The two made small talk, unaware that Ms. Broadwater would each remember calling out to the other, “Don’t I know you?” Broadwater recognized a police officer from his younger days. 5, 1981, he and a friend drove over to Marshall Street, a stretch of restaurants and shops that had long served as a gathering place for college students.
He returned to Syracuse, where his father was ill with stomach cancer, and eventually took a job installing phones for a telecommunications company. He was discharged and received disability for the injury. Stationed at Twentynine Palms and Camp Pendleton, he ended up with a cyst on his wrist. “I wanted to see the world and try to better myself,” he said. While the police who patrolled the neighborhood were familiar with the brothers, Anthony Broadwater had never been accused of anything serious.Ī skilled wrestler at Henninger High School, he dropped out around 17 and was intrigued when a Marine Corps recruiter said he could be on a flight to California within days. Wade Broadwater recalled how his brother could get caught up in entertaining a crowd and was once stopped for letting kids ride on the roof of his car. Known as “Tony,” Anthony Broadwater was outgoing and rambunctious, often tussling with his siblings. It was he and his brother Wade who discovered her body on the couch in their living room. When he was about 5 years old, his mother died of pneumonia. Instead, he spent time at a community recreation center and the local Boys & Girls Club. He rarely set foot on campus, saying he felt that it was “off limits” to him and other young Black locals.
“You are the best rape witness I’ve ever seen on the stand.” From the Marine Corps to a police lineupĪnthony James Broadwater was born in Syracuse, the fourth of six boys, and lived for a while near Syracuse University, where his father worked as a janitor. “I’ve been in this business for 30 years,” he said. She had been sweaty and shaky by the end of her testimony but was bolstered by the words of a bailiff. Sebold would recount in a best-selling memoir that she felt confident justice had been served.
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