Contra Costa County prosecutors on Monday charged Matthew Muller — the imprisoned man featured in Netflix’s most recent season of “American Nightmare” — in a 2015 kidnapping and ransom case out of San Ramon, which had never previously been reported to authorities.
The announcement by Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton marks another stunning twist in the burgeoning number of alleged kidnappings, break-ins and rapes tied to Muller, who is already behind bars for kidnapping and raping a Vallejo woman nine years ago in a case that drew international infamy after police wrongly accused the victim of fabricating the ordeal.
Just last week, Santa Clara County prosecutors announced charges against Muller in two home invasions from late September 2009 — the first in Mountain View and the other a few weeks later in other in Palo Alto.
In all three cases new across Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties, prosecutors were tipped off to Muller’s alleged involvement by letters he himself wrote to the police chief of Seaside in Monterey County, during which he confessed to the crimes, authorities said.
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