![]() ![]() When Sebold managed to crawl to safety and was taken to the police station, a police officer told her she was lucky: another young woman had recently been murdered and dismembered in the same tunnel. Her assailant beat her badly, took her virginity, and then urinated on her before leaving. During her first semester there, she was brutally raped in a tunnel on campus. Sebold enrolled at New York's Syracuse University in the fall of 1980. ![]() Both parents criticized Alice about her weight and compared her unfavorably to her older sister, Mary, whose grades were better than Alice's. Alice's mother, Jane, was addicted to Valium and alcohol and suffered from serious anxiety attacks. Family life in the Sebold household was difficult. But she was wrong.Alice Sebold was born on September 6, 1963, in the college city of Madison, Wisconsin, where her father was a Spanish professor. Sebold will come forward and say, ‘Hey, I made a grave mistake,’ and give me an apology,” Broadwater said to the New York Times. Sebold had no comment on the exoneration, the New York Times reported. He felt it was unfair to bring a child into the world under the stigma of his conviction. Although his wife, whom he met after his release, wanted children, Broadwater refused. He had just returned home to Syracuse after serving in the Marine Corps in California, the New York Times said.Īfter his release from jail, Broadwater had a difficult time finding work because of his criminal record, CNN reported. In November, Cuffy vacated Broadwater’s designation as a sex offender in addition to his rape conviction, reported.īroadwater was 20 years old at the time of his arrest. Mucciante hired a private investigator to look into the evidence against Broadwater, eventually bringing their findings to Broadwater’s lawyer, J. ![]() LOVELY BONES AUTHOR UPDATEEach of those happened before microscopic hair analysis was discredited, and each went nowhere.Īccording to the New York Times, the publisher for “Lucky,” Scribner, has no plans to update the text of the memoir to reflect the exoneration.Ī planned film adaptation of “Lucky” shed light on the doubt surrounding the prosecution’s case, according to the New York Times, after the project’s executive producer Timothy Mucciante noticed discrepancies between the script and the representation of the story in Sebold’s memoir. A 2015 investigation with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Project revealed that 26 out of 28 examiners with the FBI’s microscopic hair comparison unit overstated the match in a way that benefited prosecutors.īroadwater’s other appeals included one in 1983, another in 1992 and a third in 2006, reported. However, hair analysis is largely regarded to be a flawed and inaccurate forensic tool. The conviction was ultimately based on the evidence from Sebold’s recognition of Broadwater and analysis of hair found at the scene, the New York Times reported. She reported Broadwater to the police after recognizing him as her attacker, CNN reported that his attorney said, but she later failed to identify him in a police lineup.īroadwater asked an appellate court to reverse the conviction based on the lineup, but the court declined in 1984 because Broadwater and the man that Sebold picked “bore a remarkable resemblance,” reported. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick sided with defense lawyers in the argument that the initial prosecution was flawed, reported.īroadwater was charged with the crime when the then-18-year-old Sebold saw him in the street in Syracuse months after the attack. Since his release in 1998, he had remained on New York state’s public sex offender registry. 22, after more than 16 years in prison, Broadwater was exonerated by New York State Supreme Court Justice Roman Cuffy, who vacated the rape conviction and related counts, CNN reported.īroadwater spent 16 years in prison for the crime after his 1982 conviction, according to CNN, and was denied parole at least five times. But Anthony Broadwater, the man convicted of her 1981 rape in Thornden Park near SU, maintained his innocence. Sebold would later become known for her novel “The Lovely Bones,” a fictional story which also centers around rape. In it, she described in detail being raped as a freshman at Syracuse University. Subscribe to our newsletter here.Įditor’s Note: This story contains mentions of rape.Īlice Sebold published her memoir “Lucky” in 1999. Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. ![]()
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