In March 2015 Aaron is tied up in his home and his girlfriend Denise is kidnapped. Little did they know that this was just the start of their nightmare at the hands of the police and FBI.
I’d seen a few adverts for American Nightmare doing the rounds on the internet and I thought it looked intriguing. I’m a huge fan of true crime and when I saw that American Nightmare was made by the team behind Tinder Swindler I knew that it would be well made, but now I’ve finally sat down to watch it? Oh boy! What a wild ride! The story is that in March 2015 Aaron Quinn and his girlfriend Denise Huskins were surprised one night in their home by an armed masked man in a wetsuit. Yes, you read that right, a wetsuit. After being tasered, tied up and drugged Aaron woke up to find Denise missing. Aaron expected, as we all would, that the police would launch a manhunt in order to find his missing girlfriend but instead the lead detective (a man named Mat Mustard I kid you not) suspects…
Director: Bernadette Higgins, Felicity Morris
Stars: Denise Hutchins (Self), Aaron Quinn (Self)
Katy’s Rating: 8/10 – Great