when aaron told them he took so long to call 911 because he was drugged and confined to a square of red tape and monitored by a webcam, they didn t buy it. and when denise wouldn t get on that plane to talk to vallejo pd, they thought it was because she had something to hide. she says it was because she was afraid the cops would treat her as they treated her boyfriend aaron, like a criminal. now everything was about to change. three months after vallejo police accused denise and aaron of concocting a hoax, the fbi announced that matthew muller was the prime suspect in denise s very real kidnapping. i was glad i never doubted there was someone who kidnapped her.
vallejo police apparently just couldn t believe the elaborate tales of the kidnapping. when aaron told them he took so long to call 911 because he was drugged and confined to a square of red tape and monitored by a web cam, they didn t buy it. and when denise wouldn t get on that plane to talk to vallejo p.d., they thought it was because she had something to hide. she said she was afraid the cops would treat her like her boyfriend, aaron, like a suspect. now, everything was about to change. three months after vallejo police accused denise and aaron of concocting a hoax, matthew muller was the suspect in denise s very real kidnapping. i was glad, you know. i never doubted there was someone who kidnapped her. reporter: neither did the woman we re calling samantha. to her, denise s story was very
aaron told them he took so long to call 911 because he was drugged and confined to a square of red tape and monitored by a webcam, they didn t buy it. and when denise wouldn t get on the plane to talk to vallejo pd, they thought it was because she had something to hide. she said she was afraid the cops would treat her as they treated her boyfriend aaron, like a suspect. now everything was about to change. three months after vallejo police accused denise and aaron of concocting a hoax, the fbi announced that matthew mueller was the prime suspect in denise s very real kidnapping. i never doubted that there was someone who kidnapped her. neither did the woman we re calling samantha. to her, denise s story was very
himself. his attorney did not want him to do an interview, but he agreed to see a visitor. spent 30 minutes talking with mueller through jail on the phone. no camera, no recording, no note taking allowed. what s your initial impression of him. extremely talkative. it was like he was in his element. he was laughing, we were joking about the books he was raeeadin what s his answer to whether or not he s guilty of the crime he s accused of. he wouldn t say. he wouldn t deny anything, but wouldn t say he was guilty of anything. she kd hasked him about sama. we recently interview add woman and her case matches. he kind of opened his eyes really wide and couldn t believe i was bringing this up. denied knowing anything about samantha s case or the one in
that s great, but there was still something funny going on. one thing, denise turned up in huntington beach which was 400 miles south of vallejo and her hometown. she wasn t released out of state. she was not released in the desert or the middle of california. where does she show up? right near her parents house. another thing, the ransom the kidnapper supposedly demanded had never been paid. denise told police in her hometown the same story her boyfriend had told up north about the swim goggles, the nyquil, the threat of electric shot but then when vallejo police wanted to question her. she disappeared and wouldn t cooperate and wouldn t fly up in a plane offered by the fbi after she was released. suspicion was building. neither denise nor aaron made