He also told her he had taken photos of her and knew her name, and left. At first he could not recall the case, except that he thought it involved that guy from Colorado.. We consulted police training guidelines by various organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police and End Violence Against Women International. (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. Jerry Rittgarn declined to be interviewed. Jeff Mason didn't believe her. She began crying and said she kept seeing visions of him on top of her, the lawsuit says. . With mounting pressure from the police, she recanted her statement and said she made it . 2 yr. ago The LinkedIn profile looked abandoned to me, but he does show up on other sites. Former Lynnwood police Det. American History Has Been Whitewashed, But, Black Teen Girls On TV Are A Mess Finally, the detectives dont believe the story Marie, The Marshall Projects An Unbelievable Story of Rape. The facility and two of its employees are also named in the lawsuit. So lets just state the obvious: Neither one of these men was the best man for the job as neither of them were all that qualified to work on a rape case. 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. From there, the show continues to follow a true story reported by ProPublica. Justin Kirkland is a Brooklyn-based writer who covers culture, food, and the South. In August 2008, the victim, identified only as D.M., was in transitional housing after being in foster homes. LYNNWOOD, Wash. The city of Lynnwood will pay $150,000 in a settlement with a rape victim, after Lynnwood police claimed she lied about the attack in 2008. He said he believed she had made the story up a spur-of-the-moment thing, not something planned out. , updated After OLearys arrest in Colorado in February 2011, Lynnwood police Cmdr. In 2011, Galbraith worked on a Denver case where a young woman living alone was sexually assaulted by a man in a black mask who documented the rape with a digital camera. Wesshe Montegumry She describes in the law suit the man, wielding a kitchen knife, warned her that he had taken photos of her and knew her name as he fled the apartment. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. Also named in the suit are Rittgarn, Mason and Lynnwood Police Chief Steven J. Jensen. 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. The police on her case, Sgt. Jensen, the Lynnwood police chief, said he could not comment because of the litigation. Social scientists examining police records in detail and using methodologically rigorous standards cite similar, single-digit rates. From research and studies summarized in a Department of Justice-funded study, Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault in Los Angeles City and County, 2012 by Cassia Spohn and Katharine Tellis and from an analysis by ProPublica and The Marshall Project of FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program data, 20082012. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn, pressed on the inconsistencies in her story. . Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn, pressed on the inconsistencies in her story. According to A False Report, she became a long-haul trucker. They themselves took those pictures. In Marie's case, neither of her foster moms thought she was behaving like it really happened, for different reasons: Shannon decided Marie didn't seem sad enough just hours after the crime, telling ProPublica, "There was just no emotion. As portrayed in Unbelievable, Marie settled a lawsuit with Lynnwood after they tried to give her a measly $500 reimbursement of the court fees for her false reporting misdemeanor. (Warning: Unbelievable spoilers below). Heres how ProPublicas T. Christian Miller and the Marshall Projects Ken Armstrong wrote about this fateful day in their Pulitzer-winning article: In Sgt. They exchanged tidbits about their liveslike how they both had two kids. At the hospital, a doctor noted injuries to both her wrists and abrasions on her genitals. He told police that hed fantasized about rape since he was a kid and that his assaults were a type of rape theater inspired by the Star Wars scene in which Jabba the Hutt chains up Princess Leia. 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. Tearfully, she described her past all the foster parents, being raped when she was 7, getting her own place and feeling alone. As in the series, Cunningham and Maries transitional housing case manager were with Marie when police arrived after the rape, and she later shared her doubts about it with them. While neither Wever nor Collette ever met the detectives, Collette tells OprahMag.com that she learned Hendershot requested her character be portrayed as "badass and bitchin'." Former Lynnwood police Det. None of the evidence police collected linked him to his brothers rapes. Rittgarn wrote that, Based on her answer and body language it was apparent that D.M. Our editors handpick the products that we feature. Pretty positive or actually positive? Here is the harrowing story behind the series that you need to know. Unbelievable is based, almost word for words at times, off of The Marshall Projects An Unbelievable Story of Rape, published in 2015. Jeffrey Mason and Detective Jerry Rittgarn, and this is what happened to them after incorrectly seeking a false confession from Marie. The real Marie sued the Lynnwood Police Department, according to the Seattle Times; she claimed the officers had disregarded evidence and bullied her into recanting. Jayne Tainis Doris Laird is based on the 65-year-old fraternity housemother whose teddy bear, like her fictional counterparts, yielded some DNA. Rittgard left the police force before OLearys arrest, but the case review found that threatening her with imprisonment and the possible loss of her housing was coercive, cruel, and unbelievably unprofessional. In the book-length follow-up to their original reporting, journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong said Rittgarn had objected to his work being labeled as bullying and wanted money to talk to them. Rarely do. None of them had any firsthand knowledge of what had happened, the lawsuit says. Stacy Galbraith; Westminster, Colorado, Sgt. 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. 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. He had only worked on "one or two rape cases" before this, according to ProPublica. You are are free to republish it so long as you do the following: Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: International Association of Chiefs of Police, National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault in Los Angeles City and County, How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law. The Lynnwood detectives, Pruitt and Parker, are Jerry Rittgarn and Sgt. In a statement, Cocoon House CEO Cassie Franklin said our hearts go out to D.M. For more information about canonical metadata, You cant edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. Grusings search for similar rape cases turned up an old unsolved burglary (Lillys story) with evidence the honeycomb glove pattern, the Adidas shoe print, and the white Mazda pickup truck that connected all the known rapes. In hindsight, it was my job to get to the bottom of it and I didnt.. Between one-fourth to two-thirds of rapists are serial attackers, studies show. From JAMA Pediatrics, December 2015 and Violence and Victims, Vol 17, 2002 by David Lisak and Paul M. Miller. When Marie's rapist was caught, Detective Rittgarn had already left the Lynnwood police department. 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. Even with the strong language used in the Lynnwood Police Department investigation cited in the ProPublica article, no one at the department lost their job. She was 18 at the time. Other reporting included pulling transcripts of television news coverage from when Marie was raped and later charged; having court transcripts prepared from when OLeary was sentenced in Colorado; reviewing grant documents for Project Ladder; and mining the criminal-justice literature for expert views on how rape investigations should be conducted. The national average for "unfounded" cases is around five percent. But she went through the story again only this time, saying she believed the rape had happened instead of saying it for certain. Los Angeles County said all litigation over the crash has now been resolved. She agreed, so they left her alone for a few minutes. The eight-episode series works on two different timelines. While the other survivors of Marc OLearys crimes have been anonymized in Unbelievable, their experiences also reflect the true stories that allowed the detectives to connect their cases. Talk to us You can tell us about news and ask us about our journalism by emailing . The woman, identified in the lawsuit by the initials D.M., says she was forced to undergo counseling when Lynnwood police told managers of the at-risk youth program where she was living in 2008 that they didnt believe shed been raped, according to court documents. 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. We may earn commission from the links on this page. Jeffrey Mason in real life. And I was told that probably no one ever will.. 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. When the detectives returned, they saw that Maries new statement described the rape as a dream, not a lie. According to the suit, Rittgarn and Mason had D.M. Mason was put in the lead position, but at that time. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. The Netflix series opens with a disturbingly mishandled rape case. When the woman reported the attack to Lynnwood police, she says detectives Jerry Rittgarn and Sgt. Based on her answers and body language it was apparent that [Marie] was lying about the rape, Rittgarn later wrote. When I went to sleep I dreamed that someone broke in and raped me. She recently watched the series, according to ProPublica reporter Ken Armstrong; with Adlers permission, he tweeted some of her thoughts about the show. Since its debut last Friday, Netflix's Unbelievable has become one of the most acclaimed shows of the year. We examined five years of the Offenses Known and Cleared by Arrest data to smooth yearly fluctuations common in crime reporting. Its okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. Why didnt you write that you made the story up? 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. Galbraith first learned of Hendershot's similar case through her police officer husband (just as Duvall, Merritt Wever's character, did). Adler was 16 when she became Cunninghams first foster kid. Jeffrey Mason and Jerry Rittgarn. She pounded the table and said she was pretty positive.. 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