Post Mortem | Denise and Aaron Quinn Get the Last Word
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith and 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty discuss the case of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, who were attacked at home by an intruder in 2015. Their attacker, later identified as Matthew Muller, kidnapped Denise and raped her before releasing her two days later. The team shares Muller's confession to additional crimes, Tracy’s exclusive interview with the woman Muller says was his first victim, and Denise and Aaron's ongoing fight for justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to post-mortem. I'm 48-hour correspondent Erin Moriarty stepping in as host today to talk with CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith on the West Coast about the high-profile case |
| 0:23.8 | of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn. In March 2015, Denise was abducted by an intruder at her |
| 0:32.1 | boyfriend Aaron's home in Vallejo, California. The couple told detectives that both of them |
| 0:37.9 | had been drugged, blindfolded, and tied up. |
| 0:41.2 | But they felt that police didn't believe their stories. |
| 0:45.0 | Since then, they've gotten married, |
| 0:46.6 | continued to fight for justice |
| 0:48.1 | for other victims of their attacker, Matthew Muller. |
| 0:52.5 | Tracy, thanks for joining me |
| 0:53.9 | and sharing many more details about this |
| 0:56.4 | very strange case. Thanks so much for having me, Erin. You know, I love the phrase, |
| 1:02.2 | be your own hero. I tell my kids that sometimes. Denise and Aaron Quinn are examples of that. Be your |
| 1:08.9 | own hero. They were determined to find out what other crimes |
| 1:12.4 | Mueller had committed. And thanks in part to their work, Mueller admitted to a list of crimes |
| 1:18.7 | going all the way back to 1993. And that's how we got in touch with a woman who Mueller says |
| 1:24.6 | was his very first victim. She felt that law enforcement didn't believe her back in |
| 1:30.1 | 1993. She went three decades with no answers. And thanks to Denise and Aaron and the team that |
| 1:37.6 | they worked with, she finally found some justice. Tracy, this is such a strange story with a very |
| 1:43.3 | strange defendant, and I am anxious to get into |
| 1:46.4 | these details. But before we get into our conversation, just a quick reminder, if you haven't |
| 1:52.4 | watched or listened to this episode, and it's called Denise and Aaron Quinn, get the last word, |
| 1:58.3 | go check it out now and then come back for our conversation. |
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