They were attacked, she was abducted, and the police said it was all lies...

[DGUtley]

They were attacked, she was abducted, and the police said it was all lies... Police publicly questioned the accounts of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn until evidence proved the couple was telling the truth.

In March of 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were bound with zip ties and forced into a closet in Aaron's Vallejo, Calif. home. In the closet, they were drugged and blindfolded with blacked out goggles. Their attackers, they were told, were from a well-organized, highly-trained group that collected financial debt. Denise would be kidnapped, they said — and then returned in 48 hours if Aaron paid a ransom.



Denise was taken from the home and held captive at a remote location, where she was drugged and raped twice by her abductor. She was released two days later on March 25 near her mother's home in Huntington Beach, Calif. When Denise was released, the couple's trauma wasn't over. Vallejo police, to whom Aaron had reported the kidnapping, didn't believe the couple — and publicly cast doubt on their account. The case became known — erroneously — as the "Gone Girl" kidnapping, referencing the popular book and movie about a woman who faked her own kidnapping.


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After their ordeal, it would take three months and a chance discovery before the couple received a modicum of justice. In June 2015, police investigating a case involving a masked intruder some 40 miles away in Alameda County, Calif., found evidence connected to Denise and Aaron's case in the possession of a former Marine and disbarred Harvard-educated immigration attorney named Matthew Muller.

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https://people.com/crime/denise-husk...dnapping-case/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/...ncy-treatment/

[DGUtley]

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[FindersKeepers]

That poor couple. 2.5 million isn't really enough for being portrayed as liars after they survived such a horrific crime.

[Standing Wolf]

Sometimes it appears that the police, exactly like many civilians, "watch too many cop shows". A real life scenario occurs and one or more details of the case remind them of an episode of 'Law & Order' where, as here, people are faking a kidnapping or otherwise fabricating a story for their own purposes. Maybe something in the couples' personalities or attitude or lifestyle rubbed the detectives the wrong way - something that, again, reminded them of something they'd seen on t.v. or in a movie, where the "victims" really weren't. Perhaps, as in the case of Richard Jewell, they fit some profile that contributed to the police doubting their story. Maybe one or both of them didn't react exactly as expected - didn't express the "right" emotion on cue at the appropriate moment. Again - too many cop shows.

[carolina73]

Something is missing from what the cops found. Namely motive.

[RMNIXON]

On occasion the Police will stubbornly stick to what looks like the simplest explanation, in this case a Hoax.

In another true and horrifying tale the police believed in Murder/Suicide of an entire UK family (including children) in what was knows as the "White House Farm Murders." Circumstantial evidence that suggested otherwise was ignored until the case was re-opened and a son of the family was convicted of staging the entire event over a year later because he was impatient over a substantial family inheritance.