Denise Huskins

The man convicted in the bizarre “Gone Girl” kidnapping and assault involving a Vallejo couple in 2015 told NBC Bay Area he’s not guilty during an exclusive jailhouse interview Wednesday night.

The city of Vallejo has reached a settlement in a defamation lawsuit brought by a couple who were victims of a bizarre kidnapping that police initially dismissed as a hoax.

A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney faces decades in prison during his sentencing Thursday for a kidnapping so elaborate and bizarre that police in California initially dismissed it as a hoax.

A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping in a bizarre case that police in California initially dismissed as a hoax.

Two of four people suspected of kidnapping a Vallejo woman for ransom made their first court appearance Monday, but there was still no sign of the victim.

Vallejo police said Saturday they are investigating a kidnapping for ransom case.

The Vallejo police officer who headed the kidnap investigation that officers first described as a hoax and then led to the FBI arrest of the alleged kidnapper has been named “Officer of the Year” for 2015. Detective Matthew Mustard earned that city commendation in April, even though one of the most high-profile cases he investigated – that of the kidnap…

A California woman who was kidnapped and held for two days is suing police, who initially deemed her abduction a hoax.

A federal grand jury has indicted a disbarred attorney on a kidnapping charge in a California case that police initially dismissed as a hoax.

Attorneys for a Northern California woman plan to file a claim against the city whose police initially dismissed her kidnapping as a hoax.

The FBI says the man charged in a California kidnapping that police initially dismissed as a hoax told a television news reporter he had a psychotic break and blamed a side effect from a vaccine in part for his behavior.

The FBI on Monday announced it had arrested a California man – a former Marine and Harvard University professor who suffers from bipolar disorder – in the kidnapping of a Vallejo woman that was once considered possibly a hoax.

A San Francisco newspaper has received a series of emails from a person claiming responsibility for a California woman’s abduction, including one demanding that police apologize to the woman for calling it a hoax.

A Huntington Beach woman whose strange saga about being kidnapped for an $8,500 ransom that police called a hoax was “absolutely, unequivocally” a victim of kidnapping, her lawyer said Thursday.

Police are looking for a purported kidnap victim and her family after they “disappeared.” Adrian Arambulo reports for Today in LA on Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015. By Joel Cooke.

The reported kidnapping of a woman found Wednesday in Huntington Beach was a hoax, Vallejo police said.