Denise Huskins 'Abduction' News: Police Say It's 'Hoax' But Victim and Boyfriend Claim It's True

Conflicting stories have emerged about a 29-year-old woman who was reported abducted in the San Francisco Bay Area but found safe two days later at a relative's home in southern California.

Denise Huskins' alleged kidnapping was reported on Monday from Vallejo's Mare Island by her 30-year-old boyfriend Aaron Quinn.

However, by Wednesday morning after an exhaustive police search, Huskins turned up unharmed in Huntington Beach.

When he reported Huskins' alleged kidnapping to the police, Quinn claimed that the kidnappers demanded an $8,500 ransom for her safe return. Both Quinn and Huskins work for Kaiser Permanente as physical therapists.

The police cast suspicion on Quinn's kidnapping allegation but were compelled to launch a search after finding that Huskins and a car she owned were missing. Police based their suspicions on the fact that Quinn waited for 12 hours before reporting the alleged abduction with no evidence to substantiate his statement.

On Tuesday the San Francisco Chronicle received an email from a person who claimed to have kidnapped Huskins, saying she "would be returned safely" on Wednesday. The email also had an audio file of Huskins stating that she was alive. To verify that the voicemail was recently made, she referred to Tuesday's crash of a German passenger plane in the French Alps.

After Huskins turned up safe and sound in Huntington Beach, the car that was earlier declared missing was found by police.

Following Huskins' reappearance, Vallejo police accused Huskins and Quinn of faking the alleged kidnapping.

However, Quinn's lawyers contended that their client was drugged by two men and bound, which explained why he took so long to report the matter. The lawyers also said the police had "no evidence yet that this was some kind of hoax."

Huskins' attorney, Doug Rappaport, also asserted that Huskins "is absolutely unequivocally, 100 percent, positively a victim and [there is] no hoax," adding that "she's distraught and emotionally and physically broken."

The police later issued a statement saying Huskins was refusing to cooperate in the investigation of her alleged kidnapping. She also disappeared when a plane was sent to transport her back to the Bay Area. Her family has already hired a lawyer to represent her.