He was convicted on that identification and flimsy hair analysis that the DoJ now wouldn't rely on.

She later said they were 'identical' and that Broadwater was her attacker she identified him in the courtroom.

The cops were convinced that Broadwater was her attacker and they told her she'd picked the wrong man.

She reported the attack to police at the time and in a lineup, identified a different man as her attacker.

Anthony Broadwater, 61, spent 16 years behind bars for raping Alice Sebold in a park in Syracuse in 1981.It might be this that gives Sebold's novel its special flavor, for in Susie's every observation and memory of the smell of skunk or the touch of spider webs is the reminder that life is sweet and funny and surprising.The 1981 lineup that led to the WRONG man being jailed for raping Lovely Bones author: Alice Sebold, then 19, chose a different man for attack that inspired her memoir Lucky - but was told by the COPS that she got it wrong Sebold's most dazzling stroke, among many bold ones, is to narrate the story from Susie's heaven (a place where wishing is having), providing the warmth of a first-person narration and the freedom of an omniscient one. Much as this novel is about 'the lovely bones' growing around Susie's absence, it is also full of suspense and written in lithe, resilient prose that by itself delights. She captures the odd alliances forged and the relationships ruined: the shattered father who buries his sadness trying to gather evidence, the mother who escapes 'her ruined heart, in merciful adultery.' At the same time, Sebold brings to life an entire suburban community, from the mortician's son to the handsome biker dropout who quietly helps investigate Susie's murder. The description of the crime is chilling, but never vulgar, and Sebold maintains this delicate balance between homely and horrid as she depicts the progress of grief for Susie's family and friends. In the second sentence, Sebold's narrator, Susie Salmon, announces, 'I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.' Susie is taking a shortcut through a cornfield when a neighbor lures her to his hideaway. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace. HSebold's first novel after her memoir, Lucky is a small but far from minor miracle.

Uma Vida Interrompida by Alice Sebold