Ep 153: A college woman’s brutal rape leads to a forty-year quest for justice that would reveal there was more than one victim in this case
This is the Alice Sebold Story
Sources for Today's Episode:
The Book Lucky
Pennsylvania Center for the Book
The New York Times
The New Yorker
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