![]() “I thought maybe I did have a schizophrenic breakdown,” he said. The FBI, which also got involved in the case, gave Aaron Quinn a polygraph exam - something he was eager to take to prove his innocence - which they say he failed.Įxhausted, worried about Huskins and anxious over the detectives’ refusal to believe him, Aaron Quinn said he began to doubt his own sanity. The detectives called Huskins’ parents and alerted them that something terrible might’ve happened to their daughter. … Maybe we were into weird sex things and something went wrong.” “They said maybe we were in a fight and I pushed her down the stairs,” Aaron Quinn said. In video recordings of the interview, detective Mathew Mustard could be heard asking if there was “tension in the relationship” and if Quinn was “cheating.” Quinn said he realized the interview was taking a turn when, about 45 minutes into it, Mustard leaned back in the chair and told him, “I don’t think you’re being truthful, and I don’t think anybody came into your house.” But Quinn says the detectives began to ask about his relationship with Huskins. He told the detectives about the goggles placed over their eyes, the specific directions they were given and the recordings that played on the headphones. ![]() In return, he says they gave him prison clothes to wear.ĭuring questioning, Quinn recounted what had happened the night before. But while he was there, the police also gathered DNA samples and his clothes, he said. Quinn said the officers eventually “seemed to soften a little bit” and told him they were taking him to the police station to give a statement. They see all of the components of what you might expect to see, objectively, in a domestic violence murder,” said Matt Murphy, an ABC News contributor and former California prosecutor. “Aaron’s car is missing, and they know that he waited a substantial period of time before dialing 911. “They clearly didn’t believe him,” said Nicole Weisensee Egan, the co-author of “Victim F.” “It is soul-crushing for Aaron because he’s out of his mind worried about Denise.” He points to some beer bottles that were neatly placed in the box next to the garbage, and I said, ‘I put them there to take them out for recycling all at once.’” Then they continued to question Quinn about what he’d been doing before calling for help. Quinn said the officers entered the house and immediately unplugged the camera that the kidnapper had left. “I said, ‘Yes, the kidnappers drugged me,’” he said. Quinn said the first question the police asked him when he answered the door was, “Are you on drugs?” When officers from the Vallejo Police Department appeared at his home, it had been more than nine hours since Huskins had been taken. Quinn’s older brother is an FBI agent, so he decided he would call him instead, but his brother instructed him to immediately call 911.įearing he was putting Huskins’ life in grave danger, he dialed the police. He responded to the kidnapper’s message but when he didn’t hear back, he began to panic.Ĭoncerned that the camera the intruders installed was still monitoring him, he believed he could not call 911. They demanded two payments of $8,500, he said. He woke up to new emails and texts from the intruder. Quinn woke up the next morning with only enough energy due to the sedatives to call out sick for Huskins and himself, and then he fell asleep again until 11:30 a.m. “I’m just going to stay calm and be grateful for the life I had," Huskins said.Įventually, the intruder picked up Huskins and put her in the trunk of Quinn's car before driving away with her.Īfter the man left, Quinn said he was able to push the goggles off his eyes, but the drugs were starting to take effect, and at around 5 a.m., he passed out. “The intruder says, ‘We have a problem’ … and he says to Aaron, ‘Do Denise and your ex-fiancée look-alike?’”ĭenise Huskins made a promise to herself in the last moments she believed her kidnapper would allow her to live. ![]() “He’s being asked questions … and at some point, the intruder realizes they’ve got the wrong person,” said Melanie Woodrow, an investigative reporter with San Francisco ABC station KGO, who covered the story. In that moment, he said he thought to himself, “We’re in a lot of trouble and this is planned.”īut it turned out that one important part of this plan had not gone as expected for the intruder. Quinn said his pre-recorded message referred to him by name. “They were going to give us a sedative and … if we didn’t take it, they would inject it intravenously.” ![]() “There were these pre-recorded messages,” Huskins said, referring to what they heard through the headphones. The intruder covered their eyes with swimming goggles that had been covered in duct tape to block their sight and put headphones on them. Huskins said the man tied her up inside and then brought Quinn to the closet and placed him inside. ![]()
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