PeopleFinders is the best people search for contact info and public records. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn, found the victim, Marie, on a couch, in a blanket, crying off and on. 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. "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. Two years later, in Colorado, detectives investigate a serial rapist with the exact same modus operandiall without knowing that he may have struck before. This reluctance stems from the belief that in rape cases, the biggest problem is not false reporting, but no reporting. He asked if the rapist was real and she said "no." 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. Galbraith was younger. She began crying and said she kept seeing visions of him on top of her, the lawsuit says. He took out the gag and removed the blindfold, telling her to avert her eyes and to keep her head in the pillow. Usually, a DNA analysis took months. [35][36][37] On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a rating of 98%, based on 82 reviews, with the summary: "Heartbreaking and powerful, Unbelievable transcends familiar true-crime beats by shifting its gaze to survivors of abuse, telling their stories with grace and gravity. She clearly remembered one physical detail about him: a dark mark on his left calf the size of an egg. The analysis of the touch DNA produced mixed results. Marie Theresa Arzer Obituary. They didnt need to worry, she told the group. Who is this guy? she asked herself. It was possible that Michael had committed the rapes. But she didnt know if it was important. We strongly believe that Cocoon House and its employees acted appropriately on behalf of the client., Bob Christie, the attorney who represented Lynnwood police, said the settlement resolves an unfortunate situation for everyone involved.. [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". About Search Results. [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. He found a folder called girls and pictures that OLeary had taken of his victims in Golden and Westminster. Galbraith hastily typed up a search warrant to enter the brothers home. However, when the lawsuit was filed in June, the programs CEO, Cassie Franklin, issued a statement saying Our hearts go out to D.M. Galbraith returned to the crime scene. 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. She feared going outdoors. Two dogs, a small pit bull and a Shar-Pei, tumbled out ahead of him. David Galbraith was used to such bleak stories. Rider said his agency has become more cautious about labeling a case unfounded since Marie. She remembers calling the Lynnwood detectives twice and being told they didnt believe Maries account. He moved deliberately. Before that, he had served in the Marine Corps, specializing in helicopter avionics. It was parked half a block from the Lakewood victims house, by an empty field adjacent to her backyard. And they handed her $500, a refund of her court costs. 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. Analysts at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation got the samples. BAD.. 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. Now, her losses mounted. We went to the ocean, it was like 7 oclock at night, I dont know what we were thinking, I got in there and I jumped out and swung my hair back.. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. He was military so he was very organized, Galbraith said. Rittgarn told Marie that if she took the test and failed, she would be booked into jail. The first draft was 15,000 words in length,[9] shortened to 12,000 in the final version. Marie had made her report in August 2008 to Sergeant Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn. 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. They sank down on separate couches in their living room. He suggested she put a dowel into the bottom track to keep out future intruders. He told Marie that her description of calling Jordan was different from what Jordan had reported. One of the detectives working the Kirkland case was Audra Weber. She agreed, so they left her alone for a few minutes. Photographs of Marie were found on O'Leary's hard drive. Masons telephone rang. Sitting close to her in the front seat of the car, Galbraith carefully brushed the womans face with long cotton swabs to collect any DNA traces that might remain. The three went to the Lynnwood police station, where the detectives escorted Marie to a conference room. She went into the bathroom and cleaned up. Netflix's new drama series Unbelievable, premiering Friday, really does have to be seen to be believed. He would rifle a targets personal documents. OPEN NOW. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. [1], After seven months of email and phone communication with Marie's lawyer, Marie agreed to speak to Armstrong. 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. Just after noon, the agents saw a woman and a man who looked like OLeary leave. She was just a nice person to have around. [15] Writing for the alternative Wisconsin newspaper Isthmus, Bill Lueders praised the article and compared it to his own reporting about a similar case from 1997 to 2001, where a woman was charged by police after ostensibly making a false report of rape, but was later proven truthful by DNA evidence leading to her rapist's conviction. He didnt answer so I called my foster mom. But this investigation was his to lead. The first day of the first year of high school fills many students with anxiety. And I think the agency just thought, She can handle it. So., At first, Marie didnt want to live with Peggy. During the exam, the medical report said, Marie was alert and oriented, and in no acute distress.. He told them the evidence didnt support Maries story, and that she had taken her story back. Some victims confuse fine points or even recant. Marie Adler was born on 01 Jan 1990. In the foster system, Marie experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse and was exposed to drugs. She was very bubbly and full of energy, but she also had her moments where she could be very intense, Peggy says. 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.. He was just being neat and orderly, the way he was with everything. He is currently housed in the Sterling Correctional Facility in the barren, remote northeastern corner of Colorado. Marie agreed to speak to Armstrong after six months of communication. "The focus of the investigation became her credibility. 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. on the phone that night, before the alleged attack. Michaels appearance was confounding. She now wishes she had never shared her doubts with police. Now, we're extra careful that we get the right closure on it.. He got a hit. Her lawyer was surprised she had been charged. She had reported being raped in her apartment by a man who had bound and gagged her. He took pictures and threatened to post them on the Internet. [3][9] Armstrong and Miller also interviewed two of Marie's foster parents and her friend, her public defender and civil suit attorney. Marie was used to being around other kids. For the next half hour or so, while she slept, he got ready while talking himself into following through. A low chain-link fence surrounded it. [16], The University of Colorado Boulder reported in 2016 that law enforcement officials had requested to use the article in training. ", Discussing whether Marie was involved in making the series, Kaitlyn Dever, who plays Marie, told Good Housekeeping that she wasn't. But then Galbraith stumbled across an image of a woman she didnt recognize. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and the 2015 George Polk Award for Justice Reporting. The stranger wore gloves. And Zoloft is an adult drug I was on that at 8, she said, according to the article. On the day she reported being raped, Marie phoned Shannon, her former foster mom, after getting back from the hospital. She lost interest in photography. The five other attacks one in Washington, four in Colorado all came after the attack on Marie. 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. The trail started in Aurora, east of Denver, on Oct. 4, 2009, with the 65-year-old woman. Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com. 1. He said he felt stupid, that it had looked better in his head. And instead of interviewing Marie as a victim, they began interrogating her as a suspect.". 'Ted Lasso' Season 3 Dropped Its First Trailer, 'Outer Banks' Season 4 Is Already In the Works, 'The Last of Us' Ep. Defendants included Rittgarn, Mason and Lynnwood Police Chief Steven J. Jensen. The prosecutions offer was this: If she met certain conditions for the next year, the charge would be dropped. She wasnt his type, not really. The two bonded naturally. She also held it againstMarie that apparently she wasn'tmaking eye contact, was giggling, and was being flirty in the aftermath. But she did go online and look up what happened to the woman in Kirkland. She flipped the switch, as she called it, suppressing all the feelings she didnt know what to do with. The Lynnwood Police Department and Cocoon House agreed to the settlement last month. The photo showed a 6-foot-1 man with hazel eyes. Sort:Default. Her department was small a little more than 40 officers serving a town of about 20,000. 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 ). However, two of Marie's former foster parents began to disbelieve her due to her seemingly calm demeanour, one reporting doubts to the police. Police technicians were swarming the apartment. He was alone. [28][29] However, though Rosita Boland of The Irish Times enjoyed the early sections of the book, she found it to have a "curiously flat style overall, without any distinctive voice". When the woman reported the attack to Lynnwood police, she says detectives Jerry Rittgarn and Sgt. Hendershot did not want to be too hasty. They decided to run Michael OLearys DNA, collected from the restaurant glass, against the DNA found at the crime scenes. He gripped a silver and black gun. Hes going to be hard to find, she thought. After hours of further questioning, Marie wrote that she had been lying. Sometimes she was placed in foster homes with her siblings. The next day, when Shannon saw Marie at her apartment, her doubts intensified. 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