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What do you mean she got kidnapped?

Someone came into our house.

Tied us up.

Took her.

And you didn't call last night
when this occurred?

I was tied up.

You…
What time did you get untied, sir?

This morning.

They gave me sedatives.

- What's your girlfriend's name?
- Denise.

- What is your name?
- Aaron.

I've got the call in for service.

We're getting officers on the way.

Okay, so last night
you were asleep with your girlfriend.

When I woke up,
there were lights flashing.

They said, "Aaron, face down on the bed."

And you said that you got drugged?

They gave me, I think NyQuil
and Diazepam or something.

Did you guys drink any wine or anything?
Have you ever used any drugs before?

No, I have not used drugs.

Why don't you
come out here for a second?

First thing I'm going to do is
to swab the inside of your mouth.

She's going to go ahead
and, uh, take blood.

Sorry, man. We gotta make sure
we get everything off.

- Hi. How you doing?
- I'm good.

I'm, uh… I'm Mat Mustard.

First of all,
I don't know that anybody told you this,

but I want to make sure you got it.

We… We're treating you as a victim
in relationship to this.

You're not being detained
or anything like that.

You're sitting here in jail clothes
'cause that's all we got.

I just want to make sure that you…
you understand where we're at.

Ultimately, at the end of the day,
it's about Denise.

Where is she, and what happened to her?

So pick a point in time and…

and let me know where…
where you want to start,

and tell me what happened.

- They called you by name?
- Yes.

Okay.

He then asked Denise
to tie my hands behind my back.

So, ultimately, there…
there was this pre-recorded thing

-that you were listening to?
- Yeah.

There was a recording saying
they were going to take our vitals.

They were going to give us
a sedative to keep us calm,

which was a mix of NyQuil and Diazepam,
or something of that.

Later he took Denise to a different room,
he brought me down to the couch.

Andrea?

Yes. My ex-fiancée

who was living at the… living at the house
'til September.

And he said that they were
going to take Denise anyways

because I could pay him enough money
to make it worth their while.

He said that would be about 15,000.

At some point,
he took my car, took Denise.

- You have one car?
-Yeah.

- Which is a…?
-Toyota Camry.

Hey, Jane,
this is Detective Terry Poyser

at the Vallejo Police Department.

I was hoping you'd call me back.

So, unknown people…

broke into your home and kidnapped her?

-How did these people get into your home?
- I don't know.

They didn't kick in the front door?

-They didn't kick in the back door?
-No.

There's nothing like that
in relationship to how somebody got in?

There's… No, it was very planned.

Okay.

So what happens next?

I haven't seen it.
Is it a web-based camera?

It's like, mounted on the…

It's mounted on the ceiling
in the corner of my room.

Like, kind of like how that's mounted.

I call Chase to ask
how much I could advance.

And I reply that I could advance 3,500.

You started your story
at three o'clock in the morning.

Back me up to last night.

Denise came over around six.

She, uh…
She brought a pizza over for dinner.

Is the intoxication level high?
Is it low?

No, I mean, we had…
I had four beers and a cocktail.

What's the conversation?

- Our conversation? Um…
-Mm-hmm.

What's the topic of conversation?

Well, it's something
her and I have had… Uh…

'Cause I also work
with my ex-fiancée, Andrea.

We had some issues with that.

You're not in
any kind of trouble or anything like that.

This is about Aaron.

And we're trying to get
an understanding about Aaron.

You know, I understand you guys
had a past relationship?

Um, we broke up.

Good terms? Bad terms?
Somewhere in the middle?

Very bad terms.

I mean, we… we get along okay at work.
It's been sad, but we…

you know, I asked him
to stop coming into my office.

I mean, he would want to hug me,

and, you know,
sometimes he would try to kiss me,

but I told him that wasn't okay,
and, um, and he knew it.

Is he still trying
to get back together with you?

I think he would be open to the idea.

Your relationship
to, um, your ex-fiancée…

Where was Denise's opinion at?

She want… wanted to limit communication
to what needed to be for work

because of the fact
that I had been talking to my ex and…

at… at a time
when I was still dating Denise.

I have a picture of a woman.
Tell me if you recognize her.

Uh, her name's Denise.

Okay.
She works in the same unit as you?

Yeah.

I would say hi to her,
and then she, like, would…

she would, like, pretend I wasn't there.

Noth-- Nothing, like, big.

That was kind of my first indicator
that they might be dating.

Denise. Did she have reason--

I mean, did she, like, discover something?

-She found text messages.
- What did they say?

Um, that… I mean, saying that
I still cared about Andrea.

That I wanted
to work things through with her.

So she… she thought that
you were going to get back with Andrea?

Uh, she was concerned about that.

- Was she mad?
- Uh, I mean--

'Cause you're cheating?

No, well, she felt that
it was emotionally, so.

She felt that what?

Emotionally that I was, uh…
that I was cheating in some sense.

Did you truly love Denise?

I do love Denise.

I'm gonna…
I'm gonna be honest with you.

I'm gonna…
I'm gonna be completely square with you.

Your story's very elaborate

and, in some ways, far-fetched in my mind.

I… I… Trust me, I know.

Listen. Listen.
I'm here to find the truth.

I'm a puzzle maker.

And I put a lot of puzzles together.

I don't think
she was kidnapped from your home.

What do you think?

I think something bad happened
in your house,

and it happened between you and her.

No. Oh, no!

Do you think that people
kidnap people for $20,000?

-I don't know. I--
- They don't.

-I know. I--
- No, they don't.

And they're wearing… w-what,
did they swim in wearing their w-wetsuits?

I mean, come on, man.
It doesn't make any frickin' sense.

So now I get out my puzzle pieces,
and I start figuring it out.

Okay, how do I make it
so you look like a monster?

Do you know that the comforter
is missing off your bed?

That's what the police officer told me.

- Blankets are missing?
-Yes.

Why did you take the blanket
and comforter off the bed?

As the frogman, why do you do that?

To take the body. I'm assuming
that's what you're getting at.

So it's obvious to me whatever happened,
happened in that bedroom.

-What happened--
- Maybe she overdoses.

Are you playing with
prescription dr-- drugs from work?

-It's okay if you are.
- I'm not.

And you take too much
and she overdosed, you're like,

"Oh shit, what am I gonna do?"

-I can see that happening too.
- That didn't happen.

There's blood in your house.

-There's blood?
- Yeah.

I don't know if it's hers or not yet.
I'm gonna presume it's hers.

I'm going to presume that she wasn't
alive and kicking when she left the house.

I don't know, maybe, hell,
maybe you call Andrea's name out in sex,

and she got pissed,
and you carted her ass out of there,

and you dripped her blood
going down the stairs.

I did not do that.

Yeah, you did.

They did not come into your house
and kidnap her and take her for ransom.

That did not happen.

You sat for hours and hours
and hours and hours

trying to figure out,
"Oh my God, what am I going to do?"

But the longer she stays wherever she is
and she begins to rot,

the more of a monster you look like.

Tell me the truth
about what the hell happened.

I didn't do anything.

I didn't.

So, what… what's the next stage here?

Gimme a minute.

Let me think about what's next.

Right, Aaron. There's no question
in my mind that you failed this test.

So was it an accident?

Or are you a calculated monster

who got pissed off
because there was a breakup,

and you just decided
she wasn't gonna be with anybody else,

and so you were going to just kill her
and dump her?

She's gone.
She's gone, and you know she's gone.

-I don't know she--
-Yes, she's gone.

You're going to lose
the respect of your family.

You're going to destroy them
'cause they're going to defend you,

and everything
that they've worked hard for

will get flushed down the toilet.

You're going to be that cold,
calculated, brutal serial killing monster

that strangled the life out of her,
killed her,

and then callously dumped her body
somewhere where we'll never find it.

I did not take her.

You… You know where she is,
and you know what happened to her. So…

-I guess… I guess I need a lawyer.
-Hold on, hold, hold on.

-Hold on. What's that?
-I guess I need a lawyer.

I want you guys to find her.

I want you guys to find her.

I don't know where she is.

I didn't do anything to her.

So I guess I need a lawyer…

to facilitate something. I don't know.

Here you go.

What the fuck is going on?

What the fuck is going on?

Hi, my name is Denise Huskins.
I'm kidnapped. Otherwise, I'm fine.

Hi, my name is Denise Huskins.
I'm kidnapped. Otherwise, I'm fine.

My first concert was Blink 182.

Earlier today
there was a plane crash in the Alps.

158 people died.

What I'd like to do
over the next couple of hours

is try to figure out what has happened,
where was Denise…

Your relationship with Denise
was on the rocks, correct?

Uh, I wouldn't… I wouldn't say…
I wouldn't describe it as on the rocks.

Did she scream
when she was taken out of the house?

N-- No.

Okay. Did she fight at all
while being taken hostage?

I never heard her scream.

Does she know
that you have money?

- She's aware of my finances.
- She's aware of your finances.

Did it ever come to mind
that maybe Denise…

was behind this?

I just got a… a message on my phone
from her, it's definitely her,

that she's walking over to my house
on 19th Street.

Hi, my name is Denise Huskins.
I'm kidnapped. Otherwise, I'm fine.

When I woke up,
there were lights flashing.

They said, "Aaron, face down on the bed."