After Huskins was kidnapped by the masked intruder, it took Quinn nine hours to contact police because he was bound, gagged, and sedated. Her captor would go on to rape Huskins twice, claiming the incidents were being recorded. He threatened to release the videos if she wasn't cooperative. True to his word, he let her go two days later and left her in Huntington Beach, Calif., 400 miles from where Huskins was kidnapped. Her kidnapper said he would always be watching.

Before taking Huskins, the kidnapper told Quinn he would kill her if police were contacted. Fearing for her life he called his brother, an FBI agent, when he woke up the following morning. Authorities immediately treated Quinn like he was a suspect, and questioned how long it took him to contact them. Quinn was held for 18 hours and was administered a lie detector test which was deemed inconclusive, though police told him he failed.

When Huskins reappeared, police acted as if she and Quinn had lied about everything. They were accused of using valuable community resources that took authorities away from actual crimes. Vallejo Police Department spokesman Lt. Kenny Park said in a statement that "Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins that owe this community an apology." Because of this, they were both subject to online harassment and feared losing their jobs.

When Huskins's captor, a man by the name of Matthew Muller, was caught in June 2015 after attempting another kidnapping, the couple was only partially relieved. They still had to deal with their tarnished reputations brought on by the Vallejo Police Department's campaign against them. Hopefully winning the lawsuit helped ease their pain.