Believe It: Netflix's Unbelievable Is Based, Scene For Scene, On A True Story

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Believe It: Netflix's Unbelievable Is Based, Scene For Scene, On A True Story
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'Unbelievable' is based on the true story of an 18-year-old from Lynnwood, Washington who claimed that she was raped by an intruder in the middle of the night when police and others were all vocally suspicious of her story, Marie began to doubt herself.

After meeting with the police, Marie’s faith in herself was so shaken that she recanted her story. In a cruel twist, the police charged Marie with filing a false report. She eventually took a plea deal and paid $500, as ifWas Marie lying? Was she telling the truth? Here’s what was definitely true: After the incident, her life was derailed. At 18, Marie had already endured countless difficulties. She barely knew her biological parents and was raised in the foster system.

Working alongside Westminster Detective Edna Hendershot , Galbraith put together a profile of a serial rapist. Through connecting disparate cases in Colorado, Hendershot and Galbraith assembled tiny traces of DNA. Tiny traces, but enough to track down the perpetrator. depicts the heartbreaking, yet gratifying, moment these parallel stories finally intersected.

The Netflix mini-series doesn’t need to stray from the facts laid out in the ProPublica article to tell a riveting story. Ultimately, what’s “unbelievable” is that the rapist got away with his crimes so long due to police inaction.

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