Overview

• Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn were victims of a harrowing kidnapping in 2015, where Huskins was held captive and assaulted for two days before being released.
• The couple faced public scrutiny and accusations of staging the kidnapping, likened to the plot of 'Gone Girl', by the Vallejo Police Department and the media.
• Three months later, the real perpetrator, Matthew Muller, was arrested in connection to a similar crime, vindicating Huskins and Quinn.
• Muller, a former Marine and disbarred Harvard-educated immigration attorney, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for kidnapping for ransom.
• The couple, now married, have shared their ordeal in a Netflix docuseries 'American Nightmare', highlighting the failures of law enforcement and the media in their case.