Post by nick on Jan 31, 2017 0:26:51 GMT
Fitting the very profile described by several of the victims. He had a military career that took him all over the world, from Washington State to Korea. The 32-year-old O’Leary was separated from his wife and studying at a local community college.
He had stolen a camera from a victim and brought it and pink high shoes he had another wear them while took pictures.
He had no criminal record and was clean as Police started Investigating him. The police said it became important at that point in time to start conducting surveillance on him -- attempt to get the DNA from this individual. It turned out the police were tailing Michael O’Leary, Marc’s younger brother, who looks an awful lot like him. They collected the cup that Michael drank out of at lunch, hoping that strain of DNA might match the DNA on that teddy bear, and other samples they obtained. It revealed … that strain of male DNA from the O’Leary family was on all of our victims’ possessions.
But they had no idea which O’Leary brother was responsible, so they went to find out.At 6 o’clock that Sunday morning, the police knocked on the O’Learys door, guns were drawn, and Detective Galbraith found herself face to face with Marc O’Leary.
“He just went pale. Just, like, you could just kinda see the life go out of him for a second,” she said of his reaction.
“He had real baggy pants on, so I lifted each pant leg up. And I saw the egg-shaped birthmark on his calf,” she continued.
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. Police search his house and find Sony Cyber-shot camera that was collected from the office of a victim's residence,” Galbraith explained. “He had kind of some bookshelves … And he had it just kind of propped up 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.
Faced with overwhelming evidence, O’Leary agreed to plead guilty to the sexual assault charges. But it was at his sentencing hearing, that fireworks really began.
Marc O’Leary in court: I am a sexually violent predator.
Marc O’Leary in court: and I’m out of control. I’ve been out of control for a long time … Words are just inadequate to describe, uh, how just horrible I, you know, I’ve acted. …I can only hope that you know, that my sentence today will satisfy them.
His sentence would more than satisfy: over 300 years in prison -- a staggering number. Marc O’Leary talking to the FBI: "You know, you’ll hear psychologists and shrinks will say that rape is a crime about 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,” . “And that’s the monster talkin’ to him.”
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: "You know, after awhile the-the f---ing monster kicks in."
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: I got some satisfaction…. it was like I’d just eaten Thanksgiving dinner.
O’Leary says even as a child he had rape fantasies, but didn’t act 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 the FBI: "I gotta do it for real and just be done with it.
"
“And then he decided that he was going to use his military training to figure out a way to stalk his victims,” Grusing explained, “to not be caught, and satisfy this urge that would come.”
O’Leary brought up one woman he’d been planning to attack.
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: Pech. I think it was. P-e-c-h.
Julie Pech, a single mom, who had no idea O’Leary was stalking her.
“I try not to live a paranoid life. I mean, I wanna think that people are good … And so, I don’t look for bad things,” Pech told Maher. “I suppose because I wasn’t looking for that, it just never occurred to me that it could happen.”
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: …" Checked out her house a couple of times. … I knew she had an alarm system, but she never used it."
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: And so I was walking around the back of her house one night … Just as I was walking by her back balcony, she opened the door.
“I saw him out there. And I said, ‘What the f--k are you doing here … Get outta here. I’m gonna call the police,’” Pech said. “And he just turned around, went down the stairs -- went out to the back, climbed over the fence, and left.”
Among the hundreds of photos found in Marc O’Leary’s home, a picture of a young woman bound and gagged stood out.
In that case, he actually photographed her, like he’d done our other victims. But he, thoughtfully, photographed her with her driver’s license on her
. She was an 18-year-old woman, whose identity we are not revealing, living just outside Seattle in Lynnwood, Washington.
It turns out police knew about her. They even had a rape report from 2008, only they believed it was a false report.
She reported that … She woke up to find an intruder in her bedroom standing at the doorway. He was armed with a knife. He approached her. Bound her hands behind her back. Gagged her. Blindfolded her. Had her roll over. …And then he raped her for a period of time,” said Lynwood Police Department Commander Rodney Cohnheim.
But during the investigation, they began to doubt the young woman’s truthfulness. One detective even threatened to charge her if she was lying. The woman gave an interview to NPR’s “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 take me to jail himself.
After that, she quickly changed her story.
“…she says that she thought that she may have dreamed that this occurred. And at one point, she said that it didn’t happen,” Commander Cohnheim said. “And ultimately, she was given a citation for false 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 case now,” she said.
And what was their response when you called and said, ‘Hey, you know that case of that young woman who you thought was lying and you charged her? Guess what, I got a picture of her after she’s assaulted from the actual rapist. “I was stunned. …It’s an absolute nightmare. Everything that she told us was the absolute truth,” Cohnheim said. “She was isolated. Alone. And then, nobody believed her. …That’s a lot to digest.
The commander and his team headed straight to the young woman’s home. Three years had passed since she had reported her rape.
“She was very surprised to see us,” Cohnheim said. “And we told her what we had learned. She was stunned. She was quiet at first. She began to cry. It was heart-wrenching to know that she had lived with this alone for all those years.”
The woman’s charge was expunged from her record, her fine was reimbursed and she eventually settled a lawsuit with the police department for $150,000.
O’Leary to the FBI:" If Washington (State) had just paid attention a little bit more, you know they’d probably – I probably would have been a person of interest, you know, earlier on."
This case shows how LE blunders were uncovered by other LE agencies could have prevented more sexual assaults of more victims. This is another very similar but diffrent MO of EAR's were used to stalk and attack women.
He had stolen a camera from a victim and brought it and pink high shoes he had another wear them while took pictures.
He had no criminal record and was clean as Police started Investigating him. The police said it became important at that point in time to start conducting surveillance on him -- attempt to get the DNA from this individual. It turned out the police were tailing Michael O’Leary, Marc’s younger brother, who looks an awful lot like him. They collected the cup that Michael drank out of at lunch, hoping that strain of DNA might match the DNA on that teddy bear, and other samples they obtained. It revealed … that strain of male DNA from the O’Leary family was on all of our victims’ possessions.
But they had no idea which O’Leary brother was responsible, so they went to find out.At 6 o’clock that Sunday morning, the police knocked on the O’Learys door, guns were drawn, and Detective Galbraith found herself face to face with Marc O’Leary.
“He just went pale. Just, like, you could just kinda see the life go out of him for a second,” she said of his reaction.
“He had real baggy pants on, so I lifted each pant leg up. And I saw the egg-shaped birthmark on his calf,” she continued.
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. Police search his house and find Sony Cyber-shot camera that was collected from the office of a victim's residence,” Galbraith explained. “He had kind of some bookshelves … And he had it just kind of propped up 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.
Faced with overwhelming evidence, O’Leary agreed to plead guilty to the sexual assault charges. But it was at his sentencing hearing, that fireworks really began.
Marc O’Leary in court: I am a sexually violent predator.
Marc O’Leary in court: and I’m out of control. I’ve been out of control for a long time … Words are just inadequate to describe, uh, how just horrible I, you know, I’ve acted. …I can only hope that you know, that my sentence today will satisfy them.
His sentence would more than satisfy: over 300 years in prison -- a staggering number. Marc O’Leary talking to the FBI: "You know, you’ll hear psychologists and shrinks will say that rape is a crime about 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,” . “And that’s the monster talkin’ to him.”
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: "You know, after awhile the-the f---ing monster kicks in."
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: I got some satisfaction…. it was like I’d just eaten Thanksgiving dinner.
O’Leary says even as a child he had rape fantasies, but didn’t act 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 the FBI: "I gotta do it for real and just be done with it.
"
“And then he decided that he was going to use his military training to figure out a way to stalk his victims,” Grusing explained, “to not be caught, and satisfy this urge that would come.”
O’Leary brought up one woman he’d been planning to attack.
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: Pech. I think it was. P-e-c-h.
Julie Pech, a single mom, who had no idea O’Leary was stalking her.
“I try not to live a paranoid life. I mean, I wanna think that people are good … And so, I don’t look for bad things,” Pech told Maher. “I suppose because I wasn’t looking for that, it just never occurred to me that it could happen.”
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: …" Checked out her house a couple of times. … I knew she had an alarm system, but she never used it."
Marc O’Leary to the FBI: And so I was walking around the back of her house one night … Just as I was walking by her back balcony, she opened the door.
“I saw him out there. And I said, ‘What the f--k are you doing here … Get outta here. I’m gonna call the police,’” Pech said. “And he just turned around, went down the stairs -- went out to the back, climbed over the fence, and left.”
Among the hundreds of photos found in Marc O’Leary’s home, a picture of a young woman bound and gagged stood out.
In that case, he actually photographed her, like he’d done our other victims. But he, thoughtfully, photographed her with her driver’s license on her
. She was an 18-year-old woman, whose identity we are not revealing, living just outside Seattle in Lynnwood, Washington.
It turns out police knew about her. They even had a rape report from 2008, only they believed it was a false report.
She reported that … She woke up to find an intruder in her bedroom standing at the doorway. He was armed with a knife. He approached her. Bound her hands behind her back. Gagged her. Blindfolded her. Had her roll over. …And then he raped her for a period of time,” said Lynwood Police Department Commander Rodney Cohnheim.
But during the investigation, they began to doubt the young woman’s truthfulness. One detective even threatened to charge her if she was lying. The woman gave an interview to NPR’s “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 take me to jail himself.
After that, she quickly changed her story.
“…she says that she thought that she may have dreamed that this occurred. And at one point, she said that it didn’t happen,” Commander Cohnheim said. “And ultimately, she was given a citation for false 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 case now,” she said.
And what was their response when you called and said, ‘Hey, you know that case of that young woman who you thought was lying and you charged her? Guess what, I got a picture of her after she’s assaulted from the actual rapist. “I was stunned. …It’s an absolute nightmare. Everything that she told us was the absolute truth,” Cohnheim said. “She was isolated. Alone. And then, nobody believed her. …That’s a lot to digest.
The commander and his team headed straight to the young woman’s home. Three years had passed since she had reported her rape.
“She was very surprised to see us,” Cohnheim said. “And we told her what we had learned. She was stunned. She was quiet at first. She began to cry. It was heart-wrenching to know that she had lived with this alone for all those years.”
The woman’s charge was expunged from her record, her fine was reimbursed and she eventually settled a lawsuit with the police department for $150,000.
O’Leary to the FBI:" If Washington (State) had just paid attention a little bit more, you know they’d probably – I probably would have been a person of interest, you know, earlier on."
This case shows how LE blunders were uncovered by other LE agencies could have prevented more sexual assaults of more victims. This is another very similar but diffrent MO of EAR's were used to stalk and attack women.