
Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of rape and violence and might be upsetting for some readers.
This article contains spoilers for the Netflix show Unbelievable, which is based on a true story.
Anyone who has watched Netflix’s Unbelievable will tell you, the true story is hard to watch.
Based paragraph by paragraph on T. Christian Miler and Kem Armstrong’s Pulitzer Prize-winning article, An Unbelievable Story of Rape, the eight-part TV series follows two female detectives as they hunt down a serial rapist terrorising women by crossing age, race and state borders.
The story begins in 2008 when an 18-year-old woman named Marie Adler (in real life, we don’t know Marie’s first or last name; Marie is her middle name) played by Kaitlyn Dever calls the police and tells them she has been raped.
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The young Washington woman tells police a man broke into her home, snuck quietly into her bedroom during the night, blindfolded her and raped her at knifepoint for hours on end.