Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told "Good Morning America" on Wednesday (http://abcn.ws/2gx7urR) that the suspects may have been trying to humiliate Sherri Papini by cutting off her long blonde hair and branding her.  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a California woman who authorities say was abducted and held for three weeks (all times local): 
 
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 A California sheriff says a woman who was held captive for three weeks is unable to fully describe her two female abductors because their faces were covered. According to Papini’s husband, Keith, the women also starved Papini down to 87 pounds, cut her hair and repeatedly beat the 34-year-old mom. At a news conference Wednesday outside the sheriff’s office, Bosenko praised Papini’s courage and cooperation in trying to give a description of the captors, pointing out several times why the information she’s given so far is vague: She’s still recovering from trauma, and the women covered their faces and — at times — Papini’s head. Bosenko would not say where they may have taken her for the 22 days Papini was missing from Mountain Gate, but she was dropped off in chains early Thanksgiving morning near Interstate 5 and County Road 17 in Yolo County.  The husband of Sherri Papini, the California mom who was missing for three weeks after allegedly being kidnapped while out jogging, described in chilling detail his wife's account of the moment when she was released by her alleged captors. One is “younger,” with long curly hair, thin eyebrows, pierced ears and a thick Spanish accent, Bosenko said. One suspect, the younger of the two, was described as having long curly hair and a thick accent, pierced ears and thin eyebrows, Bosenko said, while the other woman, the older one, was described as having straight black hair with some grays and thick eyebrows. A sketch artist has been contacted, but Bosenko said it’s difficult to get a drawing based on the limited information Papini could provide. "So far, we are investigating this as a kidnapping-abduction, and everything that she is providing us thus far is indicating that," he said. He would not say where she was branded or what was branded into her body “for the integrity of the investigation.” In an interview with ABC News, Bosenko said the brand was a “message” and not a symbol, and may have been applied either as torture or indeed to send a message to someone. While Bosenko said he was concerned Keith Papini’s revealing account of his wife’s injuries on Good Morning America earlier in the week could “affect the integrity of the investigation,” he also thanked Keith Papini and Sherri’s extended family for their cooperation in the investigation. Watch Keith Papini's emotional interview, in which he describes searching for his wife and then reuniting with her for the first time, on ABC News "20/20" FRIDAY, Dec. 2 at 10 p.m. Add Interest 
 
 Keith Papini told ABC News’ “20/20” in an exclusive interview that his wife told him she had been in a vehicle with her alleged captors and that one of her arms was chained to something inside the car but she had a hand free.
– Sherri Papini's captors put a bag over her head and kept her chained up any time she was in a vehicle, husband Keith Papini says. "She was bound" and "had a metal chain around her waist," the California woman's husband says in an interview with ABC's 20/20 that will air in full on Friday. He says his wife has told him that 22 days after she was kidnapped, she was in a vehicle when her captors stopped, cut something that was holding her, and pushed her out into the road. Papini was found Thanksgiving Day by the side of a road in Yolo County, 150 miles from her home. Her husband disclosed Wednesday that she had been physically and mentally abused and weighed just 87 pounds when she was found. In a statement released Wednesday, Keith Papini slammed online sleuths who have been expressing doubts about the case, the AP reports. "Rumors, assumptions, lies and hate have been both exhausting and disgusting," he said. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko says investigators are working on producing a sketch of the two Hispanic women Papini says she was kidnapped by. He says police haven't found any reasons to doubt her story. The sheriff told reporters Wednesday that Papini's captors branded her with "some kind of message." He says the mother of two children is still traumatized by her ordeal, but is doing her best to work with investigators, reports the Record Searchlight. The Redding newspaper reports that residents are organizing a rally to support Papini and welcome her home on Saturday.