Huskins was located two days later. He responded to the kidnappers message but when he didnt hear back, he began to panic. As new details of Huskins ordeal emerged this week with the unsealing of the FBI documents, Vallejo city police came under fire for their handling of the original kidnapping report in March. The affidavit states that the victim was sexually assaulted during the kidnapping. Court documents, interviews and other information gathered by The Sacramento Bee show that, despite Mullers academic successes, trouble has followed him in recent years, including an accusation that he stole data from a Bay Area law firm where he worked and that he failed to provide competent legal services to clients. Matthew Muller. William Vizzard, professor emeritus of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento, said law enforcement sometimes ends up with egg on your face when calling out hoaxes. I also didnt trust myself anymore., I could see who Aaron was and the man he was and the good in him, Huskins said. The suspect tries to get away. Carausu said they also discovered Muller was driving a stolen car. The city of Vallejo now has a new lawsuit to contend with. Huskins was held captive for just over 48 hours before being released, but the couple continued to fear for their lives with a kidnapper on the loose and the police dismissing their account of the incident as too incredible to be believed. Matthew Muller was arrested in South Lake Tahoe on June 8, 2015, and charged with kidnapping for ransom in a federal court. Eventually, the intruder picked up Huskins and put her in the trunk of Quinn's car before driving away with her. On June 17, Alameda. What he wasnt charged with were the sexual assaults, the robbery, the burglary against Aaron, Rappaport said. Matthew Muller was arrested in South Lake Tahoe on June 8, 2015, and charged with kidnapping for ransom in federal court. One of them had just your typical pen-style laser pointer that was duct-taped to it., There were several swim goggles that were duct-taped black, Carausu added. There were a number of replica squirt guns, Campos said of the evidence theyd found. Muller is the suspected mastermind in the March 23 kidnapping of Denise Huskins, who says she was drugged and taken from her Mare Island home by an intruder in the middle of the night. Fearing he was putting Huskins life in grave danger, he dialed the police. Then they continued to question Quinn about what hed been doing before calling for help. Huskins said the man then told her to walk to the bedroom closet. Matthew Muller was implicated in a separate but similar crime in Dublin, California. According to court filings, when Rappaport pushed for Vallejo police to conduct a rape exam, they delayed. At others, depression made it hard for him to get out of bed, Johnson said. The additional related criminal offenses of sexual assault and the robbery against Aaron were not placed on him as the federal court has no jurisdiction over them. And in emails to the San Francisco Chronicle during the kidnap saga, someone who purported to be behind the abduction of the Vallejo couple also boldly stated he or she was part of a wide car thief ring in the Bay Area, stealing cars to make some quick money. When they turned airplane mode off, the phone flooded with messages. ", "I lie in terror most of the time and can't keep up appearances any longer," the email reportedly said. After all, the sequence of events was very similar. Matthew Mueller. Later, he was disbarred after he collected a $1,250 payment for a client but failed to file a green card application, according to the AP. Denise Huskins, who was abducted from her Vallejo home in 2015, pleaded no guilty to two charges of forcible rape. @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/xdjIu33wsH, Volberding said he saw no signs of criminality during his years at Pomona College. On Dec. 21, the judge received an update regarding placement alternatives and care from MHM Services and earlier this month learned the defendant had been placed in the treatment program, the article said. Quinn said the first question the police asked him when he answered the door was, Are you on drugs?. The program is designated for defendants who were deemed incompetent to stand trial, the article said. Matthew Mullers upbringing and background seemed like a prescription for success. "Gone Girl" kidnapper Matthew Muller a former Marine and a Harvard-educated lawyer who was later disbarred will spend 40 years in prison for the 2015 abduction of a woman that was revealed. See Photos. His federal sentence will run parallel to his state sentence. Kidnapping survivor details moments she thought were her last. Apr. Federal prosecutors charged Matthew Muller - a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney - with the March kidnapping of Denise Huskins from her Vallejo, California, home. I said, We have evidence thats going to dissipate And they said the most callous thing I think Ive ever heard somebody say from law enforcement, Rappaport said. I thought maybe I did have a schizophrenic breakdown, he said. or. So, if anything, it is Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins that owe this community an apology, Park said during the press conference. Huskins and Quinn met in 2014 in Vallejo, California, located in the Bay Area, where they were both physical therapists. I peeled the tape off my eyes and I was by myself in this alleyway, she said. After kidnapping a Vallejo couple and rapping the woman before releasing her near her familys Southern California home, Matthew Muller was sentenced to prison. According to FBI documents, Quinn said the man told Huskins to bind Quinn's hands and feet with zip ties and forced them both into a closet before Huskins was taken to the next bedroom. In the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 2009, a 27-year-old victim was sleeping in her Mountain View, Calif. apartment when she awoke to an unknown man on her back, according to the FBI. Two days later, the affidavit states, Muller called his then-wife from Utah, and she picked him up. Matthew Muller Biography & Wikipedia: Is Denise Huskins Kidnapper Still In Jail? In this March 25, 2015, file photo, Lt. Kenny Parks speaks at a press conference in Vallejo, Calif., confirming reports that Denise Huskins has been found safe in Huntington Beach, Calif. Vallejo Times Herald/MediaNews Group via Getty Images, FILE. Gary Silva of Huntington Beach proclaimed the department the dumbest organization in America.. 'There was an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence that linked Muller to the crime but now there's direct evidence which is his detailed admission he was the kidnapper that was recorded during your jailhouse interview," Huskins' attorney, Doug Rappaport, told Goodrich Wednesday. But as long as he was willing to really give this a full shot, then we could try again., Huskins didnt know it at the time, but her decision to visit Quinn that night would become a pivotal moment in her life. He filed a lawsuit against the city and three of the cops involved in the case. He traveled to Australia and the United Arab Emirates, among other places. Because the federal court lacked jurisdiction, Aaron was not charged with the related criminal accusations of sexual assault and robbery. They cried and held each other when they finally reunited nearly a week after that terrifying night, Huskins said. He is also survived by his aunts, uncles and cousins, as well. He said, This is what were going to do. During the time Huskins was missing, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter received an anonymous email with a link to an audio file "stripped of identifying data" that depicts a female voice identifying herself as the kidnapping victim, according to the FBI. Quinn was let go and Huskins dropped off two days after she was abducted near her familys home in Huntington Beach. Family members of Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, urge the judge to consider the pain caused by . He left in 2012 for reasons that havent been disclosed. Huskins' Boyfriend Quickly Reported Her Missing. On March 22, 2015, the couple made a plan to meet at Quinns home in Mare Island, Vallejo, to decide if they wanted to continue their relationship. When they searched the cabin, the Dublin officers found several laptops, cellphones, a few stun guns, a lot of ski masks and an empty bed with no blankets but a sheet that appeared to have been slept on, Carausu and Campos said. The recording said that a camera would be placed in the home to monitor him, and responding officers found a small surveillance camera in the home. He was admitted to the California state bar in 2011, and was disbarred in 2015. On Nov. 2, Healy received a doctors report and later ordered Muller placed in the care of MHM Services, a nationwide firm which contracts with governmental agencies for inmate care and has offices in Vallejo, a secured facility, The Mercury News reported. I had no reason to believe, at that time, that they doubted me, she said. Whitney further alleges in the lawsuit that he was in the room and that he heard Bidou instruct Parks to "burn that bitch" prior to Parks' March 25, 2015, press conference where Parks suggested that Huskins and Aaron Quinn had lied about their home invasion and abduction. When he attended Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks near Sacramento, Muller took classes in the high achievers program. Huskins borrowed a cellphone from a stranger and called her father, who did not answer. The recording said Quinn would be drugged with what he described as "1/4 a bottle of Diazepam and Nyquil," according to the FBI. Matthew Muller. The man told her that this was a robbery and he was there for identity theft purposes, according to the affidavit - he said he needed to wire money offshore for fraudulent activity. He is 44 today and his full name is Matthew Daniel Muller, his prison records show. Matthew Muller pleaded guilty Thursday morning to the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins from her Vallejo home, ending the prospect of a drawn-out legal fight and giving Muller's family hope. Were going to take you for 48 hours Aarons going to have to complete some tasks, Huskins said. Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins were married in 2018. They spoke to ABC 20/20 about their experiences, and say their trauma was inflicted both by Muller and the judicial system. I slowly counted to 10. One, in particular, had a blonde hair strand attached to the duct tape. Back in California, he attended college and graduated summa cum laude, then entered law school at Harvard, the AP reported. We were telling [the detective] what a good kid he was, said Marianne Quinn, his mother. In March 2022, Matthew appeared in court from Napa State Hospital in California via Zoom. Rescuers say to remain in place for night, Can I drive with weed in my car? NBC Bay Area's Mark Matthews contributed to that report. What happened to Ms. Huskins and Mr. Quinn is horrific and evil, Chief Shawny Williams said in the statement. Mattew Muller was arrested for raping the victim, according to reports. Log In. The FBI said the suspect then allegedly retrieved Quinn's bank account information from his laptop. He points to some beer bottles that were neatly placed in the box next to the garbage, and I said, I put them there to take them out for recycling all at once., They clearly didnt believe him, said Nicole Weisensee Egan, the co-author of Victim F. It is soul-crushing for Aaron because hes out of his mind worried about Denise.. I knew that hed be a great partner but I could see that he was struggling.. His parents, Monty and Joyce, are both career educators in the Sacramento area. The FBI said in a July statement that in the early morning on March 23 in Vallejo, Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were awakened by a bright light. His discharge records were not immediately available. NEW 20/20: Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn reveal stunning new details about surviving a harrowing kidnapping experience. The message received on March 26, 2015, contained explicit details about the kidnapping as well as photos of evidence, even showing the room where Huskins had been held. Matthew Muller, who was already serving a 40-year sentence for federal offences, was sentenced to Solano county superior court, according to the county district attorneys office. Huskins said the man tied her up inside and then brought Quinn to the closet and placed him inside. According to online biographical information, Muller graduated from Bella Vista High in Fair Oaks in 1995. Nothing made him stand out one way or the other, she said. Quinns older brother is an FBI agent, so he decided he would call him instead, but his brother instructed him to immediately call 911. In this Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, attorney Anthony Douglas Rappaport, left, speaks at a news conference with his clients, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn, right, in San Francisco. Matthew Muller served as a Marine from 1995 to 1999. He did very well at Harvard, too, Johnson said, adding that he couldnt detail exactly when his clients mental state began to deteriorate, or how it played out. Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn had a daughter, Olivia, who was born five years to the day that Huskins was released by her kidnapper, she said. Matthew Muller was a Marine and Harvard-educated lawyer who was convicted in federal court for carrying out a kidnapping so bizarre Vallejo Police believed the victims were lying as part of an elaborate hoax. Muller served as a U.S. Marine from 1995 to 1999 before returning home to California, according to the Associated Press. After all that theyd gone through, Marianne Quinn said she knew the couple would stay together forever. To make matters worse, the detectives had also found a small bloodstain on Quinns sheets. The goggles that Dublin Police Department Detective Misty Carausu found with a strand of blonde hair attached. She said a neighbor allowed her into the house. They were ostracized by everyone other than family, he said. I finally just put my foot down and said, Look, I dont deserve this. And it was a couple of weeks of kind of going back and forth, she said. Muller was convicted in federal court in Sacramento in 2017 and sentenced to 40 years in prison, according to The Mercury News. Is California a better place to live? The intruder covered their eyes with swimming goggles that had been covered in duct tape to block their sight and put headphones on them. Johnson said the evidence that will be presented in court will likely show that Mullers bipolar disorder began while he was in Harvard, where he earned a law degree and was a research assistant. Two years before Huskins kidnap, the AP reported Mullers law license was suspended because he failed to pay his annual dues. Meanwhile, Huskins reappearance had set off a media firestorm fueled by suggestions that her case bore striking resemblance to the book and film Gone Girl. The fictional story is about a woman who fakes her own disappearance as revenge against her cheating husband. "This is perhaps the least extreme thing I can do to resolve it that does not also expose everybody to criminal liability.". Carausu did a search of Mullers name and found that although he had never been charged, he had been a person of interest in several other incidents in nearby cities. He allegedly left a note stored on a USB drive that read, "I am going completely off the grid - no phone, email, credit cards, etc., so please do not try to reach me as it will only draw attention. Huskins and Quinn told investigators their assailant had checked their blood pressure after giving them drugs. See Photos. Matthew Muller was a Marine and Harvard-educated lawyer who was convicted in federal court for carrying out a kidnapping so bizarre Vallejo Police believed the victims were lying as part of an elaborate hoax. In Dublin, California, located in the trunk of Quinn 's car before driving away with.... 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