Sherri Papini was abducted while out jogging near her home in California. She was found weeks later by the ide of the road, 160km from where she was taken. Picture: Supplied

An anonymous donor who offered about $130,000 for Sherri Papini’s safe return spoke with Chris Hansen of US show Crime Watch Daily in an exclusive interview set to air in the US Tuesday afternoon, reports the New York Post.

In a trailer posted to its Facebook page, the show promises “explosive new details” and a “possible cult connection” to the kidnapping.

Sherri Papini with her husband Keith. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

Hansen can be heard asking the donor if he thinks his ransom offer — despite remaining unclaimed — helped secure Papini’s safe return.

The donor, who is seen in silhouette, says, “She’s thrown out on the side of the road within 24 hours of changing the offer to a bounty.”

He said he didn’t know Sherri or her husband Keith before the kidnapping — he saw the story on the news and wanted to get involved.

“Here’s a girl that’s got two little kids and got a husband at home crying and I just visualised what that life was like and felt like you know let’s see if we can be creative here.”

The anonymous donor told Crime Watch Daily he’s spoken to Keith three times since offering the ransom, which he said was returned to him after Sherri was found.

“He said she’s having a tough time, that she can’t be around any strangers, that she’s seeing some counsellors a couple times a week and that she’s just struggling.”

The road in Mountain Gate, California where jogger Sherri Papini went missing. Picture: Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee via APSource:AAP

The donor believes the kidnapping was part of a sex trafficking attempt.

“I think they saw her as what appeared to be a young girl and took her for that purpose.”

The donor said he definitely believes she was abducted.

“I am very, very good at reading people and you know one of my gifts is the gift of discernment.”

The taped interview will reveal how the donor “got involved, his thoughts on what he thinks happened and how Papini is coping,” according to a press release from Crime Watch Daily.

Papini vanished on November 2 while on a jog down the street near her Northern California home in the rural Mountain Gate area outside Redding. She turned up on November 26 (the Thanksgiving holiday in the US) morning on the side of a highway 160km from where she went missing.

The mother of two was chained, beaten and purportedly branded by her captors, who were two Hispanic women, according to police.

She has yet to speak out publicly, but the New York Post captured pictures of her outside her home in January. It was the first time she had been seen publicly since the kidnapping.

Sherri and Keith Papini with their kids, Tyler and Violet. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

This story originally appeared in the New York Post