Convicted Vallejo kidnapper, rapist Matthew Muller faces new charges in San Ramon
SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- Matthew Muller, the convicted kidnapper and rapist in the Denise Huskins/Aaron Quinn Vallejo case - which was featured in a docuseries on Netflix last year - now faces additional charges for a kidnapping case in unincorporated San Ramon.
That alleged kidnapping happened back in 2015, the same year as the Vallejo case.
Matthew Muller, 47, who is currently serving a 40-year federal prison sentence for the 2015 kidnapping and rape of Denise Huskins, now faces three new kidnapping charges in Contra Costa County.
Those stem from a separate case that happened in 2015 in unincorporated San Ramon.
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"People thought this was a bizarre one-off crime in the Vallejo case that Muller obviously had mental health issues, but now it looks like he is a serial sexual predator and that has prosecutors going after him vigorously," said legal analyst Steven Clark.
Muller was also in a San Jose courtroom last week after being charged with two felony counts of committing a sexual assault during two home invasion cases in 2009.
"I think the message is that we don't forget about rape, about murder, about any crime that's committed in this county," said Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen.
One of those cases was in Mountain View and one in Palo Alto.
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"That victim is entitled to restitution. That victim is entitled to confront Mr. Muller for how he changed her life. All of that is key why prosecutors are still going after Muller even while he is behind bars," says Clark.
In the San Ramon case that we just learned about, the Contra Costa DA says that Muller unlawfully held two men and one woman for ransom back in Spring of 2015. He demanded that "one of those three withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from their bank account to secure the release of the others." They did just that and the victims never reported the crime over fears that Muller would come back for them.
The DA going on to say that Muller confessed to that crime during their correspondence with him last year.
All of this coming after the Netflix docuseries "American Nightmare" was released where Muller's actions in Vallejo against Huskins and her now husband Aaron Quinn were profiled.
When Denise Huskins was kidnapped, she was taken to South Lake Tahoe. Tuesday January 7, 2025, Huskins and Quinn will both be with the El Dorado District attorney when he speaks about some of these new cases.
