#359 Guest Host Susan Simpson with Jeff Titus

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On November 17, 1990, Doug Estes and Jim Bennett, who were separately out hunting, were found together, shot and killed at the Fulton State Game Area in Kalamazoo, MI. 38-year-old Jeff Titus had a farm near the scene and found one of the hunter’s missing weapons. Because of this, Jeff soon came under suspicion. However, Jeff had a solid alibi and was immediately cleared as a suspect – the case went cold for ten years. In 2000, Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit reopened the case and focused on Jeff. By trial, Jeff’s alibi witnesses were unable to testify on his behalf, and the prosecution’s circumstantial evidence was enough to persuade the jury. Despite significant evidence of another, more viable suspect, Jeff was convicted and sentenced to two concurrent life without parole sentences. Susan Simpson talks to Jeff Titus and Dave Moran, Jeff's attorney.

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1:39.6	November 17th 1990 was the first Saturday of DRC's in Michigan. Eager Hunters took to the woods
1:46.8	including at the Fulton Game Area near Calibacy. Around 430 the afternoon, not long before sunset,
1:54.0	two gunshots rang out and not long after that, two Hunters, the Guestus and Jim Bennett were found
2:00.3	dead. A couple of days later, Jeff Titus, whose farm was directly adjacent to the state game area,
2:06.4	found a shotgun near his property and turned it over to the sheriff. Jeff was investigated,
2:12.4	but he said he'd been out hunting himself that day nearly 30 miles away and witness as a test
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