Move over, ‘Gone Girl’: ‘American Nightmare’ creators dissect ‘shocking’ doc case

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of being a real life “Gone Girl.” Their story is the subject of the Netflix docuseries “American Nightmare,” now streaming, and created by “The Tinder Swindler” filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins.“Not only is this a really twisty-turny crime thriller, but it’s also important for us that there’s a wider reason to be telling a story,” Higgins told The Post. “There are so many things that run through this: systemic and institutional misogyny, armchair detective work, media not checking sources and not being able to rely on law enforcement.

How victims of sexual assault are treated … We did digging to try to find the source of that — who started the ‘Gone Girl’ thing? “[Police and media] were determined not to believe this couple, for whatever reason.

That is genuinely the question that hangs over all of this. Why were they so determined to paint this couple as liars?”As the three-episode documentary shows, in March 2015, armed intruders wearing scuba suits invaded the Vallejo, Calif., home of physical therapist Aaron Quinn, where they terrorized him and his then-girlfriend (now wife), Denise Huskins, who was 29 at the time.

The men took Huskins to a remote location, drugged her, raped her, demanded ransom money from Quinn and returned Huskins two days later, to a location near her mother’s Huntington Beach, Calif., home.