He had been punctilious. Marie liked dogs. When she read the story, she cried. The DNA from the cup matched the DNA collected from the victims. The woman told Galbraith she was 26 years old, an engineering student on winter break from a nearby college. They had moved up in the ranks. For me it seems like people read me differently than I see myself.. Rider said his agency has become more cautious about labeling a case unfounded since Marie. Her birthplace is Lynnwood, Washington, USA, and she is 32 years old. Marie had been sexually and physically abused in early life and was in foster care for most of her childhood. In October 2008, one of Marie's foster parents saw a report of a woman in Kirkland, Washington, raped in the same way as Marie. She had responded to a report of a rape at a blue-collar apartment complex in the northwest corner of her city. She broke three ribs and punctured a lung in the 7-foot fall to the ground, but managed to escape. Roll over onto your stomach, he told her. For Marie, this was a familiar drill, one she could trace to her years of being abused as a kid, and to her years in foster care, bouncing from home to home and school to school. The technicians recovered three samples of so-called touch DNA, as few as seven or eight cells of skin that can be analyzed with modern laboratory techniques. A K-9 officer was outside, his dog trying to pick up a scent. Police. Put your hands behind your back, he told her. One officer suggested a bathroom break. An internal review also concluded that Mason and Rittgarn's behaviour was "designed to elicit a confession of false reporting." He had served in the Army. I just kind of trusted their judgment, in terms of its their case, they know the details and I dont, Weber says. She drives an 18-wheeler across the country. He said he felt stupid, that it had looked better in his head. I didnt want it to get back to Marie, Peggy says. Both vehicles had ball hitches on the back. [27][28] Mason was interviewed for the book, but Rittgarn refused to speak to the authors without being paid. I was in group homes, too. Shannon saw an account of the attack on the television news and was taken aback. She pounded the table and said she was pretty positive.. But he spent so much time hunting (thats what he called it, hunting), hundreds of hours, maybe even a thousand, that he conditioned himself to incorporate as many women as possible, young or old, into his fantasies. Marie, Armstrong and Miller were consulted during the production. And it seems like every time I talk to her she's in a different state. "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" was written by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller. She had conducted a search for any reports of suspicious vehicles or prowlers within a quarter mile of the Lakewood victims home for the previous six months. She called the judge who was on duty for the weekend. Shed gone through so much already. When they finished, the agents raced in. She emailed a crime analyst at another police department, I so want to see this guys leg! In 2008, Marie's case was one of four labeled unfounded by the Lynnwood police, according to . Later that day, Mason talked to Rittgarn, his fellow detective, and said that based on Maries inconsistencies, and based on what he had learned from Peggy and Jordan he now believed Marie had made up the story. She belongs to a Caucasian family. She did. She was young, dressed in a brown, full-length coat. Marie agreed to speak to Armstrong after six months of communication. He didnt answer so I called my foster mom. She quit her Costco job and considered suicide. They cracked fast jokes and smiled fast smiles. Marie, as directed, told her fellow participants in Project Ladder that she had lied about being raped. And much like the detectives, who hunted the rapist separately before joining forces, Miller and Armstrong initially reported the story on their own before collaborating. Marie knew that both had doubted her story, even before the police had. Rarely do misdemeanors draw notice. OLeary pleaded guilty in both of the Washington cases. If detectives could eliminate OLearys male relatives, they could place OLeary at the scene of the crimes with a high degree of certainty. I was on like seven different drugs. Recently, Marie was asked if she had considered not reporting the rape. This is actually shown to be the case in the Netflix series too,. The rest was awkward, excruciating silence. I was mad at God, she says. Afterward, he ordered her to brush her teeth and wash herself in the shower. Lets do what we can do to catch him.. But which one? And to top it all off, police refuse to believe her when she comes forward. She is now a truck driver,married, and as of 2015 has two children. The result was a searchable database of thousands of tag numbers indexed by time and location. The perpetrator of the serial rapes, Marc O'Leary, was also interviewed. by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project. He also realized police departments often did not communicate. He wore a black. She picked out a feminine white coat with a fur collar because she thought thats what girls were supposed to wear, but then kept the coat in the closet when she realized it wasnt. Police checked it out, but the man was gone. Years later, detectives would find notes on his cellphone from his surveillance of another target (his word) that detailed which room she was in and when, what lights were off or on, which windows and blinds were opened or closed, whether her boyfriend was there or gone. Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com. He had prowled before and broken into womens homes before, but following through was another matter. He was just being neat and orderly, the way he was with everything. The first victim, an 18-year-old woman known as Marie, reported to Sergeant Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn that she had been raped at her home in Lynnwood, Washington. Its huge, she said. [29] Emily Bazelon of The New York Times praised that the authors "tell their story plainly, expertly and well",[30] and the style of alternating between Marie's story and the other Denver sexual assaults was praised by Claudie Rowe of The Seattle Times and Cain. A couple of other officers were already there, protecting the crime scene. From a large black bag, he took out thigh-high stockings, clear plastic high heels with pink ribbons, lubrication, a box of moist towelettes and bottled water. We are happy to reach this resolution, he said. What do you think should happen to someone who would lie about something like this? .css-gk9meg{display:block;font-family:Lausanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;padding-top:0.25rem;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-gk9meg:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.15;margin-bottom:0.25rem;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1rem;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0.625rem;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 73.75rem){.css-gk9meg{font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.2;}}Celebrities Who Voice Cartoon Characters, 'The Mandalorian' Season 3 is About to Commence, The Underworld Crossover of the Century Is Coming. "[38] On Metacritic, the program has a rating of 83 out of 100 based on 25 reviews, indicating universal acclaim. It was hard to get along. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. She had no family nearby. The man wore a condom, she believed. The Marshall Project specializes in criminal justice. Who is this guy? she asked herself. 16 September 2019, 17:23 | Updated: 16 September 2019, 17:31. Investigators must have definitive proof of lying before doubting a rape report, and a charge of false reporting must now be reviewed with higher-ups. There was something else she had to do. "This is not the kind of story where you anticipate competition," Armstrong told Longform in 2016. In February 2011, a report was unearthed of a suspicious vehicle registered to army veteran Marc Patrick O'Leary, who lived in Lakewood, Colorado, and whose description matched the attacker. As well as watching Netflix's new drama, premiering globally Friday, the original article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," is a must-read. Two and a half years after Maries attack, Lynnwood police contacted her to refund her the $500 and other court costs and informed her thather record would be expunged. For Mason, his decision to file the citation required no complicated calculus. Our personalities didnt match at first either, Marie says. In the five years from 2008 to 2012, the department determined that 10 of 47 rapes reported to Lynnwood police were unfounded 21.3 percent. In 2011, Marc O'Leary was arrested in Colorado for rape and She then found the Kirkland victims name on OLearys computer, attached to an encrypted file. OPEN NOW. The main characters are based on Marie (Kaitlyn Dever), known in the series as Marie Adler, and Detectives Edna Hendershot and Stacy Galbraith, who were renamed as Grace Rasmussen (Toni Collette) and Karen Duvall (Merritt Wever). He told the man he was canvassing the neighborhood to warn of a burglar in the area. Maries case led to changes in practices and culture, Rider said. The article was further informed by other interviews and thousands of pages of public records material. Marie agreed to those conditions. She and I speak fairly often. After cooking green mung beans for dinner, she curled up in bed for a marathon of Desperate Housewives and The Big Bang Theory until drifting off. Warning: This material may be disturbing to some listeners. Then she admitted making the story up". Recognizing that Maries high school wasnt a great fit pretty cliquey, Peggy says Peggy found an alternative school that was. He documented the assault with a digital camera and threatened to post the pictures online if she contacted the police. In August 2008, 18-year-old Marie (her middle name) called the police in Lynnwood, Washington, to report . Not long before, Marie had accompanied Peggy and the sisters and Peggys boyfriend on a picnic. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She clearly remembered one physical detail about him: a dark mark on his left calf the size of an egg. She remembers being hungry and eating dog food. We may earn a commission from these links. Hendershot discovered the Lakewood patrol car had snapped its picture as OLeary was headed to a nearby branch of the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles. Carefully, she compared OLearys white Mazda to the surveillance tape. Both were outgoing. It was a collaboration between two American, non-profit news organizations, The Marshall Project and ProPublica. He tied her hands. Rape victims get immediate assistance from advocates at a local healthcare center. It was awesome.. [1][2] Colorado publication Westword reprinted the article as their cover story on May 19, 2016. "When the police began doubting Marie, they turned on her, Armstrong told National Public Radio last year. Jordan told the detective that he and Marie had stopped dating a couple months back but remained good friends. She worked at Costco and stayed in touch with some of her previous foster moms. The initial detectives investigating. During the attack, he knocked a yellow teddy bear off a desk in her bedroom. They spraypainted the prints fluorescent orange to make them stand out, then took pictures. The news was not great. [6] The teams decided to collaborate. The stranger wore gloves. There was no time to waste. It freaked me out. Through friends, Marie met Jordan Schweitzer, a high school student working at a McDonalds. She was a wife, a mother. The first day of the first year of high school fills many students with anxiety. . The investigators confronted her, and under their pressure, Marie said that she made up her initial claim. Really, it was as simple as that. had been arguing, and the other a friend who had spoken to D.M. Two heads, three heads, four heads, sometimes are better than one, right? she said. She could carry on a conversation with adults. Marie was charged with filing a false report and accepted a plea deal under which she had to pay a $500 fine and undergo counseling to avoid jail time. Or fabricating a ruse to cover a sexual encounter gone wrong? I have a background in mental health and Ive been working with kids for a really long time. Seven cops stood behind her, pressed against the house, their guns drawn. Wanting independence,she moved into a program in Lynnwood, Washington entitled Project Ladder designed to help young people transition from foster care to living by themselves. Shut down. [9] The other officer, Rittgarn, declined to be interviewed. Then, confronted by police with inconsistencies in her story, she had conceded it might have been a dream. Sitting close to her in the front seat of the car, Galbraith carefully brushed the womans face with long cotton swabs to collect any DNA traces that might remain. Rittgarn asked Marie. [35][36][37] On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a rating of 98%, based on 82 reviews, with the summary: "Heartbreaking and powerful, Unbelievable transcends familiar true-crime beats by shifting its gaze to survivors of abuse, telling their stories with grace and gravity. Marie wrote that the attacker said she could untie herself once he was gone: After he left I grabbed my phone (which was right next to my head) with my mouth and I tried to call Jordan back. "Unbelievable" recounts the true story of how the teenager reported to Lynnwood police in 2008 that she was raped at knifepoint by a masked intruder in her apartment and how she later. It described the officers' behaviour as "bullying" and highlighted threats of jail and housing assistance removal as "coercive, cruel, and unbelievably unprofessional." Project Ladder staff made Marie return to police when she said she made the report under duress. The pair spoke to various police officers, including Detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot who investigated the Colorado cases. He then raped her. These guidelines, available to all police departments, detailed common missteps. She had gotten all the classes she wanted. They were both cops, after all. And she would have to pay $500 to cover the courts costs. Cops must work as hard to prove a falsehood as they do to prove a truth. September 13, 2019. But in fresh light, it appeared very much like a failed rape attempt, committed by an attacker who closely resembled the description of the rapist. He got a hit. ", "I dont want to cower in the corner," Marie herself told ProPublica in early September. The original series was inspired by the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica article " An Unbelievable Story of Rape .". Neither Mason nor Rittgarn were disciplined. This story was co-published with The Marshall Project. And I think the agency just thought, She can handle it. So., At first, Marie didnt want to live with Peggy. Before long, David stumbled onto something. It adapts "An Unbelievable Story of Rape". Project Ladder gave her a 9 p.m. curfew and doubled the number of times she had to meet with staff. We all got into this job to help people, not to hurt them. Lynnwood Sgt. After leaving the police station, Marie learned that she still wasnt through. They were knocking on neighbors doors, snapping photographs in the apartment, digging through garbage bins, swabbing the walls, the windows, everywhere for DNA. Rittgarn had already left the department, but Mason came in, looking like a lost little puppy, Marie says. A lot of times people say, Believe your victim, believe your victim, Galbraith said. He had since broken into her place twice, both times through that same glass door. Rittgarn told Marie that her story and the evidence didnt match. Hendershot seized on them. Marie Adler's story was told in the web series "Unbelievable" on Netflix. He was not a registered sex offender. And one came from the teddy bear in Aurora. If you - or anyone you know - needs help, please contact the following: If you're in the US, the National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24/7 at 800-656-HOPE and you can also visit RAINN. Sometimes going a hundred miles an hour, you miss some breadcrumbs, the same colleague noted. One was her former foster mother, with whom D.M. [9], For the article, Armstrong and Miller made public records requests to police departments and prosecuting attorney's offices in Washington and Colorado. I wasnt going to let him destroy me.". Just keep working! Galbraith insisted. "This was about a sexual assault that happened in 2008, and [Miller] and I are both working on this story seven years later. It was registered to a Lakewood man named Marc Patrick OLeary. Mason. We would always hug and she would look you right in the eye. In the bedroom, Marie seemed casual, with nothing to suggest that something horrible had happened there. She doubted herself, wondering if there was something in her that needed to be fixed. Three years later, two female detectives from Colorado, Stacy Galbraith (Karen Duvall in the show) and Edna Hendershot (Grace Rasmussen in the show), validated Marie's case, after working to catch a serial rapist and learning that he'd raped Marie too. The five other attacks one in Washington, four in Colorado all came after the attack on Marie. For Marie, Shannons home had long provided an escape or respite. The woman underwent a special forensic examination to collect more DNA evidence. He gripped a silver and black gun. The first narrative is about a woman in Lynnwood, Washington, known pseudonymously as "Marie", who reports being raped to the police. On the morning of Friday, Feb. 11, FBI agents were surveilling OLearys house. Launched the year before, the program was designed to help young adults who had grown up in foster care transition to living on their own. No, she said. She wanted to help the police. The bruising on her right wrist measured 6.5 centimeters, or about 2.5 inches, the one on her left, 7 centimeters. Tuesday 7:00am - 9:00pm Galbraith listened to the woman with a sense of alarm. They often dont know about, or fail to use, an FBI database created years ago to help catch repeat offenders. Denver-area publicationWestword reported. She saidshe found it strange that Marie wanted the same bedspread set that she had before the rape. [7], By August 2015, Miller was working on a report about the Washington and Colorado serial rape cases, with focus on the woman who recanted a report of rape after intense police interrogation, proven true years later by the rapist's convictionknown in the article by her middle name "Marie". I ran home. At home she avoided the bedroom, choosing to sleep on the couch with the lights on. At home, her husband David had done the dishes and put the kids to bed. She considered jumping. Marie accepted a plea deal that sentenced her to counseling, probation, and a $500 payment for court fees, but no jail time. D.M. He told them the evidence didnt support Maries story, and that she had taken her story back. But investigators could not yet rule out Michael as a suspect. But Hendershot right away recognized the potential in collaborating and in using every tool possible. They talked about being tied up. The man is arrested in February 2011, and subsequent evidence on his hard drive reveals that Marie, not previously known to the local investigative team, was raped by him. She also held it againstMarie that apparently she wasn'tmaking eye contact, was giggling, and was being flirty in the aftermath. and her ID card. The case is true, and is based upon a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 joint investigation from ProPublica and the Marshall Project by reporters T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong. It picked up nine months later and 22 miles to the west, when the rapist attacked the artist in Lakewood. He was 32 years old and 220 pounds. Maybe she was making up the rape to get moved to a new one. Celebrate the life of Marie Arzer, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information. Galbraith felt sick. I didn't even get a half mile from my house. People are calling it the most "infuriating" true-crime drama of all time. The marks at the two crime scenes were the same. She crackled energy. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. When Galbraith talked to her husband, also a police officer, he observed similarity with an incident reported to his police department in Westminster. At around 8 a.m., she was jolted awake by a man who had jumped on her back, pinning her to the bed. Marie was heavily medicated, although its not clear why. It was just like, freedom. Marie sued the city and settled for $150,000. Marie got her GED at age 17 in 2008. In 2008, 18-year-old Lynnwood, Washington woman Marie is attacked in her apartment by a man who ties her up and rapes her, taking photographs all the while. But then her life changed. But no matter her affection for Marie, Shannon knew they couldnt keep her, because the foster child already in their home required so much care. She went to analternative high school where she met her boyfriend, Jordan Schweitzer, who later told the journalists behind the piece that she was just a nice person to have around. As for threatening jail and a possible withdrawal of housing assistance if Marie failed a polygraph: These statements are coercive, cruel, and unbelievably unprofessional, Rinta wrote. Hendershot met her at a Dennys restaurant. [8] Three officers in the Lynnwood Police Department were interviewed, including Mason, one of the officers who handled Marie's request. After repeated interrogation by the police, who do not believe her, she says that her report was false. The trail started in Aurora, east of Denver, on Oct. 4, 2009, with the 65-year-old woman. Jennifer Gentile Long, CEO of AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women, commented that the article presented an "extraordinary learning opportunity for both criminal justice professionals and ordinary citizens alike". She moved into the Alderbrooke Apartments, a woodsy complex that advertises proximity to a mall and views of the Cascades. [15] Writing for the alternative Wisconsin newspaper Isthmus, Bill Lueders praised the article and compared it to his own reporting about a similar case from 1997 to 2001, where a woman was charged by police after ostensibly making a false report of rape, but was later proven truthful by DNA evidence leading to her rapist's conviction. From what Mason wrote up later, he wasted little time confronting Marie, telling her there were inconsistencies between her statements and accounts from other witnesses. Had the woman said yes? (425) 640-6555. He has been the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Cities: Lynnwood WA, Livingston MT Possible Relatives: Kirsten Marie Gilliam, Jo Darlene Hagen. Who Is John Dutton's Grandfather in '1923'? Why would you want to have the same sheets and bedspread to look at every day when youd been raped on this bed set? Shannon thought to herself. Youre under arrest for burglary and sexual assault which occurred in the City of Golden on January 5, 2011, she told him. In 2011, her rapistMarc OLeary pleaded guilty to raping three women, including Marie, and trying to rape a fourth in Colorado. Marie got a letter, notifying her that she was wanted in court. The medical report noted abrasions to Maries wrists and to her vagina. Photographs of Marie were found on O'Leary's hard drive. She was eighteen years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year. We strongly believe that Cocoon House and its employees acted appropriately on behalf of the client., Bob Christie, the attorney who represented Lynnwood police, said the settlement resolves an unfortunate situation for everyone involved..

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