‘American Nightmare’ Team on Digging Into the Brutal ‘Gone Girl’ Case and Police Refusing to Participate: ‘They Turned Their Backs on Us’
variety.comEmily Longeretta Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from “American Nightmare,” the three-part docuseries now streaming on Netflix. “American Nightmare” may be difficult to watch at night.
Netflix’s latest docuseries, from the filmmakers behind “The Tinder Swindler,” Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, tells the story of a traumatic home invasion, abduction and the unreal events that unfolded from there.
In March 2015, Denise Huskins was abducted by a home invader from an apartment in Vallejo, Calif., and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was drugged with Nyquil at the same time, so he wasn’t able to report her kidnapping right away.
As shown in the docuseries, the Vallejo police first viewed Quinn as the prime suspect after hours of questioning and attempting to get him to confess.
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