Woman seeks damages after kidnapping dismissed by police

Huskins and Quinn were drugged, tied up and separated during a home invasion in March.

Mike Jory/AP Denise Huskins, left, and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn listen as their attorneys speak at a news conference July 13 in Vallejo, Calif.

Haskins was later dropped off in her hometown of Huntington Beach, and soon after a Vallejo police spokesman declared the kidnapping to be a hoax.

The police said the couple had orchestrated their own abduction and has wasted valuable resources.

The kidnapping was, admittedly, freaky from the start, with a strangely low ransom demand and the victim, Huskins, turning up unharmed two days later at her parent’s house in Southern California.

An after-hours message seeking comment from Vallejo’s city attorney on the legal claim was not immediately returned.

Matthew Muller, the suspect the real-life “Gone Girl” Vallejo kidnapping case, entered a no contest plea in another home invasion case on Friday.

When Huskins asked for a rape kit, authorities told her “keep your clothes on” and did not take her seriously, the claim alleged.

In an attempt to clear Huskins’ name after she was criticized by Vallejo police, the FBI said Muller sent the emails detailing clues about the abduction and provided photographic evidence of the weapons he used.

“Before ever seeing or speaking with Denise, and without a shred of evidence in support of their preconceived conclusion, [the police department] treated the victim of a kidnapping and sexual assault like the criminal they refused to pursue”, the claim said.

Police were also suspicious that Quinn waited hours to go to police, but the intruder claimed to be watching him on surveillance and pledged to kill Huskins if he went to police, according to the claim.

A disbarred lawyer was later arrested and charged with the kidnapping. “While these comments were based on our findings at the time, they proved to be unnecessarily harsh and offensive”. If the city rejects the claim, the couple intends to file a formal lawsuit, according to Wagstaffe.

Huskins and her boyfriend’s attorneys have called on Vallejo police to apologize because they endured “public humiliation” and mockery, despite being “nothing but cooperative, conscientious human beings”.