Matthew Muller guilty of rape and false imprisonment in intricate attack which authorities first dismissed – to their cost – as staged
, already serving a 40-year sentence for federal crimes, was sentenced in Solano county superior court after pleading no contest to two counts of forcible rape of Denise Huskins, who was dragged from her Vallejo home in 2015, the county district attorney’s office said.
Muller used a remote-controlled drone to spy on Huskins and Aaron Quinn before he broke into their San Francisco Bay Area home with a fake gun on 23 March 2015. He then tied up the couple and made them drink a sleep-inducing liquid, prosecutors said. They were blindfolded while Muller played a pre-recorded message that made it seem as if there was more than one kidnapper.
During and after the kidnapping, Muller used an anonymous email address to send messages to a San Francisco reporter claiming Huskins was abducted by a team of elite criminals who were practicing their tactics. Investigators said they found videos of Muller arranging cameras in a bedroom and then recording himself twice sexually assaulting his blindfolded victim.
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