The person convicted within the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo, California, is scheduled to seem in Santa Clara County courtroom on Monday to face new prices for a unique case.
Matthew Muller is at present serving a 40-year sentence in an Arizona jail for the rape and false imprisonment of Huskins in what police initially thought was a hoax.
Forensic DNA testing has now led to new prices in connection to a sequence of residence invasion sexual assaults in Mountain View and Palo Alto, the Santa Clara County district lawyer’s workplace introduced.
What are the brand new prices in opposition to Matthew Muller?
The Santa Clara County district lawyer’s workplace alleges that Muller broke into the properties of girls in Mountain View and Palo Alto. Muller is suspected of medicating, after which sexually assaulting each girls, prosecutors say.
Each assaults occurred inside weeks of one another in 2009, from September to October, and had gone unsolved.
Investigators did initially determine Muller as a potential suspect within the Palo Alto case. Nonetheless, detectives stated they did not have sufficient proof on the time to cost him.
Muller is scheduled to seem in Santa Clara County courtroom at 1 p.m. Monday.
Actual “Gone Woman” case
Muller, a Sacramento-area native, was convicted in 2022 for the 2015 kidnapping and rape of Vallejo resident Denise Huskins.
Police initially believed the disappearance was a hoax and accused Huskins’ boyfriend of perpetrating it, reminding lots of the plot of the favored novel and film “Gone Woman.”
Nonetheless, Muller was finally linked to the case and arrested for each Huskins’ kidnapping in addition to a house invasion in Dublin.
Huskins’ kidnapping obtained renewed curiosity in 2024 after the launch of the Netflix documentary “American Nightmare” which detailed the case.
Vallejo police additionally obtained renewed criticism for its dealing with of the case after the discharge of the documentary. The division had already been sued for its dealing with of the kidnapping.
