Six years earlier than he kidnapped Denise Huskins in a infamous case that generated the “American Nightmare” documentary collection, Matthew Muller allegedly assaulted two girls within the South Bay, authorities mentioned Monday.
Muller, convicted within the 2015 Vallejo kidnapping of Huskins, is going through new prices in a collection of beforehand unsolved house invasions, prosecutors mentioned.
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)
Superior forensic DNA testing led authorities to cost Muller, 47, in two 2009 house invasions and sexual assaults, in Mountain View and Palo Alto, in line with the Santa Clara County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Muller’s DNA was discovered on straps he allegedly used to bind one of many victims within the 2009 assaults. He was arraigned Monday afternoon in Santa Clara County Superior Court docket on suspicion of two felony counts of committing a sexual assault throughout a house invasion.
Within the early hours of Sept. 29, 2009, authorities allege Muller broke into a girl’s Mountain View house, attacked after which tied her up, made her drink a concoction of medicines, and mentioned 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 lawyer’s workplace mentioned.
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 mentioned. 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 lawyer’s workplace mentioned.
Echoes of Vallejo case
Huskins’ abduction in 2015 was the the topic of “American Nightmare”, a Netflix documentary collection that chronicled her kidnapping, and police and FBI suspicions that the kidnapping had been staged along with her boyfriend Aaron Quinn.
Muller, a former U.S. Marine, broke right into a Vallejo house on March 23, 2015, and tied up the younger couple.
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 line 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 house 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.
