Matthew Muller, a convicted kidnapper, portrayed in the Netflix documentary American Nightmare, pleaded guilty Wednesday to the kidnapping and sexual assault of another 32-year-old, 32-year-old.
In 1993, a 16-year-old Muller held a couple at the muzzle while camping at Folsom Lake at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mueller then tied the male victims together and then continued to accept and sexually assault the female victims, according to a press release from the district attorney.
The release added that the District Attorney’s Cold Cases Science and Technology Department is “instrumental” in revealing other evidence in the case.
The latest conviction is part of a series of similar sexual offences committed by Muller, who is currently sentenced to 40 years in prison for kidnapping and sexual assault in Vallejo, California in 2015 and life sentenced for two kidnappings and assaults in Santa Clara. The crime of 2015 and the subsequent flawed investigation were the subject of “American Nightmare,” which premiered last year.
Mueller was sentenced to 11 years in life imprisonment for his latest conviction. The sentence will serve consecutive sentences along with his other sentences.
In 2015, Muller broke into a Vallejo home and took drugs and tied up a couple Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins. Mueller then kidnapped Huskins in Quinn's car and hugged her in his family's cottage in South Lake Tahoe for three days. Mueller sexually assaulted Huskins until he finally released her at Huntington Beach.
Hallhorse police and FBI officials charged her with allegations before discovering more of Mueller's crimes. Huskins and Quinn were considered suspects until a family invasion in Dublin, California was considered Mueller as the perpetrator.
“We knew more from the beginning and we had a lot of things clearly from the beginning,” Huskins told The Times earlier this year.
According to court documents, Mueller used “a bottle of dice ep and Nigul's cocktail to drug victims” and threatened violence if they did not comply. Court documents say Mueller's strategy was obviously more complicated after the 1993 muzzle abduction.
Mueller was an immigration attorney for Harvard Education, a former Marine Corps, who later admitted to being involved in 1993 crimes against law enforcement, the release said.
The pursuit of justice will never end in Sacramento County. Atti. Thien Ho said in a press release.
