a survivor's search for justice
In September 2005, Liz Seccuro received a letter of apology from William Beebe, the man who had raped her twenty-one years earlier. Liz was only seventeen when she was assaulted at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia. She had reacted by going straight to the hospital and taking her story to the college administration. But the school's deans discouraged her from going to the city police and effectively denied her the kind of justice she wanted. Now she determined she would pursue the criminal investigation that should have happened years earlier. She wanted justice. But as the highly publicized investigation progressed, Liz found out a darker secret: it had been a gang rape with at least two other assailants, numerous onlookers, and a wall of silence among fraternity brothers that still persisted two decades later.
