Police Now Say California Woman's Kidnap Report Was a Hoax

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Police Now Say California Woman's Kidnap Report Was a Hoax

VALLEJO, Calif. — Mar 26, 2015, 4:06 AM ET
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press

Investigators in Northern California say they were suspicious from the start of a boyfriend's report of the violent abduction of his girlfriend for an $8,500 ransom, yet had to take it seriously for the two days she was missing.

But on the same day Denise Huskins reappeared 400 miles away in Southern California, police revealed Wednesday that they had no evidence of any kidnapping, and instead believe the entire affair was a hoax concocted by the couple.

"It was such an incredible story, we initially had a hard time believing it," Vallejo police Lt. Kenny Park said of the abduction report from Aaron Quinn. "Upon further investigation we couldn't substantiate any of the things he was saying."

The investigation will now turn to Huskins, 29, and Quinn, 30, to determine whether they did anything illegal, Park said. He would not say whether the two may have had any accomplices.

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[onethatcares]

1. this might seem like a strange question

but was he trying to collect a ransom from himself?

as a sentence in the article says, "the lights were on but it didn't appear to be anyone at home"

[MisterP]

2. wellp, they're gonna be mowing some P.D. lawns in their wedding outfits for a few months

and only 9K?

[deutsey]

3. It's weird there's no detail about the ransom

Who was paying it? My guess (a shot in the dark, really) is that it's like in the plot of the movie Fargo: a scheme to get ransom out of the wealthy dad? Only in this, the abductee was in on it and there weren't two murderous thugs for hire.

Or a pregnant sheriff.

[KamaAina]

4. And my friend from Vallejo was so worried about her

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. they are old enough to know better

[Jenoch]

6. Filing a false police report is breaking the law.

Charge both of them, fine them, and make them each do 1,000 hours of community service.