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 ...

In ProPublica's sprawling reexamination of the rape case at the center of Alice Sebold's memoir Lucky, the real mystery isn't just who attacked her—it's how the system managed to fail almost everyone.

A ProPublica investigation re-examines the 1981 rape of Syracuse University student Alice Sebold and the wrongful conviction of Anthony Broadwater, who was exonerated decades later. What does this ...