She joined forces with the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, and the two soon discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist: a man who photographed his victims, threatening to release the images online, and whose calculated steps to erase all physical evidence suggested he might be a soldier or a cop. Describing the crime to her husband that night, Galbraith learned that the case bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. More than two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to investigate a case of sexual assault. Police charged Marie with false reporting, and she was branded a liar. Confronted with inconsistencies in her story and the doubts of others, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie-a bid for attention. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Within days police, and even those closest to Marie, became suspicious of her story. On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped-and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth. Also published as Unbelievable: The Story of Two Detectives' Relentless Search for the Truth in 2019.
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