Denise Huskins

Yeah, they passed judgment.

And they just sought to confirm, confirm, confirm.

And every time he would say, no, that's not what happened, they would cut him off, change the subject, go back to the theory that they had.

Pearson was determined to do things differently.

He brought in a highly trained FBI interviewer who specializes in this technique, and their strategy would pay off.

In November 2024, DA Vern Pearson and the FBI interviewer flew to Arizona to speak with Matthew Mueller at the prison where he was serving his 40-year sentence to see what else he might confess to and figure out his motivations.

With an audio recorder running, Mueller claimed he now wanted to be upfront about his past because he'd undergone a religious transformation in prison.

He shared that in the past, he'd struggled with insomnia, which led to taking long walks at night.

Mueller described a long history of boyarism, admitting that while at Harvard Law School in the early 2000s, he set up a video camera in an office bathroom.

This evidence video shows him doing the same thing years later while on vacation in Hawaii.

He installed a video camera in a public restroom so he could look at it.

The more space they gave Mueller to talk, the more depravity he revealed.

After several hours, he began talking about yet another home invasion on the border of Contra Costa County, just two weeks after he attacked Denise and Aaron.

That night, I climbed up onto the veranda, came in.

Mueller described using a ladder to climb into a family's house and waking up a mother, father, and their teenage son.

Tied them up, telling them that we were some sort of criminal organization that a relative of theirs owed money to.

He instructed the mother to go to a bank to withdraw a ransom.

After she returned with $30,000, Mueller threatened that if they ever told the police, he would come back and harm them.

The family never reported it.

So there was no crime that matched this reported back then at that time?