Real Kidnapper

[Trinh Livingston]

OnMarch 23, 2015, Huskins was kidnapped by a masked intruder who broke into the home in Vallejo, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, told detectives he woke up to a bright light on his face and that intruders had drugged, blindfolded and tied both of them up before forcefully taking Huskins in the middle of the night. Quinn also said the kidnappers were demanding an $8,500 ransom.

Police said they became suspicious because Quinn waited hours to report the kidnapping. At the news conference, spokesman Kenny Park expressed disgust over the resources supposedly squandered, with 40 detectives assigned to the case, and the fear it caused among the community.

Muller was arrested on June 8, 2015, in South Lake Tahoe for a home-invasion robbery that occurred in Dublin, a city in the Bay Area, and that had similarities to the Vallejo case. Investigators found a laptop that resembled one that belonged to Quinn and had been taken.

Huskins and Quinn sued the city of Vallejo and its police department for false imprisonment, defamation, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and reached a $2.5 million settlement in 2018.

Muller put Huskins in his trunk, drove her to his home in South Lake Tahoe and held her there for two days. Investigators said they found videos of Muller arranging cameras in a bedroom and then recording himself twice sexually assaulting his blindfolded victim. The Associated Press typically does not name victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly with their stories, as Huskins has frequently done.

During and after the kidnapping, Muller used an anonymous email account to send messages to a San Francisco reporter claiming that Huskins was abducted by a team of elite criminals practicing their tactics.

Zer0 could tell her they were present on "scene of the crime". She could even spot them herself. Remember, she was communicating with Zer0 by walkie! Heck, she could even be nearby Zer0 at the time, same way Felix was involved with Fiona and Sasha!!!

She is too well known around Pandora. With all those posters clearly visible even in Tales on several occasions related to Rhys and Fiona, she needs to cover up her identity so she isn't recognised by either of them.

There is no doubt in the world Moxxi could obtain mask like that or that she isn't skill enough to pretend in that way. I think she even masked herself as mechanic in first Borderlands game, so she is used to this kind of games.

Bulky unisex anti-radiation suit can cover up any build, even her tits. Those kind of clothes are gender neutral, same way her robotic modulated voice. Even wording masked kidnapper is using is gender neutral. All these things stongly suggest women hidding behing the mask.

So, Moxxi has motives, means and knowledge. She probably have lots of opportunities to kidnap Rhys and Fiona as well, considering we know little about Moxxi's current wareabouts, except she could be in walkie range kind of nearby to Zer0 in episode 1.

Also, there is one single sentence masked kidnapper said that could be interpreted as personal and very in character to Moxxi: when Fiona told that her vault key scam plan was last job that would made them rich masked kidnapper said "That sounds familiar". Players are wrongly made to asume masked person is referring to Rhys story told previously, when in fact was apparent that Fiona wasnt present to hear that part of his story nor we could asume in any way kidnapper thought that Rhys and Fiona are close to each other so thay could know that. When in fact its totally opposite, they were antagonized and marely knew each other. No, in fact only way kidnapper could make that remark is to speak about himself and from his personal experience. And that kind of "make ourselves rich quick plan" is totally characteristic for Moxxi. She could probably very easily identify herself with Fiona and say something like that, as unintentional character revealing slip off.

Yes, this is possible, but don't forget, Zer0 paid very little attention to Rhys and Fiona, only interacting with them minimally. Actually, I think it's only Rhys. I don't think he ever interacts with Fiona. Now, this isn't saying as much, since of all the characters, Zer0 is the one whose thoughts are the biggest mystery, but he still doesn't pay them much mind, that's a fact.

I think this is actually a strike against it. Moxxi is well known, yes, but she's typically held in high respect on Pandora. I actually think she would have a better chance of getting things done without a mask because of this. Also, the whole style of kidnapping matches nothing we have seen from or know about Moxxi in any previous game ever.

The clothing is fairly gender neutral, but that doesn't make it guaranteed that it's a woman, only makes it a possibility. This could simply be a strategy to extend the range of possible people it could be.

I don't get this. I don't understand how a get rich quick plan is characteristic for Moxxi. I honestly don't remember a single time that she's done something like that. In fact, I think that a get rich quick plan could really be related more to Vault Hunters, at least some of them. But regardless, it doesn't seem like Moxxi to me.

That said, this theory has lots of good things in it too, and I'm not discounting it. I do disagree, and I have my own theory on who the masked stranger is, as I said in another thread. Still, this is also a possibility, good work!

I don't think Fiona couldn't go unnoticed by Zer0. You're partly right, we don't have conformation for this in game but common sense telling me that Zer0 is type of person noticing everything, just being silent about it and he surelly coudn't mistake her for bandit or doesn't notice she is kind of out of place there. Also, I've already mention that Moxxi herself could be there, in close range, scanning everything with binnoculars or something. Plus, these kind of things are rarely explained by writters, commonly. Even your Timothy theory doesnt have this part where you explain how he could found out about Rhys' and Fiona's involvement. Its kind of "nice to have" but not really needed explanations.

Kidnapping is serious offence. Moxxi coudn't really know where it leads. So, plenty reasons for her to be carefull not getting too involved. And mask is actually just for that: involving herself into Gortys situation withouth getting involved.

When Im talking about gender neutral suggesting female im talking from perspective of analysing this kind of mysteries in fiction. With gender neutral mask usually culpit is from opposite sex that is presumed to be. Its kind of pattern these things work. Its not a rule, of course. Just my analysis. Pure theory.

Moxxi is pretty much from same background as Fiona, getting up the ladder with marriages and other projects. Her bars. Her arenas. Remember how she buys off Torgue from his arena? She was even involved with vault, until she founds out Jack is into super weapons and turns agains him. She is always into getting lots of money fast but against power and strongly against power abuse. Why do you think Gortys Project interest her so much?

Strange is using voice modulator, so that explains absence of Moxxi sexy voice. Moxxi sexy moves, way she walks, they are just acting. No one really walks that way. It's actually bad acting. Because its obvious its just her act.

Yeah, I recall games at some point stating Moxxi role being just an act. Its kind of obvious, even without playing TPS. Although, it requires having real experience with women. Moxxi's coquettish way of speaking is quite typical for certain type of women. And never in fact real.

Sounds great, but you forgot one thing: how could Moxxi hit Rhys so hard so he would fall unconscious and then drag his body through the desert with one arm? I don't think Moxxi's strong enough to do that.

We don't really see kidnapper dragging Rhys all over the desert on one arm. We don't actually know what kind of distance it was in whole. Nor if kidnapper actually exchanged hands during that dragging, or maybe used both hands at some point. Even taking breaks between dragging. We just see like 10 sec dragging part. So, how can we deduce kidnapper strenght only by that short portion?

You can clearly deduce the strength of the masked person from the early cutscenes, he/she doesn't seem to be troubled at all by the dragging. I watched it again yesterday and I really don't think it's Moxxi herself. She's 50% tits and 50% everything else, she isn't capable of dragging Rhys on any surface.

I find it much more believable that this person is actually working for her instead. That would make a lot more sense. Why would Moxxi even bother with all the dragging if she can send someone to do the dirty work for her?

If you ever saw women working in factories, for instance, and their bulky clothes they are looking exactly the same way flat our masked kidnapper does. No matter how their large tits are. Some of those working women usually have tits twice size of Moxxis, so you could easily deduce they are 100% tits and 0% everything else by logic you are using.

I also watched it yesterday and I have no trouble with it. Yes, you are right, it looks like he/she doesn't seems to be troubled by dragging. But like I said, its just like 10 sec. Anyone could do it 10 sec. It's not like he/she is actually carrying Rhys. You need lot less power to drag him on the rope (on sand surface). I still have my old books on mechanics, if Im bored enough I could even calcuate ratio of power needed to carry man and to drag him on the sand. When you carry weith you are fighting gravity force which is exactly proportional to weigth of that burden. But, when you draggin you are doing it ortoganal to that gravity force, which means you only need power proportional to roughness of surfice. Which is kind of lot less and very determined to kind of surface.

Just kidding, obviously. I don't know anything about Borderlands (except for TTG's ep. 1) and I wanted to make a joke. Sorry if it's been made several times already--I haven't seen any. Picture credit goes to nickimissyou from Tumblr.

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