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

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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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. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.0	It feels kind of illegal, what Karen is doing.
0:35.0	She's sitting in her Los Angeles home and she's watching video after video of black men
0:40.6	pretending to her white woman. She wants to
0:43.7	throw up. She wants to gag. She can't take it anymore. She closes her
0:47.2	computer and stares out the window. Something about this just, I mean
0:51.9	obviously it just doesn't feel right.
0:54.1	Karen has been hired to write the screenplay for the famed author Alice Seabold,
0:59.3	the author of The Lovely Bones.
1:02.0	I don't know if you guys watch this movie, The Lovely Bones was a huge international commercial success, so is the book that
1:08.8	it's based off of.
1:10.3	That book was quickly one of the highest selling, fastest selling novels in that period.
1:16.3	Karen had been brought on to take Alice's other book, so The Lovely Bones already a movie.
1:22.0	But Alice had another book called Lucky.
1:24.4	This is a memoir, meaning this one is actually true.
1:26.9	This is actually about Alice's real life.
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