But the questions were hard to resist: Police initially gave up on Sebold’s case in hours, dismissing her, despite clear evidence she’d been raped.

After the exoneration, an internet backlash exploded against Sebold. But the media frenzy over the case glossed over a key detail: There had been other rapes in the same park where Sebold had been attacked at around the same time.

He spent 16 years in prison, then 23 more as a registered sex offender. She went on to literary fame as the author of “The Lovely Bones” and portrayed Broadwater’s conviction as just in a bestselling memoir called “Lucky.”

That news spread quickly. The BLM movement roiled the country the year before. Now, here was a Black man who had been wrongly convicted of raping a white woman, based almost exclusively on her testimony — even after she had identified a different man as her rapist in a lineup.