American Nightmare: Netflix’s latest true-crime series is a must-watch about the ‘real-life Gone Girl’

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Netflix has simply added a true-crime documentary that appears primed to change into the platform’s subsequent word-of-mouth hit.

The streaming service added the title on Wednesday (17 January) – and it’s the latest launch from the makers of former streaming service hit The Tinder Swindler, which was launched in February 2022.

Titled American Nightmare, the three-part series locations the highlight on a case dubbed “the real-life Gone Girl” – the unusual however true story of a girl’s abduction and police’s ensuing refusal to imagine it was legit.

In 2015, an intruder broke into the Vallejo, California dwelling of Denise Huskin and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn, and drugged them each earlier than abducting Huskins and holding her for ransom.

When Quinn turned to the police for assist, he was shocked to find he was not believed – and was quickly suspected of being accountable for her disappearance.

At the time, the case was rapidly in comparison with Gone Girl, the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn that was tailored into a movie in 2014, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

In the fictional story, creator Amy Dunne (performed by Pike) out of the blue vanishes, inflicting the police to suspect that her husband Nick (Affleck) was behind it.

The trailer for American Nightmare contains a voiceover from Quinn, telling his account of the evening that Huskins disappeared.

He says: “I wake up, bright light blinding us. Taser goes off. And I see they’re wearing wet suits.”

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Though the police made early assumptions that Quinn had murdered Huskins and had concocted a story to cowl his tracks, the story took a flip simply two days later when Huskins reappeared close to her mother and father’ home in Huntington Beach.

Huskins’ protected discovery was a aid, however ended up elevating additional questions about the validity of the preliminary kidnapping declare.

“I’d never heard of a case where a kidnapper drops the victim at the front door of their house,” a voiceover could be heard saying in the trailer, with one other stating: “We thought she was this innocent victim – she looks more like a suspect.”

Vallejo police introduced they believed the kidnapping was staged and requested Huskins and Quinn to recant their statements and apologise to the public.

In American Nightmare, viewers get a behind-the-scenes view of the ordeal, finding out what really went on and how the couple had to fight for their traumatic experience to be taken seriously.

Speaking about their recovery from the incident in 2021, Huskins told ABC News: “You can go through any kind of trauma to where it leaves you devastated and in a place where you just think, ‘This is impossible to move forward from. What do I do next?’”

American Nightmare is accessible to stream on Netflix now.