For several months, the police and the media labelled the real world kidnapping of Denise Huskins in March 2015 as the "Gone Girl" hoax because they erroneously thought it followed a similar pattern as the movie. In fact, Huskins was the victim of an actual kidnapping and not the perpetrator of a hoax.[69] The case was the subject of a documentary American Nightmare.
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