[3] The Marshall Project and ProPublica are American non-profit online news organizations. Rittgarn told Marie that if she took the test and failed, she would be booked into jail. He tied the woman up with her own shoelaces. Am I in trouble? Marie asked the detective. Their work led to them arresting Marc O'Leary, who, in December that year, was convicted of 28 counts of rape and other felonies in the state of Colorado and sentenced to 327-and-a-half years in prison. Marie sued the city and settled for $150,000. Kaitlyn Dever plays Marie, a young woman with a tough life who experiences a horrific ordeal: The first episode depicts Marie's rape,an attack by a knife-wielding man wearing a mask, in flashbacks. Marie accepted a plea deal that sentenced her to counseling, probation, and a $500 payment for court fees, but no jail time. He wore a black mask that seemed more like a scarf fastened tight around his face. Despite the reviews tough language, no one in the Lynnwood Police Department was disciplined. She had a social circle. A lot of times people say, Believe your victim, believe your victim, Galbraith said. Its huge, she said. One officer suggested a bathroom break. The bruising on her right wrist measured 6.5 centimeters, or about 2.5 inches, the one on her left, 7 centimeters. Galbraith recognized them by sight. Police found Maries purse on the bedroom floor, her wallet on the bed and her learners permit, for some reason removed from her wallet, on a bedroom window sill. D.M.s lawsuit also named as defendants the agency that runs the program, Cocoon House, and two of its employees, Jana Hamilton and Wayne Nash. Detectives receive additional training about rape victims. The next day, Marie told Wayne Nash, her case manager at Project Ladder, that the police didnt believe her. I was just too scared, Marie says. The first person she called after the attack was her former foster mom Shannon McQuery, who immediately didnt believe her. [1][2], The article won the 2015 George Polk Award for Justice Reporting, presented by Long Island University, and the 2016 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting, awarded by the University of Colorado Boulder and Denver Press Club. So, too, his methods. She saidshe found it strange that Marie wanted the same bedspread set that she had before the rape. He was not a registered sex offender. I didnt want it to get back to Marie, Peggy says. Netflix's new drama series Unbelievable, premiering Friday, really does have to be seen to be believed. Winning $150,000 in a lawsuit against Lynnwood WA, Marie gets the fuel she needs to leave Washington and start anew. Police found shoe prints in the soft, damp soil outside the womans bedroom. He was Marc OLeary. awoke in her Lynnwood apartment to find a man holding a kitchen knife. The true-crime drama tells the real story of Marie Adler, an 18-year-old girl from Lynnwood, Washington, who was wrongfully charged with a gross misdemeanour in 2008 after police believed that she lied to them about being raped. 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. In practice, many police departments will pursue charges against women only in extreme circumstances say, in a highly public case where a suspects reputation has suffered, or where the police have expended considerable investigative resources. She felt like she belonged. Flipping the switch was a relief and it would let her leave. [6] His article "The FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Rapists Almost Nobody Uses It" was published in July 2015. Shannon said she did, too. They gave her an envelope with information on counseling for rape victims. Honeycomb marks. She kept in touch with previous foster families. Hendershot met her at a Dennys restaurant. Peggy, too, was mystified by Maries demeanor. YEARS IN BUSINESS (425) 672-1137. She was there to investigate a report of rape. The eight-episode series, entitled "Unbelievable," isan adaptation of the 2015 Pulitzer-winning ProPublica and Marshall Project in-depth story about the case. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! "I wanted to talk about it and get it out.. He knew to avoid leaving his DNA at the scene. Marie was heavily medicated, although its not clear why. Like kids most everywhere, Marie wanted to fit in. So did Galbraith. He asked if the rapist was real and she said "no." OBITUARY Marie Theresa Arzer October 2, 1945 - February 11, 2023. On the day she reported being raped, Marie phoned Shannon, her former foster mom, after getting back from the hospital. ", "I dont want to cower in the corner," Marie herself told ProPublica in early September. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. The woman alleges that police bullied her into recanting her story despite physical evidence supporting her report that she was tied up, threatened with a knife and attacked inside her Lynnwood. 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. ", The reporters adapted the story for audio for an episode of This American Life and wrote a book about the case called, A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America. At a little before sunrise, he heard the phone conversation end. Dont call or Ill shoot you, he told her. Following police confrontation about inconsistencies in her story, she said that she made the incident up. They were tough for cops and prosecutors. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. The article was further informed by other interviews and thousands of pages of public records material. Rittgarn told Marie that her story and the evidence didnt match. 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. Hendershot was more experienced. [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. And Zoloft is an adult drug I was on that at 8.. They treated Marie like a suspect instead of a victim and, in doing so, they unwittingly coerced her into saying she lied. Afterward, she smiled. He had taken her sheets and bedding. Years before the #MeToo movement gave voice to women previously coerced into silence over historic sexual abuse, Marie's story exemplified the disbelief and callous treatment often shown to sexual assault survivors. We all got into this job to help people, not to hurt them. Lynnwood Sgt. She had gotten all the classes she wanted. The trail started in Aurora, east of Denver, on Oct. 4, 2009, with the 65-year-old woman. Warning: This material may be disturbing to some listeners. People are calling it the most "infuriating" true-crime drama of all time. At 8:15 a.m., Galbraith knocked on OLearys door. He would learn her date of birth and license plate number. He had broken into more than a dozen homes since. So did Zachor & Thomas, the law office that handled the prosecution of Marie on Lynnwoods behalf. This was never meant to happen. By 2011, Colorado Detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot, officers from separate departments in different towns, were working together to catch a serial rapist terrorizing women, completely unaware that Marie even existed. Galbraith introduced herself. Over the next four hours, he raped her repeatedly. However, at the age of 18, Marie's foster mum, Peggy Cunningham, enlisted her in a program called Project Ladder, which allowed Marie to move into her own one bed flat, help her get a job and become self-sufficient. She asked that her current location not be disclosed. But not enough.. He told Marie that her description of calling Jordan was different from what Jordan had reported. She had turned up something. They didnt need to worry, she told the group. [23][24][3], Armstrong and Miller adapted their article and additional research into a 304-page book, A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America. I think its listen to your victim. by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project. She wanted to be honest. They said her record would be expunged. 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 married, and in October she and her husband had their second child. Just keep working! Galbraith insisted. He wore a white T-shirt. She doubted herself, wondering if there was something in her that needed to be fixed. [8] A brief audio recording of Marie describing her rape is included in the article.[2]. For me it seems like people read me differently than I see myself, Marie said in the written piece about her struggle. Peggy had two cats. I got off the phone with her and tried to untie myself. The fear of false rape accusations has a long history in the legal system. I wanted to see the look on his face, I guess, she said. There was something else she had to do. In addition, Mason had received a tip that Marie was unhappy with her apartment. Self-esteem gave way to self-loathing. "The focus of the investigation became her credibility. In Golden, Colorado, during January 2011, Detective Stacy Galbraith interviewed a woman who was raped at gunpoint for four hours. One reason is that women fear police wont believe them. Bar name changes for certain characters, Unbelievable is an incredibly loyal interpretation of the award winning The Marshall Project article which inspired it: An Unbelievable Story of Rape. Pretty positive or actually positive? 4231 196th St SW. Lynnwood, WA 98036. Police checked it out, but the man was gone. And on the long, fraught trail between crime and conviction, the first triers of fact were the cops. Police. She reports entering foster care at age six or seven.". And it seems like every time I talk to her she's in a different state. The media wrote about Marie being charged, without identifying her. 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 now wishes she had never shared her doubts with police. Her voice was like this little tiny voice, and I couldnt really tell. The next morning, Mason went to Jordans home to interview him. She then found the Kirkland victims name on OLearys computer, attached to an encrypted file. Her birthplace is Lynnwood, Washinton, United States, and her age is 32 years old. I ran home. At home she avoided the bedroom, choosing to sleep on the couch with the lights on. He is currently housed in the Sterling Correctional Facility in the barren, remote northeastern corner of Colorado. Rodney Cohnheim said of Marie, She was victimized twice., Sgt. Hendershot remembered that while investigating her case, an officer had alerted her to an incident in October 2009 in Aurora, a suburb on the other side of Denver. Lynnwood WA, Livingston MT Possible Relatives: Kirsten Marie Gilliam, Jo Darlene Hagen. Marie got her GED at age 17 in 2008. The city of Lynnwood will pay a woman $150,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed after police charged her with filing a false report because they didnt believe she had been raped. Here's how two reporters turned a local miscarriage of justice into national news. Shannon called Marie and suggested she also contact the Kirkland police. The woman underwent a special forensic examination to collect more DNA evidence. 7. It had her name. While the program managers waited outside, Marie met with Rittgarn and another officer. Mason, then 39, had spent his years mostly in patrol and narcotics. She remembers being hungry and eating dog food. One was her former foster mother, with whom D.M. Details of that settlement are confidential, according to the womans lawyers. Gina is survived by her parents, Terrance and Jennifer; her husband, Andy; her children, Carter (19), Noah (17) and Chase (13 . In a follow-up article describing the process by which they reported the story, the journalists wrote that they filed records requests for thousands of pages of documents from police and prosecutors offices in Washington and Colorado: "Other reporting included pulling transcripts of television news coverage from when Marie was raped and later charged, wrote Miller, "having court transcripts prepared from when OLeary was sentenced in Colorado; reviewing grant documents for Project Ladder; and mining the criminal-justice literature for expert views on how rape investigations should be conducted., In a decision that was echoed in Netflixs series, the reporters decided not to focus the story on the rapist, Marc OLeary. It was a collaboration between two American, non-profit news organizations, The Marshall Project and ProPublica. [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. The detectives second interview with Marie was designed to elicit a confession of false reporting. The false reporting charge arose from a self-imposed rush.. The search of the home validated the detectives investigation. The Project Ladder managers told Marie that if she wanted to stay in the program if she wanted to keep her subsidized apartment she would have to confess to someone else. This made it the seventh-most viewed television series on the platform from August 2018 to September 2019. When Marie called her on that first day, before the police arrived, she was crying and I could barely hear her, Peggy says. It is graphic, but she told us people should hear it. The credibility of the victim was often on trial as much as the guilt of the accused. Sign up for ProPublicas Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. She is strong. He took their clothing and bedding with him when he left. No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. commented on the changing definition of rape used by the FBI. At the time, police had labeled the case a burglary. And at the hunts end, before he committed, he would take a final pass through the home, or what he called precombat inspection, to make sure there werent any weapons within the targets reach. The report detailed how a 46-year-old artist had been accosted in her home by a man with a knife. Marie figures her happiest years were when she was 16 and 17, and the happiest day may have been one she spent with her best friend, another high school student who was teaching Marie the fine points of camerawork. We have no doubt that Marie's story will inspire many viewers and hopefully encourage police departments to have more rigorous training when it comes to dealing with rape victims. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. I told her, I said, Its over. The rims would have traces of his DNA. Marie's rape happened in 2008, two years before the rapes that were investigated and ultimately led to proving her story true. In December 2011, O'Leary was sentenced to 327.5 years in prison for four incidents in Colorado. Celebrate the life of Marie Arzer, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information. Through friends, Marie met Jordan Schweitzer, a high school student working at a McDonalds. Marie received Zithromax and Suprax for possible exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, and an emergency contraceptive pill. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008 in Lynnwood Municipal Court, a place where the judge says the goal is to correct behavior to make Lynnwood a better, safer, healthier place to live, work, shop and visit.. Even her foster parents now doubted her. It was registered to a Lakewood man named Marc Patrick OLeary. Dont scream. And for him to know that we figured you out.. I mean, I get shiver bumps thinking about it, just even now, Hendershot said. Afterward, he made her take a shower. But she remembers being kind of shocked to learn that they had charged Marie. So nobody else would get hurt, she said. And they handed her $500, a refund of her court costs. Marie said no. After hours of further questioning, Marie wrote that she had been lying. D.M. Despite that, she tried to enjoy life and liked school, hiking, photography, and going to the beach with friends. She is now a truck driver,married, and as of 2015 has two children. in a police car and took her to the station, where Rittgarn told her there were inconsistencies in her story. The next day, when Shannon saw Marie at her apartment, her doubts intensified. I would spend hours at the beach watching the sunset go down and that was one of my favorite things. Our personalities didnt match at first either, Marie says. Before long, David stumbled onto something. They discovered a pair of Under Armour gloves with a honeycomb pattern. She wanted to help the police. The sections are ordered alternately, with an opening paragraph about the woman in Washington being charged with false reporting. She read the email and her mind shot back five months, to a crisp Tuesday in August 2010. The lawsuit alleges that the woman was required to stand up in front of other program participants and say that she had lied about being raped or risk being evicted, according to the lawsuit. It sounded like a lot of drama, too, in some ways. At the time, Peggy had new foster children two sisters, both teenagers. There, a 65-year-old woman told police that she had been raped in her apartment by a man with a black scarf wrapped around his face. He was military so he was very organized, Galbraith said. Put your hands behind your back, he told her. She had reported being raped in her apartment by a man who had bound and gagged her. Galbraith was younger. 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. He had learned from past failures one time, a guy walked in as he stood there, mask on, outside the bedroom door of the woman he planned to rape so now, he did painstaking surveillance: peeking in windows, breaking in beforehand, gathering information. I dont know why I couldnt have done something different. It turned out the woman, identified in court documents by the initials D.M., was one of several victims of serial rapist Marc O'Leary, a former Washington man who admitted the 2008 crime and is. 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. Armstrong and Miller reported the story in part by interviewing almost everyone involvedMarie, her one-time foster parents, the Colorado detectives who solved the case and one of the Washington cops who bungled it, and the rapist. [1][2] Colorado publication Westword reprinted the article as their cover story on May 19, 2016. He moved deliberately. Where do you go when youre 5 and already thinking about handcuffs? Galbraith returned to the crime scene. Before that, he had served in the Marine Corps, specializing in helicopter avionics. The average law enforcement agency in America is about 13 percent female. She did what she always did when under stress. Among the items Colorado detectives found in OLearys possession were photographs of D.M. MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. A second came from the victim in Golden. Marie broke down, experiencing, all at once, shock, relief and anger. Who is this guy? she asked herself. She began crying and said she kept seeing visions of him on top of her, the lawsuit says. lynnwood, wa. Galbraith had maneuvered herself to stand behind OLeary. But he did say Marie had told him: When she tried calling him that morning, she had used her toes, because she was tied up. She emailed a crime analyst at another police department, I so want to see this guys leg! It was possible that Michael had committed the rapes. 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. Not long before, Marie had accompanied Peggy and the sisters and Peggys boyfriend on a picnic. 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. [11] Keller and other editors recommended cutting down on the ending of the article, yielding a short epilogue. The dog, outside, had tracked to the south, toward an office building, but was unable to lead officers to anything that might identify the rapist. But which one? How can I obtain the complete court record? You can contact the court in which the case was filed to view the court record or to order . Most had been assaulted by a boyfriend, an old flame, or someone they had met at a club. A half-dozen officers and technicians were now at work. Lynnwood police found Marie south of Seattle, Washington and told her what had happened. They sank down on separate couches in their living room. She pounded the table and said she was pretty positive.. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. But then Galbraith stumbled across an image of a woman she didnt recognize. She did. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! He tried to bind her wrists. And Zoloft is an adult drug I was on that at 8, she said, according to the article. and her family. Sunday 8:00am - 8:00pm. Westminster crime scene investigators had discovered similar marks on the window of the victims apartment. Galbraith had a simple rule: listen and verify. She quit her Costco job and considered suicide. Three days after the assault, officers picked up D.M. A 59-year-old woman told her that she had been asleep in her home when a man jumped on her back. [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. Police guidelines advised that rape victims should not be interrogated, as they may be uncertain of details or report conflicting information. With Marie now proven honest, Lynnwood police conducted an independent investigation into the handling of her case. He used wet wipes to clean up his ejaculate. He suggested she put a dowel into the bottom track to keep out future intruders. Mason in some of the statements we were confident that [Marie] was now telling us the truth that she had not been raped.. Red Lobster. on the phone that night, before the alleged attack. In the foster system, Marie experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse and was exposed to drugs. Marie has two brothers and a sister on her mothers side. In 2008, Maries case was one of 10 rape reports the department fielded; with so few, the Criminal Investigations Division didnt have a separate sex crimes unit. The detectives had thoroughly examined their crime scenes. The pictures showed her looking terrified, bound and gagged on a bed. Delivering it crushed her. But the man was familiar with the ways of law enforcement, perhaps even a cop. It's that article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," that serves as the source material for Netflix's drama co-created by Oscar-nominated Eric Brockovich screenwriter Susannah Grant, executive produced by Katie Couric, and featuring Emmy award-winning actors Toni Collette and Merritt Wever. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and the 2015 George Polk Award for Justice Reporting. Working from Colorado, Galbraith not only linked OLeary to the rape in Lynnwood, Washington, but to the rape in nearby Kirkland. As the meeting drew to a close, a young crime analyst from the Lakewood police department stood up. Marie sued the city of Lynnwood and the . [3] Armstrong appeared on Utah Public Radio in November 2016, discussing the article on Access Utah. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008 in Lynnwood Municipal. More often they were separated. He took pictures and threatened to post them on the Internet. He gripped a silver and black gun. He will never be released. He took out the gag and removed the blindfold, telling her to avert her eyes and to keep her head in the pillow. She had no family nearby. After Marie became a teenager, her years of upheaval appeared at an end. The prosecutions offer was this: If she met certain conditions for the next year, the charge would be dropped. He insisted on a fax. It was a collaboration between two American, non-profit news organizations, The Marshall Project and ProPublica.The article was written by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller. The news was not great. Shed gone through so much already. . The Marshall Project specializes in criminal justice. Marie thats her middle name, Marie didnt say anything. I had a crib and they gave me a 16-year-old, Peggy says, with a laugh. He was promoted to sergeant and transferred to the Criminal Investigations Division six weeks before the report of Marie's assault. The woman had lost her husband to cancer the previous year. Marie stopped going to church. Ken Armstrong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who previously worked at The Seattle Times and Chicago Tribune, where his work helped prompt the Illinois governor to suspend executions and later empty death row. 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. He tied her hands behind her back with a lace from her tennis shoe, blindfolded her and gagged her. For Mason, his decision to file the citation required no complicated calculus. The Project Ladder managers instead reached out to Sgt. The original series was inspired by the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica article " An Unbelievable Story of Rape .". When she read the story, she cried. Its over. She agreed, so they left her alone for a few minutes. By the time Marie reported being assaulted, sex crime specialists had developed protocols that recognized the challenges and sensitivity of investigating rape cases. 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