Matthew Muller was a Marine and Harvard-educated lawyer who was convicted in federal court for carrying out a kidnapping so bizarre Vallejo Police believed the victims were lying as part of an elaborate hoax. He is survived by his sister Karlie Powers, (Michael), and his nephew Hayden. I was just more so afraid that speaking to them was going to put me or my family in harm[s way].. Denise Huskins, who was abducted from her Vallejo home in 2015, pleaded no guilty to two charges of forcible rape. When they turned airplane mode off, the phone flooded with messages. 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. So, if anything, it is Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins that owe this community an apology, Park said during the press conference. I finally just put my foot down and said, Look, I dont deserve this. And it was a couple of weeks of kind of going back and forth, she said. Muller, who is in Santa Rita Jail facing the Dublin charges, has not yet been moved to federal court in Sacramento to face his kidnap case. Woodrow said the intruder told Quinn they were going to communicate with him via text and email, and that theyd even created an email address for the correspondences. The program is designated for defendants who were deemed incompetent to stand trial, the article said. Eventually, the intruder picked up Huskins and put her in the trunk of Quinn's car before driving away with her. Not only was Muller a good student, he was in top physical condition, running five miles a day before class started. The reason being is that there was no jurisdiction in federal court for those crimes.. Huskins and Quinn married in 2018 and had a daughter, Olivia, who was born five years to the day that Huskins was released by her kidnapper, she said. Carausu said they also discovered Muller was driving a stolen car. Matthew Muller, who was formerly serving a 40- time judgment for civil offences, was doomed to Solano county superior court, according to the county quarter attorney's office. On the same day that Huskins was released by her abductor, Vallejo police spokesperson Lt. Kenny Park hosted a press conference where he suggested that Huskins and Quinn lied about what happened to them. First published on September 3, 2015 / 6:08 PM. Melanie Woodrow, an investigative reporter with ABC News Bay Area, talks about covering the story of Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins' home invasion and kidnapping in 2015. Police said in that incident, one of the victims managed to fight back and Muller lost his cellphone at the scene. Matthew had dropped his phone in the process, which directed the officials right back to him, earning a massive breakthrough. "Gone Girl" kidnapper Matthew Muller a former Marine and a Harvard-educated lawyer who was later disbarred will spend 40 years in prison for the 2015 abduction of a woman that was revealed. If I went to the police, they would kill her, he said. Police arrested Muller on June 8 at what was apparently his parents' South Lake Tahoe vacation home for an alleged attack at a couple's Dublin home three days earlier. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. According to online biographical information, Muller graduated from Bella Vista High in Fair Oaks in 1995. Odd behavior got him fired. Where is the public apology? asked Jim Marshall of San Francisco. When he attempts to tie up the wife, the husband jumps across the bed and tackles the suspect. He was a U.S. Marine for five years and graduated summa cum laude from Pomona College in California before going to Harvard Law School. This is a robbery.. His parents, Monty and Joyce, are both career educators in the Sacramento area. RELATED: Attorney: Kidnapping victims' family outraged over Vallejo officer's award Matthew Muller is facing federal charges as he is accused of kidnapping Denise Huskins from her boyfriend Aaron . The case has remained open. When they responded, she says they told her to call the FBI. Matt's parents Robert and Noelle preceded him in death. California cannabis laws to know before you travel, LeBron James, DeAaron Fox, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander injury updates and NBA playoff race, Man, 43, killed in Rio Linda shooting. Huskins said she had thought about the safe feeling of being in his arms while in captivity, and that she was sick with anticipation wondering what he thought of her and if she was really this horrible liar. He said he was eager to see her, too. She told them about Muller, and two FBI agents and a representative from Vallejo police came pretty quickly after that.. The FBI also uncovered four aerial drones - two of which had cameras -- and a wireless video camera and receiver in a Vallejo storage locker they say links Muller to Huskins' kidnapping, according to the affidavit. Soon after Huskins was abducted in March 2015, boyfriend Aaron Quinn called police saying she'd . Huskins recalled sitting in the airport fearful for her life, paranoid that the kidnapper might find her and take her away again. According to The Reporter, Matthew Muller has been referred to a mental health agency and will not face a jury trial for the time being in a bizarre 2015 Vallejo kidnapping case that made national attention. Their case became of national public interest when police didnt believe their story, calling it a hoax. Each individual was in charge of a different part of the operation. Aarons car is missing, and they know that he waited a substantial period of time before dialing 911. Eventually, a cousin, who had recently passed the bar exam and had become an attorney, insisted he be allowed to see her. When he woke up he said he was able to free himself. Matthew Muller served as a Marine from 1995 to 1999. Johnson, Muller's lawyer, said his client hasn't been charged in either the Mountain View case or the Palo Alto case, and that the events outlined in the FBI affidavit don't amount to formal allegations. In addition, Matthew pled guilty to robbery of an inhabited dwelling, residential burglary, and false imprisonment. In a 2011 complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the law firm accused him of stealing its records, spending the night in its office with a sleeping bag to accomplish the task. Instead, then-Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou wrote a private letter of apology to them, saying in part that it was now clear what happened was not a hoax or orchestrated event and that [Vallejo Police Department[ conclusions were incorrect.. Muller served as a U.S. Marine from 1995 to 1999 before returning home to California, according to the Associated Press. Matthew Muller. While she waited, her father said he heard the voicemail and got word to the Huntington Beach Police Department. Matthew Muller pleaded guilty Thursday morning to the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins from her Vallejo home, ending the prospect of a drawn-out legal fight and giving Muller's family hope. Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. He told me he was going to beat my ass and report him to police. The FBI said in a July statement that in the early morning on March 23 in Vallejo, Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were awakened by a bright light. I just wanted to tell her I was sorry, said Aaron Quinn. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Augusta, GAMatthew V. Muller entered into rest on Saturday December 18th. "He was a very, very hard worker," said Volberding, a UCLA law student who also attended Pomona College with Muller from 1999 to 2003. Huskins said the man tied her up inside and then brought Quinn to the closet and placed him inside. Huskins said that while walking to the closet she noticed two sets of legs from what she believed to be two different people in the bedroom. I think ours is an example of that. Its been six years since the night that Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins awoke in his Vallejo, California, home to a mans voice saying, Wake up. A home invasion in Dublin in June led police, and then the FBI, to Muller, through evidence in his car, including goggles with a long blond hair attached. He points to some beer bottles that were neatly placed in the box next to the garbage, and I said, I put them there to take them out for recycling all at once., They clearly didnt believe him, said Nicole Weisensee Egan, the co-author of Victim F. It is soul-crushing for Aaron because hes out of his mind worried about Denise.. Mustard has denied making this statement. Kidnapping survivor details moments she thought were her last. NBC Bay Area's Mark Matthews contributed to that report. The suspect made the victim drink a small amount of what she thought was Nyquil, the affidavit states. Quinn said the moment was so shocking that it froze him in his place. He is 44 today and his full name is Matthew Daniel Muller, his prison records show. With a bipolar disorder, the pendulum swing can be tremendous:from feeling grandiose to not being able to put your two feet on the floor.. Instead of appearing in court, Superior Court Judge Daniel Healy received a notice that Muller had already been admitted into the program, the newspaper reported, citing court records. 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. Johnson said that Muller grew up with his parents, who divorced sometime after high school. "These recurring crimes involving nighttime home intrusions in which passwords are demanded indicates some plan for further use of computers and/or the Internet for crime.". Apr. Dublin police were able to trace the phone to a woman who told them that it belonged to her son, a man named Matthew Muller, whod lost his phone a day earlier. Rappaport said this new evidence still didnt deter police from their theory that Aaron Quinn and Huskins story was too unbelievable to be true. The episode airs at 9 p.m. Eastern time June 4, 2021. "Certainly never observed any mental illness; just a lot of intelligence and drive.". But he had just gotten out of a relationship with a fiance who he said cheated on him. Denise Huskins, who was kidnapped from her Vallejo home in 2015, contended no shamefaced to two charges of forcible rape. While Matthews last known location remains the Napa State Hospital, it seems that he will be serving his sentence at a federal prison. He then pled no contest to two counts of forcible rape. See Photos. The goggles that Dublin Police Department Detective Misty Carausu found with a strand of blonde hair attached. In return, he says they gave him prison clothes to wear. News reports indicates detectives in Palo Alto are reexamining the evidence of a 2009 home invasion with similar elements to the crimes in which Muller is suspected. It was devastating to see both of them, said Marianne Quinn. 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. He approached college in a very regimented manner, unlike most of our classmates, myself included., Harvard educated kidnapping suspect worked at SF office of LA based law firm. He allegedly left a note stored on a USB drive that read, "I am going completely off the grid - no phone, email, credit cards, etc., so please do not try to reach me as it will only draw attention. 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. Today, with their assailant Matthew Muller in prison, they've chronicled their story in a new book called "Victim F: From Crime Victims, To Suspects, To Survivors." Huskins says that in the end, the couple's experience of trauma and survival is ultimately a love story with a happy ending. ABCs 20/20: Gone Girl examines the 2015 home invasion and kidnapping case involving Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins, who went from victims to suspects within mere days. And he's had his share of legal troubles, including the time he was accused of sleeping in a law office and stealing client information. People named Matthew Muller. "Wake up. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. ", His family later received an automated email in which Muller allegedly stated he had "problems beyond his mental health. But Quinn says the detectives began to ask about his relationship with Huskins. View the profiles of people named Mathew Muller. 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