In 1990, when Jeff Titus had briefly become a suspect in the double homicide at the

Fulton State Game Area, he'd had three alibi witnesses. Gerald and Eloise Shepard, the

couple who owned the farm were Jeff had gone hunting and Stan Druskel, who Jeff had been

hunting with. All three have been able to place him 27 miles away from the scene of the crime.

But the Shepards had been an older couple, even then. By the time of Jeff Titus' trial in 2002,

Eloise was 83, and her husband Gerald was 89. They were in declining help and it was

unclear how much longer they'd be around to give any statements that might be material to Jeff's

defense. So in the hopes of preserving some sort of statement from the Shepards before, it

became too late. Jeff Titus' friends Stan Druskel and Larry Crandell had gotten a video camera

and headed out to the Shepard Farm to speak to them.

This was one of the most elucid moments from Stan and Larry's interview with the Shepards.

In the grainy home video, Eloise and Gerald stood side by side in old recliners in the

living room of their farmhouse. The Shepards live in caretaker and their son both hover

protectively nearby while Larry and Stan tried to talk to them about a day, 12 years

before, when they had become Jeff Titus' alibi witnesses. The efforts by Stan and Larry

to jog Gerald Shepard's memory was not successful.

Larry Crandell, my film that Gerald Shepard was an advanced dementia by 2002 and his son

did not want him to be on the witness stand because on the witness stand, the prosecutors

would have torn into pieces and been very embarrassed because they don't care, whereas the

son did. So the defense attorney was very incompetent, did not follow up on any rational

way of showing that this was a man who really would not be able to go to the witness stand

and therefore there's some legal thing that would allow under those circumstances for

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