We ran this calculation for all departments that met our criteria on a national level. The third doubter was an anonymous caller. 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. Former Lynnwood police Det. It was Marie. Then 18, she reported the attack but she says detectives Jerry Rittgarn and Sergeant Jeff Mason didn't believe her story, and ignored evidence including stained sheets, doctors reports detailing injuries to her wrists and abrasions on her genitals and DNA samples. A stranger, later known to be OLeary, entered her Lynnwood apartment, threatened plaintiff D.M. We used the 2015 Pulitzer Prizewinning ProPublica/Marshall Project story (and its follow-up reporting) that inspired Unbelievable as a road map to make this character-by-character guide to the facts behind the Unbelievable fictionalizations. She got married and has two kids, and they live "somewhere in the middle of the country" as of 2018. After the media caught wind of Marie's false report misdemeanor, that same best friend created a website devoted to eviscerating her reputation, sharing Marie's photo and full name as well as police reports that alleged she was a liar. and her family We strongly believe that Cocoon House and its employees acted appropriately on behalf of the client.. Years later, an external review characterized the police interrogations of her as bullying and coercive with minor inconsistencies in her statements misjudged and strong evidence ignored. When I went to sleep I dreamed that someone broke in and raped me. Marie was then charged with a gross misdemeanor for false reporting. But even before it received the Netflix treatment, the narrative emerged from "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," a seminal piece of reporting from The Marshall Project and ProPublica that earned writers Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller the Pulitzer Prize. Los Angeles County said all litigation over the crash has now been resolved. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. The character of Detective Pruitt (played by Bill Fagerbakke) is loosely based on Jerry Rittgarn, who was the one who first blatantly told Marie he didn't believe her story. Elsewhere in the country, two other female detectives are also tracking an influx of rapes and are working together to try and catch the guy, who ends up being the same one who harmed Marie. According to the suit, Rittgarn and Mason had D.M. returned to the police station with Cocoon House representatives and asked to withdraw the denial and insisted that she had been attacked. , updated The victim of the Lynnwood attack last week filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city of Lynnwood, claiming 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. (To inquire about syndication or licensing opportunities, contact. Words or thoughts attributed to anyone in this story are drawn from these interviews or documents. The description of his background comes from his LinkedIn profile. Netflix The detectives who disbelieved Marie and coerced her into recanting her story also faced fairly minimal repercussions in real life. After claiming police coerced her into recanting her story,. Today, Rittgarn is retired from the force and working as a private investigator. Edna Hendershot and Sgt. She says the officers bullied her for hours, without a lawyer present, into recanting her account and, when she later tried to insist the rape did take place, she was charged $500 for false reporting. Nonprofit journalism about criminal justice, A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, This story was produced in collaboration with, International Association of Chiefs of Police, National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault in Los Angeles City and County. Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game? The Seattle Times reported when the victim sued the Lynnwood PD (which was ultimately settled for $150,000): 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. Last Friday, Netflix released their latest true crime series entitled Unbelievable, which is centered around The Marshall Project and ProPublica's Pulitzer-prize-winning article, An . According to the ProPublica article, after Marie's rapist was apprehended, the Lynnwood. Can we count on your support today? For more stories like this, sign up for our newsletter. Grusing was the only officer to interview the serial rapist, perhaps because, as Taggart says to Karen and Grace about Chris in episode eight, women make him uncomfortable., Eric Langes detached Detective Parker is a surrogate for Sergeant Jeffrey Mason, who spent the bulk of his career on patrol and in narcotics and had little rape-investigation experience when he became the lead on Adlers case. Galbraith had admired her new partner, Edna Hendershot, from a distance ever since their paths crossed at a police briefing for a big drug bust Hendershot had taken part in. "Based on her answers and body language it was apparent that [Marie] was lying about the rape," he wrote in a report. The two detectives played by Merritt Wever and Toni Collette are measured and thoughtful with victims, yet dogged and stern in their pursuit of justice. She spoke 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. Knowing all of this including the fact that Marie was telling the truth youd tend to think both of these detectives would be suffer some consequence for the whole ordeal. The records obtained through these requests included investigative reports filed by detectives in Lynnwood and elsewhere; crime-scene photos and surveillance footage collected by the various law-enforcement agencies; the two case reviews of how the Lynnwood police handled the investigation of Maries rape report; and video of Marc OLeary being interviewed by police after his arrest in Colorado. Rittgarn told her that if she was lying she would go to jail and that he would not recommend Cocoon House keep her, the suit alleges. The whole show is in a silly, goofy mood. Notably, Marie's rape claim was one of four that Lynnwood police deemed unfounded that year alone. The opening episode of Netflix's new series Unbelievable is difficult to watch. We examined five years of the "Offenses Known and Cleared by Arrest" data to smooth yearly fluctuations common in crime reporting. In 2008, Marie, as the article refers to her, was an 18-year-old woman who lived in subsidized housing in Lynnwood, WA, for young adults previously in the fostercare system. The detectives took pictures of the binding marks. It went to the FBI lab [in Quantico], Galbraith told 48 Hours in 2017. From the crime scene, they identified muddy track marks that came from Adidas ZX 700 mesh shoes. When the woman reported the attack to Lynnwood police, she says detectives Jerry Rittgarn and Sgt. The lawsuit also states that the Cocoon House, a place for at-risk youth, threatened D.M. reported when the victim sued the Lynnwood PD, including the Lynnwood attack and the rape of a 63-year-old Kirkland woman. Netflixs latest true-crime series, Unbelievable, follows a group of detectives who try to get to the bottom of a string of rapes in the mid and northwest, along with figuring out if one girl whos reported a rape is telling the truth or not. I wrote about it last year here. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn. This, undoubtedly, turns her life upside down. At first, the detectives are attempting to catch the man who broke into her apartment and raped her. Parker says something similar to Rasmussen in the show. The victim, now 23, is living out of state and engaged to be married, according to her attorneys. The police on her case, Sgt. Wesshe Montegumry None of the evidence police collected linked him to his brothers rapes. OLeary was convicted of three rapes in Colorado and two in Washington, including the Lynnwood attack and the rape of a 63-year-old Kirkland woman, and is serving a 327-year sentence in a Colorado prison. 17-Down, Three Letters: Party for One artist Carly ___ Jepsen. (Jeff) Mason concerning his follow-up case. After OLearys arrest in Colorado in February 2011, Lynnwood police Cmdr. She was eventually awarded $150,000 from the state after settling a suit out of court. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Since its debut last Friday, Netflix's Unbelievable has become one of the most acclaimed shows of the year. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn, pressed on the inconsistencies in her story. T. Christian Miller is a senior editor for ProPublica. She's excited, because now she can go on in a whole new wonderful chapter of her life. We reviewed Maries civil suit against Lynnwood, which included such legal exhibits as the medical report from the day she reported being raped and case notes from Project Ladder, the transitional housing program to which she belonged. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. In it, a young woman named Marie (played by Booksmart's Kaitlyn Dever) tells police she's been the victim of rape by a masked stranger who broke into her home. Words or thoughts attributed to anyone in this story are drawn from these interviews or documents. One was her former foster mother, with whom D.M. It wasnt until 2 years later, when former Washington state resident Marc OLeary was arrested for several rapes in Colorado, that Lynnwood police reopened their investigation. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. 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.". 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. The program's counselors had made Marie stand in front of the other program members to tell them she'd lied, and said she'd be evicted unless she underwent more counseling. Adler was 16 when she became Cunninghams first foster kid. Mason is still with the Lynnwood Police Department. 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Meanwhile, several years and states away, detectives Grace Rasmussen and Karen Duvall (Toni Colette and Merritt Wever) merge their investigations in a skilled search for a serial rapist. According to the ProPublica article, prior to the rape Marie's happiest memories were of time spent practicing photography with her then-best friend. She is charged with false reporting, ostracized from friends and family, and made a pariah by local media. She was later woken up by a stranger who was holding one of her own knives; he tied her up with her own shoelaces, blindfolded and gagged her, and raped her while wearing a condom. Join to connect Lynnwood PD. A computer forensics specialist looked into O'Leary's hard drive files and found a folder named "girls," which had pictures of the victims. We consulted police training guidelines by various organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police and End Violence Against Women International. To determine the rate of rape crimes declared unfounded, or groundless, by law enforcement agencies, we analyzed Uniform Crime Reporting data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. OLeary was convicted of three rapes in Colorado and two in Washington, including the Lynnwood attack and the rape of a 63-year-old Kirkland woman, and is serving a 327-year sentence in a Colorado prison. Rittgarn asked. 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. With mounting pressure from the police, she recanted her statement and said she made it all up. Mason now admits on record that Peggy's doubt was the main reason he fully shifted to disbelieving Marie. 22:32 GMT 11 Jun 2013 Tearfully, she described her past all the foster parents, being raped when she was 7, getting her own place and feeling alone. Maybe the rape happened and I blacked it out, Marie said. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. 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. USMC. (For example, yesterday can be changed to last week, and Portland, Ore. to Portland or here.), You cannot republish our photographs or illustrations without specific permission. The records obtained through these requests included investigative reports filed by detectives in Lynnwood and elsewhere; crime-scene photos and surveillance footage collected by the various law-enforcement agencies; the two case reviews of how the Lynnwood police handled the investigation of Maries rape report; and video of Marc OLeary being interviewed by police after his arrest in Colorado. Also named in the suit are Rittgarn, Mason and Lynnwood Police Chief Steven J. Jensen. At first he could not recall the case, except that he thought it involved that guy from Colorado.. . By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. Rittgarn asked. Jeffrey Mason, Sgt. The facility and two of its employees are also named in the lawsuit. Jensen, the Lynnwood police chief, said he could not comment because of the litigation. Read the story here. By She and her husband took in the high-schooler for a short time when her previous foster familys plans to adopt her fell through. called a neighbor, who called police. He then raped her. Pretty positive or actually positive? She's soon accused of making it all up, and is subsequently punished for the "lie" again and again. We also ran the same calculation for Washington state law enforcement agencies that cover cities of the same size as Lynnwood to account for possible variations due to the size of a jurisdiction or local laws. Based on the story of a teenager whose rape was discounted by the male detectives investigating her case, the show also concentrates on the female detectives who, years later, connected her assault to a serial rapist they had caught. 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After the attack, she says she was forced to stand up in front of a group of teens at a Cocoon House-run program and confess that she'd lied about the rape, something which resulted in her having to see a councilor. Evidence proved her right. Marie said she didnt know of any discrepancies. Between the different cases, the police had also recovered a small number of skin cells and learned that he had a dark mark on his calf. She agreed, so they left her alone for a few minutes. You cant use our work to populate a website designed to improve rankings on search engines or solely to gain revenue from network-based advertisements. The description of his background comes from his LinkedIn profile. We examined five years of the Offenses Known and Cleared by Arrest data to smooth yearly fluctuations common in crime reporting. She was 18 at the time. On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. Doctors also collected DNA specimens, according to the lawsuit. She said it was about 7 a.m. when she woke to find a man standing over her bed with a butcher knife and wearing latex gloves. Jerry Rittgarn, were focused more on Marie than on the felony crime. three days after the assault, officers picked up D.M. And for him to know that we figured you out. Galbraith is now a Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent. Helmed by Erin Brokovich screenwriter Susannah Grant, the new miniseries follows the story of Marie, a young woman charged with lying about being raped, as well as that of two female detectives who, through a winding road of evidence, discover the truth. . After the man left, Marie maneuvered a drawer open with her feet, cut herself free with scissors, and called for help. Galbraith connected with Hendershot, who had worked on a rape case of a 59-year-old widow months before in Westminster. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. OLeary was 33 when he was sentenced to 327 and a half years for the Colorado attacks and an additional 68 and a half years for the two Washington rapes, including Adlers. As Marie told Sergeant Jerry Mason and Detective Jerry Rittgarn, she'd fallen asleep after a late-night phone chat with her friend Jordan, an ex. But most recent research suggests that false reporting is relatively rare. Busy Phillips Is Not Like a Regular Mom, Shes a Cool Mom, Theres nothing wrong with Busy Phillips being cast as Mrs. George in the upcoming, In Search of Tom and Katies Bubba Painting, Maybe punting on the larger plot can be forgiven if we get a sweet. The real-life counterpart of Bill Fagerbakkes hard-hearted Detective Pruitt, Jerry Rittgarn threatened Adler with jail if she failed a polygraph. In the vein of fellow Netflix projects such as Mindhunter and When They See Us, the miniseries explores true crime through the failures of the criminal justice system. Thank you for your interest in republishing this story. (Warning: Unbelievable spoilers below). The reporting by ProPublica and The Marshall Project spanned several months and involved numerous interviews, a review of previously undisclosed law enforcement records and exchanges with experts on investigating rape. Jayne Tainis Doris Laird is based on the 65-year-old fraternity housemother whose teddy bear, like her fictional counterparts, yielded some DNA. In December 2015, ProPublica and the Marshall Project co-published An Unbelievable Story of Rape. Violating her rights, Rittgarn and Mason told Marie to write out what "really" happened. Rapes by strangers were uncommon maybe about 13 percent of cases. From the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2011, Only about one-fifth to one-third of rapes get reported to police, national surveys show. From National Crime and Victimization Survey, 2014 and National Violence Against Women Survey, 2006. But like her fictional counterpart, the real officer was more seasoned than Galbraith, having investigated more than 100 rapes by the time the two partnered up. On Aug. 18, D.M. Based on her answers and body language it was apparent that [Marie] was lying about the rape, Rittgarn later wrote. In 2016, she told This American Life that she regretted talking to the cops but still believed Marie need[ed] to take responsibility for her actions. D.M. Marie dialed Stacy Galbraith in the fall of 2016; she'd been working as a truck driver by then and called from the road. Mason moved to his post working on narcotics cases. Looking into similar crimes, the women discovered a case in Lakewood, another Denver suburb, where a masked man attacked and bound a woman at knifepoint in her home. 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. Bill Fagerbakke played Det. Along with Esquire, his work has appeared in NYLON, Vulture, and USA Today. Neither man followed standard protocol when it came to the initial investigation into Marie's report. As for how she felt arresting OLeary after discovering the birthmark on his leg that her victim had remembered, Galbraith said, I wanted to see the look on his face. But most recent research suggests that false reporting is relatively rare. He had only worked on "one or two rape cases" before this, according to ProPublica. Detective Rittgarn refused an interview with the publication. was lying about the rape, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court. With mounting pressure from the police, she recanted her statement and said she made it . The Lynnwood police told her the news, giving her an envelope on counseling for rape victims. Then there was an investigation. If you use canonical metadata, please use the ProPublica URL. If you share republished stories on social media, wed appreciate being tagged in your posts. If you havent read it yet, I recommend reading the whole thing soon. As in the series, Michael OLeary was mistaken for his similar-looking older brother because the cops didnt know they lived together. Toni Collettes intensity as Detective Grace Rasmussen doesnt line up with Edna Hendershots reportedly easygoing demeanor. We received thousands of pages of documents through public-records requests filed with the following agencies: the police departments in Lynnwood and Kirkland, Washington; the police departments in Golden, Westminster, Aurora and Lakewood, Colorado; and the prosecuting attorneys offices in Snohomish County, Washington, King County, Washington, and Jefferson County, Colorado. Police gathered evidence from the house, including stained sheets, the shoelaces, blindfold and gag. 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