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Papini, then 34, went missing on Nov. 2, 2016, having last been seen dropping her children off at day care. Her phone, with headphones attached, was found alongside the rural road where she lived in the little community of Mountain Gate, north of Redding.

Three weeks later, on Thanksgiving, she flagged down a motorist on Interstate 5 in Yolo County, about 150 miles south of her home.

She said she had been held captive by two women. “She appeared battered and bruised, her hair had been cut to shoulder length and she had a brand on her right shoulder,” said a statement that the sheriff’s office issued Wednesday. It contained some new details — including the length of her hair — but details of the brand remained confidential.

The women, who Papini said were masked when they were in her presence, are depicted in the sketches. They are described as Hispanic, the younger with dark curly hair, thin eyebrows and pierced ears, and the older with straight black hair with some gray and thick eyebrows.

Also released was the call in which Keith Papini reported that his wife had not picked up their children from day care and that he didn’t know where she was. He said he had found her phone — with strands of ripped-out hair — on the road after activating the Find My Phone feature.

In the call, he speculates she had gone jogging near their home.

Among the details included in the sheriff’s press release: Sherri Papini had been “texting with a male acquaintance from Michigan. Days prior to Sherri’s disappearance, Sherri and the male acquaintance texted … in an attempt to meet while he was in California. Sheriff’s detectives interviewed him in Michigan and determined he was not involved in Sherri’s disappearance.”

Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian Jackson gave the Redding Record-Searchlight Papini’s account of the morning on which she was released. She said she had heard the captors arguing, and then a gunshot. The younger woman put Papini in a car and drove along a winding road, then put her out on the roadside with her hands bound.

The sheriff’s office says surveillance video from a church shows Papini running up an onramp to Interstate 5 after her release. That video has not been made public.

The release went on to say, “Keith and Sherri Papini have remained in contact with the Sheriff’s Office and the FBI. 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.”

Keith Papini, who worked at Best Buy at the time of the abduction, was reportedly cleared as a suspect after passing a polygraph test. He has offered to take another, the sheriff’s statement said.

Transcript of the 911 call, about five minutes long:

[CHP transfers Keith Papini to the 911 dispatcher.]

Papini: Yeah, um, so I just got home from work, and my wife wasn’t there, which is unusual, and my kids should’ve been there now from like day care, so I was like, “Oh, maybe she went on a walk.” Um, I couldn’t find her so I called the day care to see what time she picked up the kids. The kids were never picked up. So I got freaked out so I hit like the Find My iPhone app thing, and it said that — it showed her phone at like the end of our driveway, we don’t have really good service …

911: OK.

Papini: … Not the end of our driveway, but the end of our street. I just drove down there and I saw her phone with her headphones, because she started running again, and it’s — I found her phone, and it’s got like hair ripped out of it, like in the headphones, so I’m like totally freaking out thinking like somebody grabbed her.

[911 dispatcher gets his address and his name.]

911: Did you go pick up your children?

Papini: No, I’m going to call my mom and have her do it. I’m going to like knock on every door —

[911 cuts him off, gets his wife’s name and birthdate.]

911: Is her vehicle there, or does she not have a vehicle?

Papini: She has a vehicle, it was at the house. She’s running. Yes, I’m in it right now, driving, and I took a picture of her phone on the ground before I picked it up.

911: OK, how tall is she?

Papini: Five-three, five-four.

911: How much does she weigh?

Papini: Hundred pounds.

911: Eye color?

Papini: Uh, like a … bluish … blue.

911: Hair color?

Papini: Blond.

911: Do you know what she was wearing? Is there something she always wears …

Papini: No. I’m assuming she went running, so athletic-type clothing.

911: OK, so there’s not an outfit she usually wears or anything like that? Does she run with a dog, or by herself?

Papini: By herself.

911: What time were the kids supposed …

Papini [interrupting]: She just started running again, and we live in a sketchy … [trails off]. I’m sorry, I’m super [unintelligible].

911: When’s the last time you heard from her?

Papini: She sent me a text asking me if I was coming home for lunch. She’s got a whole bunch of missed —

911: What time was that?

Papini: Give me one second. … She sent me a text at 10:47 asking me if I was coming home for lunch, from work. And I said, “Sorry, long day.” And that was the last — I never spoke to her on the phone or had any other contact with her.

911: What time were the kids supposed to be picked up?

Papini: Way before 5:30. She usually goes at like 4:45-ish, 4:30, 4:45.

911: Are you headed back to the house or — where are you at right now?

Papini: I’m at the end of the driveway, where, uh, I’m at the … Old Oregon Trail and Sunrise, where they meet, ’cause that’s right where I found her phone on the ground. [Unintelligible] telling me that something happened to her, is the way I’m looking at it. There’s like hair in the headphones. Like it got ripped off, like they grabbed —

911: Yeah, no, I, I understand, I understand.

Papini: OK. I’m sorry, I know you’re trying to keep me calm, but [crosstalk].

911: OK. What kind of vehicle are you in?

Papini: I’m in a black Kia Optima.

[Sound of typing.]

Papini: Oh my God. [Heavy exhale.] And I live down, I mean we live down kind of a sketchy street, so I definitely — I don’t know if I’m allowed to knock on everybody’s door but I will if I’m allowed to do that.

911: Let’s just have the officers contact you, so they can start, you know, processing everything and figure out what’s going on, OK?

Papini: [Heavy exhale.]

911: I understand you’re freaking out a little bit. We wanna, we wanna make sure we get your kids, make sure they’re OK —

Papini: Yeah, I’m going to call my mom and have her — [crosstalk, then deleted portion where he gives his phone number]. Do you want me to wait right here for somebody?

911: If you want to head back to your residence, they can contact you there, and in case she does return.

Papini: OK.

911: OK. We’ll have them contact you at your residence. And call us back if anything changes, all right?