Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold is a white American novelist who was raped by a black man when she was in college, and when another black man smiled at her, she decided he must have been the rapist and had him arrested and convicted of her rape even though she didn’t pick him out of a photo lineup.

The rape

Let’s be real, the rape probably didn’t happen. But Sebold claimed that while in college she got raped by a black man and she had no fucking clue who did it because after all, they all look alike.

The investigation

Because she had no idea who raped her, there was no progress on the investigation initially. Then a black man smiled at her and she thought how dare he smile at me, he must be my rapist! Detectives decided to “help” her by letting her know that Anthony Broadwater was in town—a troublemaker they had been dying to lock up.

But even with the wrongfully accused Broadwater in the lineup, Sebold picked another black man, not Anthony Broadwater. But cops asked “don’t you mean this OTHER guy?” pointing at Broadwater and in short order the unfortunate Broadwater whose only crime was smiling at the wrong white woman was cooling his heels in the penitentiary for seventeen years while Sebold made millions of dollars off this story, until a movie producer noticed the story didn’t make any damn sense and hired a private investigator with his own money.

She seriously used the excuse “they all look alike.”

	“	They looked virtually identical!	„
	—Alice Sebold

So Broadwater spent 17 years in prison on a bogus rape charge made by a bitch who knew she picked the wrong guy, until he was exonerated because of the actions of one decent person (the producer).

These guys looked “virtually identical!!”

Sebold, the celebrated wordsmith who wrote The Lovely Bones, Lucky, and other best-selling novels, hasn’t uttered a single word of contrition for stealing 16 years of this guy’s life.