Overview

• Muller pleaded no contest to aggravated kidnapping in Contra Costa County for the 2015 home invasion that went unreported until this year.
• Judge David Goldstein imposed the new life term to run consecutively to Muller’s existing sentences, ensuring he remains incarcerated into his late 80s or 90s before parole eligibility.
• The case emerged after Muller’s 2024 letters to Seaside Police Chief Nick Borges sparked a multiagency inquiry into cold-case abductions.
• A Harvard-educated former Marine, Muller now holds consecutive life sentences for crimes spanning a 1993 Folsom Lake assault and 2009 home invasions to multiple 2015 kidnappings.
• Survivors Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn’s persistence in the face of initial police disbelief has driven both legal reckonings and reforms in investigative practices.