A person convicted of the infamous “Gone Girl” kidnapping of a Vallejo girl in 2015 that sparked a Netflix docuseries was convicted final week of two residence invasions and sexual assaults in Santa Clara County in 2009.
Matthew Muller, 47, was convicted in 2016 of the Vallejo kidnapping of Denise Huskins, which was featured within the Netflix collection “American Nightmare” in 2024. The case gained widespread consideration after police publicly speculated that the case may have been staged — and have been in the end confirmed unsuitable.
Six years earlier than Muller drugged and sexually assaulted Huskins, kidnapping her and her boyfriend in Vallejo, he broke into a house in Mountain View, and, lower than three weeks later, one other residence in Palo Alto.
Each break-ins concerned druggings and sexual assaults, the Santa Clara County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned in a press launch on Friday.
“This extremely dangerous person left a trail of traumatized and terrified victims,” District Lawyer Jeff Rosen mentioned. “It took the collective courage of his victims and determined law enforcement officers to stop him. This nightmare is over.”
Matthew Muller is serving a 40-year jail sentence in Arizona for the 2015 kidnapping and rape of a Vallejo girl in a case also known as the “Gone Girl” kidnapping. (Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace/Wikipedia)
In September 2009, Muller broke into the Mountain View girl’s residence, assaulted her, tied her up and compelled her to drink a “concoction” of medicine. He advised the sufferer he was going to rape her, however the sufferer satisfied him to not. The DA’s Workplace mentioned Muller then advised the sufferer to get a canine and left.
In October that yr, he broke right into a Palo Alto residence and repeated his crimes of tying the sufferer and drugging her. He started to sexually assault her however was persuaded to cease. He additionally supplied that sufferer “crime prevention advice” earlier than leaving, prosecutors mentioned.
Authorities consider Muller, who’s a Harvard graduate and former U.S. Marine, could possibly be accountable for different, comparable crimes. He’s dealing with kidnapping for ransom fees in Contra Costa County.
He pleaded responsible to the Mountain View and Palo Alto invasions and sexual assaults. He faces sentencing for these crimes on Feb. 21. He’s already serving a 40-year sentence in federal jail for the Vallejo kidnapping and a violent residence invasion in Dublin. He faces life in jail for the brand new convictions.
