Produced past Chris O'Connell, Lauren Clark and Lindsey Schwartz
[This story first aired on November. 19, 2016.]
The victims range from immature women to a grandmother. A serial rapist on the loose in the Denver area. He was smart, stalking his victims for weeks, learning their patterns, plotting their schedules. He was even in their homes without attacking them. The rapist wore a mask and was meticulous in non leaving behind whatever physical evidence. "48 Hours" contributor Maureen Maher has a rare look inside the listen of this predator, and the female detectives determined to hunt him down before he could strike once again.
"I knew that she lived lonely. I knew that she was vulnerable … You know, I had kind of a moment of weakness I guess."
It was but after midnight in Aurora, Colorado, 10 miles outside Denver. A adult female, who nosotros volition call Mary, had no thought she was beingness stalked by a strange man.
"I brought a gun to that one … and I saw that the bedroom light was on. Uh, and then I knew she was in that location."
"But as a single woman, information technology but never occurred to you lot that you were vulnerable—living past yourself?" "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher asked Mary.
"No," she replied.
In October of 2009, Mary, a 65-year old grandmother, was jarred awake by a large masked man. He climbed on top of her, tied her up, cut off her wearing apparel and for the adjacent four hours, brutally raped her.
"Every adult female kinda has a different reaction. …you know, would kinda be paralyzed with fear … just start screaming right at the summit of their lungs. ..Others, would, you lot know, be quiet."
"I just screamed and he merely told -- kept telling me to close upwards." Mary said. "He had a black mask. And the but thing that showed was his eyes … and he had-- a gun in his pocketbook. If I didn't shut upwards, he would --he would kill me."
"I but lived moment to moment. Whatsoever he told me to do, I did it," she said.
"Did you ever recall, 'I'm gonna try to escape'?" Maher asked.
"I never felt similar I had the opportunity," Mary replied.
Then, equally if all that hadn't been plenty of a violation, he pulled out a photographic camera and photographed her.
"Did he threaten you lot with the pictures?" Maher asked Mary.
"Yes. He told me that if I telephone call the law, he would put it on the internet," she replied.
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When he was washed, he went about carefully cleaning anything that could have any trace of his DNA, stripping bed sheets and removing her wearing apparel from the scene. Finally, he brought Mary to the bath and ordered her into the bathtub.
"When he told me to fill the bathtub … that really made me nervous," Mary explained.
"Did you recollect he was going to kill you lot?" Maher asked.
"I thought he was gonna drown me," she said.
He warned her not to come out of the bathroom until he left. She waited similar he told her in that bathtub, common cold and frightened, for more than than an hour.
"What was going through your heed in that hour?" Maher asked.
"'Is he gone? Is he gone? I wonder if he's gone,'" Mary replied.
Investigators were able to observe some of the rapist'due south DNA on a teddy bear in Mary's house. Simply when they ran information technology through national databases, they couldn't find a match and Mary's case went cold.
Ii years after and 25 miles abroad, Golden, Colorado, police force detective Stacy Galbraith was just starting her shift when a telephone call came in.
"The patrol was being dispatched to … a sexual attack that had just occurred," Det. Galbraith explained.
Galbraith immediately headed to the scene and spoke to the victim -- a 29 yr-old woman who said she was in bed when she was attacked.
"She remembered hearing a racket, and so a masked person came into her bedroom, straddled her, and he threatened to shoot her. …he had a gun with him," the detective explained. "He sexually assaulted her, photographed her, and had her take a shower and so left."
Crime scene technicians constitute fiddling testify.
"…he took everything that nosotros could've … nerveless Deoxyribonucleic acid from," Galbraith said. "He took the bed covers. … He instructed her, y'all know, to utilise soap, to use toothpaste, to basically launder away, or take abroad any of the show that we needed to -- to solve the example."
Merely the victim did recall that the attacker was white and blond, because she could come across the hair on his artillery.
"This victim was very articulate. She wasn't, you know, visibly shaken. She wasn't crying, she wasn't emotional," said Galbraith.
She was able to sketch an prototype of a masked human being and a distinctive egg shaped birthmark she saw on his dogie.
A sketch of the masked man who raped Mary Jefferson County D.A.'s Part
"And so she was able to requite all these very … detailed $.25 of information that at some point in the investigation, these are things I'm gonna be looking for," Galbraith told Maher.
Her attacker brought a pair of pinkish loftier heels and fabricated her wear them while he took photos of her with a pink Sony Cyber-shot camera. Exterior the victim'south apartment, a security photographic camera recorded a suspicious white Mazda truck, only the plates were non visible. And in the snow, a single shoeprint.
"…and information technology came back as an Adidas," Det. Galbraith explained. "So nosotros knew if nosotros could … find the correct person and they were wearing that shoe or had that shoe … nosotros could exist a footling bit closer."
Only none of what the victim recalled was enough to break open up this instance and Galbraith -- now leading the investigation -- was deeply frustrated. Later that night, she did what many married people practice and vented to her spouse. Her husband only happened to be a police officer over in a neighboring town.
"And he immediately but kinda looked at me and said, 'You know, I recollect we've had … that hither … recently,'" she said. "And what he picked up on was that they were fabricated to shower for a certain time menstruation … and basically wash abroad the evidence."
First thing the next forenoon, her hubby put her in touch with Detective Edna Hendershot, the lead investigator on that instance 19 miles away in Westminster, Colo.
"It seemed pretty obvious that at that place was some connection," said Det. Hendershot.
Both of their departments assigned the detectives to work together on the cases. The description of the aggressor was almost exactly the aforementioned.
"A white male -- about 6'two", 180," said Galbraith.
"…he had light colored hair," said Hendershot.
"She also described him as a little bit stubby," Galbraith added.
Mary alerted law to a distinctive birthmark on the rapist'southward leg Jefferson County D.A.'southward Role
"I said, 'My victim had a pinkish Sony Cyber-shot camera that was stolen from her.' And Stacy immediately keyed on that and said, 'My victim was photographed with a pinkish Sony Cyber-shot camera,'" said Hendershot.
What'southward more than, Detective Hendershot was able to link the rape of 65-year-old Mary, in Aurora, to the same attacker. That made for three attacks in 2 years. And at Hendershot's criminal offense scene in Westminster, there was another piece of evidence.
"Turned out to be glove impressions that were alongside the railing outside of the apartment where the Westminster victim lived," she said.
"So not quite a fingerprint," Maher noted.
"Definitely not a fingerprint. But … impressions from a glove," Det. Hendershot explained. "And we described them as a honeycomb pattern."
"What's the contour on this guy -- who do you have in your mind? Who is this guy?" Maher asked.
"We were thinking potentially military … he knew what he was doing. … I was kinda scared maybe he could exist in law enforcement," Galbraith replied. "I kinda felt like, 'Do any of my cops here look like -- expect similar this guy? Does anyone have this mark on his leg that my victim is -- is describing?'"
"Most of your time is spent fantasizing and hunting. …Once you kinda decide … you kinda almost get by the point of no return."
In all the cases, the rapist told his victims he'd been stalking them for months -- watching their every motion and breaking into their homes during test runs. If they couldn't finish him presently, they knew he would strike again.
"I definitely felt like we were up against the clock. It was ticking. I could hear it. I could experience it," Galbraith told Maher. "I felt like we just had to get him off the street."
"He's hunting for his victim, and then the next victim, and then the next victim," said Galbraith.
"Did you e'er consider that he may be a serial killer and non just a serial rapist?" Maher asked.
"I think everything was on the table … at that betoken in time," said Hendershot.
LINKING THE Testify
Colorado detectives Stacy Galbraith and Edna Hendershot were working overtime to discover the pattern behind the attacks.
"He was educated plenty to know what we were looking for and know what he needed to take to throw united states of america off," Det. Galbraith said. "He was experienced with what he was doing. …probably be a piffling bit difficult to find."
"As you go more proficient, you offset making less mistakes."
"Our victims spanned age ranges. The victim in Aurora was in her 60s. …the victim in Gold was in her 20s. The Westminster victim was 59 years old," Det. Hendershot explained. "Trying to figure out what is it they accept in common that would make them targets for this detail individual, that was very frustrating."
"Because at that place was no consistency," Maher noted.
"At that place was not," Hendershot affirmed.
"Other than that they were women," said Maher.
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But in that location were pieces of a puzzle: that gloveprint on a railing in Westminster, the Adidas shoeprint in the snow in Golden, and a pinkish camera used to photograph them during the attacks. Only there was zip to pull the entire flick together.
"He was counting on the fact that we wouldn't talk to 1 another, that nosotros wouldn't reach out, that we wouldn't communicate. That'southward what he was counting on," said Det. Hendershot.
But he certainly wasn't counting on them looking for help, which they did, when they formed a task strength with local prosecutors, the Colorado Agency of Investigation and the FBI. On that task force was veteran FBI Special Agent Jonny Grusing.
"Did yous accept a sense that he'due south gonna strike again?" Maher asked Agent Grusing.
"Absolutely," he replied.
Grusing scoured area constabulary files for similar attacks and institute a report in nearby Lakewood that was labeled a domicile invasion. Merely when he looked closer, he saw it was a failed rape effort; the victim describing a masked man.
"… around 2:33 in the morning she heard a dragging sound coming downwards the hall … that woke her up and she saw a large, masked man in her doorway holding a pocketknife," Grusing said. "Then, he straddled her, made her become face down. However … she was able to really lift upwardly, turn around, and confront the human. And … tell him that he was not supposed to be in that location and this was not going to happen."
"She's willing it non to happen at this point?" Maher asked.
"Correct," Grusing replied. "She was very dauntless."
The adult female started screaming a human being'due south name, yelling for help. The aggressor idea someone else might be in the Lakewood house.
"And he makes the decision he's going to let her go for a second and bank check the room. And by the fourth dimension he jumps off of her and checks the room, she gets on her bed and dives out a window that is near 1 foot loftier past four feet wide onto the physical outside," Grusing explained. "She shattered her vertebra, that two ribs were cleaved, and her lung was punctured from that fall. But she even so got upwards, ran to her neighbor's house, and called the police."
Her police file had been sitting fallow for half a year when the Denver-area task forcefulness finally came across it. That ane case turned out to be a treasure trove full of evidence and data that definitively linked all the attacks together.
"The evidence in the Lakewood case was absolutely primal in linking this to i attacker," Hendershot said. "Specifically, each piece of evidence from i of the other assaults had a connection to the Lakewood case. For instance, the glove like this. This glove pattern was constitute in the Lakewood case. And this blueprint was also plant in the Westminster case. "
And retrieve that Adidas shoeprint in the snow in Golden? There was a perfect match in Lakewood. Then, at the end of a long task forcefulness meeting, a mention of a suspicious white vehicle seen at the Lakewood attack.
"So this is the message that -- the crime analyst in Lakewood held up at the conclusion of our meeting," Galbraith said.
The bulletin described a white Mazda pickup truck.
"That was when I am similar, 'OK … we had a white truck' and it'southward only like that," Det. Galbraith said. "I merely knew in my middle that that was -- that was it. That -- for that truck to be in that neighborhood in Lakewood, and likewise be in mine? …That had to be significant."
The photo in the police force bulletin that led to Det. Galbraith's "aha" moment.
Now, the task strength had a plate number and when they dug through their database, they came beyond a picture of the truck with a white human being standing next to it, about vi feet tall.
"So when I saw this truck and the man standing next to the truck, I thought that that looked like what all the victims who had been attacked described," Galbraith told Maher. "That was that 'aha' moment."
"We accept a truck that'southward in that aforementioned 2 areas and now we gotta encounter who it belongs to and who is this guy," said Grusing.
"And who was that guy?" Maher asked.
"Marc O'Leary," Grusing replied.
"Had you ever heard that name before?" Maher asked.
"No," said Grusing.
"Was he on anybody's radar?"
"No," said Grusing.
Marc Patrick O'Leary Constabulary photo
Marc Patrick O'Leary -- a man plumbing fixtures the very profile described past several of the victims. He had a armed services career that took him all over the world, from Washington State to Korea. The 32-twelvemonth-old O'Leary was separated from his wife and studying at a local community college.
"Did he have whatever prior criminal history whatsoever?" Maher asked.
"Insignificant," said Hendershot.
"No assaults?" Maher asked.
"No," said Galbraith.
"No tearing criminal offense," said Maher.
"No," said Galbraith.
"Nothing to signal that this guy was capable of what he was being accused of," Maher continued.
"Nothing like that," said Galbraith.
"I mean, you got the truck. You got the guy. You got an accost. He's right there. Did you want to merely go far your automobile, get over, bang on the door and take him right and then?" Maher asked Galbraith.
"No, we couldn't do that withal," she replied.
"I know you couldn't, just did you want to?" Maher quipped.
"Well, we needed to brand certain," said Galbraith.
"And and then it became important at that point in fourth dimension to showtime conducting surveillance on him -- attempt to get the DNA from this individual," Hendershot explained.
Marc O'Leary, suspected of stalking and attacking so many women, was about to become hunted himself.
PIECES OF A PUZZLE
The task strength finally had a viable suspect in Marc O'Leary, and Amanuensis Grusing's team didn't have to wait long for things to choice up fast.
"We're in Lakewood, Colorado," Grusing explained. "And this is the neighborhood where we fix on Marc O'Leary'southward residence. …nosotros waited and watched."
"And they see … the truck get out. And it looks similar the registered owner gets in it with a female," said Det. Galbraith.
As part of the team followed the couple to dejeuner at a eating house, Grusing stayed behind, hoping to install a surveillance camera on the house. But get-go, he needed to make sure no 1 else was home.
"I'd walked up through this driveway. We knocked on that white door where the light is," Grusing told Maher every bit they stood in forepart of O'Leary's house. "And Marc O'Leary appeared in the doorway."
"Which you were not expecting?" Maker asked.
"I was non expecting it," said Grusing.
He really wasn't. He thought he just saw O'Leary bulldoze off in the truck.
"And what was his demeanor when he came to the door?" Maher asked Grusing.
"He looked a little surprised. He was curious I would say, more than than annihilation to encounter why would we even exist knocking on his door," he replied.
"And so you had to exercise a niggling tap dance. What happened?" Maher asked.
"I pulled out the flyer that I had set," Grusing said. "And information technology was of a person nosotros were looking for in some other investigation.
"He looked at the sketch, said it did not look familiar … He said that his brother lived there … with him," Grusing continued. "We didn't even know he had a blood brother until that moment."
It turned out Grusing's team was tailing Michael O'Leary, Marc's younger brother, who looks an awful lot similar him. They collected the cup that Michael drank out of at lunch, hoping that strain of Dna might match the Dna on that teddy behave, and other samples they obtained.
"And what did it reveal?" Maher asked Grusing.
"It revealed … that strain of male DNA from the O'Leary family was on all of our victims' possessions," he replied.
Simply they had no idea which O'Leary brother was responsible, so they went to find out.
"What are y'all feeling? …You lot're this shut to this guy," Maher asked Galbraith.
"I'chiliad ready, and I'thou praying and hoping that … we don't lose him somehow and someone else gets hurt," she replied.
At 6 o'clock that Sunday morn, the team knocked on the O'Learys door, guns fatigued, and Detective Galbraith establish herself confront to face with Marc O'Leary.
"He just went pale. Just, similar, you could just kinda see the life get out of him for a second," she said of his reaction.
"He had existent amorphous pants on, and then I lifted each pant leg upward. And I saw the egg-shaped birthmark on his dogie," she connected.
The distinctive egg-shaped birthmark on O'Leary's calf matched a sketch from one of his victims.
It was identical to that unusual birthmark that Galbraith's victim had described on her attacker's leg.
"I said, 'Plow around, put your easily behind your dorsum, y'all're under arrest,'" said Galbraith.
They knew they finally had the correct O'Leary in custody.
"It'southward gratifying to finally put someone similar that in handcuffs," said Grusing.
Marc O'Leary seemed strangely amused by the circumstances, and he would non cooperate.
Marc O'Leary: I merely need to talk to an chaser
"At that betoken, nosotros were wanting to come across what was in the house," said Grusing.
A search warrant of his home yielded a golden mine.
"He had all of these things that he used to facilitate these assaults, merely in places about the house," Hendershot said, displaying what was constitute.
"Hidden in plain sight is how I would depict information technology," said Galbraith.
"And then in his closet … we came upward with ... his shoes," Galbraith said, showing them to Maher.
"What did you recollect?" Maher asked.
"I knew those were them," Galbraith replied.
They were a perfect match to those shoeprints found nearly 2 of the crime scenes. Just within O'Leary's front door, they found a pair of gloves with that singled-out honeycomb pattern. And that wasn't all.
The pinkish Sony Cyber-shot camera was found on a bookshelf in O'Leary'southward abode function
"This is a pink, Sony Cyber-shot camera that was collected from the office of O'Leary's residence," Galbraith explained. "He had kind of some bookshelves … And he had it but kind of propped upward … on a shelf."
It was the exact camera that was stolen from the Westminster victim and used to photograph the Golden victim. And then, perhaps most disturbingly, they came upon a backpack full of items O'Leary brought with him to perpetrate the rapes – including the pink high heels in Golden.
"You get repose when you encounter them," Maher commented to Galbraith of the evidence.
"Yeah. I actually haven't seen these things beyond pictures," she said.
"Why practise you get serenity?" Maher asked.
"Information technology'southward just sad," Galbraith replied.
"Yous know, information technology's just a thing until you lot know the details of what the thing was used for," said Maher.
"Correct … You don't usually find this, in my opinion, this much corroboration. This corroborated every, I hateful, just tch, tch, tch," Galbraith said equally if checking off a list.
"He didn't seem to be really working hard to hide everything," Maher pointed out.
"He wasn't expecting us," said Galbraith.
Merely in all of that evidence, there was nothing to link Marc O'Leary'due south brother, Michael, to any of the attacks.
"At this point in time, you practise not believe he was involved with it in whatsoever way," Maher noted to the detectives, who replied, "No."
It was in Marc'southward room -- in Marc'southward possessions -- that the detectives would make a worrisome discovery: hard drives, containing hundreds of pictures – and non simply of the four victims they knew of.
"There were photographs … that depicted … other women in what I think can simply exist characterized as a rape scenario," said Jefferson County Deputy District Chaser Bob Weiner.
"I wondered if they were victims of sexual assault, if they were even live anymore," said Galbraith.
The investigators had to detect them. In O'Leary'southward phone, they found that he had called one adult female numerous times. She wasn't a victim -- she was actually O'Leary's ex-girlfriend.
PREYING ON Fearfulness
In early 2011, and then 35-year-old bartender Amy was unsure why the FBI would exist calling her about her ex-fellow.
"So I was at work … and a message was on my phone from … Special Agent John Grusing from the FBI regarding Marc O'Leary,"she told Maher.
"He said, 'I am sure you know what is going on with Marc O'Leary,' and I said, 'No, actually I don't.' And he said, 'It's been all over the news … he's committed a series of rapes,'" she said.
It was difficult for Amy to believe. She had met Marc O'Leary on the online dating site OkCupid in 2009, and the homo she thought she knew presented himself very differently.
"He was pretty benevolent and protective," she said.
"Was he charming?" Maher asked.
"He was very charming … he was really fun to talk to. Nosotros talked for hours at a time quite oft," Amy replied. "In that location was lightness to him fifty-fifty though he had a dark humour."
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But it didn't concluding long for the couple.
"We attempted a sexual human relationship, but things did not become very well in terms of chemistry," Amy explained. "Marc needed the other person to be scared."
"The fear … and the authority," Maher noted.
"Yeah," said Amy.
"Did you lot always see that violent side of him?" Maher asked.
"No. I didn't see any violence. …Like, I knew what he liked and what turned him on," she explained. "But … I didn't bear witness him fear in any existent way, and he knew I wasn't scared. …It was tofu to somebody who wanted steak."
Amy had no idea that when he wasn't with her, O'Leary was out preying on women.
"I talked to Special Amanuensis Grusing for a long fourth dimension," she said. "And so subsequently I got off the telephone, I went and threw up … information technology was pretty upsetting to me."
As Amy struggled with Marc O'Leary'due south arrest, a few miles away, a detective broke the news to Mary.
"And kickoff I didn't believe him, said, 'You sure?' And he says, 'Yeah. Nosotros-- we got him.' That's what he said, 'Nosotros got him,'" she said.
"Did you experience a sense of relief?" Maher asked.
"Oh my, yes, yes," Mary replied. "There were so many victims. And he was so ill."
Marc Patrick O'Leary'southward abort photo
Marc Patrick O'Leary was charged with more than than 30 counts of sexual set on, kidnapping and burglary.
"…have actual photographs -- as disgusting every bit they were, of the actual rapes … concluded any speculation every bit to whether we had the correct guy," said Prosecutor Weiner.
Faced with overwhelming prove, O'Leary agreed to plead guilty to the sexual set on charges. But it was at his sentencing hearing, that fireworks really began.
Marc O'Leary in court: I am a sexually trigger-happy predator.
"Surprisingly … he has the chance to address the courtroom also. He took advantage of it," said Galbraith.
Marc O'Leary in court: and I'm out of control. I've been out of control for a long time … Words are simply inadequate to describe, uh, how only horrible I, you know, I've acted. …I can only hope that, y'all know, that my sentence today volition satisfy them.
His sentence would more satisfy: over 300 years in prison house -- a staggering number.
"In some crazy way felt sorry for him," Mary said. "He said he was going from ane prison to another, so … he was in his ain prison."
And something else he said at the sentencing caught the detectives' attending.
"He said that he would be willing to reply questions. And in law enforcement it's -- that'southward the, you know, that's the green light," said Galbraith.
They were almost to get rare expect into the listen of a serial rapist. Jonny Grusing took the lead, playing to O'Leary's ego.
"I told him that our profilers were very interested in him, considering of how intelligent he was. And he seemed to similar that," said Grusing.
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Marc O'Leary to Grusing: You know, you'll hear psychologists and shrinks will say that rape is a crime near power and control. That's not accurate. Power and control are a means to an end. What turned me on is fear.
"He talked about how his pendulum would swing and he could not control it. …He would have to fill that need," Grusing explained. "And that's the monster talkin' to him."
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: Yous know, after awhile the-the f---ing monster kicks in.
"He never won any of these battles with the monster," said Grusing.
Grusing saw that monster up shut. O'Leary described his feelings after one of the rapes.
"And I however remember this moment -- that'due south when he leaned back … and smiled," said Grusing.
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: I got some satisfaction…. it was similar I'd just eaten Thanksgiving dinner.
O'Leary says even every bit a child he had rape fantasies, but didn't human action on them until he was in the military on a tour of duty in Korea, where he tried, but failed, to rape two women. Back in the states, he was determined not to fail again.
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: I gotta practise it for real and just be done with it.
"So he decided that he was going to apply his war machine grooming to figure out a style to stalk his victims," Grusing explained, "to non be caught, and satisfy this urge that would come."
O'Leary brought upward one woman he'd been planning to assail.
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: Pech. I recall it was. P-due east-c-h.
Julie Pech, a unmarried mom, who had no idea O'Leary was stalking her.
"I effort non to live a paranoid life. I hateful, I wanna think that people are good … And then, I don't expect for bad things," Pech told Maher. "I suppose because I wasn't looking for that, information technology just never occurred to me that information technology could happen."
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: …checked out her firm a couple of times. … I knew she had an alarm system, merely she never used information technology.
"He was lining her upwards for an assault," said Grusing.
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: So I was walking around the back of her house one nighttime … Simply as I was walking by her back balcony, she opened the door.
"I saw him out there. And I said, 'What the f--yard are you doing hither … Get outta here. I'thousand gonna phone call the law,'" Pech said. "And he only turned around, went down the stairs -- went out to the back, climbed over the fence, and left."
Pech, unnerved, always set her home alert after that. Just she never thought virtually it again until the FBI called her.
"Information technology was very hard for me to process it," she said.
But the FBI didn't tell her everything.
Marc O'Leary to Grusing: And Julie Pech … One night she left ane of the windows open up, and then I climbed in … she was asleep in the bedroom….
"Did yous know that at one point he was in the firm and you were asleep?" Maher asked Pech.
"I did not know that," she replied.
"Walking in and out of your business firm, taking things from your identify?" Maher continued.
"No," Pech replied. "No idea whatsoever."
And what about those difficult drives with the hundreds of photos of other women? O'Leary wasn't willing to discuss annihilation that he had non pleaded guilty to.
O'Leary to Grusing: Yep, I won't tell you nigh any other cases.
Even behind bars, O'Leary wasn't done tormenting women. Earlier the interview concluded, he had a special message for Detective Galbraith:
O'Leary to Grusing: Hi Stacy Galbraith. Bet you lot wish you could have shot me.
"You know, I didn't -- I didn't sleep well that night," said Galbraith.
It wouldn't be the last sleepless night.
"We discovered another victim," said Galbraith.
But what happened to that adult female was far worse than the detectives could imagine.
MORE VICTIMS?
Among the hundreds of photos found in Marc O'Leary's dwelling house, a picture of a young woman spring and gagged stood out.
"In that instance, he really photographed her, like he'd done our other victims. Just he, thoughtfully, photographed her with her driver'due south license on her," said Galbraith.
"So you knew exactly who she was," Maher noted.
"Yes," Galbraith affirmed.
She was an 18-year-erstwhile woman, whose identity nosotros are not revealing, living only exterior Seattle in Lynnwood, Washington.
"And did you contact that police department in Washington?" Maher asked.
"Oh, correct away," said Galbraith.
It turns out police knew well-nigh her. They even had a rape report from 2008, only they believed it was a simulated study.
"She reported that … She woke upward to find an intruder in her bedroom standing at the doorway. He was armed with a pocketknife. He approached her. Leap her easily backside her back. Gagged her. Blindfolded her. Had her whorl over. …And then he raped her for a period of fourth dimension," said Lynwood Police Department Commander Rodney Cohnheim.
But during the investigation, they began to incertitude the young woman's truthfulness. One detective even threatened to charge her if she was lying. The adult female gave an interview to NPR'south "This American Life."
Victim: He told me that if I took a lie detector test and it came back I was lying, that he was going to have me to jail himself.
After that, she quickly inverse her story.
"…she says that she idea that she may accept dreamed that this occurred. And at i point, she said that it didn't happen," Commander Cohnheim said. "And ultimately, she was given a citation for faux reporting."
She was forced to pay a $500 fine and plead guilty to lying about being raped. Detective Galbraith couldn't believe what she was reading.
"I actually felt emotional. I knew that was wrong, because I could prove their instance at present," she said.
"And what was their response when you chosen and said, 'Hey, you know that case of that young woman who yous thought was lying and y'all charged her? Guess what, I got a film of her later on she's assaulted from the actual rapist,'" Maher asked.
"They came out immediately," Galbraith replied.
"I was stunned. …It's an absolute nightmare. Everything that she told united states of america was the absolute truth," Cohnheim said. "She was isolated. Alone. And so, nobody believed her. …That'due south a lot to assimilate.
The commander and his team headed directly to the young woman's home. Three years had passed since she had reported her rape.
"She was very surprised to see the states," Cohnheim said. "And we told her what we had learned. She was stunned. She was quiet at first. She began to weep. It was middle-wrenching to know that she had lived with this lonely for all those years."
The woman'southward charge was expunged from her record, her fine was reimbursed and she eventually settled a lawsuit with the police force department for $150,000.
"We learned many lessons here at the Lynnwood Law Department on the heels of this investigation," Cohnheim acknowledged. "We had outside groups come in to teach officers and detectives ways to investigate sexual assaults. …Non every victim of a trigger-happy offense reports it in the same style. …And that nosotros need to understand that, as strange as some circumstances seem, they can be true."
Information technology'south an observation not gone unnoticed by the rapist himself.
O'Leary to Grusing: If Washington had but paid attention a piddling fleck more than, yous know they'd probably – I probably would have been a person of involvement, you know, earlier on.
O'Leary was charged with that woman's rape and yet another similar sexual assault in Washington. He pleaded guilty in both cases, bringing the known number of victims to six. Just Detectives Galbraith and Hendershot believe it doesn't cease there.
"Admittedly, there's more," said Hendershot.
O'Leary had encrypted computers that investigators are still unable to open up.
"It went to Quantico. It went to the FBI lab here," Galbraith explained. "Nobody tin can become into information technology. And I was told that probably no one ever will."
All of this begs the question, if Marc O'Leary was willing to give such explicit details nearly the terrible crimes they already knew he had committed, what possible horrific things was he even so hiding on those difficult drives?
"You lot call back it's worse?" Maher asked Grusing.
"Don't know," he replied. "The other affair we wonder is, could someone else have been involved?"
Ex-girlfriend Amy wonders the same affair.
"It sounds to me like maybe he's protecting somebody else if he'south willing to fess upwards to everything that he's done, only he'due south not willing to turn over all of the information that he has," she said.
Merely Mary is hoping other victims of O'Leary'south will come forrard.
"Well, I remember the big affair is only that rape victims don't have to be aback," Mary said. "He kept getting away with it. And he wanted to practice it again. And each time he did it, he got a little more cocky about what he was doing and a little more dangerous."
"And there's no fearfulness in your life now associated with it?" Maher asked.
"No. I won't let it happen," Mary replied." I won't let him instill fear in me. I don't want anybody to do that to me."
Her force fuels the piece of work Galbraith and Hendershot have committed their lives to.
"He'due south merely behind bars because of the piece of work that you did together," Maher pointed out.
"Right … only it's not two people. Correct? It's not -- it's not three people with Jonny involved," Hendershot said. "It'southward a whole grouping. It took the entire group."
"Knowing that yous… pulled someone like that, so horrible, out of society and then that he can't hurt anyone once again, it was very, very rewarding," Galbraith said. "This is why I practise this.
Stacy Galbraith is now an agent for the Colorado Agency of Investigation.
Edna Hendershot was promoted to the rank of sergeant with the Westminster Police Department.
Galbraith and Hendershot both stay in contact with the women Marc O'Leary attacked.
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