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Rape Victim Devotes Herself to Science After Misidentifying Her Attacker

By Corey Rayburnyung

A Texas rape victim, who discovered that she misidentified her attacker nine years after his death in prison, has decided to study the science of human memory. From The Dallas Morning News:Michele Mallin said she was "100 percent sure" when she identified Timothy Brian Cole as the man who raped her. Her resolve never wavered, Ms. Mallin said, until she learned last May that DNA testing had invalidated her 1985 identification. The revelation came nearly nine years after Mr. Cole died at 39 in a Texas prison from an asthma attack. "I was more shocked than I think I had ever been in my entire life," Ms. Mallin said during a recent lawyers workshop in Fort WorthMore than two decades after she quit Texas Tech University because of the rape in Lubbock, Ms...continue to full post

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