Marie was attacked when she was 18—and coerced into falsifying her rape report.
Sep 14, 2019On Friday, September 13, Netflix released a new limited series that truly adopts the definition of its title.is the story of a girl known as Marie who, in 2008, was victim-blamed and coerced into falsifying her own rape story.was forced to move on with her life, carrying the trauma of her attack and the associated lies, until two years later, when she was randomly approached by police.
Police discovered that the back sliding door was left slightly ajar and a wooden porch that was covered in dirt, except for one area “where it looked like maybe someone had brushed the surface while climbing over,” the report stated. They also found one of Marie’s kitchen knives next to the bed and her learner’s permit—oddly removed from her wallet—on the bedroom windowsill.
According to the report, Cunningham called Sgt. Jeffrey Mason, a detective on the case, the day after the assault occurred to report that Marie had a “past history of trying to get attention” and she was unsure whether or not the attack actually took place. Two days later, Marie was questioned further by the detectives and persuaded to write not one, but two counter statements. The first one wasn’t good enough because it claimed that she dreamt her rape.
After leaving the station, Marie told her case managers that the police accused her of lying and decided to go back and refute it. While her managers waited outside, Marie insisted with Rittgarn that her attack did happen, and that she wanted to take a lie detector test to prove her innocence. He told her that if she failed, she could be jailed, and her housing assistance pulled. Marie conceded and later told her case managers that she, in fact, had not been raped.
Detective Stacy Galbraith sat on the couch across from her husband, also a cop, and described her work day in detail. A woman had been attacked at knifepoint, tied up, and raped in her home in Golden, Colorado. “We have one just like that,” he said, perturbed. He worked for a police department 15 miles northeast of Galbraith’s. She called its authorities the next morning, and was immediately paired with Westminster Detective Edna Hendershot .
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