Who Are the Real People in Netflix's Unbelievable?
What You Need to Know About the Real People Behind Netflix's Unbelievable
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A former military man, Marc O'Leary was the perpetrator behind the mask in all the different locations. Sifting through surveillance footage, the police connected a white Mazda pickup to O'Leary. Using trace DNA at the crime scenes, they deducted, after running a test on his brother's cup at a restaurant, that the suspect had to be within his family. After the detectives got a search warrant and saw an egg-shaped birthmark on his leg matching a survivor's description, they knew that they found their guy. O'Leary pleaded guilty to five rapes as well as over 20 other felonies. He was sentenced to 327.5 years in prison. On the series, he is the character Chris McCarthy, played by actor Blake Ellis.