The Real Marie Adler Plans to Watch Netflix's 'Unbelievable'

Sep. 17 2019, Updated 6:25 p.m. ET

The premise of Netflix's dark crime thriller Unbelievable is just as ordinary as its title suggests. It begins with the violent rape of an 18-year-old Marie, who reviews her rape but isn't believed via any adults, and later rescinds her file.

But in fact she was once raped, and her case ends up our first entry level into a wild goose chase for a serial rapist who is been attacking ladies in Washington and Colorado.

If you've got watched all 8 episodes, and are wondering where the real Marie Adler is now, stay reading.

Where is the real Marie Adler now?

Let's begin by means of clearing up some misconceptions. You may not flip up many hits on Google in the event you type up her identify for a few causes. While Unbelievable remains lovely true to the Marshall Project article the sequence is based on, it does take some liberties in relation to changing up some names and characters.

And while Marie came from the title utilized in the tale, which the authors write is "her middle name," Newsweek suggests that the remaining identify Adler "was chosen by the show's producers."

But her tale in real life is pretty much identical to what we see spread on screen. In 2008, then 18-year-old Marie reported that she was raped for hours via a person who entered her house, where she lived on my own, in the early hours of the morning. 

The Netflix show does a compelling job of portraying exactly how many times she has to recount the identical horrific tale in painful element, and the way inconsistencies between her narratives naturally rise up from her being forced to inform the identical tale while emotionally exhausted and bodily traumatized.

As a result of the inconsistencies, or in all probability extra because Marie had been bounced around by many foster homes and wasn't the most publicly relied on source, her foster mom Judith (played by means of Allison Janney's lookalike, House of Cards' Elizabeth Marvel) isn't convinced she was raped and begins to plant a seed of doubt with Marie's detectives.

It's absolutely devastating to watch, and ends with Marie taking a deal of supervised probation — and skirting a 12 months at the back of bars — for her rate of submitting a false report. 

Though in the end, her storyline seems constructive. She wins $150,000 in a lawsuit and decides to start out her existence fresh out of doors of Washington. She will get in her automobile — Marie getting her license was a subplot all the way through the series — and drives off into the distance.

The real Marie is now about 29 years old. Since she in point of fact made an effort to begin a new existence and put all of this behind her, she's now not anyplace to be found on social media. However, she has gave the impression on This American Life in 2016 to narrate the events of the award-winning "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" in her personal voice.

And in step with the people who penned the original long-form story, T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, Marie now works as a long-haul truck driving force and still helps to keep involved with Ken. "She's doing well," Ken mentioned to NPR. "One of the things that Marie told us is that after all of this happened, she didn't want to live in fear."

"These days she's a long haul truck driver," he continued. "She drives an 18-wheeler across the country. She and I speak fairly often. And it seems like every time I talk to her she's in a different state. She is strong. And she is resilient."

Marie was once additionally on board to sell her lifestyles rights for Unbelievable or even plans on staring at it, consistent with what Ken said to The Hollywood Reporter. "I spoke with Marie a couple weeks ago and she had seen the trailer and the word she used was that the trailer was 'phenomenal' and hard to watch," he stated.

"But she decided that she did want to watch the whole series," Ken added.

Unbelievable is now streaming all 8 of its episodes on Netflix. 

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