Several days before the Mountain View incident, Muller was interviewed by police after he was seen walking in the area in Palo Alto where a resident said he saw a suspicious person coming out of the back of an apartment building and entering the back of another apartment building. Goodrich did report that Muller said he felt bad for the kidnapping victim and thought the victim deserved an apology. He starts asking if Id been partying. Rescuers say to remain in place for night, Can I drive with weed in my car? 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. Thats the same year Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinns property invasion and abduction matter transpired. When officers from the Vallejo Police Department appeared at his home, it had been more than nine hours since Huskins had been taken. Quinn told police he heard a noise similar to a stun gun, and then a man, who authorities allege was Matthew Muller, told Huskins and Quinn to lie face down on the bed. Quinn was let go and Huskins dropped off two days after she was abducted near her familys home in Huntington Beach. Here are five things to know about the case. Muller was charged in federal court in Sacramento, California, with kidnapping for ransom. In addition, Matthew pled guilty to robbery of an inhabited dwelling, residential burglary, and false imprisonment. Denise Huskins survived 48 hours with her captor before she was released. According to online biographical information, Muller graduated from Bella Vista High in Fair Oaks in 1995. Im not going to, Huskins said. This is not a dream.. Muller served as a U.S. Marine from 1995 to 1999 before returning home to California, according to the Associated Press. As authorities try to sort out the puzzle of Mullers life, his lawyer seems to be preparing a defense that will center on his clients mental state. He is also survived by his aunts, uncles and cousins, as well as a large extended church family and friends in Christ. The Huskins Quinn case was not publicly handled with the type of sensitivity a case of this nature should have been handled with, and for that, the City extends an apology to Ms. Huskins and Mr. Quinn, the statement read. Tape-covered goggles were allegedly put over Quinn's eyes, along with headphones on his ears playing a prerecorded message that said the break-in was being done by a professional group collecting debts and that both victims would receive electric shocks and cuts on their faces if they didn't cooperate. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. It has never been made clear why Aaron Quinn and his ex-fianc were the targets of the abduction. They said, Well, just have her sleep in her clothes and dont take a shower and well talk in the morning., Marianna Quinn said she was shocked when the police, too, started calling Huskins Gone Girl., You go through something like that, and every moment, every ounce of energy is about How do I live to see another second? That is all you can think about, said Huskins. Matthew Muller served as a Marine from 1995 to 1999. On Tuesday, federal search warrants obtained by NBC Bay Area show that the FBI seized drones, black night vision goggles, an empty zip tie bag and a blood pressure cuff, among other items. When he was handed his phone, Quinn says a member of his legal team noticed that it had been placed in airplane mode, even though it was the only means of communication with the kidnappers. He has pleaded not guilty. He traveled to Australia and the United Arab Emirates, among other places. In 2011, an immigration law firm he was working for, Reeves & Associates, sued Muller for allegedly sleeping in their offices and stealing client information and passwords, with the hunch that he wanted to start his own firm. Maybe we were into weird sex things and something went wrong.. The FBI has said that evidence includes a water pistol with a flashlight and laser pointer on it, a laptop that resembled one Aaron Quinn had, a pair of goggles with hair on it the same color as the victim's, and a vehicle navigation system that turned up the same address of the home where Huskins resurfaced. In this July 13, 2015, file photo, Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn stand in silence during a press conference in Vallejo, Calif. Matthew Muller was charged in federal court in Sacramento, California, with kidnapping for ransom. Muller had always been a good student, according to Johnson, who culled his information by meeting his clients family and friends. By this point, Huskins says it was clear to her that she needed to hire a criminal defense attorney. At times he could be highly productive. ", "I lie in terror most of the time and can't keep up appearances any longer," the email reportedly said. Log In. The FBI says the victim was connected to Muller because she had attended a 2008 event at Harvard University which he had organized. Kidnapping survivor details moments she thought were her last. His adult life has been marked with mental health issues, Johnson told the Sacramento Bee, saying his client suffered from bipolar disorder and psychosis. One, in particular, had a blonde hair strand attached to the duct tape. 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. She said it was devastating. Denise Huskins, who was abducted from her Vallejo home in 2015, pleaded no guilty to two charges of forcible rape. Each individual was in charge of a different part of the operation. @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/xdjIu33wsH, Volberding said he saw no signs of criminality during his years at Pomona College. She told them about Muller, and two FBI agents and a representative from Vallejo police came pretty quickly after that.. Aarons car is missing, and they know that he waited a substantial period of time before dialing 911. Sacramento sheriffs detectives investigating, Man arrested after striking officer with their own Taser holster, Galt police say, Latest car sideshow in Sacramentos Meadowview area ends in arrest, others cited, Half of Sacramentos violent crime is centered in 3 areas. The victim later told police she believed he was asking the questions to make some kind of overseas transaction. NEW 20/20: Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn reveal stunning new details about surviving a harrowing kidnapping experience. Two years before Huskins kidnap, the AP reported Mullers law license was suspended because he failed to pay his annual dues. Aaron Quinn said he feared he was close to losing his job. Matthew Muller. The goggles that Dublin Police Department Detective Misty Carausu found with a strand of blonde hair attached. Matthew Muller was sentenced to prison after abducting a woman from her family's home in the Southern California desert and rapping her before releasing her. In return, he says they gave him prison clothes to wear. VINELinkMatthew Mullers California jail records. Matthew Daniel Muller who was sentenced in 2017 in a Sacramento federal courtroom to 40 years in prison for kidnapping a Vallejo couple and raping the female victim before releasing her near. Latest news and commentary on Matthew Muller including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. Its unfathomable., What happened here, he said, reflects a systemic hubris that comes with the uniform., Vitriol about the case spilled also over on Facebook. In 2016, Aaron Quinn and Huskins filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Vallejo and its police department, as well as specific officers involved, alleging a number of claims, including defamation. Up until this point, neither Huskins nor Aaron Quinn had seen each other since the incident. Matthew Daniel Muller served in the Marines in Afghanistan, graduated from two of the most prestigious universities in the country and was a research assistant at Harvard Law School before. Both victims were women, and both crimes occurred in the early morning hours. I knew that hed be a great partner but I could see that he was struggling.. 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. She said Muller was pleasant, had friends and played saxophone in the school band. Her defense attorney, Doug Rappaport, said he insisted she shouldnt get on that plane and should take a commercial flight instead. Matthew Muller faces sentencing next week in the March 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins. So now, lets find out all that there is to know about him and his current whereabouts, shall we? But while 39-year-old Matthew Muller 's guilty plea to one count of kidnapping may begin to resolve part of the criminal matter, the victims, Denise Huskins, 30, and Aaron Quinn, 31, want to. Denise Huskins made a promise to herself in the last moments she believed her kidnapper would allow her to live. In the latest update on the case against suspected home invader and kidnapper-for-ransom Matthew Muller, former employers and colleagues have come forward to describe some of his behavior during . The city of Vallejo now has a new lawsuit to contend with. There is hope. Several weeks later, on Oct. 18, 2009, the FBI says a 32-year-old victim - a Harvard University student studying at Stanford - was sleeping in her Palo Alto apartment when she awoke to an unknown man wearing tight-fitting black clothing straddling her. In a conversation with KPIX that Muller said was "off the record and on the background," Muller said that he acted alone as he discussed the kidnapping. Furthermore, a search of his family home yielded not only several squirt guns with laser pointers taped to them and blacked-out swimming goggles but also video evidence that confirmed he was Denise and Aarons offender. Were going to take you for 48 hours Aarons going to have to complete some tasks, Huskins said. Campos said that Mullers mother told them he was staying at their cabin in the South Lake Tahoe area. Not only was Muller a good student, he was in top physical condition, running five miles a day before class started. See Photos. She said that he looked unremarkable when he was escorted out. He also won the National Defense Service Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the Good Conduct Medal and the NaveMarine Corps Achievement Medal. https://t.co/ZGewRPfd2o pic.twitter.com/Uu1yMOkisG. I was just more so afraid that speaking to them was going to put me or my family in harm[s way].. He has a brother and a sister, Johnson said. Sign Up. But Quinn says the detectives began to ask about his relationship with Huskins. Nicole Egan, co-author of "Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors," discusses the 2015 home invasion and kidnapping of Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins. After initially being found mentally incompetent to stand trial, Matthew was ordered to take antipsychotic medication until he was declared mentally competent. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Federal prosecutors charged Matthew Muller - a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney - with the March kidnapping of Denise Huskins from her Vallejo, California, home. Matthew Muller, 39, a disbarred San Francisco immigration lawyer, has agreed to admit to kidnapping 30-year-old Denise Huskins from the Mare Island home of her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, in March. While they were investigating that incident, city police received a series of anonymous email communications, allegedly from Muller, saying that he and a group of accomplices kidnapped Huskins and Quinn. Quinn had lived with his ex-fiance in that house before their breakup, and she had only recently moved out all of her belongings. You have entered an incorrect email address! He told me he was going to beat my ass and report him to police. First published on September 3, 2015 / 6:08 PM. Rappaport said this new evidence still didnt deter police from their theory that Aaron Quinn and Huskins story was too unbelievable to be true. Today Muller, 38, is behind bars in Alameda County, accused of one of the most bizarre and twisted kidnapping cases in recent memory. The suspect asked the victim questions including her date of birth, mother's maiden name and social security number, according to the FBI. There were things that happened that we saw, that we heard. In the July KPIX interview recorded by the jail and outlined in an FBI affidavit in support of a search warrant, Muller allegedly "ascribed his conduct to mental illness, a belief in some kind of conspiracy, and some kind of supposed side effect from a vaccine." Is California a better place to live? His family later received . See Photos. "When Muller told me in our jailhouse interview, 'you cannot use certain things I am telling you in your publication,' I did not," Goodrich said, according to KPIX. Reeves said Muller boldly, and in stealth mode, rummaged through the files of his law firms computer network in his final days before resigning, accessed confidential files, copied corporate client lists and tried to cover his tracks by using a computer application to erase signs of his conduct. Aaron Quinn and Huskins defense attorneys say they celebrated the developments in the case, holding a press conference in which they called for full apologies from the Vallejo Police Department. That didnt stop other people from weighing in. Join Facebook to connect with Mathew Muller and others you may know. All rights reserved. He was admitted to the California state bar in 2011, and was disbarred in 2015. @ARobach's report shares never-before-seen interrogation video of Aaron following Denise's kidnapping Watch tonight at 9/8c on @ABC. But it turned out that one important part of this plan had not gone as expected for the intruder. Alleged kidnap of Vallejo woman now treated as hoax, Police search for apparent kidnap victim from Vallejo, Trump supporter in plot to firebomb Sacramento Democratic HQ sentenced to prison. Any abnormality he might have shown in college was his drive.. Weeks passed without a break in the case and Huskins and Aaron Quinn found themselves the prime suspects in their own home invasion and kidnapping case. 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. He responded to the kidnappers message but when he didnt hear back, he began to panic. "The fact that Muller knew facts about his victims indicates that he probably conducted online research of his targets," the FBI affidavit states. Search warrants unsealed Monday show the FBI seized five drones, remote controls, video cameras and other items linked to Muller from a self-storage unit he rented in Vallejo. Weldon said he came home about a year ago to find Mullers silver Toyota 4Runner truck parked in the lone shaded spot in front of his house. Quinn woke up the next morning with only enough energy due to the sedatives to call out sick for Huskins and himself, and then he fell asleep again until 11:30 a.m. The recording said Quinn would be drugged with what he described as "1/4 a bottle of Diazepam and Nyquil," according to the FBI. ET. He was also told he would have to withdraw money from his bank and that hed have a camera monitoring his moves. Muller enlisted in the Marines after high school, and ended up in Okinawa, Japan, where he worked for a newspaper off of his base and played trumpet in the Marine Corps band. Nothing made him stand out one way or the other, she said. After leaving a voicemail with him, she began walking to her fathers home. The cell phone number pointed police to Muller's South Lake Tahoe address and in turn much of the evidence against him in the Vallejo case, according to the FBI. She attempted to reach the Vallejo police but says she initially did not get a call back. In a statement to 20/20 on Monday, Vallejos public information officer Christina Lee admitted, It appears that the follow-up personal public apology did not take place.. What he wasnt charged with were the sexual assaults, the robbery, the burglary against Aaron, Rappaport said. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,250, plus interest. 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 attorney's office. His brother, Ethan Quinn, retained attorney Dan Russo, who brought Aaron Quinn back to his office after 18 hours of police interrogation. Mustard has denied making this statement. 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. See Photos. Matthews intended mark was Aaron and his ex-fiance, but it makes no difference because of his actions. The intruder says, We have a problem and he says to Aaron, Do Denise and your ex-fiance look-alike?, At that moment, Quinn said he released a guttural sigh., I was like, Yes, they both have long, blonde hair, Quinn said. 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