Denise Huskins

Papineau and Hendricks also found photos officers took that night, which showed a gun they believed Mueller dropped when he fled.

With no other leads to follow, they reached out to the victims.

We spoke to the female victim in 2025.

She's asked us not to show her face and to call her Lynn.

This is the first time she's speaking publicly about what happened to her.

Lynn says after she and her boyfriend called for help that night, it didn't feel like the officers were taking her assault seriously.

Like what?

She says she called the Parks Department for months asking for updates, but nothing ever came of it.

Lynn and her boyfriend eventually married and drew strength from each other.

But Lynn says it was difficult to ever feel truly safe.

Is there a way to describe the weight that you carry?

But that began to change when she first spoke with investigators Papineau and Hendricks.

And Lynn felt more relief when she learned her attacker was now behind bars.

But she wanted him to be held accountable for what he'd done to her.

To learn that he was 16 years old the first time he attacked a couple...

It made a lot of sense, but it's also just incredibly disturbing.

Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn had long suspected Matthew Muller had attacked before, but to learn the details and have the crimes confirmed by investigators was still devastating.

the voyeurism, the stalking.

I think it's a way of invading people's lives to terrorize.

In late 2024, Matthew Muller was charged with the attempted rapes in Santa Clara County, the first attacks he'd confessed to in the letters.