Posted on Fri, Sep. 19, 2008

By MAX B. BAKER
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Michele Mallin never expected to get this kind of phone call.

A rape victim 23 years ago, Mallin found a Lubbock County district attorney’s investigator on the line to update her about her case. She expected to hear that her attacker was getting out of prison. She already had all the doors and windows locked for the day he got out.

But the prosecutor said Timothy Brian Cole, the Fort Worth man she helped send to prison in 1986, had not only died behind bars but that another man had confessed to the crime and that DNA tests proved Cole was innocent.

"I felt total guilt. My words. My pointing the finger at him, were the reason he went to prison," Mallin said. "I felt just terrible. . . . I never wanted the wrong man to be convicted. I hope everyone knows that."

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