Kidnapping Of California Woman Denise Huskins Was Real, Insists Lawyers Of Boyfriend Aaron Quinn

Mar 27, 2015 05:20 AM EDT

(Photo : Reuters) Media are seen outside the apartment where kidnap victim Denise Huskins was staying in Huntington Beach, California March 25, 2015. Denise Huskins, 30, was reported to have been forcibly taken from her boyfriend's home in the East Bay city of Vallejo on Monday, and her boyfriend told authorities there had been a demand for ransom, police said on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Huskins turned up in the Orange County coastal town of Huntington Beach, about 35 miles south of Los Angeles, but the circumstances of her reappearance remained murky, said Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles. REUTERS/Bob Riha Jr

While the Vallejo police had cast doubt on the claim of Denise Huskins that she was kidnapped, the lawyers of Aaron Quinn, her boyfriend, insists that the abduction was real and not a hoax.

The lawyers said that 30-year-old Quinn was attacked by the abductors, tied up and drugged him. Then they took his 29-year-old girlfriend by force and made an $8,500 ransom.

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Dan Russo said in a Thursday news conference at his office in Vallejo that "there seems to be a stream of blatant lies about our client, about the victim and what is going on."

Russo pointed out that besides Quinn fully cooperating with Vallejo police, they had provided blood samples as proof that the boyfriend was drugged. Quinn likewise provided them the passwords to his email accounts and went through an interrogation by FBI and police that lasted for 17 hours.

The lawyer explained the long time it took Quinn to contact authorities from the time that Huskins was allegedly abducted to his client being afraid.

Another reason why police doubt the claim of the couple is there is an audio recording obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. The recording has a female voice who claims "in a calm, monotone voice" that she is Huskins and was kidnapped. However, she added, "Otherwise I'm fine."

Because of the police doubt that it is a hoax, Quinn has retained a lawyer and no longer talks to the police, who have threatened to file charges against the couple who both are physical therapists.

Meanwhile, Doug Rappaport, the lawyer of Huskins, and his client went to the Vallejo Police on Thursday to clear her name over authorities' belief that her kidnapping was a hoax. He insisted that Huskins "is absolutely, unequivocally, 100 percent, positively a victim," quotes CBS.

Rappaport described Huskins as "emotionally and physically broken" because of the kidnapping ordeal and then by being considered by the Vallejo police as a suspect through its "very nasty press release" on Wednesday evening that "very quickly threw her under the bus."