Inside the Haunting Unsolved Disappearance of Tera Smith [Video]

Originally appeared on E! Online

When Sherri Papini went missing while out for a jog in November 2016, her fellow residents of Redding, Calif., couldn’t help but compare the circumstances to another shocking disappearance in their community 18 years beforehand.

“While searching for Sherri, all I could think about was Tera Smith,” her sister Sheila Koester recalled in the recent Hulu docuseries Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini, “and how she had left and never came back.”

Sherri and Tera, both pretty blondes, attended the same high school in the 1990s. They each vanished near the Old Oregon Trail, not far from either of their homes.

But as the world eventually found out, Sherri faked her abduction and spent three weeks with an old boyfriend before reemerging on Thanksgiving. She eventually spent 11 months in prison after pleading guiltyto a count apiece of making false statements to a federal officer and …