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 after Sebold’s best-selling memoir, Lucky, when the man convicted of her rape was exonerated in court.
Reporter Joaquin Sapien spent parts of 2 1/2 years reporting on how Syracuse police, Syracuse University and other powerful institutions mishandled numerous rapes — including Sebold’s — in and around Thornden Park during the 1980s.
“There is a shared responsibility for what happened in Syracuse,” Sapien told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard Tuesday…