After an officer suggested the man might have been Anthony Broadwater, who had reportedly been seen in the area, police arrested and charged Broadwater. She notified police, who were initially unable to find the man she had encountered. Don't I know you from somewhere?", and that she had recognized his face from the attack. In Lucky, she wrote that the man had approached her, saying "Hey, girl. After five months of no leads by the police, Sebold was walking down a sidewalk near the Syracuse campus when she saw a black man whom she believed to be the person who raped her. Shortly after the assault, Sebold returned home to Pennsylvania to live with her family for the summer before beginning her sophomore year at Syracuse University.
She reported the crime to campus security and the police, who took her statement and investigated, but could not identify any suspects. Her attacker told her that he had a knife and that if she screamed or made any noises, he would kill her. In the early hours of May 8, 1981, while Sebold was eighteen years old and a freshman at Syracuse University, she was assaulted and raped while walking home through a tunnel to an amphitheater near campus. He was exonerated in 2021 after a judge found serious issues with the initial conviction. Īnthony Broadwater served 16 years in prison for the crime, and was released in 1999. Sebold has stated that her reason for writing the book was to bring more awareness to rape and rape survivors. Lucky describes her experience of being raped and beaten when she was eighteen in a tunnel near Syracuse University where she was a student, and how this traumatic experience shaped the rest of her life. Lucky is a 1999 memoir by the American novelist Alice Sebold, best known as the author of the 2002 novel The Lovely Bones.
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