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The Case of Jason Flom on Tim Cole
📻 Episode #251
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 30, 2022
About This Episode
In the fall of 1984 and spring of '85, a serial rapist struck at least 4 times with eerily similar details. Meanwhile, a new student, Tim Cole, arrived on campus for the spring semester after the rapes had already began. On March 24th, 1985, a 20 year old student reported what appeared to be the…
The Case
In the fall of 1984 and spring of '85, a serial rapist struck at least 4 times with eerily similar details. Meanwhile, a new student, Tim Cole, arrived on campus for the spring semester after the rapes had already began. On March 24th, 1985, a 20 year old student reported what appeared to be the 5th attack. Investigators collected a rape kit, and the victim helped them put together a composite sketch. From a passing glance, a plainclothes detective decided that Tim resembled the composite sketch. Using a very suggestive photo array, investigators engineered the misidentification of Tim Cole, and he was soon convicted. Despite numerous confessions from another man whose DNA ended up matching the material in the rape kit, Tim sat in prison where he passed away in 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_QbivKABXk
https://innocencetexas.org/
https://innocenceproject.org/cases/timothy-cole/
https://lavaforgood.com/with-jason-flom/
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00:05:22“Speaker 3: think I may have been six or seven years old, Speaker 3: but I remember this vividly, and this will tell you Speaker 3: the type person Tim was. It's a summer night. We Speaker 3: were outside in front of our house and there had Speaker 3: to be probably fifteen kids out there, and the topic”
00:20:26“Speaker 1: Now, the trial begins in September of nineteen eighty six. Speaker 1: Remember this is before DNA testing, so they only had Speaker 1: erology testing, in which you can determine blood types and Speaker 1: whether or not the source of any bodily fluids as Speaker 1: a secretor, meaning the blood type can be identified in”
00:35:51“Speaker 3: who Judge Baart said he was factually and morally innocent Speaker 3: and this was the worst miscap marriage of justice he Speaker 3: had ever seen in his entire life. Speaker 1: And then on March first, twenty ten, Texas Governor Rick Speaker 1: Perry pardoned your brother his third wish. And then soon”
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