As soon as Keith Papini got home from work on November 2, 2016, he knew something was wrong.
He’d usually be greeted by his beautiful, bubbly wife, Sherri, then 34, and their two kids, aged four and two.
Instead, the house was empty. The Find My Phone app showed Sherri’s phone was near their mailbox at the end of their property’s long driveway, nearly 2km from their house.
Maybe she’d taken the kids for a walk to get the mail, Keith thought.
But concern turned to panic when Keith rang the children’s daycare centre