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Matthew Muller kidnapped Denise Huskins in 2015 and was sentenced to prison. His wife filed for divorce. Learn more about Muller's life.

Matthew Muller and Denise Huskins' case has gained national attention following the release of the Netflix docuseries American Nightmare on January 17. Muller, who kidnapped Huskins in 2015 and threatened her to keep it a secret, has been sentenced to prison for his actions, and his wife, Huei Jiun Dai, has filed for divorce from him, as confirmed by court records.

Dai filed for a divorce in December 2022 in San Mateo County, and the dissolution of marriage case is still pending. Therefore, Muller is still legally married.

Muller kidnapped Huskins in March 2015 by entering her and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn's home, binding and gagging them, drugging them, and then abducting Huskins. He took her to his mother's South Lake Tahoe cabin in Northern California, where he raped her and recorded the assaults on camera. Muller threatened Huskins that he would release the tapes to the internet if she or Quinn ever told the police.

After seeing a broadcast of Huskins' father talking to the press, Muller drugged her again and took her to Hunting Beach, California, emphasizing that he would "always be watching" if she ever told authorities about the kidnapping or that Muller was in the military. Muller was a Marine who joined the Corps after high school. He obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School and was working as an immigration lawyer until he was disbarred in 2013.

Matthew Muller is currently serving his prison sentences at FCI Tucson in Arizona. In 2017, he was sentenced to 40 years after pleading guilty to a federal charge of kidnapping. In 2022, he was sentenced to an additional 31 years behind bars after pleading no contest to two counts of rape and guilty to charges of robbery of an uninhabited dwelling, residential burglary, and false imprisonment.

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