Netflix's 'American Nightmare' Reveals Failures in 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping Case

Victims Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn were wrongly accused by police and media, vindicated only after the real perpetrator was caught three months later.

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.