The real-life case of one couple's horrifying experiences and the damaging speculation surrounding those events is depicted in Netflix's new docuseries "American Nightmare."
In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were awakened in the dead of night by armed home intruders before Huskins was kidnapped and sexually assaulted on camera by her captor. The harrowing tale garnered widespread media scrutiny, with many comparing Huskins’ disappearance to David Fincher’s 2014 adaptation of “Gone Girl,” Gillian Flynn's novel in which a woman fakes her own murder and frames her husband as an act of revenge. Both the police and the media bought into doubts about the case they felt did not add up.
