The so-called "Gone Girl" kidnapper now faces more charges involving assaults on other women in California that date back years before his 2015 arrest, according to a report.
Matthew Muller, 47, a former marine who pled guilty to the 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins from Vallejo, California, has now been charged in two home invasions and assaults that occurred in 2009, CNN reported.
Muller was sentenced in 2017 to 40 years in the Huskins case.
The Huskins case gained notoriety because authorities at first falsely suspected her husband in the disappearance. Two days later, Muller released Huskins, prompting police to accuse her of faking the abduction just like in the movie "Gone Girl," PEOPLE reported.
The Huskins case was chronicled in the 2024 Netflix documentary "American Nightmare." In reality, Muller had entered Huskins's home, tied up the couple, drugged them, and kidnapped Huskins. Muller took Huskins to a cabin in Lake Tahoe, assaulted her, and then released her in southern California, PEOPLE reported.
In the new cases, Muller, a Harvard-educated former attorney, is accused of breaking into a Mountain View, California home in 2009, tying a woman up, and forcing her to drink medications, CNN reported. He then told her he planned to rape her, but she got him to change his mind.
The second new case occurred about a month later in 2009, when authorities say Muller broke into a Palo Alto home. As in the other incident, the woman was bound and forced to drink medications. In this case, prosecutors say that Muller began assaulting the woman, but she was able to convince him to stop, CNN reported.
