To stay in the program, Project Ladder’s managers told Marie that she had to confess to her peers that she had made up the story.
Marie “backed down” at this, and “the police officers walked her downstairs, where the Project Ladder representatives asked if she had been raped. In response, Rittgarn warned Marie that if she failed the test, she would be jailed and might lose her housing assistance. She told Rittgarn and another officer that she really had been raped, and she said she wanted to take a lie detector test to prove it. One week after she reported her rape, Marie returned to the police station to recant her written statement, which she said she had made under duress. And the only way they would leave me alone is if I wrote a statement saying that it didn't happen." August 18, 2008 I did pound my hand on the table and stuff like that. "I'm still in shock that they didn't believe me," she said. In an episode of This American Life released in tandem with the ProPublica article, Marie opened up about her memories of the experience. Flipping the switch was a relief-and it would let her leave. She went into the bathroom and cleaned up. Before she confessed to making up the story, she couldn’t look the two detectives, the two men, in the eye. She flipped the switch, as she called it, suppressing all the feelings she didn’t know what to do with. She did what she always did when under stress. To Marie, it seemed the questioning had lasted for hours. Miller and Armstrong described her thought process in that moment.
In the first, she wrote that the rape had been a dream in the second, she wrote that she had made it up. She first confirmed this verbally, then in two separate written statements. Marie faltered, then confirmed that she had lied. Nonetheless, she immediately reported the attack to authorities, who became skeptical when small inconsistencies began to emerge between her multiple statements.ĭetective Jerry Rittgarn challenged Marie directly, telling her that “her story and the evidence didn’t match” and that he believed she had made the story up. The intruder tied and gagged her, raped her, and took photographs of her, which he threatened to post online if she contacted the police. Shortly before dawn, an 18-year-old woman (identified in ProPublica’s story by her middle name, Marie) was attacked in her Lynnwood, Washington, apartment at knifepoint by a masked man. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong in the Pulitzer-winning Marshall Project and ProPublica article, “ An Unbelievable Story of Rape.” Below, a timeline of the true events behind Unbelievable.
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The series is based on a real story, reported by journalists T. After they arrest their suspect, they discover he took photographs of each of his victims-including Marie, who’s finally vindicated thanks to the detectives’ tireless work. It follows two detectives, played by Merritt Wever and Toni Collette, who are investigating a string of sexual assaults in Colorado. Just as you’re wondering how you’re going to get through seven more episodes of this drama without spontaneously combusting from rage, Unbelievable cuts away to a parallel narrative thread in another state. To top off the nightmare, she's charged with a misdemeanor for false reporting. Marie's life gradually falls apart over the subsequent weeks she loses friends, her job, and her housing. The police ultimately accuse Marie of making up the rape, and she's so traumatized and intimidated by the process, she falsely admits to fabricating the story. She immediately reports the attack to local police in her Washington town, but they seize on minor inconsistencies when she's forced to tell the story repeatedly to various officers. Along with praise for its nuanced performances and intelligent writing, it’s been deservedly hailed as a prime example of a true-crime drama that leads with the victim’s perspective, and a timely exploration of how sexual assault victims are routinely dismissed and disbelieved.Īs the series begins, 18-year-old Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever) is raped at knifepoint by a masked man who breaks into her apartment. Since its debut last Friday, Netflix’s Unbelievable has become one of the most acclaimed shows of the year.
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