The case involving a Vallejo woman who claimed to be abducted and later released becomes more bizarre.
Staffers at the San Francisco Chronicle say after Denise Huskins was found safe, and after police said the whole thing was an orchestrated event, mysterious emails were sent to them.
The person who wrote the email remained anonymous and included the following in one of the messages: "I/we may be the direct agent of harm. But it will be made crystal clear that the Vallejo Police Department, and you, Mr. Park, had every opportunity to stop it."
That is a threat made directly against the department and specifically Lt. Kenny Park, a spokesperson for Vallejo police.
According to the Chronicle, the email said if Park did not apologize by noon Tuesday, then there would be some kind of retribution. And as of Tuesday evening, it appeared that no apology was issued by Vallejo police.
Messages for Park and Vallejo police have not been returned.
Police have not said if they plan to charge Huskins or her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, for what they say was a kidnapping hoax. But attorneys for the two are not buying that any of it was fake.
In fact, Huskins' attorney says he received a 15-page manifesto in which the kidnappers detailed the events, and how the abduction was just a practice run for them, because they planned to kidnap higher-profile individuals in the future. The document also claimed Huskins was not even the intended target of the practice-run abduction.
"They felt terribly when they discovered it was her, but since this was a training mission, they decided to carry it out regardless," Doug Rappaport, Huskins' attorney, said.
In the emails to the newspaper, the group also compared themselves to the crew of the hit movie, Ocean's 11, which pulled off big heists and were well-dressed and well-spoken. They called themselves "college-educated" criminals.
The email sender also bragged that the group has been running a carjacking and burglary ring for months.
Huskins' lawyer believes the email proves she is not a liar.
No word yet from Vallejo police about whether they or the FBI intend to pursue whoever is behind the emails.
