{"id":1949,"date":"2019-09-10T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:43:07","slug":"netflixs-unbelievable-the-true-story-behind-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/netflixs-unbelievable-the-true-story-behind-the-series\/tv-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s Unbelievable: the true story behind the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Netflix&#8217;s Unbelievable tells the story of how a young woman retracts her account of rape after not being believed. Only her story was believed in an unexpected events years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6j11cfiV7ZM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The eight part series is based on a true story. The series will tell the story of Marie Adler. who at the time as 18-years-old, who was charged with a gross misdemeanour after retracting her claim that she was raped at knifepoint in her apartment in Lynnwood, Washington. It was only two years later in 2011 when a detective investigates the assault of a 26-year-old student that the connection between the students and Marie&#8217;s story are connected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marie Adler reported being raped by a man at knifepoint in her apartment who had blindfolded her and tied her with her own shoe-laces. The attack happened around 4am, and before the attacker left, he had taken photos of her with a digital camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I moved a lot when I was younger,&#8221; <strong>Marie explains in an interview<\/strong>. &#8220;I was in group homes, too. About two of those and probably 10 or 11 foster homes. I was on like seven different drugs. And Zoloft is an adult drug &#8211; I was on that at eight.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After the attack Marie called her foster mother Shannon McQuery to explain what happened and she alerted the police. Shannon did have initial doubts of Marie&#8217;s case of what had happened. Marie&#8217;s other forster mum Peggy told the police how she thought Marie was lying and wanted her claims to be anonymous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2011, in Colorado Detective Stacey Galbraith was investigating the rape of a 26-year-old engineering student at her apartment. The young woman had been rapped at gunpoint and the man had taken images on a digital camera. This case was then linked with a case from 2010, 2009 and then eventually Marie&#8217;s case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The man behind these attacks was Marc O&#8217;Leary, he pleaded guilty to 28 counts of rape and on December 2011, almost a year after his arrest, he was sentenced to 327\u00bd years in prison for the Colorado attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marie was cleared of the gross misdemeanour charged and got apologies from detectives who took on her case at the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s Unbelievable tells the story of how a young woman retracts her account of rape after not being believed. Only her story was believed in an unexpected events years later. \u00a0 The eight part series is based on a true story. 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