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FILE - In this July 13, 2015 file photo, Denise Huskins, left, and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn listen as their attorneys speak at a news conference in Vallejo, Calif. The couple that police detectives wrongly accused of fabricating the woman's kidnapping from their home has reached a $2.5 million settlement with the city of Vallejo and its police department. (Mike Jory/The Times-Herald via AP, File)

Couple to get $2.5M after police called abduction a hoax

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FILE - In this July 13, 2015 file photo, Denise Huskins, left, and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn appear at a news conference in Vallejo, Calif. Matthew Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, faces decades in prison when he is sentenced Thursday, March 16, 2017, for kidnapping Huskins in a scheme so elaborate and bizarre that police in California initially dismissed it as a hoax. (Mike Jory/The Times-Herald via AP, File)

Man gets 40 years after kidnap victim describes ‘hell’

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Marianne Quinn the mother of Aaron Quinn, one of Matthew Muller's victims, speaks to the media after a verdict was reached in Muller's trail Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after emotional testimony from his victims in a kidnapping so elaborate and bizarre that police in California initially dismissed it as a hoax. (Matthew Adkins/The Times-Herald via AP)

Harvard-educated lawyer gets 40 years for bizarre kidnapping

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 25, 2015 file photo, a news crew reports in front of the home of Denise Huskins, who was abducted in Vallejo, Calif. Matthew Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, faces decades in prison when he is sentenced Thursday, March 16, 2017, for kidnapping Huskins in a scheme so elaborate and bizarre that police in California initially dismissed it as a hoax. (Chris Riley/Vallejo Times-Herald via AP, file)

At sentencing, woman says kidnap once called hoax was ‘hell’

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo released by the Vallejo Police Department shows Denise Huskins. Matthew Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, was set to plead guilty in a kidnapping case in California that police initially dismissed as a hoax, the U.S. Attorney's office said Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. Muller was expected to enter a new plea on Thursday, said Lauren Horwood, a spokeswoman for the office in Sacramento. Muller previously pleaded not guilty to a kidnapping charge that prosecutors say stemmed from his abduction of Huskins from her Vallejo home in March 2015. (Vallejo Police Department via AP)

The Latest: Kidnapping victim’s lawyer wants life sentence

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FILE - This undated file photo released by the Vallejo Police Department shows Denise Huskins. Matthew Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, was set to plead guilty in a kidnapping case in California that police initially dismissed as a hoax, the U.S. Attorney's office said Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. Muller was expected to enter a new plea on Thursday, said Lauren Horwood, a spokeswoman for the office in Sacramento. Muller previously pleaded not guilty to a kidnapping charge that prosecutors say stemmed from his abduction of Huskins from her Vallejo home in March 2015. (Vallejo Police Department via AP)

Disbarred lawyer pleads guilty in kidnap once called a hoax

By BY DON THOMPSON and SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

A news crew reports on the abduction of Denise Huskins in front of the home she was taken from in Vallejo, Calif., Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Police in the San Francisco Bay Area now say they think it was a hoax. (AP Photo/Vallejo Times-Herald, Chris Riley)

California woman’s kidnap report was a hoax, police now say

By Gillian Flaccus and Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press