The California 'supermom' who disappeared for three weeks last November after allegedly being kidnapped by sex traffickers is now a virtual recluse who is 'trying to put her life back together'.

The disappearance of the pretty blonde wife of Keith Papini, 33, and mother to Tyler, five, and Violet, three, sparked one of the largest manhunts in California history.

Investigators looking into the case have told DailyMail.com that they are still having no news on the case but continue working on the assumption that Papini was kidnapped.

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Sherri Papini, 35, lives isolated from society in her family home in Shasta Lake, California as investigators are still trying to find who kidnapped her for 22 days

Papini is staying in her family's $128,000 home in Shasta Lake, California. Neighbors said it was unusual to see her out jogging

Papini said she was taken at the intersection of Sunrise Drive and Old Oregon Highway while on a job. A neighbor who lives nearby said she never saw her running near there

The last time Sherri Papini was seen was leaving her home last January

Sherri's hair, which was apparently chopped off by her captors, could not be seen beneath her hat

Since returning to her $128,000 family home in Shasta Lake, California, Papini has lived a reclusive existence, with father-in-law Kenneth, 63, saying she is now battling to pick up the pieces of her life.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, he said: 'It's been hard for them and they're trying to put their lives back together.

'She talks to the Sheriff and she's told him everything that she knows [about her kidnapping].' But he added: 'Even we don't know everything.'

Another family source who asked not to be identified said the couple 'have been through enough'.

He said: 'They've been through a lot. They've been through more than enough already. But they will be OK.'

Neighbors living close to Papini's home, which was purchased by the couple in April this year, say the mother-of-two is rarely seen and does not interact with people living nearby.

They also said she no longer jogs but insisted that it was unusual to see her running even before the apparent kidnapping.

'She's a quiet person,' said Joyce Allison, 77. 'She keeps herself to herself and stays at home with the kids.

'I've been here 12 years and I've never seen her jogging. The only time I've ever spoken to him [Keith] was when she went missing. He came to ask if he could search my yard.'

Sherri Papini's father-in-law Kenneth, 63, said the family is trying to pick up the pieces of their life following the kidnapping

Joyce Allison, a neighbor who lives near where Sherri Papini was reportedly taken, said Keith asked to search her yard for clues

Sherri's husband Keith works at the Best Buy branch in Redding as part of the Geek Squad team

Another neighbor, Douglas Lea, 64, added: 'They're here. They're around. They just kind of keep themselves to themselves so this is nothing new.

'I've seen him around a few times and the kids as well. My mother-in-law has seen her.'

The Papini home has been owned by the family for more than 40 years and once belonged to Kenneth and his ex-wife, Kathleen, 59.

Tucked away down a potholed dirt road on the outskirts of Shasta Lake, it occupies a shady plot of land fringed by local Ponderosa pine trees.

The couple moved into the property shortly after Papini split from her first husband, platoon sergeant David Dreyfus, 32, who now lives in Southlake, Texas, in 2007.

Papini filed to separate from her first husband, David Dreyfus, in 2008 according to court records

According to records seen by DailyMail.com, the petite blond filed for divorce less than a year after the couple wed, citing irreconcilable differences.

By then, Dreyfus had moved to Stafford, Virginia, and Papini had begun living with now-husband Keith, who she first met in middle school and with whom she shared her first kiss.

Her divorce was finalized in January 2008 and TV engineer Keith proposed later the same year during a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Writing in a blog penned shortly before her wedding in 2009, Papini wrote excitedly of her plans for life with her 33-year-old spouse and said she had high hopes for a life 'full of joy'.

The couple went on to have two children, Tyler, five, and Violet, three, with Papini taking on the task of creating a pleasant home for the family.

Keith, who works a 20-minute drive away, is employed at the Redding branch of Best Buy where he is part of the 'Geek Squad' team of technical engineers who make house calls to customers in the area.

Until recently, the house, which has a yard scattered with children's toys and several clapped-out cars parked behind it, belonged to Kenneth and Kathleen but in April 2017, the couple bought it outright – paying just over $128,000 for the property.

Locals in the Shasta Lake community helped search for Papini after she went missing on November 2

After Papini went missing, locals reported several sightings in Shasta Lake and the surrounding area. One person reported seeing her at Mount Shasta Mall

And it was from the same home that Papini disappeared on November 2, 2016, with the alarm raised after she failed to return from a jog at around 2 p.m. that afternoon.

Police logs obtained by DailyMail.com show the first panicked phone call came in at 5:51 p.m. that day with cops arriving at the property at 6.30 p.m.

A summary of the call made to police by Keith notes: 'Arrived home from work and wife isn't there. Wife also didn't pick up their juvs [children] from school.

'RP [reporting party Keith] found her phone at the end of the driveway, hair in headphones.'

In fact, the phone was discovered a mile away at the intersection of Sunrise Drive and Old Oregon Highway – neatly placed on the ground and with the headphones tidily wrapped around it.

Betty Vaughn, 72, whose home overlooks the spot where Papini was allegedly kidnapped, told DailyMail.com that the discovery was 'strange'.

'The phone was found with the headphones wrapped around it – it was strange, like it had been placed there,' she said.

Asked if Papini was often seen in the area, she said: 'Not at all. I've never seen her jogging, never seen her coming up to the mailboxes.

'I've been living here for 20 years so you would have thought I would have seen her at some point.'

Speaking in December, Sheriff Tom Bosenko confirmed that the phone had been found 'neatly placed' on the ground, telling the Today Show:

'It appeared it had been set in some grass with the screen facing up, and then the earbuds to the phone were loosely coiled and appeared to be placed on the screen.

He added: 'It did somewhat appear to be that it was placed there purposely.'

Papini's cell phone was discovered placed in the grass near where she said she was kidnapped. Her headphones were neatly placed on top of her phone

Like Allison and Lea, Vaughn says her property was searched repeatedly in the aftermath of Papini's disappearance, with locals joining cops to search for the fresh-faced blonde.

Police logs seen by DailyMail.com show that multiple 'sightings' were reported in the days after she vanished, including at an eyebrow store in Mount Shasta Mall and at Hilltop Medical Center in Redding.

Other calls came from panicked local women concerned that they might be next to be abducted, including one who said she was getting strange messages at work.

Isabella Kori told police that because she looks similar to Papini, she was scared that traffickers might want to take her as well.

A $10,000 reward for information was later offered by police, while another $100,000 for tips was dangled by an anonymous donor who contacted the family.

Keith, who said at the time that his wife would never leave him or their children voluntarily, also launched an appeal – a GoFundMe account raising cash to pay for the search.

Managed by his sister Suzanne, who now lives in Long Beach, California, the Bring Sherri Home Safe appeal eventually raised a total of $49,070 – just short of the $50,000 goal.

Keith used the 'find my iPhone' feature to locate Sherri's iPhone when he returned home from work and discovered she hadn't picked up their children Tyler and Violet from daycare

Police said there was no reason to disbelieve Sherri Papini. Rumors starters swirling because of the mysterious way she disappeared

Papini's long, blonde hair was cut off when she was discovered at the side of the road in Yolo

It is not clear what has happened to the money.

Papini was eventually found 150 miles away in the 452-person town of Yolo, which is approximately 15 miles north of Sacramento, early on the morning of November 24.

According to police, she was found on a rural road just off the I-5 freeway and, despite being chained, had managed to flag down a passing car.

Her long hair had been hacked off and Sheriff Bosenko said she had also been beaten and branded by her alleged captors.

In a subsequent interview with police, Papini said she had been taken by two Hispanic women who went to great lengths to conceal their faces. Their car is understood to have been a dark SUV.

Now back with her family, her relations say they still do not know the full story, although she has told police all she can remember, according to father-in-law Kenneth.

Detective Kyle Wallace, who is leading the police investigation, said: 'The investigation is ongoing and we have no reason to disbelieve her.

'If someone reports that they are the victim of a horrible crime, we believe them.'