The announcement marks another stunning twist in the burgeoning number of alleged kidnappings, break-ins and rapes that Matthew Muller apparently confessed to in letters sent to a central

Muller was responsible for the 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of a Northern California woman, initially dismissed as a "hoax" by Vallejo police.

Kidnapping and rape survivor Denise Huskins spoke to reporters in Seaside on Tuesday about how she helped investigators find more victims who were allegedly targeted by Matthew Muller. The Muller case regained traction after it was detailed in a popular Netflix documentary,

Matthew Muller, already serving a 40-year sentence in the Denise Huskins case, had been terrorizing the community for two decades before the widely known "American Nightmare" case, prosecutors said.