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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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December 14, 2020 / The prosecution convicted Jeff Titus on the theory that his obsession with his property had driven him to commit murder. To prove this, the state introduced testimony about four different occasions that Jeff Titus had aggressively targeted hunters in the woods – but the jury never got to hear the whole story.
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0:39.3 | Obsession. A persistent, disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling or |
0:46.7 | a compelling motivation. That was the opening line of the prosecutor's closing argument |
0:52.3 | at Jeff Titus' trial. And it was the centerpiece of the prosecutor's theory of this case. |
0:58.4 | That Jeff Titus was so obsessed with his land that the very thought of another man touching |
1:03.0 | it without his permission was enough to drive him to murder. As we all know, the prosecutor |
1:08.6 | told the jury, in obsession is always most intense when it's about something new. Like when |
1:14.2 | you buy a new car, a new park at the back of a parking lot, away from all the other cars, |
1:18.7 | to avoid getting any dings or scratches. Or when you buy a new carpet and at first your paranoid |
1:23.6 | about not spilling any drinks on it. When something is new, that's when your obsession is going to |
1:28.8 | be at its greatest. And so it was with Jeff Titus. His obsession with his property was at its peak |
1:35.4 | during the very first few months he lived on it. It was necessary for the jury to believe that |
1:41.5 | Jeff Titus had an all-consuming obsession with his land because it was the only way to explain |
1:47.2 | Jeff's irrational behavior on the day of the murders. When the prosecutor alleged he left the |
1:53.0 | shepherd farm in order to sneak back to his property in Fulton. Indeed, the prosecutor told the |
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