Sergeant Kyle Wallace
Appearances
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Everything that he did that day, we were able to corroborate. He was with another coworker that we were able to say that he was with him all day.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
I got a call from Keith. Keith was frantic, yelling into the phone. They found her. She's been located, telling me CHP down in Sacramento area had Sherry.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
My name is Sergeant Kyle Wallace with the Shouse County Sheriff's Office. I was the lead investigator for the Sherry Papini investigation.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
That's where I met her a couple hours later. First walking into the hospital room, Sherry was pretty hostile, which I didn't expect.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Looking at her injuries at the hospital, I was shocked by them. Her kidnappers had ranted her.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Looking at her injuries at the hospital, I was shocked by them. I've been to several homicides. I've been to several domestic violence situations in my career, but the totality of the injuries for it to be all over her face, her arms, her legs, and her chest and her back was just alarming.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She really wasn't having any part of talking. We made the investigative decision to keep Keith in the room to hopefully start getting the information.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
On November 2nd, Sherry said she was on a run in her neighborhood. She initially saw a black SUV going north.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She said the younger female got out with a handgun and Sherry just froze. She was instructed to get into the vehicle.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Scared. I was scared. Everything from day one had your hairs up on the back of your neck just trying to figure out what was going on.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Again, Keith had to be present for the interview. She wouldn't allow us to talk to her alone.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She said she was put into a bedroom. Sherry described that bedroom with just a single bed, no other artifacts inside the room.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Do you know what you were affixed to? Was it a tether? Was it like a rope?
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Was the cable affixed to the wall and like the cable was loose?
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Because her chain rattled, the females branded her for punishment.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
So the FBI field officer and myself went down to James' residence to do the confrontation.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Obviously, he was a little reluctant. He was scared. We're here guarding Sherry Papini. OK. And just trying to figure out how you know her, when was the last time you talked to her.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
We're just trying to understand if she was truly abducted, if she lied to everybody and got on 20-20 and is a liar. Are you willing to tell us what happened yesterday? Can we go sit and talk?
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She instructed James to get a rental car, leave his cell phone at his house, and drive the nine hours or so to get to Redding, California to pick her up.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Sherry asked him to put up the plywood to block out the window. I think James thought it was strange, but he was also just helping a friend.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Keith right next to her, jumping up and down, saying it's the right one. So he thinks this is a break in the case. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Yes. We talked to the people who lived there. We found the house. We found who was involved.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She just went into her cocoon state where she just tried to control the interview by crying, putting her head in her hands, not answering questions.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
He just came home to an empty house, which was unusual for him.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
He thinks they're just on a walk, but as time passes and they're still not home, started looking for his family.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
The community responded. There was hundreds of volunteer searchers within the first couple of days.
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Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
It was really a wide variety of our community coming together to help the Pepini family.