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You may know Alice Sebold as the author of The Lovely Bones but you may not know the story of Alice and Anthony. Anthony Broadwater was exonerated in the 1981 rape of Ms.Sebold. Listen to the Truer Crime Season 2 episode 3 for all of the details on the case. Today Emily and Ashley chat about the bigger themes of her episode...False Memories, Forgiveness and The Satanic Panic. Thank you for listening.

TW: SA, Abuse, Child Abuse, Murder

Show notes:

0:00-1:00 intro

1:00-4:00 An Overview of the case

4:30 Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson case

6:30 Eye witness testimony and knowing what's going on around us

7:20 What is the weapon focus effect?

8:20 Working memory and memory in general

10:00 Elizabeth Loftus - False Memories

14:30 False Memory task Dr. Reeder does with her students

19:00 Satanic Panic

20:00 Mcmartin Preschool Trial

25:00 The book The Secret

27:20 Paul Ingram story

37:00 Making a Murderer (Netflix)

39:00 Forgiveness Study and the power of forgiveness and what is the REACH method?

45:00 Who is forgiveness for?

Loftus, Loftus, & Messo (1987) - Weapon Focus Effect https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/bf01044839

Loftus and Palmer (1974) - Automobile accident - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1975-04498-001

Roediger & McDermott (1995) - False memory in word lists - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-42833-001

Wright (1993) The New Yorker on Paul Ingram -

 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/17/remembering-satan-part-i

Picking Cotton book - https://www.pickingcottonbook.com/

Elizabeth Loftus Ted Talk -  https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_how_reliable_is_your_memory

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/the-power-of-forgiveness

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/forgiveness-your-health-depends-on-it

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/josiah-sutton/id1565741041?i=1000523760385

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2018/06/09/brendan-dasseys-false-confession-supreme-court-column/652915002/

https://www.instagram.com/celisiastanton/?hl=en

Truer Crime https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truer-crime/id1565741041

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