American Nightmare on Netflix Is Every Woman's Worst Fear Realized

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called , which has rocketed up the charts to number one since being released a week ago. While it's not unusual for a true-crime saga to be popular on the streaming network, the story of Huskins’s ordeal is resonating on a deeper level with women, who are horrified by the egregious example of how sexual assault victims are maligned and mistreated.In March 2015, Huskins and her then boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were asleep in his home in Vallejo, California, when they were awoken by strange lights flashing in his room.

A masked intruder told the couple they were being robbed and that he was with a group who had broken into the home. The man forced them to drink sedatives, then told Huskins he would be kidnapping her for 48 hours.

He forced her into the trunk of his car, telling Quinn not to call the police and to wait for further instructions.American Nightmare, made by female filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, tells what happened next.

First, the police in Vallejo were convinced Quinn had something to do with Huskins’s disappearance, interrogating him for hours and claiming that the strange details of the kidnapping (the man’s outfit of a wet suit and his insistence they wear goggles; the fact that Quinn passed out for hours due to the sedatives and called police the next day) were lies.But it was the law enforcement’s treatment of Huskins that has taken the series to the next level of horror.