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Police, walking around Maries apartment, discovered that the rear sliding glass door was unlocked and slightly ajar. He said he felt stupid, that it had looked better in his head. 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. "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. In Sgt. Maybe it was the attacker waiting for the woman to fall asleep? Or fabricating a ruse to cover a sexual encounter gone wrong? In a recent interview, Steve Rider, the current commander of Lynnwoods Criminal Investigations Division, called Maries case a major failing that has left members of the department with a profound sense of regret: Knowing that she went through that brutal attack and then we told her she lied? In 2008, Marie, from Lynnwood, Washington, reported to police an intruder had broken into her home, bound and gagged her, and raped her at knifepoint. But the hunt for the rapist united them. The attacker had been cunning, attempting to erase any traces of DNA from the scene. She came right away. Golden and Westminster were middle class bedroom towns wedged between Denvers downtown skyscrapers and the looming Rockies. Just like in the Netflix series, Marie was a foster child, with a troubled upbringing. 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. Red Lobster. Hold it in. The third doubter was an anonymous caller. She couldnt live with them anymore. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn, found the victim, Marie, on a couch, in a blanket, crying off and on. Recognizing the jeopardy she was in, she said she wanted a lawyer. The rims would have traces of his DNA. Peggy, who had received a file two to three inches thick documenting Maries history, was surprised at how well she was coping. It was just nice to be on my own and not have all the rules that I had had being in foster care, Marie says. Around 7 a.m., he stood in her bedroom doorway, holding, at shoulder height, a knife in his left hand. Rittgarn told Marie that her story and the evidence didnt match. They were tough for cops and prosecutors. View Michelle Marie Barnes results in Lynnwood, WA including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. They cracked fast jokes and smiled fast smiles. 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. Why didnt you write that you made the story up? ", 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. Best of all, Project Ladder provided subsidized housing, with each member getting a one-bedroom apartment. Denver-area publicationWestword reported. I didnt want them to waste their resources on something that might be, you know, this personal drama going on.. On the morning of Friday, Feb. 11, FBI agents were surveilling OLearys house. The man had gone to extreme lengths to avoid leaving DNA evidence, but touch DNA from the same paternal family line was found at three of the four crime scenes. Marie got a letter, notifying her that she was wanted in court. Marie Adler was born on 01 Jan 1990. "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" is a 2015 article about a series of rapes in the American states of Washington and Colorado that occurred between 2008 and 2011, and the subsequent police investigations. But Marie wanted to set out on her own. Rittgarn asked. Marie Adler's story was told in the web series "Unbelievable" on Netflix. How am I going to find him? Galbraith often volunteered to take rape cases. It was dark outside when she finished. Lynnwood police found Marie south of Seattle, Washington and told her what had happened. The average law enforcement agency in America is about 13 percent female. "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" is a 2015 article about a series of rapes in the American states of Washington and Colorado that occurred between 2008 and 2011, and the subsequent police investigations. He took pictures and threatened to post them on the Internet. The counselor couldnt offer any more details. Warning: This material may be disturbing to some listeners. She wanted to remember everything she could. He also realized police departments often did not communicate. By early March, a forensic computer specialist cracked into files that OLeary had stored on his hard drive. [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. Nobody collects such data. He tried to bind her wrists. After Marie approached Mason, he offered an apology. He wore a gray hoodie, baggy gray sweatpants and gray slip-on houseshoes. For the next half hour or so, while she slept, he got ready while talking himself into following through. By the time she exited the bathroom, he had gone. I pretty much just cried, Marie says. We were a lot alike. Despite all Marie had been through, she wasnt bitter, Shannon says. There was one possible lead. on the phone that night, before the alleged attack. Jeff Mason didnt believe her. Lie-detector tests are especially unreliable with people who have been traumatized, and can destroy the victims trust in law enforcement. In the bathroom was a black headwrap, tied to serve as a mask. And then, finally, in January 2011 came the attack on the 26-year-old in Golden, about 15 miles southwest of Westminster. The analyst shot Hendershot a message, You need to come to talk to me right now.. And one came from the teddy bear in Aurora. Marie's foster parents and police in Lynnwood have since apologized to her. They often dont know about, or fail to use, an FBI database created years ago to help catch repeat offenders. Likewise, She is a long-haul trucker by profession. They received thousands of pages of documents, including investigative reports, case reviews, crime scene photographs and footage of surveillance and O'Leary after his arrest. Outside, Marie was on the grass, rolling around and giggling and laughing, Shannon says. The rules about life, Marie says. When she was a child, her father left her mother alone. Marie said the knife was hers that it had come from the kitchen, and was what the rapist had used to threaten her. Marie's rape happened in 2008, two years before the rapes that were investigated and ultimately led to proving her story true. 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 doing this, the police ignored the fact that research shows that victims of trauma struggle to remember specific details about their experiences. Looking for a condom or its wrapper, Rittgarn checked the bathroom, trash cans and a nearby hillside, but came up empty. I went into this dark hole.. The attack was so heinous; the attacker so practiced. He told them the evidence didnt support Maries story, and that she had taken her story back. It sounded like a lot of drama, too, in some ways. At the time, Peggy had new foster children two sisters, both teenagers. Tall, winter-bare trees towered above the roof. She was very bubbly and full of energy, but she also had her moments where she could be very intense, Peggy says. The article was further informed by other interviews and thousands of pages of public records material. This didnt square with what Marie had previously told Mason. Interviewed in the same room where he had confronted Marie seven years before, he said: It wasnt her job to try to convince me. While the program managers waited outside, Marie met with Rittgarn and another officer. According to the ProPublica story, on Aug. 11, 2008, an 18-year-old woman who was identified in court documents as D.M. He used wet wipes to clean up his ejaculate. Maybe she was making up the rape to get moved to a new one. The man wore a condom, she believed. He was military so he was very organized, Galbraith said. She would need to keep straight, breaking no more laws. Galbraith rushed to a Safeway near her house to send the warrant. She had gotten all the classes she wanted. Two and a half years after Marie was branded a liar, Lynnwood police found her, south of Seattle, and told her the news: Her rapist had been arrested in Colorado. 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. It is graphic, but she told us people should hear it. I have no qualms with asking for help, Galbraith said. She said it was about 7 a.m. when she woke to find a man standing over her bed with a butcher knife and wearing latex gloves. The first person she called after the attack was her former foster mom Shannon McQuery, who immediately didnt believe her. Rittgarn had been with the department for 11 years, the last four as a detective. [13][14] It was a finalist in the 2016 National Magazine Awards in the Feature Writing category. I wasnt going to let him destroy me.". The next day, Marie told Wayne Nash, her case manager at Project Ladder, that the police didnt believe her. They wondered whether it contained photos of his victims. I mean, I get shiver bumps thinking about it, just even now, Hendershot said. When Detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot found Marc O'Leary (Christopher McCarthy in the show) guilty of raping 27 women, only then did they learn that one of those women was Marie. He found a folder called girls and pictures that OLeary had taken of his victims in Golden and Westminster. He took out the gag and removed the blindfold, telling her to avert her eyes and to keep her head in the pillow. Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com. He had since broken into her place twice, both times through that same glass door. And I think the agency just thought, She can handle it. So., At first, Marie didnt want to live with Peggy. Gina Marie Maki (Marinucci), age 46, passed away peacefully and surrounded by the love of her family on Saturday, February 18, 2023 at EvergreenHealth Hospice Center in Kirkland, Washington from Stage IV colon cancer. . What happened next serves as a harrowing. She had turned up something. The victim had described him as a gentleman, Galbraith said. 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. Galbraith was hopeful. Unbelievable is inspired by the heartbreaking, real story of Marie Adler. he would ask himself. She reports the assault to. HOURS. 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. A couple of other officers were already there, protecting the crime scene. The news was not great. In 2011, two Colorado detectivesplayed in the series by Collette and Weverpooled their resources together on the hunt for what they suspected was a serial rapist. 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. She then found the Kirkland victims name on OLearys computer, attached to an encrypted file. Her voice was like this little tiny voice, and I couldnt really tell. After Marie became a teenager, her years of upheaval appeared at an end. After I got off the phone with him, I started thinking about all things I was stressed out and I also was scared living on my own. The police had spent a lot of resources chasing that lie. His longest law-enforcement stint had been with a small police department in Oregon, where he served for almost nine years and received a medal of valor. 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. He documented the assault with a digital camera and threatened to post the pictures online if she contacted the police. 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. adult caregivers and professionals coming in and then out of her life, some distressing or abusive experiences, and a general lack of permanency. 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. There was a particular photo that I really liked that she took. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! She had spoken to a friend on the phone for several hours early Aug. 11, 2008, finally going to bed around 5:30 a.m. She said she left the sliding-glass patio door ajar. Marie, Armstrong and Miller were consulted during the production. Over the next 24 hours, more than a dozen investigators threw their collective effort and experience into finding out everything possible about OLeary. The woman underwent a special forensic examination to collect more DNA evidence. When Mason, accompanied by Detective Rittgarn, went to pick up Marie at about 3:30 p.m., they found her outside her apartment, sitting on the grass. She had no family nearby. Following police confrontation about inconsistencies in her story, she said that she made the incident up. Marie backed down. But she went through the story again only this time, saying she believed the rape had happened instead of saying it for certain. She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. The analysis of the touch DNA produced mixed results. It was a pink Sony digital camera a description that fit the model stolen from the apartment of the Westminster victim. [27], The Netflix miniseries Unbelievable is an eight-part adaptation of "An Unbelievable Story of Rape", also drawing from "An Anatomy of Doubt" and A False Report. She is strong. She remained close with Shannon, who would joke that she and Peggy were raising Marie together Shannon the fun one (lets go boating), Peggy the disciplinarian (be home by ). T. Christian Miller joined ProPublica in 2008 as a senior reporter. He had broken into more than a dozen homes since. [3] The Marshall Project and ProPublica are American non-profit online news organizations. They were knocking on neighbors doors, snapping photographs in the apartment, digging through garbage bins, swabbing the walls, the windows, everywhere for DNA. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! The officer filed a brief report on the vehicle. Then, in 2012, he was given another 62 years after pleading guilty to two rapes in the Washington towns of Lynnwood and Kirkland,KOMO News in Seattle reported. They had moved up in the ranks. She called and said, Ive been raped, Shannon says. Officials for Cocoon House declined to comment on the settlement. Their article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," tells the story of Marie (the middle name of the real victim) and Colorado detectives hunt for a serial predator. Winning $150,000 in a lawsuit against Lynnwood WA, Marie gets the fuel she needs to leave Washington and start anew. Beth Dubber / Netflix / Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic. I think its listen to your victim. [22], "An Anatomy of Doubt" is the 581st episode of the American radio program and podcast This American Life. How can I obtain the complete court record? He would rifle a targets personal documents. Mason then came to her home and interviewed her in person. "This is not the kind of story where you anticipate competition," Armstrong told Longform in 2016. In time, they became boyfriend and girlfriend. [3] Armstrong appeared on Utah Public Radio in November 2016, discussing the article on Access Utah. Investigators found a pair of Adidas ZX 700 shoes in OLearys closet. He was promoted to sergeant and transferred to the Criminal Investigations Division six weeks before the report of Marie's assault. Police checked it out, but the man was gone. Thundershowers had soaked the area before the attack. Why would a rapist use shoelaces to tie her up? He was only 8 the first time he broke into a home. A K-9 officer was outside, his dog trying to pick up a scent. Aaron Hassell, the detective on the Lakewood case, raced back to his office. Hes going to be hard to find, she thought. She is now a truck driver,married, and as of 2015 has two children. Afterward, Shannon took Marie for a walk in the woods, and told her, Im so sorry I doubted you. Marie forgave, immediately. [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. Who is this guy? she asked herself. A fellow detective sat through more than 12 hours of blurry footage. There are no firm statistics on how often police arrest women for making false rape reports, nor on how often prosecutors take such cases to court. Investigators at the scene uncovered a few, tenuous pieces of evidence. Now, her losses mounted. The entire series is harrowingly candid portrayal of Marie's story and the horrific injustice she experienced. Galbraith had a simple rule: listen and verify. She stopped crying. You should know better than to leave the door unlocked, he told her. The victims accounts were also borne out. She recalled the camera that the attacker had used to take photos. We have him.. Galbraith and her husband David once again faced each other on the couches in their living room. After Marie left, accompanied by her foster mom and case manager, the detectives helped process the scene. Based on her answers and body language it was apparent that [Marie] was lying about the rape, Rittgarn later wrote. Marie was used to being around other kids. He asked if the rapist was real and she said "no." She remembers calling the Lynnwood detectives twice and being told they didnt believe Maries account. Lynnwood, Washington 98037. The five other attacks one in Washington, four in Colorado all came after the attack on Marie. From there, her record was expunged and police returned her $500. It was blustery, and biting cold. To Marie, it seemed the questioning had lasted for hours. You know? You should get help, the woman, a house mother at a local fraternity, told the man. Hendershot met her at a Dennys restaurant. Afterward, she smiled. Just weeks after she was charged, another Seattle woman reported being raped in her home by an assailant who tied her up and photographed her. She looked calm, unflustered. 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. He told the man he was canvassing the neighborhood to warn of a burglar in the area. He worked in Westminster, some 15 miles to the northeast. The piece states: "[Marie] does not know if she attended kindergarten. Apartments didnt offer the privacy of a house, but still, there were advantages. It was parked half a block from the Lakewood victims house, by an empty field adjacent to her backyard. The investigators decided to try to get a sample of OLearys DNA. In the living room, he removed the laces from her black tennis shoes and put the shoes back. The 18 year old woman reported the rape to her local police department but they accused her of lying and she was charged with false reporting. The stranger wore gloves. She crackled energy. 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. But her misdemeanor had made the news, and made her an object of curiosity or, worse, scorn. Thats five times the national average of 4.3 percent for agencies covering similar-sized populations during that same period. Labs were taken for hepatitis, chlamydia, HIV. When I went to sleep I dreamed that someone broke in and raped me. Marie said on an episode of This American Life in an episode devoted to this case entitled Anatomy of Doubt that she was raped as a child, but notedshe didnt talk about it much and pretty much suppressed that it had happened. The journalists behind that piece obtained a report written by mental health expert who interviewed Marie for hours, which states that she only met her biological father once and that she knows very little about her biological mother. He wore a black. Marie never did. The attack. Lakewood patrol cars had cameras that automatically took pictures of every license plate they passed. Both had smudges on the back in the same place perhaps a bumper sticker that had been torn off. Police should not interrogate victims or threaten to use a polygraph device. Later, she was charged with making a false police reporta crime punishable by up to a year in jail. They dont appreciate having their time wasted. Now he was 30, an Army veteran infantry, two tours in South Korea who had enlisted in the Reserves, only he hadnt appeared for duty in months. Rider said his agency has become more cautious about labeling a case unfounded since Marie. She did what she always did when under stress. In June 2012, he was sentenced to 40 years for the rape in Kirkland and to 28 years for the rape of Marie in Lynnwood. D.M., who now lives in Wyoming, said through her attorneys Yvonne Kinoshita Ward and Rich Fisher that she was glad for the settlement and ready to move forward in the next chapter of her life.. MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. Analysts at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation got the samples. In the spring of 2008, Marie turned 18. That was an interesting conversation you were having, he said, letting her know that he had been there, listening, waiting. It was just like, freedom. If you aren't already clued in on Marie's story, read on: The series takes its inspiration from a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 ProPublica and The Marshall Project article about a woman who experienced a horrific sexual assault aged 18 but later recanted her story. Mason. If you drew a map, it was almost like the rapist was circling the compass points of Denvers suburbs. Its over. And on the long, fraught trail between crime and conviction, the first triers of fact were the cops. Police ranks remain overwhelmingly male, often hierarchical and militaristic. The real woman known as Marie in the original articleMarie is her middle namereported her rape to Lynnwood, Washington police on August 11, 2008. She was just moved. Michaels appearance was confounding. 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. I basically had 20 minutes to pack my stuff and go.. He described the feeling after raping one elderly victim. The statement was only one page. "I just got thisreally weird feeling. Shed worked more than 100 rape cases in her career. Whenever she looked at them in the future, she would remember catching OLeary. It was awesome.. 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. I didnt want this time to be like that, Marie said of her attack on This American Life, comparing it to her first rape. Marie said she didnt know of any discrepancies. [9], Armstrong's editor Joe Sexton and Miller's editor Bill Keller had worked together at The New York Times. But the man was familiar with the ways of law enforcement, perhaps even a cop. Im encouraged, Im excited, she said. 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. No one deserves to be treated like Marie was. I really loved the family and I made a lot of friends, Marie says. Despite all she had been through, Mariesaid she does not regret reporting the rape. But then her life changed. He boasted of the countermeasures hed taken to avoid getting caught. Her lawyer was surprised she had been charged. By the time of the article, Marie was married with two children. [9], Nora Caplan-Bricker of Slate reflected that "Marie's story helps remind us that false reports of rape are the exception, not the rule", believing that the article shows the "ruinous consequences" and "ubiquity" of rape victims being disbelieved. They tailed the pair to a nearby restaurant, and watched them eat. But this investigation was his to lead. Even her foster parents now doubted her. Miller had discovered that a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) database to identify serial murderers and rapists was mostly unused in the cases of rape, as most police departments fail to upload sexual assault reports. It was him. And she is resilient. And Zoloft is an adult drug I was on that at 8.. The initial detectives investigating the case questioned inconsistencies in her story, and her credibility was also called into question by her foster parent and an ex-boyfriend. [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. Shannon saw an account of the attack on the television news and was taken aback. (425) 640-6555. In March 2009, she was charged with a gross misdemeanor, fined $500 and put on probation. and her ID card. Before he left, he showed the student how he broke in through a sliding glass door. 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