Convicted kidnapper highlighted in Netflix’s ‘American Nightmare’ faces new charges

A notorious kidnapper whose 2015 crimes — and the subsequent flawed police investigation — were turned into a Netflix documentary has been charged in two cold cases in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to a description of the case from the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office, the man, who authorities allege was Muller, demanded she drink a medicated beverage, then tied her up and said he was going to rape her. “The details of this person’s violent crime spree seem scripted for Hollywood, but they are tragically real,” Santa Clara County Dist. “Our goal is to make sure this defendant is held accountable and will never hurt or terrorize anyone ever again.” Muller was previously charged and convicted in an infamous case that is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, “American Nightmare.” In that case, Muller broke into a Vallejo home in March 2015 and drugged and bound a couple, Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins. Santa Clara County prosecutors said they began investigating the 2009 cold cases after “following a new lead,” and coordinated with police departments in Palo Alto and Mountain View to have all evidence in the two cases sent to the county crime lab for further testing.