Jan Barry Sandlin says he was framed in court by his own daughter for the murder of her infant brother 26 years ago. But he forgives her.
"I'm her father. Of course, I love her . . . and I can forgive her for what she did, to an extent," Sand-lin said from a suburban Atlanta jail.Sandlin was sentenced last month to two life terms for murder, aggravated assault and child cruelty in the death of 4-month-old Matthew Golder in 1971.
Tracy Rhame says she was the one who was framed, blamed for years for the death of her half-brother when she was only 2 years old. Now 28, she pushed authorities for more than a decade to reopen the case against her father.
Matthew was the son of another man to whom Kathy Almon was married at the time of the death. Sandlin, who had fathered Tracy earlier, married Almon in 1973, two years after the boy's death. They divorced six years later.