‘Gone Girl’ kidnapper faces new charges of home invasion, sexual assault

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A California man who is currently serving time behind bars for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman in what became widely known as the “Gone Girl” case has now been charged with two home invasion sexual assaults, dating back more than a decade.

On Monday, prosecutors announced that 47-year-old Matthew Muller has been charged with two felony counts of committing a sexual assault during a home invasion dating back to 2009.

Prosecutors allege Muller broke into a woman’s home in Mountain View, Calif., in September 2009, attacked her and then tied her up and forced her to drink medications. He then told the woman in her 30s that he was going to rape her, but she convinced him not to, prosecutors said. Muller left after recommending the woman get a dog.

The following month, prosecutors say he broke into a home in Palo Alto, Calif., bound and gagged a woman and forced her to drink Nyquil. He started assaulting the woman in her 30s, but she also convinced him to stop, prosecutors said.

While “following a new lead,” reports ABC News, investigators sent all the evidence from both scenes for further testing. Muller’s DNA was recovered from straps used to bind one of the victims, they said.

“The details of this person’s violent crime spree seem scripted for Hollywood, but they are tragically real,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “Our goal is to make sure this defendant is held accountable and will never hurt or terrorize anyone ever again. Our hope is that this nightmare is over.”

Muller pleaded guilty in the 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins in a case that shocked the world for its real-life resemblance to the 2014 Hollywood blockbuster Gone Girl. He is currently serving a 40-year