Alice Sebold was to be portrayed as the heroine in a film based on her memoir, 'Lucky,' until the man she identified as her rapist 40 years ago was recently declared innocent. Now, a different movie (or two) are in the works.
On May 8, 1981, while Syracuse University student Alice Sebold walked near her dormitory she was approached from behind by a stranger who covered her mouth and knocked her to the ground.She offered to give her attacker all of her money and her mom's and her sister's credit cards if he'd leave her be. He laughed and demanded she strip naked, then he pulled her hair back and forced her to kiss him repeatedly before raping her.
The film was recently canceled when Broadwater—who served more than 16 years in prison for rape, sodomy and other crimes that night, then lived largely as a pariah given his public status as a registered sex offender since his release in 1999—was officially exonerated last month, innocent of the crimes he was convicted of, according to Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and a New York court.
The prosecutor was angry when Sebold chose the wrong man, and told her,"Well, at least we got the hair out of the bastard." She was referring to a pubic hair comparison that ultimately suggested Broadwater might have been the rapist, though such analysis has since been debunked and many cases relying on the technique have been overturned by DNA science that hadn't existed in the 1980s.
"Alice misrepresented Anthony's criminal history in a very bad way. She wrote that he had violent priors and was previously incarcerated, but he was a Marine until that year when he was discharged to take care of his ailing father," says Mucciante."He was in prison for 16 years and a registered sex offender for 23 years. He lives in a house literally held together by tarps. He deserves to have his story told.
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