What did the FBI need to find Marc O'Leary?
What they needed now was a DNA sample from Marc O'Leary to see if it tied him to the crimes. So FBI agents stake out Marc's house. The plan was to wait for him to leave, then they'd split up, have a few agents follow him while others put up surveillance cameras outside his house while he was gone. When Marc leaves his house, agents trail him. But what they didn't know is that Marc O'Leary had a brother who lived with him in the same house.
Who calls Marie after the attack?
Sergeant Mason says there were a few other elements to Marie's story that had caused him to question her. But it was really the call from Peggy that changed everything. He talks to his partner, and three days after the attack, Detective Mason calls Marie.
Did Jordan doubt Marie?
We talked to Jordan, and he says he never doubted Marie, and he never told the police he did. In any case, both detectives wrote in their reports that Marie seemed unsure of her story. Detective Rittgarn wrote that he found Marie to be making, quote, "deceptive statements to include that she thought certain things had happened rather than she was positive that this happened." Rittgarn noted that she didn't, quote, "take a stand and demand that she had been raped." Detectives made it clear to Marie they needed to be convinced.
What is the first act of anatomy of doubt?
The first act of "Anatomy of Doubt" focuses on Marie's investigation. The young woman reported to the police that she had been gagged, bound, and raped in her apartment in Lynnwood, Washington. As the title suggests, Marie encountered doubt when she told people about her assault. Neither the police nor the people in her life trusted her story.
Who are the two detectives in the second act of the crime?
The second act brings us to Detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot. In 2011, these Colorado officers connected over similar sexual assault cases, one in Golden and another in Westminster, where the perpetrator took pictures with a pink camera. There was a third similar case in a nearby town, and so detectives did what different police departments didn't usually do: work together. They picked up trace DNA across the crime scenes, learned that the suspect had a leg birthmark, and figured that he drove a Mazda truck.
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ANATOMY OF MURDER is a weekly true crime podcast examining homicide cases and paths to justice for the victims.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico. One night. Multiple crimes. Would the homicide of a beloved bartender be connected to the rest?
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Anna-Sigga is a career homicide prosecutor. She spent 21 years (1995 – 2017) at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, in New York, the last 16 of which were in the office’s Homicide Bureau, where she served as Chief of Trials.
