A man already convicted and sentenced for an infamous 2015 case from Vallejo that became the topic of a Netflix true crime documentary was sentenced Friday to life in prison for similar crimes in Mountain View and Palo Alto years earlier, prosecutors said.

Matthew Muller, 48, was previously convicted for the 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins-Quinn, a case covered in the 2024 Netflix doc “American Nightmare.” The case gained widespread attention after Vallejo police initially speculated publicly that the case could have been staged and compared it to the film “Gone Girl.” Authorities now disavow those allegations.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.