ProPublica spent years investigating the attack on the bestselling author and the wrongly convicted man who lost decades of ...

In ProPublica's sprawling reexamination of the rape case at the center of Alice Sebold's memoir Lucky, the real mystery isn't ...

Alice Sebold misidentified Anthony Broadwater as her rapist 40 years ago. He was exonerated last week, though he already served 16 years in prison for the crime. She wrote: "I want to say that I am ...

Syracuse, NY — ProPublica has published a damning account of how Syracuse authorities bungled the 1981 investigation into Alice Sebold’s rape. The injustice was only revealed in 2021, two decades ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On May 8, 1981, while Syracuse University student Alice Sebold walked ...

"I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you," the author wrote in a statement. A judge... Nearly four decades after identifying the wrong person ...

While reading Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir Lucky for the first time in about two decades, I was struck by the prevalence of apologies in the narrative. “I’m so sorry. You’re a good girl,” repeats the ...

The film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky has been dropped following Anthony J. Broadwater’s exoneration. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Fernando-Leon ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The memoir at the center of a wrongful rape conviction and subsequent ...

The movie was dropped after losing its financing months ago, according to a source close to the production. Pedretti is also no longer involved. In “Lucky,” Sebold depicts being viciously beaten and ...

On Tuesday, author Alice Sebold formally apologized to the man who, almost 40 years ago, was charged with her rape. Anthony Broadwater had his conviction overturned last week, for which he served 16 ...