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Matthew Muller Pleads Guilty to 1993 Folsom Lake Assault, Receives 11-to-Life Term

Prison correspondence coupled with DNA analysis unlocked a 32-year-old cold case against the former Marine-turned-lawyer.

Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins in a scene from the Netflix documentary series “American Nightmare,” about a kidnapping case in Vallejo in 2015.
Matthew Muller, as shown in the Netflix docuseries “American Nightmare,” was convicted of kidnapping and raping Denise Huskins. Now he's confessed to terrorizing campers at a California lake.
Matthew Muller was 16 years old when he used a gun to order two young campers out of their tent near a California lake.
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Overview

  • The guilty plea resolves a 32-year cold case after prosecutors matched DNA evidence and Muller’s own admission to the 1993 abduction.
  • A judge ordered an 11-to-life term to run consecutive with two life sentences for his 2009 home invasions and a 40-year sentence for the 2015 Denise Huskins kidnapping.
  • Letters Muller wrote from prison to Seaside Police Chief Nick Borges provided detailed confessions of assaults in Mountain View and Palo Alto that renewed investigations in Santa Clara County.
  • Denise Huskins’s determination led to a $2.5 million settlement and formal apology from Vallejo police after they initially doubted her 2015 kidnapping claim.
  • Investigators are pursuing additional leads on unsolved kidnappings and sexual assaults across Northern California linked to Muller’s admissions.