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The prosecutor in Scott Baldwin's case was Stuart Fenton. He worked closely with the Kalamazoo

Cold Case team and prosecuted many of the defendants they arrested. Fenton. He'd worked closely with the Kalamazoo Cold Case team and prosecuted many of the

defendants they arrested. Fenton didn't respond to our request to speak with him about Scott

Baldwin's case, but back in 2020, Kevin and Jacinda interviewed him for a Discovery ID show in

Jeff Tides' case called Killer in Question. When they talked to him then, Fenton had told him a little

about Scott's case, too.

He'd told them about Stacey and the bike shop and the stolen bank bags and how Scott Baldwin had

been convicted and how he'd die in prison. Fenton was proud of the work he'd done in the case.

It was one of my greatest closing arguments, he told them. It was last year that we began to investigate

Scott's case, and I finally got to read the trial transcripts for myself. Stuart Fenton was right.

His closing argument had been strong. His message to the jury was simple. You know Stacey is telling

the truth, he said.

You have to.

It just makes sense.

Obviously, this was a robbery.

That's the whole motive here.

There's no question that this was a robbery.

That was the whole point.

All of your reason and common sense tells you that Earl of Byrne was out there in the

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