This is just one of many alleged crimes dating back to the 1990s that would have gone unsolved if it weren't for two persistent victims, a small-town chief and a Northern California district attorney.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News California, Huskins and Quinn detail what happened after the documentary ends. They knew Muller had committed additional crimes, but they say Vallejo police and the FBI refused to investigate. The agencies initially accused the couple of faking her own kidnapping.
In addition to the Dublin, Calif. home invasion originally reported in 2015, prosecutors say Muller has confessed to multiple crimes across Northern California.
"The amount of coverage that our case had …. But just two weeks later, he's willing to do a very similar thing," Quinn said. "[It] shows you how brazen and emboldened he was."
The Dublin home invasion and attempted kidnapping is dated to around two weeks after the Contra Costa incident. That's when Dublin Police Detective Misty Carausu and Alameda County Sheriff's deputies tracked Muller in his mother's South Lake Tahoe cabin. There, they found evidence: a strand of Denise's hair attached to a pair of blacked-out swim goggles used to blindfold her. Detective Carausu's persistence in tracking down who that hair belonged to would eventually vindicate Huskins and Quinn, proving to the world that they had been telling the truth all along.
Then, after the documentary was released in 2024, City of Seaside Police Chief Nick Borges reached out offering support to Huskins and Quinn, hoping to restore their faith in law enforcement. He invited them to speak to a law enforcement group about their experience.
Together the five of them – Huskins, Quinn, Carausu, Borges and Pierson – have pieced together a decades-long puzzle, solving cold case crimes linked to Muller dating back to 1993 when he allegedly committed his first kidnapping and rape at the age of 16.
Over the coming weeks, CBS News California will investigate the systemic problems highlighted by this decades-long "American Nightmare."
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