Attack survivors, not believed by police, get the last word against kidnapper

In the pre-dawn hours of March 23, 2015, Aaron Quinn and his girlfriend Denise Huskins were asleep in his Vallejo, California, home, unaware they were being watched.

Denise Huskins Quinn: … around 3 a.m., we were awoken to a strange man saying "

This is a robbery. We are not here to hurt you, stay calm." They never saw his face, but, oddly, he was wearing a wet suit. He said he was part of a group of people there to rob them, but he did all the talking. In recalling what happened to them, Denise and Aaron call him ”

The Voice." The kidnapping of Denise HuskinsDenise Huskins Quinn: My eyes shot open and I saw flashing white light on the walls, and red laser dots scanning the walls … "

The Voice" … instructed me to tie Aaron up with zip ties, left them on the edge of the bed … Aaron Quinn: I'm tied up. He makes me hop to my closet. I could hear people downstairs going through the kitchen cabinet. I could hear a drill running.

Denise was ordered to go into the same closet. There, "

The Voice" also tied her up, and made them drink a sedative.

Denise Huskins Quinn: … blacked-out swim goggles were placed over our eyes and … eventually, I was told that I was gonna be taken for 48 hours and … I was gonna be held until Aaron could "complete some tasks" for my release.

Those tasks included going to a bank for ransom money. "

The Voice" took Aaron downstairs to the living room, where a security camera had been mounted to monitor him. Aaron Quinn: "

The Voice" tells me that … if I try to go to the police, they'll kill Denise. So, I could hear him put Denise in the trunk of my car … I just hear Denise say, "OK," and I'm just hoping that's not gonna be the last thing I hear from her. …Aaron says he soon passed out from the sedative. He woke in a stupor later that morning. "

The Voice" had taken Aaron's laptop, but had left his cell phone, saying they would contact him. Aaron says he wiggled his hands free from the zip ties but then struggled with whether he should call for help. Tracy Smith: What was that like weighing that decision?

Aaron Quinn: … my thought was if I call the police, I know I'm gonna be safe. But then my fear is, uh, am I actually killing Denise? 911 OPERATOR: Emergency.

Aaron Quinn

: My, uh, girlfriend got kidnapped last night.

Aaron took the chance and called 911. The Vallejo Police Department responded. As Aaron told them what happened, he says investigators began to question his story.

Aaron Quinn: I don't blame them for being a little skeptical, but … I gave them permission to search everything and I agreed to go down to the station to provide a statement, cause my whole goal, which I thought everyone's goal, was to find Denise. Aaron gave the police his cell phone and his clothes to test for evidence. He was given prison clothing to change into.

And then the lead detective, Mathew Mustard, began to question him.

Aaron Quinn: And it's about 40 minutes into our interview, he basically leans back and says … what I'm telling him is far-fetched and he doesn't believe me. DET.

Mathew Mustard

: I don't think she was kidnapped from your home… I think something bad happened in your house…Not only did he appear not to believe Aaron, he seemed to be accusing Aaron of killing Denise. DET.

Mathew Mustard

: Denise is going to be found … And when I say she's found, she's dead. … They did not come into your house and kidnap her and take her for ransom. That did not happen! It didn't! No it did not!

Aaron Quinn

: I have nothing to admit to … I didn't do anything … What the f — is going on?Meanwhile, word got out to the media that Denise was missing.

Julie Watts is an investigative correspondent for CBS News California.

Julie Watts: And I think immediately people were captivated. …Julie Watts: … folks assumed from the beginning that she was dead. … And immediately, her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was the suspect.

To Aaron, investigators were so focused on him, he wondered if anyone was looking for the people who had actually taken Denise. After being placed in the trunk of Aaron's car, she was driven for a bit, transferred to the trunk of another car, and driven for hours.

Denise Huskins Quinn: … you think of all the possible things that are gonna happen. Where am I gonna be taken? … Am I gonna be tortured? Am I gonna have to withstand God knows what?"

The Voice" took Denise to a secluded home where she was kept blindfolded and sedated. He told her he would keep her there until his group received the ransom money. She was in and out of consciousness but remembered him telling her they'd done this before. He then raped her. The next morning, Denise says she heard someone come to the house.

Denise Huskins Quinn: I heard his car drive off and … started walking down this alley and turn, and I see the street that I grew up on. A neighbor called the Huntington Beach Police, and the news of Denise's reappearance spread.

News Report

: A Bay Area woman reportedly kidnapped for ransom is safe tonight. What exactly happened to her? That's still very much a mystery.

Although Denise and Aaron hadn't communicated since the attack, Denise told the Huntington Beach officers the same story Aaron had. But she too began to sense she wasn't being believed.

Denise Huskins Quinn: And it was, "OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But … we need to figure out what's going on with Vallejo." … And so it just felt like something wasn't right.

Worried, Denise hired an attorney. That night, as she was making her way back to Vallejo, the Vallejo Police Department gave a press conference saying they could not substantiate anything Aaron had told them, and that Denise would not talk to them. LT.

Kenny Park

| Vallejo P.

D. (to reporters): Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins has plundered valuable resources away from our community …They essentially called the case a hoax. The media came up with another label.

Julie Watts: In the first few days after … the kidnapper released her, all of the headlines had the word "

Gone Girl" in it. … relating it to the blockbuster movie that had just come out, I think the year before, where a beautiful blonde fakes her own kidnapping. … and it stuck.

That same night, Denise says her attorney told the Vallejo Police Denise had been raped and asked to set up a sexual assault exam hoping DNA evidence could help identify her attacker. But Denise says Vallejo Police refused to order an exam until she talked to them.

Denise Huskins Quinn: I could hear whoever what was on the phone say, well, how do we know she was raped? She won't even talk to us.