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>> my wife, amy elliott dunne, disappeared three days ago. >> the new twist in the so-called gone girl case. >> he had all the markers of a serial predator. >> denise huskins abducted from her home a decade ago. sexually assaulted her boyfriend, falsely accused of staging it all. >> the story you're telling here, i'm buying it all. >> now, the man convicted in her case facing new charges. >> please stop using the gone girl term to refer to this case should be referred to properly as the american nightmare case. >> why? police say there could be more victims coming forward. plus, living out loud inside the life of a 22 year old living with tourette syndrome. >> my fiber's been gaston bailon dupree, the viral tiktok star with over 9 million followers, pulling back the curtain on the ups and downs of her condition. >> i have a gun. >> maybe try to whisper it. >> sharing the challenges of

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her boyfriend of a copycat hoax styled after the thriller gone girl. but new evidence now has authorities believing the perpetrator preyed upon many more victims. >> there's no question in my mind that you failed this test and you failed it miserably. you know where she is? i don't know where she is. >> it was the true crime saga. so shocking. it immediately drew parallels to a blockbuster hollywood thriller. >> i feel like i am some character in this crime drama. i'm like in a movie. >> a young woman kidnaped, gone missing. her boyfriend. suspect number one, until she is miraculously found alive two days later. >> this morning, a shocking twist denise huskins found safe in huntington beach, a bizarre kidnaping case that looked like a real life gone girl. >> the movie gone girl is about a woman who fakes her own kidnaping meticulously. >> stage your crime scene with just enough mistakes to raise the specter of doubt painted on

her husband, who's cheating on her, and then leaves and allows the media to hone in on her husband. >> but denise huskins and aaron quinn's story is so far from the fictional plot, please stop using the gone girl term to refer to this case. >> that is a derogatory term. call it what it actually is, the american nightmare. >> for months, their nightmare made national headlines. the couple were deemed frauds, accused of faking the horrific ordeal until the arrest of a man named matthew mueller. >> they learned some pretty astonishing things about matthew mueller. he joined the marine corps for five years, and he actually was discharged honorably as a sergeant. he graduated summa laude from pomona college. out here in california. he certainly prioritized his studies over his social life and then went to, of all places, harvard law school. >> now, almost a decade later, more twists and turns and more vindication for denise.

>> this man had all the markers of a serial predator. i really believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg. >> just last week, mueller was charged with new felonies of kidnaping for ransom. >> matthew mueller is accused of holding up two men and one woman at gunpoint and threatening them to go and withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from a bank account. and when they did, they were so terrified they never came forward. >> this revelation, only one of many that came out after mueller allegedly confessed in prison. >> we're again grateful that a new team is looking at it, and reinvestigating and exploring things that we know were never explored. and we are so grateful to have found a team in law enforcement who respects us, who values us as victims and is willing to work with us and collaborate with us. >> back in 2015, denise workings physical therapists in vallejo, california, looking to repair their relationship. after denise

discovered aaron was texting his ex-fiance asking to get back together. >> when she found the text message, i was at crossroads of my life and i needed to make a change. >> denise and aaron talked it over for hours at his house. >> we had to rebuild trust, but as long as he was willing to really give this a full shot, then we could try again. >> they eventually went to bed around midnight. then at 3 a.m, a voice says, wake up, this is a robbery. an intruder wearing a wet suit was in the bedroom, laying zip ties on the bed. the intruder told denise to bind aaron's feet together and his hands behind his back, then ordered her to walk to the bedroom closet. >> he got my laptop and then forced me to give up my social security number, my bank accounts. >> he covered their eyes with swimming goggles that have been covered in duct tape to block their sight and put headphones on them, then drugged them with

a sedative. >> tells me i need to stay there till the morning. i have to call in sick to work and they had given me denise's passcode to her phone. i needed to text her boss and tell him that she had a family emergency. was going to be gone for a week. >> aaron was also told he would have to withdraw money from his bank. the intruder kidnaped denise, putting her in the trunk of aaron's car alone and drugged. aaron tried to stay awake but couldn't. >> my alarm went off and i called, called in sick. >> hours later, he called police, who he says were immediately suspicious of his story. >> with her confronted with is a man who said that his girlfriend was kidnaped in the middle of the night. there is a crazy story about this home invasion. they see all the components of what you might expect to see objectively in a domestic violence murder. >> aaron agreed to go to the station to give a statement.

>> the story that you're telling here, i'm buying it all. you got to think about how this is all going to play out. i don't have anything to think about. i'm telling you what? you listen to me. there ain't no frogmen came into your house. nobody dressed in wetsuits or it didn't happen. >> aaron and his attorney knew they needed proof that denise was still alive. in a twist, the san francisco chronicle got a proof of life message from the kidnaper. >> huskins and kidnaped. >> otherwise fine. she is clearly still alive, and rather than entertain the possibility that, oh my gosh, maybe this story is true, they immediately shift into, well, this must be a hoax. >> what happened after denise resurfaced is the focus of the netflix series american nightmare. >> emergency! my girlfriend amy got kidnaped last night. and you

didn't call last night when this occurred, chronicling how denise and aaron were social pariahs, their innocence questioned by law enforcement. >> i had gone from a murderer to now committing a hoax. >> from this point forward, i will not refer to them as a victim or a witness. >> lieutenant park never outright called aaron quinn or denise huskins. liars. he never used the word hoax. but if you listen to the entire press conference, the whole premise of it is that the two of them were lying and that this kidnaping never happened. >> the fact that we've essentially wasted all of these resources for really nothing is upsetting. >> little did they know that about 40 miles away in dublin, california, a dogged female police officer was connecting denise's story with mueller, who had just been identified as a suspect in a dublin home invasion. >> they had located the suspect of the home invasion. they were

going to serve a search warrant. there were several swim goggles that were duct taped black. one in particular had a blond hair strand attached to the duct tape. the dublin home invasion. none of them had blond hair. >> officer misty caruso contacted the fbi. >> i said, i have this suspect in custody who may be a person of interest to you in the vallejo kidnaping case that you guys deemed a hoax. and he told me that it wasn't the fbi saying that it was a hoax, and that it was vallejo pd that said it was a hoax. >> in 2017, matthew mueller entered a guilty plea to denise's kidnaping and was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison. later this week, he is scheduled to appear in court again on the new charges. denise and aaron, now married, received a $2.5 million settlement from the city of vallejo in 2018 with no admission of wrongdoing. and

in 2021, the police chief at the time issued a public apology, writing in part, what happened to miss huskins and mr. quinn is horrific and evil. i would like to extend my deepest apology for how they were treated during this ordeal. >> after the case with denise huskins and aaron quinn, we always thought that these kidnaping and sexual assault charges were just a one off. but now with dna evidence, it suggests that we're just scratching the surface. >> denise offering a message to all sexual assault survivors. >> always believe in yourself, even if you can't change what other people do or what other people say, and know that you know you can always trust in yourself. >> when we come back, viral tiktok star bella dupree opens up about living with tourette syndrome. what she says is the syndrome. what she says is the onl psoriasis held me back. now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin.

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viral tiktok star, with over 9 million followers now bravely opening up even more about living with tourette syndrome, tourette syndrome is a neurological, involuntary motor and vocal disorder that is chronic chronic. slap that wiener wrap, that wiener tap, that wiener. >> could you have imagined that when you posted those first couple of tiktok videos of you baking, that you'd have a whole show? >> i would have never imagined, looking back, like making those videos and being like, this is where i'm going to be. >> my fiber's been gaston. >> you don't want people to define you by your tourette. what do you want people to know about you? >> my name? my name is bailon. bailon? dupree. i love my dogs, i love jesus, i love my family. there's also a very misleading conception that tourette looks the same in everyone. and it doesn't. coprolalia. which is

the obscene words or gestures, is only in 10% of people who have tourette's. stupid. and i do have that. >> after finding fame online, she and her family are now the stars of a new tlc show, ballin out loud. >> i'm trying not to look at him. i'm trying not to look at him. because every time i see a bald person, i have to tell them that they're bald. so you're bald. you're bald. >> it's my it's my it's my welcome. and i enjoy it. >> people have said that i'm faking tourette's for attention. why would i do that? who would you want to live like this? >> ultimately, i didn't want to put anything out there in a way where it's going to be an exhibit. like at a circus. she doesn't live in her life for somebody else's entertainment. and it's taken a long time

showing it for education. >> like i'm putting myself out there and being vulnerable for other people. >> thank you so much. okay. >> in my opinion, bailon has one of the more severe cases of tourette syndrome. >> her mother. that's that's the one thing that i'm so embarrassed about is my coprolalia. like, i'm embarrassed by it. >> growing up in west virginia, her tics were mild, unnoticeable, even her condition undiagnosed. but after the pandemic hit, they started to become unmanageable. doctors telling her she had tourette's at 18. >> it was mild until it wasn't. and that's exactly when we started learning more about tourette. just kind of goes in like these. awful, like waves. >> what are some of the toughest days? >> like walking? my legs lock up a lot. i have a lot of leg tics. it's hard to even brush my own teeth, do my makeup, like, do everything in someone's daily day that someone usually doesn't

think about. i am in consistent pain with my neck. like, it's always like, never healed. i have like, a back brace, a neck brace that i wear for like, when i throw my head back. mom, look at all the people in there. my tics can come from anything. i have a gun. >> maybe trying to whisper it into her. >> her explosive outbursts, her involuntary movements creating incredible obstacles to overcome. >> there is a scenario that happened where i was being followed around a store by one of my people that were in my grade, and i was being bullied, and i could obviously tell. and i was afraid of myself. like, i didn't like myself. i was in therapy so many days a week. like just trying to figure out why me? >> i can't even imagine how exhausting that kind of must feel for you. how do you, like, soothe yourself through god and taking care of myself in ways that i've learned how to do?

>> so, for example, instead of screaming my tic in certain situations, i can whisper it and it still gets out the urge that i have to tic. >> but bailon, now in her 20s, eventually finding her way to even dating her boyfriend colin, now at her side. >> in the beginning it was a little a little weird going out and having people stare at me. but bailon has the biggest heart and i love her for her. >> colin is my medicine. that's the best way i'm going to describe it. tippy, tippy top of that winter. tap that rotisserie chicken. tippy, tippy tap that winter. tap that rotisserie chicken. tippy, tippy tap that winter tap the rotisserie chicken they met on a dating app, sparking a relationship uniquely their own. he makes everything better. every time i'm with him, my ticks are better. i'm happier. he just is a great backbone in the kitchen. >> baking is another love of balance. >> i just want to do anything that involves sweets. opening up a business that has sweets.

something around that area. yeah, yeah yeah. >> but also not without its challenges. something pops. >> oh, there it goes. i can do things in the kitchen. i kind of know, like where my limits are. like i can't use the oven. like that's just. no. >> but with a little help in the kitchen, she's ready for her next adventure. >> one thing that i've learned about myself is that the only thing telling me no is me. >> balan's condition unique. her day to day challenges. something everyone can relate to. >> if you want to go fast, go alone. and if you want to go far, go together. and that's that's what we do. we're going far together. these. >> money. what it is. >> sorry. >> we're all going through things. tourette syndrome seems to be one of the more outward and socially disabling conditions. and if you don't know enough about it to shut your mouth and be kind, shut your mouth and be kind, right.

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