#344: “Lovely Bones” Author Is Sorry For Sending Wrong Guy To Jail For 16 Years After Writing a Book About Him

Timothy, a film director, had a new script land on his desk. The movie was in its final screenwriting stages and it just needed his final approval.

They had been working to turn Alice Sebold, the famed author of “The Lovely Bones,” they were working on turning her memoir into a movie. Her memoir was about her real life assault in college and her fight to send her violent attacker to prison.

But the more Timothy read - the more he didn’t feel right about this. There was so much wrong. The details. The evidence.

Timothy picked up his phone - he called his private investigator.

I need you to look into Alice Sebold for me. The New York Times Bestselling author… something’s not right. I think… I think she’s lying.

It was during the production of her movie - that it was discovered, Alice Sebold, had sent the wrong guy to prison for 16 years.

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