How Netflix's 'Unbelievable' created its revolutionary portrayal of rape
When reporters Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller published "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" in December 2015, #MeToo was nearly two years away from becoming a full-blown social movement.
Their report for ProPublica and the Marshall Project, also made into an episode of "This American Life," told the harrowing story of Marie, a teenager in Lynnwood, Wash., who was raped in her apartment by a masked intruder.
She reported the assault to police, who soon began to doubt her account and eventually charged her with filing a false report. Years later, an extraordinary second investigation in Colorado would uncover the truth: Marie had been the victim of a serial rapist operating in both states.
The investigation went awry because, put simply, a vulnerable young woman responded to her violent assault in the "wrong" way. Armstrong and Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning
