A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America

✍ Scribed by Miller, T Christian; Armstrong, Ken

• Book ID: 109499134
• Publisher: Crown/Archetype
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781524759933

✦ Synopsis

**Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.
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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...