Denise Huskins

Is she a real-life gone girl?

In the first few days after the kidnapper released her, all of the headlines had the word gone girl in it, relating it to the blockbuster movie that had just come out, I think the year before, where a beautiful blonde fakes her own kidnapping, and it stuck.

That same night, Denise says her attorney told the Vallejo police Denise had been raped and asked to set up a sexual assault exam, hoping DNA evidence could help identify her attacker.

But Denise says Vallejo police refused to order an exam until she talked to them.

I could hear whoever was on the phone say, well, how do we know she was raped?

She won't even talk to us.

You know, just tell her not to shower, keep her clothes on, don't wash her hands, brush her teeth.

Denise says Vallejo police made her wait until the next morning to come in.

They interviewed Denise for six hours before she went to a hospital for the exam.

So in a way, it's like, yeah, they had to prove to them that I was worthy enough to have the exam.

The initial testing led nowhere.

After cooperating with the investigators, Denise and Aaron feared they might be charged with lying to police, all the while knowing the people who attacked them were still out there.

In June 2015, nearly three months after Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn were attacked, a home invasion was reported in Dublin, California, about an hour south of Vallejo.

An intruder came in.

The wife called 911 while the husband fought back.

The intruder escaped, but in the chaos, he left his cell phone behind.

Detectives traced it to this house in South Lake Tahoe.

So they get their investigators together and they show up at the Tahoe cabin.

Inside was 38-year-old Matthew Muller.

He was arrested on the spot for the Dublin attack.