1/18/2024 0 Comments Most infamous undercover detective![]() “I saw the truck and that was the ‘aha!’ moment.” “Someone had never seen the truck before, and it was parked illegally,” Galbraith said. Something clicked for Galbraith at a case meeting when someone from the Lakewood Police Department presented a photo of a white pickup truck that was reported as being suspicious near the Lakewood victim’s home. “One of the benefits of working together was that we could use each other’s resources,” she said. She didn’t suspect the seemingly isolated case would become as big as it did. ![]() In early 2011, Stacy Galbraith, then a detective with the Golden Police Department, was investigating the rape of a 26-year-old woman. Marie ended up finding justice - but not until after a public smearing and being charged with falsely reporting a crime. Police focused on those inconsistencies, pressuring her to say she lied. Trauma impacts memory, and Marie’s was muddied because of the sexual assault. The backbone of the eight-episode series, which debuted Friday, is the story of the woman referred to in the ProPublica report as “Marie.” O’Leary raped Marie, then 18, in Washington, before the Colorado cases. The series takes the spotlight away from O’Leary and instead shines it on a pair of Colorado detectives - and, most significantly, a victim of O’Leary’s who first was considered “unbelievable.” ![]() Now, eight years later, the story of the team-up between those cities’ police departments to catch O’Leary, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting by ProPublica and The Marshall Project, has been adapted into Netflix’s latest original series, “Unbelievable.” Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuĭenver Post file photoAmanda Cordova, left, a criminalist for the Golden Police Department, and Kali Aulston, an evidence technician, pack up a pair of shoes and gloves that were used as evidence against Marc O’Leary, who pleaded guilty in 2011 to sexually assaulting three women and trying to rape a fourth. ![]()
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