The young couple who survived a horrific abduction – then were blamed for their own ordeal

One night in March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke to a scene of brutal confusion. Someone had broken into Quinn’s home in Mare Island, a peninsula in Vallejo, California, where Huskins was staying over that night. Quinn would later recount being blinded by a bright white light. A Taser buzzed, and a man told him to lie face down. Quinn and Huskins’s senses were neutralized: they were blindfolded with blacked-out swim goggles; the abductor placed headphones over their ears and gave them sedatives. The abductor carried Huskins to Quinn’s Toyota Camry and placed her into the trunk. Quinn heard the car pull away with Huskins in it.

For two days, Huskins was held captive. Her abductor – a man eventually revealed to be called Matthew Muller – raped her twice. He then drove her hundreds of miles before releasing her. Quinn, meanwhile, reported