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If anything, it is mr. quinn and miss huskins that owes this community an apology. reporter: after a search and 54 hours of investigation, vallejo police had concluded that the whole kidnapping story was pohony. that all of this was one of the made-for-california dramas, not as much shakespearean as kardashian. police thought that denise and aaron were seeking publicity and telling an elaborate lie. left unanswered is why would anyone want to become famous for cooling the police. the stranger than fiction story involving a california couple. reporter: no ransom was paed paid. aaron said they took his bank information but no one tried to access his accounts. someone did try to call aaron s cell phone from a blocked number. ....
Music, along with instructions to use denise s phone to text her work and say she would be out for a couple of days. and to let his work know the same. aaron also claimed he was given a mixture of nyquil and valium to knock him out, and told to stay in one spot in his living room that was outlined in red duct tape and monitored by a web cam. then, he said, the intruders left with denise. his story sounded so implausible, police wondered if he made it up to hide something even more sinister. at first blush when a woman is missing and her husband or boyfriend says, oh, yeah, she was abducted, well, certainly the first thing i think, bamayb because of what i do for a living, is maybe the guy had something to do with this. is he a suspect? is he making it up? what s going on here? what s the real story? ....
i thought it was part of a prank. reporter: the e-mails were so well-written, henry lee wondered if they were sent by an attorney. reporters started to refer to the case as the gone girl kidnapping, after the movie and book about a blonde that fakes her own disappearance. that reference infuriated denise s friends. that makes you mad. it was a fictional character created out of a good person. you stop being denise huskins. and you start being labeled as gone girl. reporter: that wasn t denise at all, they said. but to the rest of the world, denise and aaron were portrayed as liars, schemers, maybe even criminals themselves. that is, until the next big twist. coming up he said, we have your daughter. another story as strange and ....
Boyfriend, aaron quinn, had made up their home invasion and kidnapping story for publicity. the media dubbed it the gone girl mystery, based on a woman who faked her own disappearance. but detectives were about to learn something that would shift the investigation. a similar attack to the one that denise and aaron were describing, too similar to ignore. here s josh mankiewicz with tisted tale. this sounded like a tv movie. then, police announced it was really an elaborate hoax. denise huskins and aaron quinn, branded as liars or attention addi addicts, retreated from sight. thank you. reporter: that might have been the end of it, until a little over two months later. this story took another ....
Couldn t make sense of it. reporter: neither could the vallejo police department. a day after denise came home, spokesman kenny park held a remarkable news conference. first, he spoke about denise s boyfriend, aaron quinn. we all know that the statement that mr. quinn provided was such an incredible story, we initially had a hard time believing it and, upon further investigation, we were not able to substantiate any of the things he was saying. reporter: then, about denise herself. miss huskins indicated she would be happy to meet with our police detectives and provide a full statement on what occurred. as of right now, we have not heard from miss huskins. reporter: and finally this. mr. quinn and huskins has plundered resources away from our community and instilling fear into our community members. ....