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Twenty years ago yesterday, a 28-year-old investment banker was jogging in Central Park when she was brutally beaten and raped. The Daily News recently wrote that the crime "crystallized the feeling that New York was out of control" and sparked racial tensions, as five black and Hispanic teens, accused of being a "wolf pack" of teens "wilding" in the park, were arrested, convicted and served time for the crime. And then, in 2002, a convicted killer admitted he was the real attacker; after his DNA matched DNA evidence from the crime, the Manhattan DA's moved to vacate the falsely imprisoned five's convictions.