Another former classmate, Noah Helpern, went to both undergraduate and graduate schools with Muller. 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. 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.. He was working as an immigration lawyer for the firm of Kerosky Purves & Bogue at the time, the Sacramento Bee reported. Matthew Daniel Muller who was sentenced in 2017 in a Sacramento federal courtroom to 40 years in prison for kidnapping a Vallejo couple and raping the female victim before releasing her near. 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. Quinn said he was told to call out sick at his job and to text Huskins boss that she had a family emergency and would be out for a week. During that time, police received a ransom demand of $8,500, in exchange for Huskins' safe return. In a previous deposition related to Huskins and Aaron Quinn's civil litigation, but prior to Whitneys December 2020 lawsuit, Bidou was asked if he recalled anyone using this phrase with respect to Huskins, and he replied that he had "never heard anybody say that.". In 2011, an immigration law firm he was working for, Reeves & Associates, sued Muller for allegedly sleeping in their offices and stealing client information and passwords, with the hunch that he wanted to start his own firm. Matthew Muller was implicated in a separate but similar crime in Dublin, California. I thought maybe I did have a schizophrenic breakdown, he said. Augusta, GAMatthew V. Muller entered into rest on Saturday December 18th. Upon looking deeper into him, it came to light that even though hed never been charged or arrested, he was named a suspect in various other home invasion and burglary cases in the cities of California. Matthew Muller, who was already serving a 40-year sentence for federal offences, was sentenced to Solano county superior court, according to the county district attorneys office. I said, Yes, the kidnappers drugged me, he said. Latest news and commentary on Matthew Muller including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. Watch tonight at 9/8c on @ABC and streaming this weekend on Hulu. It was devastating to see both of them, said Marianne Quinn. So, if anything, it is Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins that owe this community an apology, Park said during the press conference. His family later received . But the jail, which warns people that it records conversations with inmates, recorded the interview, including the portions that the accused requested to be off the record, the FBI said. On March 22, 2015, the couple made a plan to meet at Quinns home in Mare Island, Vallejo, to decide if they wanted to continue their relationship. It might take time and it might be a lot of hard work, but there is hope.. When they searched the cabin, the Dublin officers found several laptops, cellphones, a few stun guns, a lot of ski masks and an empty bed with no blankets but a sheet that appeared to have been slept on, Carausu and Campos said. Denise Huskins, who was kidnapped from her Vallejo home in 2015, contended no shamefaced to two charges of forcible rape. He is survived by his sister Karlie Powers, (Michael), and his nephew Hayden. Denise Huskins survived 48 hours with her captor before she was released. Muller served as a U.S. Marine from 1995 to 1999 before returning home to California, according to the Associated Press. He was a very, very hard worker, said Volberding,a UCLA law student who also attended Pomona College with Muller from 1999 to 2003. They kept asking, Has he ever gotten angry? The case has remained open. The additional related criminal offenses of sexual assault and the robbery against Aaron were not placed on him as the federal court has no jurisdiction over them. Rappaport said this new evidence still didnt deter police from their theory that Aaron Quinn and Huskins story was too unbelievable to be true. Thats the same year Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinns property invasion and abduction matter transpired. He did very well at Harvard, too, Johnson said, adding that he couldnt detail exactly when his clients mental state began to deteriorate, or how it played out. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. 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. In September 2015, Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn came forward and admitted to being kidnapped, sexually tortured, and held captive for three days. When he attended Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks near Sacramento, Muller took classes in the high achievers program. When Quinns parents and brother arrived at the police station, the Vallejo police questioned them, too. Woodrow said Quinn was moved downstairs, where he was placed on a couch and told that a camera on the wall would be watching him and that he couldnt leave a perimeter marked by tape on the floor. If I went to the police, they would kill her, he said. He was admitted to the California state bar in 2011, and was disbarred in 2015. According to court documents unsealed this week, Muller, in a missive sent to police via an anonymous email account, allegedly demanded that police give Huskins a full and unequivocal apology. It never happened. Johnson said that Muller grew up with his parents, who divorced sometime after high school. They also found the address where Huskins had been dropped off in the stolen vehicles GPS, Campos said. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,250, plus interest. 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. 'There was an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence that linked Muller to the crime but now there's direct evidence which is his detailed admission he was the kidnapper that was recorded during your jailhouse interview," Huskins' attorney, Doug Rappaport, told Goodrich Wednesday. Raised by two longtime educators in the Sacramento area, Muller was a high achiever at Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks, traveled the world as a Marine and graduated from Harvard Law School. Quinns struggle eventually came to a head when, in February 2015, Huskins found out that Quinn had been messaging his ex-fiance about getting back together. Muller's attorney, Thomas Johnson, is asking a judge to throw out much of the evidence in the case, saying it was obtained through an illegal search of the cellphone. Quinn and Ms. Huskins have plundered valuable resources away from our community and taken the focus away from the true victims of our community while instilling fear among our community members. The recording said that a camera would be placed in the home to monitor him, and responding officers found a small surveillance camera in the home. Misty Carausu was a day away from officially being made a detective when she agreed to take part in the arrest of Muller and search of the South Lake Tahoe home. The episode airs at 9 p.m. Eastern time June 4, 2021. Fearing he was putting Huskins life in grave danger, he dialed the police. 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. She said her captor told her he was being instructed to make the recording as a form of collateral over Huskins. The FBI has said that evidence includes a water pistol with a flashlight and laser pointer on it, a laptop that resembled one Aaron Quinn had, a pair of goggles with hair on it the same color as the victim's, and a vehicle navigation system that turned up the same address of the home where Huskins resurfaced. Eventually, a cousin, who had recently passed the bar exam and had become an attorney, insisted he be allowed to see her. Among the attendees at their wedding were the attorneys who helped defend them, and Misty Carausu, a detective from Dublin, California, who helped link Muller to their case. While Matthews last known location remains the Napa State Hospital, it seems that he will be serving his sentence at a federal prison. He thought that one day Muller would be "sitting behind a desk in an elected capacity, not sitting in a jail cell. 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. A component of the defense is going to be a progressive debilitating illness, Johnson said, adding that Muller did not show any signs of mental illness before graduate school. In March 2022, Matthew appeared in court from Napa State Hospital in California via Zoom. When Carausu researched the kidnapping, she remembered the so-called Gone Girl case that had gotten so much media coverage. Why would there be a blonde hair stuck to goggles? Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins were married in 2018. He traveled to Australia and the United Arab Emirates, among other places. She said it was devastating. During questioning, Quinn recounted what had happened the night before. I told him, Look, this is going to be a nightmare and theres no way youre going to be able to pinch yourself and wake up.. Other items confiscated included a blood pressure cuff found in a stolen white Mustang discovered near the Muller family vacation home in South Lake Tahoe. VINELinkMatthew Mullers California jail records. Because the federal court lacked jurisdiction, Aaron was not charged with the related criminal accusations of sexual assault and robbery. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? "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. But by his third year in law school his defense attorney says Muller was so paranoid that he thought he was being tracked by the government, the Associated Press reported in 2017, following his federal kidnapping conviction. She said a neighbor allowed her into the house. The letter also said the comments from Lt. Kenny Parks were unnecessarily harsh and offensive. Bidou promised the department would apologize in public when Muller was indicted. Huskins borrowed a cellphone from a stranger and called her father, who did not answer. They were ostracized by everyone other than family, he said. SACRAMENTO, Calif. Matthew Muller, 39, of South Lake Tahoe, pleaded guilty today to one count of kidnapping, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Kidnapping survivor details moments she thought were her last. He has a brother and a sister, Johnson said. In addition, Matthew pled guilty to robbery of an inhabited dwelling, residential burglary, and false imprisonment. They cried and held each other when they finally reunited nearly a week after that terrifying night, Huskins said. 1. Matthew Muller served as a Marine from 1995 to 1999. Muller had always been a good student, according to Johnson, who culled his information by meeting his clients family and friends. 15 2022, Published 4:24 p.m. Apr. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. During the time Huskins was missing, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter received an anonymous email with a link to an audio file "stripped of identifying data" that depicts a female voice identifying herself as the kidnapping victim, according to the FBI. Looking back at all the evidence, there was just no denying that this wasnt his first time committing a crime, she said. But he was stationed at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, at Camp Pendleton, at the Naval School of Music in Little Creek, Virginia, and at the III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, Japan. 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.. I heard him drive off. 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. In this March 26, 2015, file photo, Amy Morton and Daniel Russo, attorneys for Aaron Quinn, state that their client was bound and drugged at the scene of the abduction and the $8,500 ransom was directed at him. Palo Alto police told Crimesider Muller remains the only suspect in that case, and they'll review evidence in the Dublin and Vallejo cases to see if there's any evidence that could assist in their investigation. "Certainly never observed any mental illness; just a lot of intelligence and drive.". He wasnt in combat. Up until this point, neither Huskins nor Aaron Quinn had seen each other since the incident. Aarons car is missing, and they know that he waited a substantial period of time before dialing 911. What do I do next? she told ABC News Amy Robach. Matthew Muller, 39, of South Lake Tahoe previously pleaded not guilty to a kidnapping charge for the March 23, 2015, incident. Sister, Johnson said was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $ 1,250, plus.... 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