Matthew Muller: Convicted Vallejo kidnapper and rapist faces felony kidnapping and ransom charges in San Ramon

SAN RAMON, California.- The man at the center of the Vallejo kidnapping case who was recently charged with two more sexual assaults in Santa Clara County He is now being charged with an alleged kidnapping in unincorporated San Ramon, authorities announced Monday.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office filed a three-count felony complaint against Matthew Muller, 47, according to Ted Asregadoo, a spokesman for the office. He has been charged with three counts of felony kidnapping for ransom.

Muller, 47, was convicted in 2015 of the kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo.

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According to prosecutors, the new charges against Muller allege that he confessed to another kidnapping and ransom case in 2015 in an unincorporated area of San Ramon.

Authorities learned of the new case during a series of communications with Muller, who confessed to committing multiple crimes throughout Northern California, Asregadoo said, adding that the district attorney’s office met with Muller about the San Ramon allegations. on December 13.

According to Asregadoo, in the spring of 2015, Muller held two John Does and one Jane Doe for ransom, demanding that one of them withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from his bank account to secure the release of the others. After receiving the money, Muller fled and the victims never reported what happened to them.

“To this day, they have chosen to remain anonymous,” Asregadoo said in a statement released by his office.

In late December, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced that DNA evidence led authorities to charge Muller with two home invasions and sexual assaults in 2009 in Mountain View and Palo Alto.

The latest charges show a similar pattern to the case in which Muller’s name first appeared in national news, showing an alleged history of home invasions, rape and drugging victims.

Huskins’ kidnapping in Vallejo by Muller in 2015 was the subject of “American Nightmare,” a Netflix documentary series chronicling her kidnapping and police and FBI suspicions that the kidnapping had been organized with her boyfriend Aaron Quinn.

Muller, a former U.S. Marine, broke into a Vallejo home on March 23, 2015, and tied up the young couple.

He took Huskins to a cabin in South Lake Tahoe, where he sexually assaulted her. Two days later, he drove Huskins to Southern California and released her, according to police.

Vallejo police initially believed the invasion and kidnapping was a hoax perpetrated by Huskins’ boyfriend, spawning the reference to the novel and movie “Gone Girl.”

Muller was eventually arrested for both Vallejo’s kidnapping and a violent home invasion in Dublin.

He pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and sexual assault of Huskins and is serving a 40-year prison sentence in a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona.

In the Santa Clara County cases that recently came to light, Muller’s DNA was found on straps he allegedly used to bind one of the victims in the 2009 assaults.

In the early hours of September 29, 2009, authorities allege that Muller broke into a woman’s home in Mountain View, attacked her and then tied her up, made her drink a mixture of medications and said he was going to rape her.

“After the victim, in his 30s, talked him out of it, he suggested she get a dog and then fled,” the district attorney’s office said.

In the second attack, on Oct. 18, 2009, Muller allegedly “broke into a Palo Alto home, tied and gagged a woman in her 30s, and forced her to drink Nyquil,” prosecutors said. Muller allegedly began assaulting her, but the victim convinced him to stop. “Muller gave the victim crime prevention advice and then fled,” the district attorney’s office said.