Time. Melanie wood row is live now from federal court in sacramento with the story. Melanie . Dan and kristin. Highly emotional day in court. Nearly two years in the making. The judge saying the one thing denise and aaron have had through all of this is each other. Through tears at times stopping to catch her breerj, Denise Huskins briefly described being kidnapped and raped twice by matthew mueller. The only way i could get through it is to picture that it was aaron who i was with. Very, very brave and very good. Beautiful human being. Vallejo Police Called the kidnapping a hoax. Huskins said i was a suspect accused of making this up and publicly shamed. It was emotionally exhausting. And i had no idea how bad it was for denise. Aaron told mueller you strategically destroyed our lives. He said, mueller told him, 48 hours and can you move on with your lives. To date he said, its been more than 17,000 hours. Their nightmare made worse by what kwinss attorney calls a botched fbi investig
Live in pleasanton tonight. Where temperatures got close to 100 degrees. Jr, how hot is it out there now . . Reporter according to my thermometer it is 78 degrees. Much cooler now than it was earlier today. The cooling center set up here at the Senior Center closed tonight at 9 pm. Reporter during these power warnings keep your thermostat at 78 degrees, turn out your lights, dont use appliances during the day, and use fans to keep cool. I talked with a number of people in pleasanton. Most not aware of the power warning or flex alert that has been put into place. Everyone saying they try to save electricity in still use it in other areas. Reporter with more hot temps expected in the coming days those here at the Senior Center likely get much busier. Live in pleasanton, j. R. Stone we have solar. So we are making energy. Keeping the dermis that at 78 degrees. Which for some people is pretty high. We definitely do not go that high. Maybe 17. 70 laughter reporter live in pleasanton, and j.
Boyfriends hand tightly after learning that Matthew Muller pled guilty to her kidnapping. He took me aside and said im 99 sure shes lying and i intend to prosecute her. Reporter the couples Attorney Says they dont believe the fbi agent disclosed he had a personal relationship with aarons fiancee who was the intended victim. Vallejo police investigated aaron believing that he murdered denise. Muller left his cell phone behind in a Home Invasion and they linked him to the kidnapping. Law enforcement was praised including Vallejo Police for its high quality of work. The couple wants the d. A. Office to charge muller with other crimes, including drugging the couple and sexually assaulting denise. The government is no longer seeking a life sentence for muller. Instead, 40 years. If mr. Muller wanted to resolve the case, he did not want to have a trial where miss huskins would testify. Reporter the judge will make the sentencing decision in january. If there ever was a man who deserved to do
Of the san mateo bridge. A stunning loss for the San Pablo Police department. One of its officers was killed yesterday in an accident as he rode his motorcycle to work. As joe vazquez reports, the death of officer ken zink will be felt deeply at a local school. It was rough. A lot of students in pain. Reporter principal Jessica Petrilli says officer ken zink was one of a kind, the School Resource officer. There wasnt a Single Person who said i just talked to him yesterday. I swear that was the number one response i heard. Reporter officer zink died on his motorcycle on 80 in vallejo. He collided with a car then a freightliner a commercial truck pulling a trailer. He died on the scene. He spent the last nine years as a San Pablo Police officer, El Cerrito Police for six years before that. And he was also an officer in the u. S. Coast guard. He always made my day. He made me laugh. Reporter but at the middle school he was also the fatherly figure who always found a way to give everyone w
Allegation. None of you in this room have dna evidence, no police reports, sketchy memories. Why should we believe you . The cosby accusers speak. But first, a dateline mystery. The kidnapping case straight out of the movies. The details are so crazy i just i couldnt make sense of it. A successful young couple ambushed, they said, in the dead of night. Attacked, abducted. Were like, wow, where is she . I didnt have a clue what happened. But the real question, was their story even true . We were not able to substantiate any of the things he was saying. They branded the couple as liars. Could this be some kind of hoax . Who was really behind it all . Normal people dont do things like this. This whole story could take another crazy turn. He said, i know that i need to pay for what i did. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with twisted tale. I was asleep in bed. It was about 5 00 in the morning. Reporter frightening doesnt begin to describe what she went through. A