1. I wanted to see the look on his face, I guess, she said. Illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook. But something. Photographs of Marie were found on O'Leary's hard drive. He wore a gray hoodie, baggy gray sweatpants and gray slip-on houseshoes. 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. They wondered whether it contained photos of his victims. She read the email and her mind shot back five months, to a crisp Tuesday in August 2010. It had her name. Then she drove her to St. Anthony North Hospital. [8] A brief audio recording of Marie describing her rape is included in the article.[2]. [25][26] The book expands upon details of the case like O'Leary's perspective and subjects such as victim blaming and social media harassment. 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. Put your hands behind your back, he told her. She had turned up something. In the bathroom was a black headwrap, tied to serve as a mask. Masons judgment was unduly swayed by Peggys phone call. YEARS IN BUSINESS (425) 672-1137. When Jordan didnt answer, Marie called her foster mother, then her upstairs neighbor, who came down to Maries apartment and called 911. It didnt sound real to me. ProPublica and Marshall Project in-depth story. 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. I guess you wont leave your windows open in the future, the man told the woman, who had recently been widowed. Red Lobster. Whats more, he would recommend that Project Ladder pull her housing assistance. Marie, as directed, told her fellow participants in Project Ladder that she had lied about being raped. Mason in some of the statements we were confident that [Marie] was now telling us the truth that she had not been raped.. She feared going outdoors. A Lakewood patrol car had snapped a picture of OLeary standing by his white Mazda in the driveway of his house only two hours after the August attack on the widow in Westminster. Three days after the assault, officers picked up D.M. In Sgt. It was the first time she had agreed to be interviewed by a journalist. She wanted to take a lie detector test. The marks at the two crime scenes were the same. In addition, Mason had received a tip that Marie was unhappy with her apartment. I walked in, and she was super happy to see me, and I told her. This reluctance stems from the belief that in rape cases, the biggest problem is not false reporting, but no reporting. She had been charged with false reporting, punishable by up to a year in jail. 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. The result was a searchable database of thousands of tag numbers indexed by time and location. The pair spoke to various police officers, including Detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot who investigated the Colorado cases. He had previously worked only one or two rape cases. As for threatening jail and a possible withdrawal of housing assistance if Marie failed a polygraph: These statements are coercive, cruel, and unbelievably unprofessional, Rinta wrote. Marie Theresa Arzer, age 77, of Redmond, Washington passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2023. The rest was awkward, excruciating silence. It's a tragic story, made even more difficult to watch knowing it's based on a true story. The analyst shot Hendershot a message, You need to come to talk to me right now.. 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 ). [17], "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" was published on December 16, 2015. Peggy didnt have any. However, the police were suspicious of her story and Peggy was too. Sunday 8:00am - 8:00pm. Galbraith introduced herself. In doing this, the police ignored the fact that research shows that victims of trauma struggle to remember specific details about their experiences. The actual Maries first name is not Marie that'sher middle name, which was used in the articleabout her case. All those windows, for one thing. 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. 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. At around 8 a.m., she was jolted awake by a man who had jumped on her back, pinning her to the bed. He described the feeling after raping one elderly victim. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. By early March, a forensic computer specialist cracked into files that OLeary had stored on his hard drive. [8] Extracts of an external report made of the police department that investigated Marie's case were made public for the first time in the article. Warning: This material may be disturbing to some listeners. Hendershot was more experienced. On Feb. 9, 2011, more than a dozen cops and agents from the FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation gathered in a briefing room at the Westminster police station to discuss the state of the investigation. Apartments didnt offer the privacy of a house, but still, there were advantages. Marie was then charged with a gross misdemeanour for lying and lost friends, family and work after her story made the news. Mariegot her GED at age 17 in 2008. He also realized police departments often did not communicate. A fellow detective sat through more than 12 hours of blurry footage. She would need to keep straight, breaking no more laws. They began to collaborate, with Armstrong writing about Marie's story in Washington and Miller writing about the police investigation in Colorado. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008 in Lynnwood Municipal. The unbelievable story of how a rape victim in Lynnwood, Washington was charged with falsely reporting the crime and how two female detectives, who believed her, teamed up to find the serial rapist responsible: Marc Patrick O'Leary. She reports entering foster care at age six or seven.". Celebrate the life of Marie Arzer, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information. (425) 640-6555. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! A risk management decision was made, a lawyer for Lynnwood told The Herald in Everett, Washington. The first narrative is about a woman in Lynnwood, Washington, known pseudonymously as "Marie", who reports being raped to the police. Case managers would show participants the dos and donts of shopping for groceries, handling a credit card, buying insurance. Marie couldnt wait for it. 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). The International Association of Chiefs of Police and the FBI stress the need for a thorough investigation before discounting a report of rape. If Washington had just paid attention a little bit more, I probably would have been a person of interest earlier on, OLeary said. There was a particular photo that I really liked that she took. He was only 8 the first time he broke into a home. "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. However, when the lawsuit was filed in June, the programs CEO, Cassie Franklin, issued a statement saying Our hearts go out to D.M. Marie had made her report in August 2008 to Sergeant Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn. Careful, diligent, exacting she complemented Galbraith. (A later edition has been retitled, Unbelievable: The Story of Two Detectives Relentless Search for the Truth.). 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. But investigators could not yet rule out Michael as a suspect. Masons experience, when someone asked if they were in trouble, almost always, they were. She had responded to a report of a rape at a blue-collar apartment complex in the northwest corner of her city. He wore a black mask that seemed more like a scarf fastened tight around his face. Around 7 a.m., he stood in her bedroom doorway, holding, at shoulder height, a knife in his left hand. He laboriously counted 261 vehicles and people coming and going on the night of the incident. She broke three ribs and punctured a lung in the 7-foot fall to the ground, but managed to escape. So nobody else would get hurt, she said. Afterward, he ordered her to brush her teeth and wash herself in the shower. When she was a child, her father left her mother alone. He bound her wrists and he covered her eyes. 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. She told police her attacker had broken into her apartment, which had been subsidized. Galbraith checked out the footprints left at the Lakewood scene. She worked at Costco and stayed in touch with some of her previous foster moms. The physical description closely matched the descriptions provided by the victims. And we dont want to see this happen to anybody ever again, Rider said. 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. 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. Thundershowers had soaked the area before the attack. What do you think should happen to someone who would lie about something like this? I didn't even get a half mile from my house. Dont call or Ill shoot you, he told her. It was a collaboration between two American, non-profit news organizations, The Marshall Project and ProPublica. The article was further informed by other interviews and thousands of pages of public records material. Project Ladder gave her a 9 p.m. curfew and doubled the number of times she had to meet with staff. He gripped a silver and black gun. The criminal citation was signed by Sgt. Rittgarn had been with the department for 11 years, the last four as a detective. She wanted to be honest. She was young, dressed in a brown, full-length coat. 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. 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