KTVU Fox 2: Vallejo kidnapper Matthew Muller charged in 15-year-old South Bay attacks
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Matthew Muller, the man who abducted Denise Huskins in Vallejo, sparking a case in which police initially accused her of staging her own kidnapping, has now been charged by Santa Clara prosecutors with breaking into women's homes in Palo Alto and Mountain View in 2009 with the intent to rape them.
Muller, 47, was named in a complaint filed in November by the Santa Clara County DA's office, which asked Mountain View and Palo Alto police to send all evidence back to the DA crime lab for further testing. Criminalists said they found Muller's DNA on straps he used to bind the Palo Alto victim.
"Both of these cases the defendant broke into a woman's home, tied them up, bound them, made them drink things to make them intoxicated, and did this for the purpose of raping them," said District Attorney Jeff Rosen.
Muller has been transferred to Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose. On Monday, he appeared in Superior Court but did not enter a plea to two felony counts of assault with intent to commit rape during a burglary for the 2009 crimes.