They were tough for cops and prosecutors. It adapts "An Unbelievable Story of Rape". Through friends, Marie met Jordan Schweitzer, a high school student working at a McDonalds. The real Marie, now roughly 29, is a. At least it was concrete now. Two heads, three heads, four heads, sometimes are better than one, right? she said. OLeary had been stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord from November 2006 through September 2009, when he moved to Colorado, according to prosecutors in King and Snohomish counties. In June 2012, he was sentenced to an additional 38.5 years for two incidents in Washington. But there was not enough genetic material to identify a single individual. I was trying to be a good citizen, actually. I wanted to see the look on his face, I guess, she said. She also held it againstMarie that apparently she wasn'tmaking eye contact, was giggling, and was being flirty in the aftermath. The officer filed a brief report on the vehicle. He said he felt stupid, that it had looked better in his head. And to top it all off, police refuse to believe her when she comes forward. Honeycomb marks. When she read the story, she cried. She moved into the Alderbrooke Apartments, a woodsy complex that advertises proximity to a mall and views of the Cascades. She then found the Kirkland victims name on OLearys computer, attached to an encrypted file. Marie received Zithromax and Suprax for possible exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, and an emergency contraceptive pill. You know? It was like Id just eaten Thanksgiving dinner, he said. Rittgarn told Marie that if she took the test and failed, she would be booked into jail. She did what she always did when under stress. by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project. He didnt answer so I called my foster mom. Kaitlyn Dever stars as the victim of a serial rapist in Netflix's new series "Unbelievable.". Hendershot asked for a comparison. After Marie left, accompanied by her foster mom and case manager, the detectives helped process the scene. Marie liked dogs. In her lawsuit, the woman claimed Lynnwood detectives disregarded evidence of the assault, bullied her into saying it didnt happen and then threatened to have her thrown out of her apartment when she insisted it did. Maybe it was the attacker waiting for the woman to fall asleep? View Leonard Hansen results in Lynnwood, WA including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. I think its listen to your victim. [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". Rodney Cohnheim said of Marie, She was victimized twice., Sgt. Her department was small a little more than 40 officers serving a town of about 20,000. But I dont think that thats the right standpoint. Three weeks before the attempted rape in Lakewood, a woman had called police late in the evening to report a suspicious pickup truck parked on the street with a man inside. In August 2008, a stranger broke into the apartment of an 18-year-old Lynnwood woman, gagged her, bound her hands with a shoelace and raped her. Looking for a condom or its wrapper, Rittgarn checked the bathroom, trash cans and a nearby hillside, but came up empty. Details of that settlement are confidential, according to the womans lawyers. In 2008, Maries case was one of four labeled unfounded by the Lynnwood police, according to statistics reported to the FBI. The first draft was 15,000 words in length,[9] shortened to 12,000 in the final version. Afterward, she could. [17], "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" was published on December 16, 2015. In the kitchen, when Shannon walked in, Marie didnt meet her gaze. At the time, police had labeled the case a burglary. We are happy to reach this resolution, he said. One officer suggested a bathroom break. I felt like she was telling me the script of a Law and Order story. The piece states: "[Marie] does not know if she attended kindergarten. Gina is survived by her parents, Terrance and Jennifer; her husband, Andy; her children, Carter (19), Noah (17) and Chase (13 . Now, we're extra careful that we get the right closure on it.. MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. [9], Armstrong's editor Joe Sexton and Miller's editor Bill Keller had worked together at The New York Times. She let it go and hung up, thinking, Okay, I hope that works out for you guys.. The prosecutions offer was this: If she met certain conditions for the next year, the charge would be dropped. Marie never did. When he was finished, he said that if she told the police, he would post the photos online so that her kids, when she had kids, could see them. Lynnwood WA, Livingston MT Possible Relatives: Kirsten Marie Gilliam, Jo Darlene Hagen. Lakewood patrol cars had cameras that automatically took pictures of every license plate they passed. Following police confrontation about inconsistencies in her story, she said that she made the incident up. She married, and in October she and her husband had their second child. He looked confused and shocked as he stepped out into the bright winter sun. But efforts to identify the vehicles owner failed. Marie also confronted the police who handled her original case and they apologised to her just like in the series. She looked calm, unflustered. In the 1600s, Englands chief justice, Matthew Hale, warned that rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused. Judges in the U.S. read the so-called Hale warning to juries until the 1980s. Unbelievable is inspired by the heartbreaking, real story of Marie Adler. His work included coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign and three years as a bureau chief for the Times, responsible for 10 countries in South and Central America. He was alone. How am I going to find him? Galbraith often volunteered to take rape cases. Though the degraded DNA lifted from the crime scenes could not definitively match OLearys DNA, it could show that a male from his family line had most likely committed the crime. It led to a back porch, with a wooden railing that was covered with dirt except one part, about three feet wide, where it looked like maybe someone had brushed the surface while climbing over. The DNA from the cup matched the DNA collected from the victims. The bruising on her right wrist measured 6.5 centimeters, or about 2.5 inches, the one on her left, 7 centimeters. On August 11, 2008, Marc Patrick O'Leary raped an eighteen year old at knife point in Lynnwood, Washington. After repeated interrogation by the police, who do not believe her, she says that her report was false. He knew to avoid leaving his DNA at the scene. He found a folder called girls and pictures that OLeary had taken of his victims in Golden and Westminster. [9] As the two reporters and two primary editors were all male, the team ensured that they consulted various women, some with knowledge of the case and some without, particularly in regards to how graphic or detailed to make the description of Marie's rape. Rather than write competing pieces, the two journalists teamed up. On the day she reported being raped, Marie phoned Shannon, her former foster mom, after getting back from the hospital. If you drew a map, it was almost like the rapist was circling the compass points of Denvers suburbs. Michaels appearance was confounding. The rest was awkward, excruciating silence. Hassell typed in the license plate number from the Lakewood report: 935VHX. Galbraith suggested that she and the victim escape the icy gusts in a nearby unmarked patrol car. Could the detectives connect OLearys Mazda with the blurry image of the white Mazda in the surveillance footage from Golden? Marie said she didnt know of any discrepancies. Tuesday 7:00am - 9:00pm Marie, who had turned 18 three months before, told police she had been talking on the phone much of the night with her friend Jordan. She and I speak fairly often. But in this case, they worked through the night. Shannon and Marie were both kind of goofy, Shannon says. [22], "An Anatomy of Doubt" is the 581st episode of the American radio program and podcast This American Life. After finally falling asleep, she was awakened by a man with a knife and then tied up, blindfolded, gagged and raped. In the predawn hours, a white Mazda pickup truck appeared 10 times. I didn't even get a half mile from my house. One night I did try to walk to the store by myself and felt like I hallucinated someone following me, she says. At 8:15 a.m., Galbraith knocked on OLearys door. Only about one-fifth to one-third of rapes get reported to police, national surveys show. He bound her wrists and he covered her eyes. In early October, less than two months after Marie was charged with false reporting, a 63-year-old woman reported being raped inside her condominium in Kirkland, east of Seattle. After looking through the images, she found an answer. adult caregivers and professionals coming in and then out of her life, some distressing or abusive experiences, and a general lack of permanency. Frustration grew. There was no one out there who had hurt her and no one who might hurt them next. The actual Maries first name is not Marie that'sher middle name, which was used in the articleabout her case. Really, it was as simple as that. Put your hands behind your back, he told her. He waited a little longer, letting the silence stretch out, then climbed over the railing and slipped through the unlocked sliding glass door. ", Discussing whether Marie was involved in making the series, Kaitlyn Dever, who plays Marie, told Good Housekeeping that she wasn't. After a five-week crush, there were few leads and no suspects. The samples narrowed the field of suspects to males belonging to the same paternal family line. He tied her hands loosely behind her. FBI figures show that police annually declare around 5 percent of rape cases unfounded, or baseless. It turned out the woman, identified in court documents by the initials D.M., was one of several victims of serial rapist Marc OLeary, a former Washington man who admitted the 2008 crime and is serving a 327-year prison sentence in Colorado for raping three women there. Police checked it out, but the man was gone. The credibility of the victim was often on trial as much as the guilt of the accused. Marie ended up suing the city of. I didnt want to give him the satisfaction. A week later, Galbraith, Hendershot and Aurora Detective Scott Burgess gathered around a conference table in the Westminster Police Department. Without reading the Miranda warning, they asked her to write that she had made a false report. Many states bar police from using them with rape victims. Rittgarn asked Marie. The second narrative details the police investigations into a serial rapist in Colorado, who is known to have raped four women and made a fifth attempt. She even called the lead detective on the case the day after and questioned Maries validity. [6][8] Miller called the woman's lawyer and discovered she was in contact with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project, who had been working on an article about the case for several months. Marie turned 18 just three months before the rape. 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. After claiming police coerced her into recanting her story, the woman was charged with false reporting and fined $500 when she later tried to insist the rape did happen. Neither Mason nor Rittgarn were disciplined. It was awesome.. told police that, early on Aug. 11, 2008, she awoke to find a stranger in her apartment. Or fabricating a ruse to cover a sexual encounter gone wrong? The investigation instantly turned urgent. Beth Dubber / Netflix / Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic. 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. The analyst shot Hendershot a message, You need to come to talk to me right now.. Marie Adler's story was told in the web series "Unbelievable" on Netflix. White man, gray sweater. 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