We learned a great deal from this. She married, and in October she and her husband had their second child. Giving Marie's story further gravitas is a highly-praised performance by breakout Booksmart star Kaitlyn Dever in the lead role. She also landed her first job, offering food samples to customers at Costco. In the spring of 2008, Marie turned 18. Marie left the state, got a commercial drivers license and took a job as a long-haul trucker. They needed more information. Information from Seattle Times archives is included in this report. The victims accounts were also borne out. It is graphic, but she told us people should hear it. He also realized police departments often did not communicate. D.M. What happened next serves as a harrowing. Her lawyer was surprised she had been charged. The first narrative is about a woman in Lynnwood, Washington, known pseudonymously as "Marie", who reports being raped to the police. Another former foster mom, Peggy Cunningham, thought that maybe Marie got sexual with someone and they took pictures (Marie said her rapist took photos of her) and this rape story was a way to cover that up, according to This American Life.. But the man was familiar with the ways of law enforcement, perhaps even a cop. There was a particular photo that I really liked that she took. She was good at empathizing with the victims, who were overwhelmingly women. 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. 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. After Marie became a teenager, her years of upheaval appeared at an end. Later that day Aug. 14, three days after Marie reported being raped Mason called Marie, to ask if they could meet. 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. 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. Whats more, he would recommend that Project Ladder pull her housing assistance. Marie said that after the rapist left she had managed, with her feet, to retrieve some scissors from a cabinets bottom drawer; she cut herself free, then tried calling Jordan. 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. You know? Marie also confronted the police who handled her original case and they apologised to her just like in the series. The fear of false rape accusations has a long history in the legal system. 1. I just kind of trusted their judgment, in terms of its their case, they know the details and I dont, Weber says. (A later edition has been retitled, Unbelievable: The Story of Two Detectives Relentless Search for the Truth.). Their suspicions were based on comments from three people who said that they doubted her story, according to the suit. BF in PJs, game over, he wrote in one nights entry. They sank down on separate couches in their living room. They treated Marie like a suspect instead of a victim and, in doing so, they unwittingly coerced her into saying she lied. It was just like, freedom. After Marie left, accompanied by her foster mom and case manager, the detectives helped process the scene. In the kitchen, when Shannon walked in, Marie didnt meet her gaze. 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. Shannon called Marie and suggested she also contact the Kirkland police. He told his wife to call his department first thing in the morning. The attacker had left behind the tiniest traces of himself. In the kitchen, he went to the knife block and removed a black-handled blade from the top row, far left. You should get help, the woman, a house mother at a local fraternity, told the man. Between one-fourth to two-thirds of rapists are serial attackers, studies show. [9], Armstrong's editor Joe Sexton and Miller's editor Bill Keller had worked together at The New York Times. In 2015, the commander of Lynnwood's Criminal Investigations Division said that practices had since changed. The night was dry, letting him settle in. She considered jumping. She had responded to a report of a rape at a blue-collar apartment complex in the northwest corner of her city. . The perpetrator of the serial rapes, Marc O'Leary, was also interviewed. The piece states: "[Marie] does not know if she attended kindergarten. Two dogs, a small pit bull and a Shar-Pei, tumbled out ahead of him. Galbraith was hopeful. The Marshall Project specializes in criminal justice. Lynnwood, Washington 98037. Police should not interrogate victims or threaten to use a polygraph device. Peggy had two cats. 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. An investigating officer had to figure out if the victim was telling the truth. He looked confused and shocked as he stepped out into the bright winter sun. She grew up with police, trusted police, knew how the police worked. Rittgarn asked Marie what was going on. returned to the police station with Cocoon House representatives and asked to withdraw the denial and insisted that she had been attacked. 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. They compared investigations. Cities: Lynnwood WA, Livingston MT Possible Relatives: Kirsten Marie Gilliam, Jo Darlene Hagen. Marie was into boys, drawing and music, be it rock, country, or Christian. By the time she exited the bathroom, he had gone. Some victims confuse fine points or even recant. She made the connection by working with a Washington state criminal analyst to search a database for unsolved cases similar to OLearys crimes. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. It was so organized, we were like, Oh, thank God.. [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". She crackled energy. She stopped crying. Here she was raped though and the stability she was beginning to establish in the Project Ladder system fell apart. 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.. Case managers would show participants the dos and donts of shopping for groceries, handling a credit card, buying insurance. Marie Adler is a rape survivor and long-haul truck driver from Lynnwood, Washington, USA. Defendants included Rittgarn, Mason and Lynnwood Police Chief Steven J. Jensen. I moved a lot when I was younger, Marie says in an interview. [3][9] Armstrong and Miller also interviewed two of Marie's foster parents and her friend, her public defender and civil suit attorney. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! 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. Westminster Detective Edna Hendershot had settled into her morning with her Starbucks usual: a Venti, upside-down, skinny caramel macchiato. In 2008, an 18-year-old woman was brutally raped at her apartment in Lynnwood, Washington, gagged and bound by an intruder in the middle of the night. 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. He had been punctilious. Marie Adler was born in 1990. Its over. He suggested she put a dowel into the bottom track to keep out future intruders. The dark mark on his leg. "I didnt want it to ruin the rest of my life. I pretty much just cried, Marie says. Marie Adler - Birth, Parents, Siblings & Education. Marie had made it through. A Kirkland detective eventually called Shannon back. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. She agreed, so they left her alone for a few minutes. Maybe the rape happened and I blacked it out, Marie said. This was never meant to happen. Unbelievable, which debuted on Netflix on Friday (Sep 13) to critical acclaim, is based on a heartbreaking true story. 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. Hed realized that before while peeping into her bedroom. She reports entering foster care at age six or seven.". I didnt want it to get back to Marie, Peggy says. 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. 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. For Marie, Shannons home had long provided an escape or respite. He let spill some lessons for law enforcement. Our personalities didnt match at first either, Marie says. The hour-long episode features Ira Glass, Ken Armstrong and Robyn Semien and includes interviews with Marie, Mason and two of Marie's foster parents. Marie sued the city, winning $150,000. He said he could come and pick her up, to take her to the police station. He told the man he was canvassing the neighborhood to warn of a burglar in the area. But not enough.. The real woman known as Marie in the original articleMarie is her middle namereported her rape to Lynnwood, Washington police on August 11, 2008. 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. Marie agreed to speak to Armstrong after six months of communication. Marie's rape happened in 2008, two years before the rapes that were investigated and ultimately led to proving her story true. According to police reports and statements filed with the lawsuit, D.M. discuss pitfalls and best practices of sex crimes investigations. She would need to get mental health counseling for her lying. Marie Theresa Arzer Obituary. The article also provided the basis of Miller and Armstrong's full-length book A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (2018). 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 ). When I went to sleep I dreamed that someone broke in and raped me. She was a little scared, but any trepidation was tempered by a sense of pride. She was accompanied by her foster mother, Peggy Cunningham, and by Wayne Nash, her case manager with Project Ladder. A second came from the victim in Golden. She doesnt want her first name revealed. Marie knew that both had doubted her story, even before the police had. [27][28] Mason was interviewed for the book, but Rittgarn refused to speak to the authors without being paid. He had broken into more than a dozen homes since. I didnt want them to waste their resources on something that might be, you know, this personal drama going on.. A couple of other officers were already there, protecting the crime scene. 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. 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. So who was the real-life Marie? Police technicians were swarming the apartment. He had taken her sheets and bedding. There it was, on OLearys left calf: a dark birthmark the size of a large chicken egg. Theyd be out there searching for this person who had done this to me.. I wanted to see the look on his face, I guess, she said. Marie settled in. The woman underwent a special forensic examination to collect more DNA evidence. In the snow, they found a trail of footprints leading to and from the back of the apartment through an empty field. The rules about life, Marie says. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. Maries account, in her own words. Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com. Neither Mason nor Rittgarn were disciplined. David Galbraith was used to such bleak stories. Afterward, she could. The criminal citation was signed by Sgt. They often dont know about, or fail to use, an FBI database created years ago to help catch repeat offenders. After OLeary was linked to Maries rape, Lynnwood Police Chief Steven Jensen requested an outside review of how his department had handled the investigation. The average law enforcement agency in America is about 13 percent female. Rittgarn had already left the department, but Mason came in, looking like a lost little puppy, Marie says. The prosecutions offer was this: If she met certain conditions for the next year, the charge would be dropped. D.M. Why would a rapist use shoelaces to tie her up? Galbraith checked out the footprints left at the Lakewood scene. 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. Rittgarn told Marie that if she took the test and failed, she would be booked into jail. The article was later adapted into the Netflix series Unbelievable (2019), which has received critical acclaim. Marie ended up suing the city of. They dont appreciate having their time wasted. The real Marie, now roughly 29, is a. The Army veteran was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Washington, between November 2006 and September 2009, when he targeted Marie in Lynnwood, Washington, in August. The judge signed it at 10 p.m. on Saturday. I felt like she was telling me the script of a Law and Order story. and her family. Her story hadnt hurt anyone no suspects arrested, or even questioned. [16], The University of Colorado Boulder reported in 2016 that law enforcement officials had requested to use the article in training. It was the first time she had agreed to be interviewed by a journalist. It was like Id just eaten Thanksgiving dinner, he said. She apologized and agreed to write another statement, leaving no doubt it was a lie. Most had been assaulted by a boyfriend, an old flame, or someone they had met at a club. The report on Maries life written by a mental health expert who interviewed her for five hours is written with clinical detachment, describing her life before she entered foster care She reports not knowing much about her biological mother, who she said would often leave her in the care of boyfriends. Warning: This material may be disturbing to some listeners. But there was a clincher: the woman in Galbraiths case had remained as focused as possible during her ordeal, memorizing details. Project Ladder gave her a 9 p.m. curfew and doubled the number of times she had to meet with staff. 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. Police guidelines advised that rape victims should not be interrogated, as they may be uncertain of details or report conflicting information. The statement was only one page. If you're in the UK, you can visit Rape Crisis or call 0808 802 9999. There was just no emotion. One officer suggested a bathroom break. 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. He will never be released. There was something else she had to do. How would she identify her? On Aug. 12, the day after Marie reported being raped, Sgt. And Zoloft is an adult drug I was on that at 8.. She sent images of the shoe prints to crimeshoe.com, a website that promised to move an investigation from an unidentified scene-of-crime shoeprint to detailed footwear information in one simple step. The site, now defunct, identified the prints as having been made by a pair of Adidas ZX 700 mesh shoes, available in stores after March 2005. Act like nothing bad had happened, like nothing ever affected her. It had cost her sense of worth. Galbraith recounted the days events. MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. "She didn't want to let this experience limit her in how she went about the rest of her life, said Miller in his NPR interview. It was dark outside when she finished. She was there to investigate a report of rape. A 59-year-old woman told her that she had been asleep in her home when a man jumped on her back. Galbraith began collaboration with Westminster Detective Edna Hendershot, who had investigated two cases in which women aged 59 and 65 were raped in similar ways. Marie got a letter, notifying her that she was wanted in court. But in this case, they worked through the night. Youre under arrest for burglary and sexual assault which occurred in the City of Golden on January 5, 2011, she told him. 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. She asked to take a polygraph testthough such tests do not provide reliable evidencebut declined when Rittgarn threatened jail and loss of housing if she failed it. He took pictures and threatened to post them on the Internet. But it was so strange because I sat down next to her, and she was telling me what happened, and I got this Im a big Law & Order fan, and I just got this really weird feeling, Peggy says. The analyst turned up an incident in Lakewood, another Denver suburb, that occurred about a month before the rape in Westminster. 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. She even called the lead detective on the case the day after and questioned Maries validity. Mariegot her GED at age 17 in 2008. The investigators decided to try to get a sample of OLearys DNA. She feared going outdoors. If you drew a map, it was almost like the rapist was circling the compass points of Denvers suburbs. Peggy didnt have any. She then found the Kirkland victims name on OLearys computer, attached to an encrypted file. Among the items Colorado detectives found in OLearys possession were photographs of D.M. 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. Then, confronted by police with inconsistencies in her story, she had conceded it might have been a dream. In hindsight, it was my job to get to the bottom of it and I didnt.. To Marie, he seemed sincere. It premiered on September 13, 2019. Maybe she was making up the rape to get moved to a new one. They also discovered a burglary where a masked man had attempted to tie up a 46-year-old woman, who jumped out of her window and was badly injured. But then Galbraith stumbled across an image of a woman she didnt recognize. We were a lot alike. Despite all Marie had been through, she wasnt bitter, Shannon says. It was a picture of the womans learners permit, placed on her chest. We pride ourselves on the genuine care and technical excellence we provide for our valued guests and are . And one came from the teddy bear in Aurora. 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. Rittgarn asked. [21] In July 2016, they appeared on the Longform podcast to discuss the article. He found a folder called girls and pictures that OLeary had taken of his victims in Golden and Westminster. Like kids most everywhere, Marie wanted to fit in. She did and then he straddled her, putting the knife near her face. Here's how two reporters turned a local miscarriage of justice into national news. said Miller during the Longform interview. Lynnwood, Washington, U.S. Mar, 2009 Marie Charges In March 2009, she was charged with a gross misdemeanor: she was fined $500, put on probation and made to attend counseling. Marie Adler was born on 01 Jan 1990. Whenever she looked at them in the future, she would remember catching OLeary. Records show the woman who was 18 at the time of the attack was threatened with eviction unless she underwent counseling and stood in front of other program participants to say she had lied about being raped, according to court documents. DMV records showed OLeary sat for a drivers license mugshot about four hours after the Westminster attack. The interviews were made late in the process, the department having refused earlier requests for comment. He knew to avoid leaving his DNA at the scene. The stranger wore gloves. Galbraith hastily typed up a search warrant to enter the brothers home. [22], "An Anatomy of Doubt" is the 581st episode of the American radio program and podcast This American Life. Credited as a collaboration with The Marshall Project and ProPublica, it debuted on February 26, 2016. Police ranks remain overwhelmingly male, often hierarchical and militaristic. She was just moved. 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. Despite that, she tried to enjoy life and liked school, hiking, photography, and going to the beach with friends. 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. 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. He arrived in the predawn hours, then waited outside her apartment, outside her bedroom, listening to her on the phone, waiting for her to fall asleep. I was mad at God, she says. After rushing to the apartment that morning, Peggy found Marie on the floor, crying. Rittgarn, who left the Lynnwood Police Department before OLearys arrest, declined to be interviewed for this story. He liked trees, for the cover they provided, and the Alderbrooke Apartments had plenty of them. A damning report found the police handling of the case "nothing short of the victim being coerced into admitting that she lied about the rape," the ProPublica and Marshall Project article said. OLeary was put in a patrol car and transported to the Jefferson County Jail. He got a hit. Marie Theresa Arzer, age 77, of Redmond, Washington passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2023. Marie Adler's story was told in the web series "Unbelievable" on Netflix. told police that, early on Aug. 11, 2008, she awoke to find a stranger in her apartment. The woman told Galbraith she was 26 years old, an engineering student on winter break from a nearby college. A collaboration between The Marshall Project and ProPublica, it was published on both websites on December 16, 2015. 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. 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. in a police car and took her to the station, where Rittgarn told her there were inconsistencies in her story. Usually, a DNA analysis took months. As the weeks passed, the dead ends continued. Rittgarn had been with the department for 11 years, the last four as a detective. He tied her hands with a ribbon. Despite all she had been through, Mariesaid she does not regret reporting the rape. And on the long, fraught trail between crime and conviction, the first triers of fact were the cops. She was still emerging from the mental and physical suffering she endured during the attack. The search of the home validated the detectives investigation. The first day of the first year of high school fills many students with anxiety. 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. Shannon said she did, too. [9] The other officer, Rittgarn, declined to be interviewed. These guidelines, available to all police departments, detailed common missteps. 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. The pair spoke to various police officers, including Detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot who investigated the Colorado cases. 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. For Galbraith, it was important to be the one who made the arrest. She has left the state, although she wants her new location to remain secret. 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. The Marshall Project article reports that "Marie left the state, got a commercial drivers license and took a job as a long-haul trucker. I told her, I said, Its over. OLeary, in addition to assaulting D.M., also admitted he raped a 63-year-old Kirkland woman. When Jordan didnt answer, Marie called her foster mother, then her upstairs neighbor, who came down to Maries apartment and called 911. 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. Denver-area publicationWestword reported. So nobody else would get hurt, she said. About Search Results. On her way, she crossed a bridge. She reports the assault to police, who quickly abandon investigating her case and .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}charge her with with making a false report to police. [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. There was one possible lead. ProPublica and Marshall Project in-depth story. Mason, then 39, had spent his years mostly in patrol and narcotics. She had reported being raped in her apartment by a man who had bound and gagged her. Tall, winter-bare trees towered above the roof. Galbraith felt sick. He waited a little longer, letting the silence stretch out, then climbed over the railing and slipped through the unlocked sliding glass door. The three then went to the police station so Marie could recant her recantation that is, tell detectives that she had been telling the truth the first time. 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