Couple in ‘American Nightmare’ Vallejo kidnapping case wins 2025 Witness of the Year award

by Audrey Tomlin, Bay City News August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins. Huskins, a California woman, was abducted from a Vallejo, Calif., home invasion in March of 2015. Quinn, her boyfriend, was also at the house. The Vallejo Police Department dismissed the case as a hoax. Matthew Muller (not shown) was arrested in a similar robbery in San Francisco in June of 2015, and searches of Mueller’s home and car provided additional evidence to be charged for the kidnapping of Huskins. Netflix’s true-crime documentary series 'American Nightmare’ details the case. (Netflix via Bay City News)

Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, the couple whose kidnapping case inspired the Netflix documentary “American Nightmare,” won the California District Attorneys Association’s 2025 Witness of the Year Award.

In March 2015, former U.S. Marine Matthew Muller broke into Huskins’ home and tied up Huskins and Quinn. Muller then took Huskins to a cabin in South Lake Tahoe and sexually assaulted her before releasing her two days later.

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