Warning: This material may be disturbing to some listeners. 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. I have no qualms with asking for help, Galbraith said. Gina is survived by her parents, Terrance and Jennifer; her husband, Andy; her children, Carter (19), Noah (17) and Chase (13 . She enjoyed chatting with people, free from pressure to sell. Rittgarn had already left the department, but Mason came in, looking like a lost little puppy, Marie says. He worked in Westminster, some 15 miles to the northeast. Marie sued the city of Lynnwood and the . She wasnt his type, not really. 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. OPEN NOW. 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. The victim had described him as a gentleman, Galbraith said. [18][19], In December 2015, ProPublica published a podcast episode where Miller and Armstrong discussed the article. 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. Hold it in. 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. She couldnt live with them anymore. She was a little scared, but any trepidation was tempered by a sense of pride. Marie had been sexually and physically abused in early life and was in foster care for most of her childhood. While the program managers waited outside, Marie met with Rittgarn and another officer. She called a friend and said, Please come get me before I do something stupid. Afterward, Marie hurled her phone over the side. Neither had known Marie to be a liar to exaggerate, sure, to want attention, sure but now, both knew they werent alone in wondering if Marie had made this up. Now, we're extra careful that we get the right closure on it.. 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. She is subsequently charged with a gross misdemeanor for false reporting. The subject line was pleading: Sex Aslt Similars?. 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. A low chain-link fence surrounded it. Photographs of Marie were found on O'Leary's hard drive. She clutched a bag of her belongings in one hand. On Aug. 18, D.M. He wore a black. The media wrote about Marie being charged, without identifying her. Police guidelines advised that rape victims should not be interrogated, as they may be uncertain of details or report conflicting information. "I wanted to talk about it and get it out.. No, she said. [16], The University of Colorado Boulder reported in 2016 that law enforcement officials had requested to use the article in training. So did Zachor & Thomas, the law office that handled the prosecution of Marie on Lynnwood's behalf. Following police confrontation about inconsistencies in her story, she said that she made the incident up. We could laugh at each other and make fun. Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com. Not long before, Marie had accompanied Peggy and the sisters and Peggys boyfriend on a picnic. In 2011, Marc O'Leary was arrested in Colorado for rape and The night was dry, letting him settle in. [13][14] It was a finalist in the 2016 National Magazine Awards in the Feature Writing category. The man wore a condom, she believed. Later that day, Mason talked to Rittgarn, his fellow detective, and said that based on Maries inconsistencies, and based on what he had learned from Peggy and Jordan he now believed Marie had made up the story. 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. She worked at Costco and stayed in touch with some of her previous foster moms. The second narrative details the police investigations into a serial rapist in Colorado, who is known to have raped four women and made a fifth attempt. The Project Ladder managers instead reached out to Sgt. Shannon, a real estate agent and longtime foster mom, had met Marie through meetings for kids with troubled pasts and had sensed a kindred spirit. The investigation instantly turned urgent. I just kind of trusted their judgment, in terms of its their case, they know the details and I dont, Weber says. The actual Maries first name is not Marie that'sher middle name, which was used in the articleabout her case. Rape victims get immediate assistance from advocates at a local healthcare center. DMV records showed OLeary sat for a drivers license mugshot about four hours after the Westminster attack. A week later, Galbraith, Hendershot and Aurora Detective Scott Burgess gathered around a conference table in the Westminster Police Department. 1. It was awesome.. (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer headline read, Police: Lynnwood rape report was a hoax.) Maries best friend from high school the one who had taught her photography and had taken that picture of her emerging from the surf created a webpage that called Marie a liar, with a photo from Maries Myspace page, with police reports, with Maries full name. I walked in, and she was super happy to see me, and I told her. The law said her lie was a crime. ", Discussing whether Marie was involved in making the series, Kaitlyn Dever, who plays Marie, told Good Housekeeping that she wasn't. In that way, rape cases were unlike most other crimes. had been arguing, and the other a friend who had spoken to D.M. She married, and in October she and her husband had their second child. By the time she exited the bathroom, he had gone. Red Lobster. He was Marc OLeary. The fear of false rape accusations has a long history in the legal system. [12][11] It also won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the article being described as "a startling examination and expos of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims". [3] The Marshall Project and ProPublica are American non-profit online news organizations. Hed realized that before while peeping into her bedroom. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! A K-9 officer was outside, his dog trying to pick up a scent. They mentioned that he had stolen their underwear. 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. In 2015, an article co-authored by ProPublica and The Marshall Project about Marie's case gripped the nation and finally afforded Marie some semblance of justice. It was not much. Marie also confronted the police who handled her original case and they apologised to her just like in the series. When she was a child, her father left her mother alone. I was on like seven different drugs. Detectives receive additional training about rape victims. But leading law enforcement organizations urge caution in filing such charges. 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. In June 2012, he was sentenced to an additional 38.5 years for two incidents in Washington. He suggested she put a dowel into the bottom track to keep out future intruders. He documented the assault with a digital camera and threatened to post the pictures online if she contacted the police. He possessed a mask, gun, women's underwear and other identifying evidence. The next morning, Mason went to Jordans home to interview him. A couple of other officers were already there, protecting the crime scene. On a window, they found honeycomb marks. One of the detectives working the Kirkland case was Audra Weber. He had been punctilious. A little after 1 p.m. on a wintry day in January 2011, Detective Stacy Galbraith approached a long, anonymous row of apartment buildings that spilled up a low hill in a Denver suburb. In the foster system, Marie experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse and was exposed to drugs. I didn't even get a half mile from my house. Police, walking around Maries apartment, discovered that the rear sliding glass door was unlocked and slightly ajar. To Marie, he seemed sincere. I dont know why I couldnt have done something different. and her ID card. The news was not great. 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. He asked if the rapist was real and she said "no." When she got to his legs, she raised his pant leg to look. 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. Interviewed in the same room where he had confronted Marie seven years before, he said: It wasnt her job to try to convince me. The attack was so heinous; the attacker so practiced. He tied her hands loosely behind her. Rodney Cohnheim said of Marie, She was victimized twice., Sgt. 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. He was 32 years old and 220 pounds. He had since broken into her place twice, both times through that same glass door. [11] Keller and other editors recommended cutting down on the ending of the article, yielding a short epilogue. 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. Could the detectives connect OLearys Mazda with the blurry image of the white Mazda in the surveillance footage from Golden? Like kids most everywhere, Marie wanted to fit in. OLeary had purchased a pornography website in September 2008. They talked about being tied up. And to top it all off, police refuse to believe her when she comes forward. A risk management decision was made, a lawyer for Lynnwood told The Herald in Everett, Washington. 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. OLeary had been stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord from November 2006 through September 2009, when he moved to Colorado, according to prosecutors in King and Snohomish counties. On the day she reported being raped, Marie phoned Shannon, her former foster mom, after getting back from the hospital. He ordered the women to shower. Marie's foster parents and police in Lynnwood have since apologized to her. . 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. For the last two or three months, the woman told police, she felt as if someone had been following her. Galbraith had a simple rule: listen and verify. When she read the story, she cried. He stuffed cloth into her mouth to muffle any sound. The first draft was 15,000 words in length,[9] shortened to 12,000 in the final version. Marie said no. 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. She trusted her victims memory. Galbraith spotted the victim standing in the thin sunlight outside her ground floor apartment. She had been alone in her apartment the previous evening. Marie, Armstrong and Miller were consulted during the production. This time, though, there was something different. Marie had made her report in August 2008 to Sergeant Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. [9][10], Miller wrote the sections about the woman in Colorado, while Armstrong wrote the sections about the investigation in Washington. He will never be released. Police found shoe prints in the soft, damp soil outside the womans bedroom. But the man was familiar with the ways of law enforcement, perhaps even a cop. 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. It was a pink Sony digital camera a description that fit the model stolen from the apartment of the Westminster victim. The DNA from the cup matched the DNA collected from the victims. But now, Marie wouldnt give. The detectives had thoroughly examined their crime scenes. She joined Project Ladder at age 18, a program designed for people transitioning from foster care to living alone. 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. Galbraith pulled him to the side and patted him down. Before, she told the detective she had tried calling Jordan after cutting the laces. And she would have to pay $500 to cover the courts costs. Sunday 8:00am - 8:00pm. 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.. OLeary, in addition to assaulting D.M., also admitted he raped a 63-year-old Kirkland woman. The case is true, and is based upon a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 joint investigation from ProPublica and the Marshall Project by reporters T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong. Tall, winter-bare trees towered above the roof. It was a collaboration between two American, non-profit news organizations, The Marshall Project and ProPublica. Marie was into boys, drawing and music, be it rock, country, or Christian. 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. She began crying and said she kept seeing visions of him on top of her, the lawsuit says. That night, Hendershot drove to break the news to her victim, the 59-year-old widow in Westminster. There was just no emotion. She stopped crying. He was just being neat and orderly, the way he was with everything. Both were outgoing. [27][28] Mason was interviewed for the book, but Rittgarn refused to speak to the authors without being paid. She also held it againstMarie that apparently she wasn'tmaking eye contact, was giggling, and was being flirty in the aftermath. It was published on February 6, 2018 by the Crown Publishing Group. The first narrative is about a woman in Lynnwood, Washington, known pseudonymously as "Marie", who reports being raped to the police. That mother would often leave her in the care of boyfriends. The report also added that Marie was sexually and physically abused.". About two of those and probably 10 or 11 foster homes., I was on like seven different drugs. He was the rapist. As she headed home that night, Galbraiths mind raced. She saidshe found it strange that Marie wanted the same bedspread set that she had before the rape. In August 2008, 18-year-old Marie Adler reported being raped by a man at knifepoint in her apartment who had gagged her, blindfolded her, and bound her with her own shoe-laces. The odds of that happening are pretty long.". They compared investigations. Find Marie Day in Lynnwood, WA - phone, address, email. I moved a lot when I was younger, Marie says in an interview. She married, and in October she and her husband had their second child. Nobody collects such data. He would rifle a targets personal documents. 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. He was military so he was very organized, Galbraith said. He tied her hands behind her back with a lace from her tennis shoe, blindfolded her and gagged her. He threaded one of the shoelaces through a pair of underwear. Before she confessed to making up the story, she couldnt look the two detectives, the two men, in the eye. Kirkland police abandoned this lead after Lynnwood police told them at least twice that Marie's account was a lie. Theyd be out there searching for this person who had done this to me.. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! 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. He took pictures and threatened to post them on the Internet. [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". Youre under arrest for burglary and sexual assault which occurred in the City of Golden on January 5, 2011, she told him. Or that he looked so similar. In 2015, the commander of Lynnwood's Criminal Investigations Division said that practices had since changed. Police technicians were swarming the apartment. The next day, when Shannon saw Marie at her apartment, her doubts intensified. Peggy, who had received a file two to three inches thick documenting Maries history, was surprised at how well she was coping. The morning after the rape in Golden, Galbraith hurried to work to follow up her husbands lead. (A later edition has been retitled, Unbelievable: The Story of Two Detectives Relentless Search for the Truth.). D.M. In Sgt. Information from Seattle Times archives is included in this report. (425) 640-6555. Marie sued the city and settled for $150,000. While the agents were following the man believed to be Marc OLeary, another FBI agent knocked on the door of the home. "When the police began doubting Marie, they turned on her, Armstrong told National Public Radio last year. He would watch her watching TV. Masons experience, when someone asked if they were in trouble, almost always, they were. Then her eyes darted back and forth as if she was thinking of a response.. No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. She did. Galbraith felt sick. As well as watching Netflix's new drama, premiering globally Friday, the original article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," is a must-read. Afterward, he ordered her to brush her teeth and wash herself in the shower. Probably the only time I just wanted to die in my life, she says. They needed more information. Galbraith was younger. He was not a registered sex offender. FBI figures show that police annually declare around 5 percent of rape cases unfounded, or baseless. 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. 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. [21] In July 2016, they appeared on the Longform podcast to discuss the article. The real Marie, now roughly 29, is a. Rittgarn had been with the department for 11 years, the last four as a detective. Most had been assaulted by a boyfriend, an old flame, or someone they had met at a club. According to a later report, the bullying and . So did Zachor & Thomas, the law office that handled the prosecution of Marie on Lynnwoods behalf. Careful, diligent, exacting she complemented Galbraith. Before she left with a nurse, the woman warned Galbraith, I think hes done this before.. Marie was then charged with a gross misdemeanour for lying and lost friends, family and work after her story made the news. It only made sense to join forces. It was dark outside when she finished. returned to the police station with Cocoon House representatives and asked to withdraw the denial and insisted that she had been attacked. "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. Marie and Shannon would walk in the woods, or take out the boat, then, at days end, crash in Shannons home. Then she admitted making the story up. Marie said she really had been raped and began to cry, saying she was having visions of the man on top of her. You can also read more about how ProPublica and The Marshall Project reported this story. The two women who had helped raise Marie talked on the phone. Galbraith ruled out the brothers father he was too old and lived in a different state. She moved into the Alderbrooke Apartments, a woodsy complex that advertises proximity to a mall and views of the Cascades. She was always nice to talk to.. [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. They cracked fast jokes and smiled fast smiles. They wondered whether it contained photos of his victims. 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).. While looking through evidence found in O'Leary's home, the detectives found evidence of other assaults out of state, including one in Lynnwood, WashingtonMarie's. He then raped her. And I think the agency just thought, She can handle it. So., At first, Marie didnt want to live with Peggy. She is now a truck driver,married, and as of 2015 has two children. When she told police of her skepticism, she asked to be treated anonymously. We were a lot alike. Despite all Marie had been through, she wasnt bitter, Shannon says. [22], "An Anatomy of Doubt" is the 581st episode of the American radio program and podcast This American Life. The investigators hadnt known that Michael lived with his brother. 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. She also landed her first job, offering food samples to customers at Costco. Marie said she didnt know of any discrepancies. On Dec. 9, 2011, almost a year after his arrest, OLeary was sentenced to 327 years in prison for the Colorado attacks the maximum allowed by law. Marie had made it through. Unbelievable, which debuted on Netflix on Friday (Sep 13) to critical acclaim, is based on a heartbreaking true story. The investigators confronted her, and under their pressure, Marie said that she made up her initial claim. Lets do what we can do to catch him.. also reached a settlement with Cocoon House, a private, nonprofit at-risk-youth program where she was living when the assault occurred. There was more. She feared going outdoors. The rims would have traces of his DNA. She told police her attacker had broken into her apartment, which had been subsidized. It sounded like a lot of drama, too, in some ways. At the time, Peggy had new foster children two sisters, both teenagers. 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. For the next half hour or so, while she slept, he got ready while talking himself into following through. In the 1600s, Englands chief justice, Matthew Hale, warned that rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused. Judges in the U.S. read the so-called Hale warning to juries until the 1980s. One freeze frame showed that her white Mazda had a broken passenger side mirror. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project. White man, gray sweater. Aaron Hassell, the detective on the Lakewood case, raced back to his office. Without reading the Miranda warning, they asked her to write that she had made a false report. Afterward, Shannon took Marie for a walk in the woods, and told her, Im so sorry I doubted you. Marie forgave, immediately. It was registered to a Lakewood man named Marc Patrick OLeary. [3][9] Armstrong and Miller also interviewed two of Marie's foster parents and her friend, her public defender and civil suit attorney. The woman told Galbraith she was 26 years old, an engineering student on winter break from a nearby college. She crackled energy. She drives an 18-wheeler across the country. One sample was collected from the kitchen timer in Westminster. Galbraith listened to the woman with a sense of alarm. The same person was at work. Marie broke down, experiencing, all at once, shock, relief and anger. They then informed Lynwood police, who informed Marie and Marie sued the city and received a settlement of $150,000. "Theres a lot of detail about his background, his life and about what he did, and if you were writing a true-crime novel, you would put all that stuff in there," said Miller during the Longform interview. In hindsight, it was my job to get to the bottom of it and I didnt.. 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. Credited as a collaboration with The Marshall Project and ProPublica, it debuted on February 26, 2016. He got a hit. In doing this, the police ignored the fact that research shows that victims of trauma struggle to remember specific details about their experiences. Before leaving Washington to restart her life, Marie made an appointment to visit the Lynnwood police station. 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). A lot of times people say, Believe your victim, believe your victim, Galbraith said. HOURS. Open the door, she shouted repeatedly. She went into the bathroom and cleaned up. They didnt need to worry, she told the group. It was a picture of the womans learners permit, placed on her chest. Had the woman said yes? Now, fearful he could become the target of a wrongful accusation, Shannons husband decided it would be best if Marie no longer spent the night. And much like the detectives, who hunted the rapist separately before joining forces, Miller and Armstrong initially reported the story on their own before collaborating. After finally falling asleep, she was awakened by a man with a knife and then tied up, blindfolded, gagged and raped. After Marie became a teenager, her years of upheaval appeared at an end. The counselor couldnt offer any more details. Two and a half years after Maries attack, Lynnwood police contacted her to refund her the $500 and other court costs and informed her thather record would be expunged. It was so organized, we were like, Oh, thank God.. She let it go and hung up, thinking, Okay, I hope that works out for you guys.. [9], Armstrong's editor Joe Sexton and Miller's editor Bill Keller had worked together at The New York Times. She was just a nice person to have around. After a pause, OLeary opened the door. Pretty positive or actually positive? [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. Marie left Shannons home after a couple of weeks to move in with Peggy Cunningham, who worked as a childrens advocate at a homeless shelter and lived in Lynnwood, a smaller suburb about 15 miles north of Seattle. A search warrant led to the arrest of O'Leary. Their initial attempts to identify the attacker faltered. It described the officers' behaviour as "bullying" and highlighted threats of jail and housing assistance removal as "coercive, cruel, and unbelievably unprofessional." This story was co-published with The Marshall Project. We learned a great deal from this. Defendants included Rittgarn, Mason and Lynnwood Police Chief Steven J. Jensen. I was just too scared, Marie says. 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