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Elizabeth Sullivan was struggling. She\u2019d married her military husband following a whirlwind romance a few years earlier. Shortly after they married, the Navy relocated the couple to San Diego. So, Elizabeth found herself far from friends and family, often alone, with two young children. She and her husband, Matthew, argued. He got violent with her. Elizabeth told her friends she\u2019d had enough. She was going to leave Matthew. They never heard from her again.\xa0
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\nThen Kristin tells us about a series of rapes that gripped Texas Tech in 1984 and 1985. Young women were being raped late at night, often while they were parking their cars. Police sketches of the attacker all looked different enough that many young Black men were afraid to go on campus late at night, for fear that they\u2019d be mistaken for the Tech Rapist. Eventually, female police officers began posing as students in an attempt to bait the rapist. About a week into the undercover operation, police were certain they\u2019d caught the right guy \u2014 Tim Cole. They were wrong.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cTim Cole\u201d episodes of Vindicated
\n\u201cTimothy Cole\u201d InnocenceTexas.org
\n\u201cCole case,\u201d by Jena Williams for Texas Monthly\xa0
\n\u201cThe Innocent Man: Timothy Cole,\u201d by Matt Sell for Everything Lubbock
\n\u201cJudge clears dead Texas man of rape conviction,\u201d Associated Press, NBC News
\n\u201cA push to award a degree to a symbol of injustice,\u201d by Reeve Hamilton for The Texas Tribune
\n\u201cStatue of Tim Cole to be unveiled soon,\u201d by Anna Tinsley for The Star-Telegram
\n\u201cInnocence now on display,\u201d by Mitch Mitchell for The Star-Telegram
\n\u201cVictim aims to clear name of dead man convicted of attack,\u201d by Max B. Baker for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
\n\u201cInnocence lost in attack, but courage was found,\u201d by Bob Ray Sanders for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
\n\u201c\u2018You are a victim, just like my son was,\u2019\u201d by Max B. Baker for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
\n\u201cA day of vindication for innocent man, family,\u201d by Max B. Baker for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
\n\u201cDNA in 1985 rape exonerates man who died behind bars,\u201d Associated Press, Los Angeles Times
\n\u201cThe Cole Truth,\u201d by Fred McKinley for the Texas Observer
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cSecrets by the Bay\u201d episode Dateline
\n\u201cElizabeth Sullivan\u201d chillingcrimes.com
\n\u201cTimeline: The Disappearance of Elizabeth Sullivan\u201d by Monica Garske, San Diego 7 News
\n\u201cEx-Navy Man Who \u2018Brutally Murdered' Wife in San Diego in 2014 Sentenced\u201d by Monica Garske and Christina Bravo, San Diego 7 News
\n\u201cEx-Navy Sailor Murdered Wife with Children in Other Room, Then Froze Body and Claimed She'd Left\u201d by Steve Helling, people.com
\n\u201cHusband gets 16 years to life for killing wife, dumping body in bay two years later\u201d by Teri Figueroa, The San Diego Union-Tribune\n
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