Hello fahrion,
At the present time, the name of the Central Park Jogger - an
investment banker who was raped, brutally beaten, and left for dead in
New York's Central Park in 1989 - is un-released.
That's about to change, however.
According to a column written by Time's Andrea Sachs on April 15th of
this year, the Central Park Jogger has signed a contract with book
publisher Simon & Schuster's Scribner imprint for her autobiography,
and will reveal her identity upon release of the book:
"JOG YOUR MEMORY:
The Central Park Jogger has decided to tell all in a book she's
writing for Scribner. The woman, an investment banker who 13 years ago
was attacked and left for dead by a gang of teens as she jogged
through the Manhattan park, has never revealed her identity. She is
being paid a mid-six-figure sum for world rights to "I Am the Central
Park Jogger." The author's name will be released with the book."
Galley Girl: Booknotes: Ex-Wives and Expats
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/sachs/article/0,9565,230675,00.html
According to Simon & Schuster, the book is slated for an April, 2003
release, both as a hardcover and as an audio-book, read by the author:
I AM THE CENTRAL PARK JOGGER
A Story Of Hope And Possiblity
By Anonymous until publication
Scribner, April 2003, ( $25.00 )
Hardcover, ISBN: 0-743-24437-0
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/General
I AM THE CENTRAL PARK JOGGER
A Story Of Hope And Possibility
By Anonymous
Read by Anonymous
Simon & Schuster Audioworks, April 2003, ( 5 Audio CDs, $30.00 )
Audio CD, ISBN: 0-743-52810-7
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/General
Simon & Schuster - Search on I Am The Central Park Jogger
http://www.simonsays.com/index.html
It seems the Central Park Jogger case is far from finished. New
evidence has recently come to light which may result in the sentences
of the five convicted of rape, assault and attempted murder in the
case being vacated.
Mary Mitchell, of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote last week:
"In 1990, Yusef Salaam was described as the most defiant of the five
teens who were convicted of brutally beating and raping a Manhattan
woman in the infamous Central Park jogger case.
"I look upon this legal lynching as a test by my God Allah," he told
New York state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Galligan at the
sentencing. "Give me the max. Sooner or later, the truth will come
out."
More than a decade later, the truth finally has come out.
Another man, already in prison serving a 33-year term for raping
another Manhattan woman, confessed to the Central Park attack last
spring. DNA tests have confirmed that Matias Reyes, 31, had raped the
jogger. The man also claims that he acted alone. Even so, the legal
system in New York has not yet moved to exonerate the five men who
were teens when they confessed to a crime they apparently did not
commit."
N.Y. jogger case runs justice into the ground
http://www.suntimes.com/output/mitchell/cst-nws-mitch19.html
From ABC News on Wednesday:
" The infamous Central Park Jogger case, thought long solved, will go
to court again in October even though five teens who confessed already
served their sentences. Now, a convicted rapist-murderer says he
committed the brutal 1989 rape and beating of a New York City woman.
In an interview to air on ABCNEWS' Primetime on Thursday, the man,
Matias Reyes, says no one else was involved: "I was alone that night."
Confused Confessions
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/falseconfessions020925.html
And from Newsday:
"September 5, 2002
Lawyers for the five teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape and
near-fatal attack on a jogger in Central Park claimed yesterday that
the youths have been cleared because DNA and a confession have linked
a convicted rapist and murderer to the crime."
Lawyers: 5 Teens Innocent
DNA, confession key in 1989 jogger rape
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-jog0905.story?coll=ny%2Dhomepage%2Dmore%2Dbreaking%2Dnews
Between the sheer notoriety of the original case, and the newly
presented evidence, it's no wonder that the victim of the attack has
chosen to remain incognito until the release of her book next Spring.
--Missy
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