Name: Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In)
ISBN: 9780593135792

Ken Armstrong

T. Christian Miller

"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)

________________________________________ The real-life investigation behind the hit Netflix series, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD She said she was raped. Police said she lied. She was made to retract the report - but the nightmare only got worse. On 11 August 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man had broken into her home and raped her. Within days, police - and even those closest to Marie - became suspicious of her story. Confronted by these minor inconsistencies and doubt, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie. The police charged her with making a false report. Two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to a case of sexual assault. It bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. Joining forces with the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, the two soon discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. As their investigation deepened, it became clear that numerous police departments had extremely similar cases on their hands - and that Marie's story bore an eerie resemblance to the cases they were investigating. Unbelievable is a chilling tale of doubt, lies, and the hunt for justice, unveiling the disturbing reality of how sexual assault is investigated and the long history of scepticism toward its victims. ________________________________________ Previously published as A False Report

Unbelievable

Madhuri Sridhara

4.5/5

A very well written account of a series of rapes but focuses on a woman convicted of making a report of rape on 2008. 

I'd definitely call this a must-read for everyone.

Tori Carrillo

Wow. Such a powerful book filled with emotional accounts and thorough research into our societies mishandling of sexual assault cases. I feel like this should be a must read. Definite trigger warnings, reads true crime meets history. I appreciated the broken up sections but it did make things a little difficult to keep track of sometimes. Appreciated the epilogue and additional notations at the end noting identities of authors and biases and how the research and information was pulled together. I listened to this on audio but I'm definitely buying the book so that I can reread and have to recommend.

Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In) The Story of Two Detectives' Relentless Search for the Truth

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