So This Happened…Week of Jan. 6-12, 2025
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA, (Jan. 12, 2025) — The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has filed a three-count felony complaint against a man profiled on “American Nightmare” for a different kidnapping.
The 2024 season of the Netflix series focused on the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins, for which Matthew Daniel Muller is serving a 40-year federal prison sentence in Tucson. The new charges stem from a previously unreported 2015 kidnapping for ransom in unincorporated San Ramon.
Meanwhile, the Pleasant Hill Police Department is sounding the alarm about attempts to “spoof” its phone number, 925-288-4600. If you get a phone call from PHPD, officials advise that you disconnect and call back on the department’s non-emergency line at 925-288-4600. *Pete: new story here
For more local crime news, check out Concord PD’s latest arrest report.
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Bev Britton
Bev Britton graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota and moved to the Bay Area with her soon-to-be husband Jim in 1986. She was features editor at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek before becoming managing editor of the Contra Costa Sun in Lafayette in 1995. She retired from newsrooms in 2001, but an ad for the Clayton Pioneer drew her back in. The family moved to Lake Wildwood in the Gold Country a few years ago - but working at the Pioneer keeps her in touch with her old neighborhoods in Concord and Clayton.