cell phone and email records, cell tower information, social media accounts – to look for clues about Papini’s disappearance. 
 
 Deputies said they've followed up on 400 tips, but none have turned up any “credible information.” The Redding Police Department and the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team have assisted detectives in the investigation. 
 
 Deputies, along with the general public, have knocked on doors, talked with residents, conducted probation searches, checked on registered sex offenders and other “suspicious subjects” and haven’t received any leads. 
 
 Major Crimes Unit detectives have reviewed other missing cases from Shasta County and across the nation, and determined that none of them are linked to Papini. 
 
 Detectives are still searching for any information that would indicate whether Papini’s disappearance was voluntary or involuntary. They’ve spoken with family, friends, old acquaintances as well as Papini’s past relationships to determine her whereabouts. Their search and follow up has taken them out of state. They also are checking people's authenticity, timelines and alibis. 
 
 Meanwhile, the family will be releasing balloons from 7:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Day during Shasta Regional Medical Center’s Turkey Trot at Diestelhorst Landing. 
 
 Papini had been preparing for a race when she went missing, the family said on Facebook. 
 
 “In coordination with the Turkey Trot we graciously ask that you pin a yellow ribbon to your running bib to signify the hope for her safe return,” the post reads. ||||| The FBI released sketches Wednesday of two women described by Sherri Papini as her alleged abductors. 
 
 Papini, 35, a California mom, was allegedly kidnapped last Nov. 2 while jogging near her Redding home and found 22 days later along the side of a rural road on Thanksgiving Day. The mysterious case captivated the nation and spawned numerous theories about what happened. 
 
 Some time after her alleged abduction, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said an FBI sketch artist met with Papini and created a sketch of each female suspect, one described by Papini as in her 20s or 30s and another as being between 40 and 50. 
 
 “It has taken time for Sherri to recover to a point to be able to provide accurate details to the sketch artist,” a sheriff’s office press release obtained by PEOPLE states. 
 
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 The younger woman in the sketch is described as being 5 feet 5 inches, with a medium build with coarse, curly dark hair, thin eyebrows and pierced ears. The second suspect is approximately 5 feet 7 inches, and has straight black hair with some gray in it and thick eyebrows. 
 
 Papini also described the suspects’ vehicle as a dark colored SUV with a large rear side window. 
 
 “Sherri continues to look at photographs of various makes and models of SUVs in an effort to provide a more detailed description,” the release states. 
 
 The FBI is also offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to their identification. 
 
 The sheriff’s office said they received over 600 tips from around the world and collected two DNA profiles from Papini. The DNA from her husband, Keith, was not among the two profiles, the release states. 
 
 Papini vanished while out for a jog on Nov. 2. Neighbors had seen Papini running around 11 a.m., but there were no other witnesses. Keith Papini said he came home and discovered his wife missing. He later found her phone with earbuds still attached and strands of blond hair near a local jogging trail. 
 
 “She is my wife, and I know everything about her,” Keith told PEOPLE a little over a week after her disappearance. “I know that my wife would never leave me and never in a million years leave our kids.” 
 
 A week after Sherri vanished, Keith volunteered to take a polygraph test, which he passed. Investigators confirmed in the release where Keith was the day Papini disappeared and said there was no physical evidence to suggest his involvement. 
 
 The sheriff’s office said during Papini’s disappearance they looked into whether her disappearance was “voluntary or involuntary” and served over 20 search warrants to determine her whereabouts. The search warrants remain sealed by order of the Shasta County Superior Court. 
 
 Papini Had Plans to Meet with Male Acquaintance Prior to Disappearance 
 
 In the release, the sheriff’s office said investigators discovered Papini had been texting with an unidentified male acquaintance from Michigan. 
 
 “Days prior to Sherri’s disappearance, Sherri and the male acquaintance texted each in an attempt to meet while he was in California,” the release states. “Sheriff’s Office detectives interviewed him in Michigan and determined he was not involved in Sherri’s disappearance.” 
 
 Around 4:30 on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 24, a motorist spotted a woman frantically waving on the side of the road of a rural Yolo County road — about 150 miles south of her Redding home. Papini told investigators a young Hispanic woman dropped her off. 
 
 Keith Papini said his wife was covered in bruises — ranging from yellow to black — because of repeated beatings. The bridge of her nose was broken and her long blond hair was chopped off. 
 
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 Papini told police she was abducted at gunpoint and held captive by two armed Hispanic females who spoke Spanish the majority of the time. 
 
 No Evidence of Sexual Assault 
 
 The sheriff’s office said in their new release that Papini had a brand on her right shoulder. She told investigators that she had not been sexually assaulted, and “there is no physical evidence to indicate otherwise,” the new release states. 
 
 Detectives said they interviewed Papini at the hospital, and at the time she gave them “limited details” about the kidnapping and a “limited description” of the two women who allegedly abducted her. 
 
 According to the release, Papini stated that the suspects “made efforts to conceal their identities with face coverings.” 
 
 The sheriff’s office says that are still working the case and that the Papinis remain in contact with authorities. 
 
 “Sherri, continues to provide details as she can recall them, but has not been able to provide a complete detailed statement due to her poor recollection,” the release states. 
 
 If you recognize these two individuals or have any other information regarding Papini’s whereabouts during this time, please contact the Sacramento Office of the FBI at (916) 746-7000 (press 1 to file a report) or tips.fbi.gov.
– Authorities have received 400 tips but have few leads in the disappearance of a woman in California. An apparent stranger hopes to change that. An anonymous donor has set up a website offering a $50,000 "ransom reward" if "the person who has Sherri Papini" will let her go. Papini disappeared while jogging in Redding on Nov. 2; police aren't sure if her disappearance was voluntary or involuntary but her family maintains she was abducted. According to SherriPapini.com, anyone holding the 34-year-old mother of two should contact Cameron Gamble, an apparent kidnap and ransom consultant. "We are offering this reward with no strings attached," Gamble tells the Record Searchlight, adding that he and the anonymous donor are working separately from police and Papini's family. If such a kidnapper exists, that person better act fast. According to a letter posted to the site, which KRCR reports it received on Nov. 6, the offer is only available until Wednesday when the anonymous donor, who claims to be a visitor to Redding, will leave the area "on my next business trip." Papini's husband—who passed a lie-detector test and has an alibi for the day of his wife's disappearance, per the Record Searchlight—says he has no link to SherriPapini.com, while a sheriff appears wary. "We think we or the family would have been contacted by the abductors by now if they wanted to hold her for ransom," he says.