Ken Armstrong

T. Christian Miller

"This is an expanded version of 'An unbelievable story of rape' ... originally published on ProPublica (propublica.org) and co-published with the Marshall Project on December 15, 2015"--Title page verso.

A True Story of Rape in America

A False Report

"Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been rapedand the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth"--

The Story of Two Detectives' Relentless Search for the Truth

Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In)

Jedenastego sierpnia 2008 roku osiemnastoletnia Marie zgłosiła się na policję. Zamaskowany mężczyzna włamał się do jej mieszkania w pobliżu Seattle, w stanie Washington, i zgwałcił ją. W ciągu kolejnych dni przesłuchań, zarówno funkcjonariusze jak i bliscy Marie podchodzili do jej opowieści coraz bardziej sceptycznie. Policja szybko zmieniła stosunek do sprawy i zaczęła oskarżać Marie o oszustwo. Po wytknięciu nieścisłości w jej relacji i wątpliwościach, jakie wzbudziła, dziewczyna złamała się i przyznała, że jej historia to kłamstwo. Została oskarżona o składanie fałszywych zeznań oraz publicznie zlinczowana przez osoby z najbliższego otoczenia. Ponad dwa lata później detektyw z Kolorado, Stacy Galbraith, otrzymuje sprawę napaści na tle seksualnym. W toku dochodzenia, Galbraith orientuje się, że jest ona uderzająco podobna do gwałtu, do którego doszło jakiś czas temu w pobliskim miasteczku. Postanawia połączyć siły z detektyw badającą tamtą sprawę, Edną Hendershot. Wkrótce obydwie kobiety uświadamiają sobie, że mają do czynienia z seryjnym gwałcicielem: mężczyzną, który fotografował swoje ofiary, grożąc, że opublikuje ich zdjęcia w sieci, i zacierał wszelkie ślady przestępstwa z przebiegłością sugerującą doświadczenie zdobyte w armii lub policji. Oparta na materiałach dochodzeniowych oraz obszernych wywiadach z przedstawicielami władz, Niewiarygodne. Prawdziwa historia gwałtu to wielowątkowa opowieść o wątpliwości, kłamstwach i polowaniu na sprawiedliwość, która z zatrważającą szczerością ujawnia, jak bada się współcześnie przypadki napaści na tle seksualnym i jak często ofiary gwałtów są również ofiarami naszej podejrzliwości.

prawdziwa historia gwałtu

Niewiarygodne

Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • 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. “Gripping . . . [with a] John Grisham–worthy twist.”—Emily Bazelon, New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. 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. Police charged Marie with false reporting, and she was branded a liar. More than two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to investigate a case of sexual assault. 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. 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. Through meticulous police work the detectives would eventually connect the rapist to other attacks in Colorado—and beyond. Based on investigative files and extensive interviews with the principals, A False Report is a serpentine tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice, unveiling the disturbing truth of how sexual assault is investigated today—and the long history of skepticism toward rape victims.

Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • 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. “Gripping . . . [with a] John Grisham–worthy twist.”—Emily Bazelon, New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. 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. Police charged Marie with false reporting, and she was branded a liar. More than two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to investigate a case of sexual assault. 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. 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. Through meticulous police work the detectives would eventually connect the rapist to other attacks in Colorado—and beyond. Based on investigative files and extensive interviews with the principals, Unbelievable is a serpentine tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice, unveiling the disturbing truth of how sexual assault is investigated today—and the long history of skepticism toward rape victims. Previously published as A False Report

Unbelievable

Nick Perry

Go behind the scenes of the 2000 Huskies' Cinderella story to discover a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins.

A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

Scoreboard, Baby

Um livro eletrizante, importante e perturbador, Falsa acusação é baseado numa história real e num artigo vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer de jornalismo investigativo, que foi publicado no site de uma ONG na internet e viralizou em questão de horas. Como num episódio de Law & Order, os jornalistas T. Christian Miller e Ken Armstrong acompanham o trabalho incansável e a dedicação de duas detetives para colocar um estuprador em série na cadeia e dar voz às suas vítimas – fazendo também uma análise da maneira ultrajante como as mulheres são tratadas quando denunciam casos de violência sexual. Narrado em ritmo de thriller, Falsa acusação está sendo adaptado pela Netflix: a série Unbelivable, prevista para estrear em 2019. T. Christian Miller é repórter do ProPublica, uma organização sem fins lucrativos sediada em Nova York, que faz jornalismo investigativo independente e de interesse público. Ele já trabalhou para o Los Angeles Times e atualmente leciona jornalismo investigativo na Universidade da Califórnia, em Berkeley. Ken Armstrong também é repórter do ProPublica. Trabalhou no Projeto Marshall, uma empresa jornalística online e sem fins lucrativos especializada em justiça criminal nos Estados Unidos, e na Chicago Tribune, onde contribuiu para a suspensão das execuções por pena de morte. Ambosganharam inúmeros prêmios, incluindo o Pulitzer, em 2016, pela reportagem "A inacreditável história de um estupro", publicado tanto no ProPublica quanto no Projeto Marshall, e que deu origem a este livro.

Uma história verdadeira

Falsa acusação

Die vielfach ausgezeichnete Journalisten T. Christian Miller und Ken Armstrong erzählen die wahre Geschichte der 18jährigen Marie, die als sie bei der Polizei ihre brutale Vergewaltigung anzeigt, nicht als Opfer, sondern als Verdächtige behandelt wird. Die Beamten bezichtigen sie der Falschaussage und statt den Täter zu suchen, wird Marie selbst vor Gericht gebracht. Mehr als zwei Jahre später kommen zwei couragierter Kriminalbeamtinnen, die eine Verbindung zu weiteren Vergewaltigungsfällen herstellen, einem brutalen Serientäter auf die Spur und bringen am Ende die schockierende Wahrheit ans Licht. Basierend auf Ermittlungsakten und Interviews mit den wichtigsten Beteiligten, ist »Falschaussage« eine unglaubliche Geschichte über Lügen, Zweifel und den unbeirrbaren Kampf um Gerechtigkeit, die schonungslos offenlegt, wie bis heute mit sexueller Gewalt umgegangen wird – und dass viel zu oft immer noch die Opfer an den Pranger gestellt werden und nicht die Täter.

Eine wahre Geschichte

Falschaussage

Jonathan Martin

On a fall morning in the Pacific Northwest, in a coffee shop with four police officers as customers, a burst of gunfire announced a shocking ambush that devastated the Puget Sound and swept up everyone from judges in Tacoma to prison officials in Arkansas to candidates for president of the United States. The story of that morning's violence spans the decades and ripples across state lines. It is a story of our nation's racial divide; of southern prison farms and an act of grace; of festering hate and missed opportunities to stop a man going mad. For its coverage of the shootings and the manhunt that followed, the Seattle Times won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Now the newspaper's staff goes deeper, telling the story of a charismatic felon, a minister with his eyes on the White House, and what can lie on the other side of mercy. So often, when someone does something shocking, people want to know: What was he thinking? What was Timothy McVeigh thinking? What about those kids at Columbine? In western Washington, in the fall of 2009, Maurice Clemmons planned to do something shocking. And he left no doubt what he was thinking. The Other Side of Mercy draws upon a stunning trove of records-including a hundred-plus hours of Clemmons' recorded telephone conversations-to describe in remarkable detail Clemmons' past and the steps he took along the way to committing one of the worst crimes in the modern history of the Pacific Northwest. The Other Side of Mercy recounts Clemmons' childhood in a small Arkansas town that had descended into chaos and economic ruin. Racial hostilities were such that sniper bullets flew and buildings were firebombed. Clemmons turned to burglary and robbery, and, at the age of seventeen, was shipped off to a prison farm system so notorious that it was memorialized in the movie Brubaker. Drawing upon a prison file eighteen-hundred pages thick, The Other Side of Mercy takes readers inside the prison barracks and into the fields, as Clemmons racks up enemies, extorting other inmates and waging fights with makeshift weapons. Clemmons makes a plea for mercy to Mike Huckabee, the Arkansas governor who later runs for president. After managing to win his freedom, Clemmons moves to Washington state and becomes both predator and prey, dealing drugs while dreaming of wealth through a variety of fantastical enterprises. He believes Donald Trump will make him rich. That he can game the Bank of America. That a self-proclaimed prophet in New York City holds the key to prosperity. Clemmons descends into madness, while making plans of striking back at the people he blames for his lost youth and uncertain future.

Ken Armstrong

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