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The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored

By Joaquin Sapien · ProPublica · June 2026
The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
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"Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened."

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