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Under Suspicion: Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn on Trauma, Injustice, and Surviving Their "American Nightmare"

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True Crime, Murder, Unsolved Case, Killing, Murderer, Cold Case

3.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn survived an unimaginable trauma on the early morning of March 23, 2015. Criminals invaded Quinn's home as the couple slept in bed. They were both bound and drugged. Huskins was abducted and Quinn was left behind to secure a ransom payment. When both managed to survive the ordeal, they fell under suspicion from law enforcement, the media, and the public.

Their harrowing and infuriating story is the focus of the Netflix true crime docu-series American Nightmare. The couple also authored a book on the case: Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors. In this interview with The Murder Sheet, Huskins and Quinn will discuss the awful crime they both survived, subsequent legal wranglings, lingering questions about other suspects and law enforcement misconduct, and the possible changes that could make police invesetigations fairer and compassionate.

Buy the book that Denise and Aaron wrote with Nicole Weisensee Egan here: Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors

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0:00.0

Content warning. This episode contains discussion of violence and rape.

0:05.2

It's truly a scene out of a nightmare. A couple in bed,

0:08.9

roused from slumber, a voice in the darkness. The voice makes threats. The voice addresses the

0:15.5

couple by name. The voice commands action. The man and woman lie there, confused,

0:21.5

terrified. The woman is instructed to zip tie her

0:25.2

partner, then she herself is bound. Taped-up swim goggles are pulled over their

0:31.1

eyes. They are both forced into the closet, then separated, made to hop to different parts of the house.

0:37.0

The invaders put on a professional facade. They indicate they've done all of this before. They have a routine

0:44.8

protocols. It's just business. But there's been a mistake, the couple is told,

0:50.0

a case of mistaken identity. Still, the woman will need to be abducted so the invaders can secure a ransom

0:57.4

and make the operation worthwhile.

0:59.4

The man will be left behind to facilitate payment.

1:03.0

The invaders set up a camera on the wall to observe him,

1:06.0

to ensure the man is not contacting the police or running for help.

1:10.0

The woman and the man are both forced to consume drugs to knock them out.

1:14.0

The man lines on the couch, still zipped-hide, listening as his partner is driven away.

1:20.0

Then he fades back into a drug-induced sleep.

1:24.0

Again, that sounds like a nightmare.

1:26.0

But that was the reality that Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins awoke to

1:31.0

in the early morning of March 23rd, 2015.

1:34.1

That was when these two young physical therapists were attacked in Aaron's home

1:38.8

in Vallejo, California.

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