The 2015 home invasion and kidnapping case of Denise Huskins, 29, continue to be a mystery. With Netflix releasing a documentary film on the case, American Nightmare, this begs the question behind the culprit: did kidnapper Matthew Muller suffer from a mental illness?
American Nightmare Tells the Story of Matthew Muller's Home Invasion
Netflix is releasing a new documentary film this week, circling back to the bizarre kidnapping and home invasion incident that became of national public interest back in 2015.
It revolves around Matthew Muller being accused of kidnapping Vallejo native Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn in their own home, which the documentary hopes to highlight and resolve for its audience.
What makes this a curious case is that despite being kidnapped, Quinn was left unscathed and his girlfriend Huskins was dropped off their front doorstep two days later, which normally doesn't happen.
The police in Dublin refused to believe the circumstances of the Vallejo couple, initially dubbing the curious case as "Gone Girl in real life?"
For those not in the know, Gone Girl is a fictional story about a wife who plots her fake murder scene and reappears to get her revenge against her cheating husband.
It was only when Matthew Muller got arrested that that theory was dropped. However, at his sentence hearing, Muller's lawyer claimed that his client was suffering from a mental illness.
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So, Did Matthew Muller Suffer from a Mental Illness?
During Matthew Muller's 2018 sentence hearing in Solano County Court, the culprit was facing felony charges of kidnapping, forcible rape, robbery, burglary, and false imprisonment.
However, in hopes that Muller would lessen his life sentence imprisonment in court, his Sacramento-based attorney, Thomas Johnson, went to their client's defense, mentioning that Muller was not "mentally sound".
According to The Guardian, Matthew Muller, a former Harvard law graduate, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2008 and claimed to experience psychosis.
The records seemed to confirm that Muller was indeed suffering from his mental illness. As of writing, the Netflix documentary has yet to confirm nor deny if this is the case.
On top of serving the 40-year sentence following Muller's state trial, his imprisonment time had just been added another 31 years in state prison in 2022.
It is worth mentioning though that before Muller was once again called to face trial in 2021, the Associated Press reported that he was already receiving medical treatment at Napa State Hospital.
Meanwhile, the documentary film American Nightmare starts streaming on Netflix this January 17th.
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