‘American Nightmare’ Team on Digging Into the Brutal ‘Gone Girl’ Case and Police Refusing to Participate: ‘They Turned Their Backs on Us’
18.01.2024 - 00:34
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Emily Longeretta Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from “American Nightmare,” the three-part docuseries now streaming on Netflix. “American Nightmare” may be difficult to watch at night. Netflix’s latest docuseries, from the filmmakers behind “The Tinder Swindler,” Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, tells the story of a traumatic home invasion, abduction and the unreal events that unfolded from there.
In March 2015, Denise Huskins was abducted by a home invader from an apartment in Vallejo, Calif., and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was drugged with Nyquil at the same time, so he wasn’t able to report her kidnapping right away. As shown in the docuseries, the Vallejo police first viewed Quinn as the prime suspect after hours of questioning and attempting to get him to confess. Then Huskins showed up at her father’s house in Huntington Beach, hours south of Vallejo, after being missing for two days.
She was quickly labeled by the police and the media as a “real-life Gone Girl,” and was accused of faking the entire ordeal and framing her boyfriend. The timing, one year after the Ben Affleck movie had hit theaters, wasn’t on her side, and somehow, Huskins was painted her as the villain — so much so that they stopped searching for the actual man committing the crimes. Several women associated with the case who tried to stand up for Huskins were shot down by police as well.
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