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#139: "False Report" RCP Book Club

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Zambetti is joined by Dean Laffan to discuss the book detailing the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about being raped and the detectives' journey to arrive at the truth in the hunt for a serial rapist who was terrorising women. 


In 2008 a young woman reports rape in Seattle. She is not believed and was given a citation for false reporting. She was forced to pay $500 fine and plead guilty to lying about being raped. A series of rapes then began in Colorado. 


The victims ranged from young women to a grandmother. He was a predatory stalker who spent months researching each victim. He would break in, brutally rape the women, take photos on occasions and then carefully clean everything afterwards. He was prolific and predatory and sadly there will no doubt be many more victims who suffered at this hands, than the crimes with which he was charged.


There are a lot of lessons to be learned about believing victims when they take the brave decision to report and many more about early identification, intervention and prevention. 


FALSE REPORT by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

https://www.amazon.com/False-Report-True-Story-America/dp/1524759937


Help, Advice and Support

If you are a victim of sexual abuse you can contact:

National Rape Crisis Helpline in England and Wales 0808 802 9999 https://rapecrisis.org.uk/

National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline USA 800.656.HOPE (4673) https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline

Male Survivor in the USA https://www.malesurvivor.org/survivors/

Rape Treatment Center USA http://therapefoundation.org/

Peace Over Violence LA https://www.peaceoverviolence.org/


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

I try not to live a paranoid life. I mean, I want to think that people are good, and so I don't look for bad things.

0:14.0

I suppose because I wasn't looking for that, it just never occurred to me that it could happen.

0:21.0

Well, I just screamed and he just told me to keep telling me to shut up.

0:26.0

He had a black mask and the only thing that showed was his eyes.

0:30.0

That he had a gun in his bag. If I didn't shut up, he wouldn't have killed me.

0:37.0

With more stories of sexual harassment and assault coming to light, one common pattern is that many women did not stay silent when they were victimized.

1:00.0

They spoke up, told people they trusted, they even told law enforcement, and they were not believed.

1:06.0

A new book tells the story of exactly how woman, one woman was silenced back in 2008 when she was raped and what it took for the truth to come out.

1:15.0

A false report, a true story of rape in America, is written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.

1:23.0

Hello, and welcome to Real Crime Profile. Today is a very special day. I am your host, Lisa Zambezi. I am the lead cast and director of CBCS Criminal Minds.

1:34.0

I'm joined by my two beloved co-host Jim Cumenti and Laura Richards who could not be here today for this special podcast.

1:42.0

They're out and about being heroes and heroes, solving crimes and beating up the bad guys. Laura is doing amazing things.

1:50.0

I know she wants to tell you about changing the laws abroad. They couldn't be here today, but have no fear because I am joined by my wingman, the Melbourne Aussie.

2:02.0

Jane Liffin from Melbourne Australia, please to be paneling here for Lisa and the rest of this chat, so looking forward to what we can come up with today.

2:12.0

That's right. Along with Dean and I, I wish you guys could all shout it out altogether, but we also have some very special guests, the Real Crime Profile listeners.

2:23.0

This is very meta because you're listening to yourselves being a host. So that's right. We're going to be talking about a book that, hopefully we've all read or at least read the article about.

2:36.0

Real Crime Profile listeners are going to be chiming in via audio, and they're also going to be texting me or chatting.

2:44.0

Any questions and comments, so please weigh in. We want to hear what you think. So our first book was all begun in the dark by the wonderful, the late great Michelle McNamara, but this.

2:55.0

For some reason, we picked another book about a serial rapist called a false report, a true story by T Christian Miller and can Armstrong.

3:04.0

So listen, even if you haven't read this book, I have posted the pro public article that you could read. It's an excellent, actually Dean, you gave me that article. I didn't even know it was out there.

3:14.0

You can read that, but even if you haven't done any of that, we're going to be talking about the case itself as it's depicted in this book. And the case is really just, I mean, you can't make this shit up, right?

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