Article 5X9HN California: kidnapper sentenced in case police first said was ‘Gone Girl’ hoax

California: kidnapper sentenced in case police first said was ‘Gone Girl’ hoax

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Associated Press in Vallejo, California
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Matthew Muller guilty of rape and false imprisonment in intricate attack which authorities first dismissed - to their cost - as staged

A man who sexually assaulted a northern California woman who was kidnapped from her home in what police initially thought was a hoax was sentenced on Friday to 31 years in state prison.

Matthew Muller, already serving a 40-year sentence for federal crimes, was sentenced in Solano county superior court after pleading no contest to two counts of forcible rape of Denise Huskins, who was dragged from her Vallejo home in 2015, the county district attorney's office said.

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