Denise Huskins

Huskins credits a female detective who noticed a blonde hair on goggles in her own case with linking the crimes.

“She noticed there was a blonde hair on goggles and her victims all had dark hair”

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Huskins says her captor rewarded compliance with privileges such as removing the blindfold, food and toiletries, which she recognized as conditioning.

“And so it's like I could see all of this It was a way to try to condition me”

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Huskins says she connected with her captor and discussed therapy and childhood trauma, believing humanizing herself was her only defense.

“I just thought really like my only defense is to show him the human being in front of him and hope maybe he would decide not to kill me”

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Huskins says that, isolated and drugged, she decided the only thing she could control was her own reaction.

“I told myself like the only thing I can control is how I react and respond”

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Huskins argues people avoid acknowledging how bad the problem is because doing so would make inaction complicity.

“if you know how bad it is and you're not doing anything about it, then you're complicit”

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Huskins says the public disbelief after the kidnapping has been harder to process than the crime itself.

“what happened after the kidnapping absolutely has been the hardest part to deal with”

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Huskins argues that military-trained people teach building rapport as a hostage survival strategy, yet investigators faulted her for doing exactly that.

“They teach us, if you are ever kidnapped or taken hostage, that you build a report”

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Huskins criticizes the lack of accountability, noting the lead detective was named officer of the year despite being named in their civil lawsuit.

“The lead detective got officer of the year. It's like that year. And we named him in a civil lawsuit”

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Huskins says her attorney told her that Vallejo police had publicly declared her account a lie within hours of her release.

“the Vallejo police just held a press conference and completely threw you under the bus. and said it was all a lie”

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Huskins argues it is dangerous when law enforcement uses fiction as a yardstick for judging real victims.

“when law enforcement goes to fiction and uses that as a measure to judge people, that's where it's really terrifying”

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Huskins says an FBI agent told her attorney he was almost certain she was lying and recommended watching Gone Girl.

“he was 99% sure I was lying and that my attorney should watch Gone Girl”

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Huskins says Aaron Quinn was accused of murdering her and endured a long interrogation rather than confess to something he did not do.

“he just endured 18 hours of interrogation because he thought, I can't admit to something I didn't do”

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Huskins says the lead Vallejo detective offered her a proffer agreement, which confused and frightened her as a crime victim.

“he had said that he was going to be offering a proffer of agreement, which is basically immunity”

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Huskins says she plans to teach her children about consent and bodily boundaries as building blocks toward eventually telling them what happened.

“even just little things of like teaching them consent and boundaries and, you you know, respecting their body and other people's bodies”

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Huskins says she is exploring further therapy, including EMDR, to reconnect what she knows logically with what her body feels.

“i'm looking into emdr because i hear great things about it”

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Huskins says the FBI affidavit showed calls on her first night in captivity could have been traced to her location.

“There were calls that were placed the first night I was in captivity that the police could have traced back to the location I was in captivity in”

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Huskins cites Laura Richards in arguing that the fawn response of pleasing and appeasing is a primary defense for women that investigators fail to recognize.

“there's also fawn and that's the woman's primarily more innate defense of like the please and appease”

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Huskins says realizing the intruders were patient, controlled and methodical was more horrifying than the violent chaos portrayed in fiction.

“realizing that criminals can be patient and in control and planned out was even more horrifying to process”

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Huskins says public exposure from the documentary is so tied in her body to the fear of being killed that she struggles to separate them.

“the exposure, the public exposure is so intertwined with the thought of being killed that it's like really hard for my body to differentiate the two”

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