A couple has reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Northern California city and its police department after investigators dismissed her bizarre kidnapping as a hoax.
Police in the city of Vallejo initially discounted a report by Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, that a masked intruder drugged them in their home and then kidnapped her in 2015.
The assailant sexually assaulted Huskins and released her two days later outside her family’s home in Southern California. The Associated Press doesn’t normally name victims of sexual assault, but Huskins has frequently spoken publicly about the case in the past.
Police realized the couple were telling the truth after disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney Matthew Muller was implicated in another crime and tied to the abduction. He’s serving a 40-year prison term.
Topics California
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
P/C Insurer Rankings Down Overall on Higher Costs, Changing Customer Expectations 
Single Loose Wire Led to Blackout That Caused Dali Crash Into Baltimore Bridge 
Cloudflare Resolves Global Outage That Disrupted ChatGPT, X 
Lloyd’s Probing Conduct of Ex-CEO Who Had Been Set to Join AIG 
