<p>________________________________________<br><b>The real-life investigation behind the hit Netflix series, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists.</b><br><br><b><u>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD</u><br></b><br>She said she was raped.<br>Police said she lied.<br>She was made to retract the report ¿ but the nightmare only got worse.<br><br>On 11 August 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man had broken into her home and raped her. Within days, police ¿ and even those closest to Marie ¿ became suspicious of her story. Confronted by these minor inconsistencies and doubt, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie. The police charged her with making a false report. <br><br>Two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to a case of sexual assault. It bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. Joining forces with the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, the two soon discovered they were dea