They needed more information. Rittgarn asked. He knew that the Army had a sample of his DNA. Six hours on her feet didnt bother her. OLeary was put in a patrol car and transported to the Jefferson County Jail. 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. A friend from 10th grade called to ask: How could you lie about something like that? Two dogs, a small pit bull and a Shar-Pei, tumbled out ahead of him. And on the long, fraught trail between crime and conviction, the first triers of fact were the cops. They gave her an envelope with information on counseling for rape victims. Marie Adler's story was told in the web series "Unbelievable" on Netflix. One was her former foster mother, with whom D.M. Afterward, he made her take a shower. Marie became the subject of media reports and an attack website. Roll over onto your stomach, he told her. 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. (425) 640-6555. The investigators hadnt known that Michael lived with his brother. [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. While the agents were following the man believed to be Marc OLeary, another FBI agent knocked on the door of the home. She told police her attacker had broken into her apartment, which had been subsidized. 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. 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. 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. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn, found the victim, Marie, on a couch, in a blanket, crying off and on. HOURS. O'Leary had watched women for hundreds of hours, breaking into their houses multiple times before each rape. She recalled the camera that the attacker had used to take photos. She was very bubbly and full of energy, but she also had her moments where she could be very intense, Peggy says. Juries were hesitant to throw someone in prison when it was one persons word against anothers. Marie turned 18 just three months before the rape. The wall was thin, letting him hear her voice. In August 2008, a stranger broke into the apartment of an 18-year-old Lynnwood woman, gagged her, bound her hands with a shoelace and raped her. Sometimes going a hundred miles an hour, you miss some breadcrumbs, the same colleague noted. She explained: "She's incredibly strong and she's been through so much, so everyone on the team wanted to respect her privacy.". The main characters are based on Marie (Kaitlyn Dever), known in the series as Marie Adler, and Detectives Edna Hendershot and Stacy Galbraith, who were renamed as Grace Rasmussen (Toni Collette) and Karen Duvall (Merritt Wever). What had attracted the analysts attention was the location of the pickup. Rider said his agency has become more cautious about labeling a case unfounded since Marie. Thats five times the national average of 4.3 percent for agencies covering similar-sized populations during that same period. One detective later wrote in a report, The shoes were lying next to each other near the end of the couch and the bedroom door, on the soles as if placed there (not disturbed).. So he took steps to avoid leaving any traces of genetic material. He tried to bind her wrists. Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated by Marc Patrick O'Leary, an Army veteran who had been stationed near Tacoma. Galbraith and Hendershot hadnt known each other before the meeting. ", Merritt Wever and Toni Collette in "Unbelievable. He was alone. There was more. Because I feel that if I would have shut my mouth, they would have done their job, she says. Roll back over, he told her and she did, and then he raped her, and while he raped her he ran his gloved hands over her. Peggy told Shannon she had doubts. Shannon and Marie were both kind of goofy, Shannon says. But which one? Hed realized that before while peeping into her bedroom. Galbraith spotted the victim standing in the thin sunlight outside her ground floor apartment. On August 11, 2008, Marc Patrick O'Leary raped an eighteen year old at knife point in Lynnwood, Washington. Each ring of the phone seemed to announce another friendship, lost. It was hard to get along. She quit her Costco job and considered suicide. It was published on February 6, 2018 by the Crown Publishing Group. We were a lot alike. Despite all Marie had been through, she wasnt bitter, Shannon says. She moved into the Alderbrooke Apartments, a woodsy complex that advertises proximity to a mall and views of the Cascades. The investigation instantly turned urgent. 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. After a pause, OLeary opened the door. That was an interesting conversation you were having, he said, letting her know that he had been there, listening, waiting. Before that, he had served in the Marine Corps, specializing in helicopter avionics. She belongs to a Caucasian family. 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. The piece states: "[Marie] does not know if she attended kindergarten. The sections are ordered alternately, with an opening paragraph about the woman in Washington being charged with false reporting. Launched the year before, the program was designed to help young adults who had grown up in foster care transition to living on their own. After the meeting, Marie started walking to a friends place. She drives an 18-wheeler across the country. She now wishes she had never shared her doubts with police. He had prowled before and broken into womens homes before, but following through was another matter. Marie said no. 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. From what Mason wrote up later, he wasted little time confronting Marie, telling her there were inconsistencies between her statements and accounts from other witnesses. It was registered to a Lakewood man named Marc Patrick OLeary. 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. She had been charged with false reporting, punishable by up to a year in jail. Peggy, too, was mystified by Maries demeanor. Following this, and Marie's conflicting account of when she phoned a friend, Mason and Rittgarn made Marie repeat her story, Rittgarn saying that he disbelieved her. She apologized and agreed to write another statement, leaving no doubt it was a lie. He had taken her sheets and bedding. He had broken into more than a dozen homes since. The two bonded naturally. You can also read more about how ProPublica and The Marshall Project reported this story. Marie wrote that the attacker said she could untie herself once he was gone: After he left I grabbed my phone (which was right next to my head) with my mouth and I tried to call Jordan back. According to the ProPublica story, on Aug. 11, 2008, an 18-year-old woman who was identified in court documents as D.M. [6] The teams decided to collaborate. 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. Over the next four hours, he raped her repeatedly. He didnt answer so I called my foster mom. Marie said she really had been raped and began to cry, saying she was having visions of the man on top of her. Someone else is going to get hurt, Galbraith worried to herself. He stuffed cloth into her mouth to muffle any sound. Marie was born in Heidelberg . There was no time to waste. The attack was so heinous; the attacker so practiced. 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. 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. Hendershot was more experienced. She stopped crying. He found a folder called girls and pictures that OLeary had taken of his victims in Golden and Westminster. In 2011, her rapistMarc OLeary pleaded guilty to raping three women, including Marie, and trying to rape a fourth in Colorado. They compared investigations. Two heads, three heads, four heads, sometimes are better than one, right? she said. When the detectives returned, they saw that Maries new statement described the rape as a dream, not a lie. OLeary pleaded guilty to 28 counts of rape and associated felonies in Colorado. He insisted on a fax. 4231 196th St SW. Lynnwood, WA 98036. But she didnt know if it was important. He was sentenced to 327 and a halfyears in prison. Marie Adler is a rape survivor and long-haul truck driver from Lynnwood, Washington, USA. He was promoted to sergeant and transferred to the Criminal Investigations Division six weeks before the report of Marie's assault. For the next half hour or so, while she slept, he got ready while talking himself into following through. 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. Giving Marie's story further gravitas is a highly-praised performance by breakout Booksmart star Kaitlyn Dever in the lead role. We pride ourselves on the genuine care and technical excellence we provide for our valued guests and are . "This was about a sexual assault that happened in 2008, and [Miller] and I are both working on this story seven years later. Delivering it crushed her. And Zoloft is an adult drug I was on that at 8, she said, according to the article. Thats awful. Shannon called Marie and suggested she also contact the Kirkland police. View Michelle Marie Barnes results in Lynnwood, WA including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. The medical report noted abrasions to Maries wrists and to her vagina. "I just got thisreally weird feeling. Kaitlyn Dever stars as the victim of a serial rapist in Netflix's new series "Unbelievable.". September 13, 2019. Galbraith flashed a quick thumbs up. This didnt square with what Marie had previously told Mason. They talked about being tied up. Seattle still the nations saddest large metro area, survey shows, Plan to reduce homelessness in downtown Seattle picks up after slow start, Former Seattle deputy mayor heads to Biden administration, Microsoft employee charged with attempted murder in unprovoked stabbing, Seattle's lowland snow was hit and miss expect more of the same this week, claimed Lynnwood detectives disregarded evidence. Over the next 24 hours, more than a dozen investigators threw their collective effort and experience into finding out everything possible about OLeary. She is now a truck driver,married, and as of 2015 has two children. Hendershot turned to the database meant to capture serial rapists by linking cases in different jurisdictions. He was the rapist. The Lynnwood Police Department had 79 sworn officers, serving a city of about 34,000 people. 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. She would move a hundred miles an hour in one direction, a colleague said. How can I obtain the complete court record? On the morning of Friday, Feb. 11, FBI agents were surveilling OLearys house. [20] At the Investigative Reporters and Editors' 2016 conference, the pair gave a talk about their experience writing the article. Then she admitted making the story up. 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. Among the items Colorado detectives found in OLearys possession were photographs of D.M. Marie, as directed, told her fellow participants in Project Ladder that she had lied about being raped. and her family. He said he felt stupid, that it had looked better in his head. He moved deliberately. He said he believed she had made the story up a spur-of-the-moment thing, not something planned out. Masons report didnt identify the caller but the caller was Peggy. I had a crib and they gave me a 16-year-old, Peggy says, with a laugh. It premiered on September 13, 2019. I have had a lot of stressful things going on and I wanted to hang out with someone and no one was able to so I made up this story and didnt expect it to go as far as it did. The pictures showed her looking terrified, bound and gagged on a bed. The bruising on her right wrist measured 6.5 centimeters, or about 2.5 inches, the one on her left, 7 centimeters. They dont appreciate having their time wasted. [28], The book received mostly positive critical reviews, with Hamilton Cain of Star Tribune calling it an "instant true-crime classic". It turned up only bad leads. No, she said. But there was not enough genetic material to identify a single individual. They mentioned that he had stolen their underwear. [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. [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. Police technicians were swarming the apartment. Galbraith recognized them by sight. T. Christian Miller of ProPublica had been reporting on law enforcement failures in identifying rapists throughout 2015. Mason returned to the evidence. Gregg Rinta, a sex crimes supervisor with the Snohomish County Sheriffs Office, wrote that what happened was nothing short of the victim being coerced into admitting that she lied about the rape., That Marie recanted wasnt surprising, Rinta wrote, given the bullying and hounding she was subjected to. Golden police obtained a surveillance tape showing the entrance to the apartment complex where Galbraiths victim had been attacked. He was 32 years old and 220 pounds. Galbraith had maneuvered herself to stand behind OLeary. Based on Shannons tip, Kirkland investigators had reached out to their Lynnwood counterparts and had been told the Lynnwood victim was no victim, the story had been made up. She couldnt live with them anymore. 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? But the man was familiar with the ways of law enforcement, perhaps even a cop. on the phone that night, before the alleged attack. There was a particular photo that I really liked that she took. It had cost her the newfound independence she was savoring after a life in foster homes. Design and production by Rob Weychert and David Sleight for ProPublica, Andy Rossback and Lisa Iaboni for The Marshall Project. Marie had a horrific childhood, bouncing around various foster and group homes from around age 6, and was sexually and physically abused throughout. Shut down. Hendershot seized on them. The three went to the Lynnwood police station, where the detectives escorted Marie to a conference room. 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