she s well and they found her. that was great, but there was still something funny going on because no one had all the answers. for one thing, denise turned up in huntington beach, which was 400 miles south of vallejo and which was also her hometown. she was dropped off by her mom s house. she was not released out of state. she was not released in the desert. she was not released in the middle of california. where did she show up? right near her parents house. 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 shock. but then when vallejo police wanted to question her denise huskins disappeared. after she was released? after she was released. suspicion was building.
prevent this in the future. yeah. i know it s unbelievable. yeah, it is. the man never let her see his face. when she called police, it seemed unbelievable even to hoskins. did the police believe you? i don t think so. they thought i had called 911 after a bad dream. a similar case in mere by palo alto. a man broke into a house and restrained the woman living here with zip ties and swim goggles. then he threatened to rape her. was it the same man? was it muller? police investigating samantha s assault aren t sure. but lieutenant zach perin with the palo alto police believe it s the same man in both cases.
boyfriend was telling them. we have a lot of information to sift through. we don t have all of the facts in yet. reporter: the story aaron told the cops that night, eventually spelled out in an fbi affidavit, would seem preposterous, something invented by someone with too much imagination and too much free time. aaron said he and denise were asleep at his house, when at 3:00 a.m., he was awakened by a bright light and an electrical noise, that sounded like a stun gun. and then, a man s voice telling them to lie facedown on the bed. the man told denise to bind aaron s hands and feet. and his eyes were covered with swim goggles, which were blacked out. he was blindfolded and zip tied. reporter: he said the intruder demanded his banking information and put headphones on him that played calming
until we contacted her. but as you ll see, what happened to her will seem slightly familiar. my hands were tied behind my back, my feet were zip tied. then he put swim goggles on that were blacked out. i couldn t see. zip ties. blacked out swim goggles. her captor claimed he was part of a group, and the point, he says, was money. my social security number, mother s maiden name account numbers. account numbers, my bank account number, my pin. as with denise and erin, he made sure no intruders would be coming any time soon. he sent an e-mail to my boss saying i was sick and i couldn t come in that day. you think, man, this is becoming more hopeless.
upon entry, i could hear my detectives screaming, get on the ground, get on the ground. and your heart rate jumps up. okay, he s there. reporter: this is muller, just after he was arrested. he did not put up a fight. in the house, detectives found a room with cardboard on the windows, blocking out the light. they searched that stolen car and found a few more items of interest. one was a beebe gun. one was a super soaker that was painted black with a flashlight taped to it. if you were in the dark and all you saw was the shape and the bulkness of it, absolutely. reporter: there were swim goggles with tape on the lenses. and they trace the car that comes back stolen out of vallejo. reporter: the cops called vallejo p.d. and started