Detective Stacy Galbraith
Appearances
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
At this point, there's really no telling how many victims there truly are.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
There was still some snow on the ground. We were able to see some shoe prints all over the place, and there was one that was pretty consistent all around the victim's apartment. Stacy Galbraith, Jefferson County DA investigator. The victim was in her 20s, a college student. She was composed, calm, cool, collected, ready to tell her story.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
It was 7.50 in the morning. She was awoken to a man who came in to her bedroom, and he had a mask on, had a gun, and told her not to scream or he would shoot her.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
She asked him questions about himself, just trying to figure out who this person is. The way he spoke to her, he had a pretty militaristic demeanor, pretty authoritative. She thought he was 6'1", 6'2", 180 pounds. She described his stomach. as like a three-month pregnant belly, his shoes as being an Adidas.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
She was able to look at his eyes and tell they were a lighter color, either a hazel, bluish green, something like that.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
His pants were up or off, and she was able to see some type of mark on his calf. She didn't know if it was a birthmark, but it was some kind of round, egg-shaped, brownish in color mark on his leg.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
Before he left, he had her shower. He had her do things to remove any type of evidence, DNA and prints, things that were looking for to identify somebody.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
Based off of his attention to removal of evidence, I had a strong feeling that this particular perpetrator had offended before.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
At the time, my husband was working at Westminster Police Department. When I got home, I told him about the case, and he told me that they had had a similar case. And I'm just like, no way. You know, that can't even be possible.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
I sent out this kind of blast to a group of investigators to see, hey, can you guys check all of your cases? Is there anything that is somewhat similar to what we have? And I gave some details as far as MO and someone had said, hey, you need to talk to Detective Hendershot because she has one similar to that.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
The methods to the sexual assault were all very similar. He used photography on all of them.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
Being a woman and just knowing that there's somebody like this out there that we can't get our hands on, it was scary and it was very frustrating. because we had some evidence. It's like we just didn't have enough evidence.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
The criminalist for Westminster reached out to somebody at Lakewood, kind of the next city over. Hey, you know, can you guys check your records or anything? This is, you know, what we're dealing with in Golden, Aurora, and Westminster. Well, Lakewood came back with a case.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
He didn't sexually assault her because she escaped. But everything leading up to that was consistent with what we knew to have happened in all three of the cases that we knew about already.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
There were a lot of shoe prints in the Lakewood case. We immediately noted that the shoe print was consistent with the Golden shoe print. So we had DNA in Aurora and Westminster. We had shoe prints in Golden and Lakewood, and we had the glove prints in Lakewood and Westminster as well.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
At that complex in Golden, there was one surveillance camera in the area. There was a business at the corner, which is actually the closest to the victim's apartment. We got a copy of all their footage, and it was not good footage. It was grainy. You could get a feel for the type of vehicle. Is it a truck? Is it a car?
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
One of the vehicles was a white Mazda truck, and it had been seen about 10 times between midnight and 5 a.m.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
The criminalist for Lakewood said that she had found a report that was called in by a resident of a neighborhood in Lakewood, and it was just a suspicious vehicle. When she was talking about it, she held it up. I knew right then that that was the truck I saw on the Golden surveillance video from midnight to 5 a.m. That was the break that we had been looking for.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
Some investigators believed that they had seen Mark leave the house in the white truck. So they followed it to a diner and it was a guy matching the description of Mark O'Leary and also matching the description given by the assault victims. They went in after he left and they were able to collect some items to get that guy's DNA.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
Two agents knocked on the door and lo and behold, it was actually Mark O'Leary that came to the door and he identified that his brother had taken his truck and that he lived there with his brother. So that kind of threw us for a bit of a loop in that the DNA that we had, if those two brothers share the same father, it could be either one of them.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
This happened very quickly. We got the DNA match on Saturday, and early Sunday morning, I think we met at 6 a.m., we knocked and announced at the house for the search warrant.
Evil Next Door
Marc O'Leary
When I knocked on the door, it was Mark O'Leary that came to the door. The first thing I said to him was to come out with his hands up. I identified myself as law enforcement, and he opened the door and stepped out with me. I just saw all the blood in his face drain. It went white, pale, and then kind of came a blue color. You could tell the world as he knew it was not going to be the same.