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Contra Costa County DA costs ‘Gone Woman’ kidnapper with San Ramon abduction case – Native Information Issues

By Miles Cooper
Crime
January 7, 2025
Contra Costa County DA costs ‘Gone Woman’ kidnapper with San Ramon abduction case – Native Information Issues
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The person on the middle of the so-called “Gone Girl” Vallejo kidnapping case who was just lately charged with two extra sexual assaults in Santa Clara County is now being charged with an alleged kidnapping in unincorporated San Ramon, authorities introduced Monday.

The Contra Costa County District Legal professional’s Workplace filed a three-count felony grievance in opposition to Matthew Muller, 47, in accordance with Ted Asregadoo, spokesperson for the workplace. He has been given three felony costs of kidnapping for ransom.

Muller, 47, was convicted in 2015 for the Vallejo kidnapping of Denise Huskins.

Based on prosecutors, the brand new costs in opposition to Muller allege that he confessed to a different kidnapping and ransom case in 2015 in an unincorporated space of San Ramon.

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Authorities had been made conscious of the brand new case throughout a sequence of communications with Muller, who confessed to a number of crimes all through Northern California, Asregadoo stated, including that the DA’s workplace met with Muller concerning the San Ramon allegations on Dec. 13.

Based on Asregadoo, within the spring of 2015, Muller held two John Does and one Jane Doe for ransom, demanding that one in every of them withdraw tens of hundreds of {dollars} from their checking account to safe the discharge of the others. After getting the cash, Muller fled, and the victims by no means reported what occurred to them.

“To this day, they have chosen to remain anonymous,” stated Asregadoo in a press release launched by his workplace.

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On the finish of December, The Santa Clara County District Legal professional’s Workplace introduced that DNA testing led authorities to cost Muller in two 2009 residence invasions and sexual assaults in Mountain View and Palo Alto.

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Huskins’ abduction in Vallejo by Muller in 2015 was the topic of “American Nightmare,” a Netflix documentary sequence that chronicled her kidnapping, and police and FBI suspicions that the kidnapping had been staged along with her boyfriend Aaron Quinn.

Contra Costa County DA costs ‘Gone Woman’ kidnapper with San Ramon abduction case – Native Information IssuesMatthew Muller is serving a 40-year jail sentence in Arizona for the 2015 kidnapping and rape of a Vallejo lady in a case sometimes called the “Gone Girl” kidnapping. (Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace/Wikipedia)

Muller, a former U.S. Marine, broke right into a Vallejo residence on March 23, 2015, and tied up the younger couple.

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He took Huskins to a cabin in South Lake Tahoe, the place he sexually assaulted her. Two days later, he drove Huskins to Southern California and launched her, in accordance with police.

Vallejo police initially believed the invasion and kidnapping was a hoax perpetrated by Huskins’ boyfriend, producing the reference to the novel and movie “Gone Girl.”

Muller was finally arrested for each the Vallejo kidnapping and a violent Dublin residence invasion.

He pleaded responsible to the kidnapping and sexual assaults of Huskins and is serving a 40-year jail sentence at a federal jail in Tucson, Arizona.

Within the Santa Clara County instances that just lately got here to gentle, Muller’s DNA was discovered on straps he allegedly used to bind one of many victims within the 2009 assaults.

Within the early hours of Sept. 29, 2009, authorities allege Muller broke into a lady’s Mountain View residence, attacked after which tied her up, made her drink a concoction of medicines, and stated he was going to rape her.

“After the victim, in her 30s, persuaded him against it, he suggested the victim get a dog, then fled,” the district legal professional’s workplace stated.

Within the second assault, on Oct. 18, 2009, Muller allegedly “broke into a Palo Alto home, bound and gagged a woman in her 30s and made her drink NyQuil,” prosecutors stated. Muller allegedly began to assault her however was persuaded by the sufferer to cease. “Muller gave the victim crime prevention advice, then fled,” the district legal professional’s workplace stated.

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