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S5 Ep20: S5, The State v. Jeff Titus - Episode 11 - White Rabbit

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mital

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.210.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

February 1, 2021 / The Kalamazoo cold case team had an impressive success rate – but were they following the evidence, or something else?

Episode scoring music by Animal Weapon and Blue Dot Sessions.

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All police can, if they want to, steer witnesses.

0:48.9

They can get information from experience and training that the person may not want to give up.

0:55.9

It comes with experience and training. I, on one hand, say the facts are the facts.

1:03.9

And that's what I go by. Some others may be embellish things a little bit to make it go their way.

1:11.9

You've probably noticed there are a number of witnesses in this case whose stories have changed over time.

1:17.9

Witnesses who said one thing to begin with, only to say another thing by the time of Jeff Titus' trial.

1:22.9

These changes haven't been random though. There's a pattern there.

1:26.9

Take Rich Adams, for example. He told the original detectives that a man had threatened him in the game area,

1:32.9

not far from where the two deer hunters were shot and killed.

1:36.9

But, after seeing a picture of Jeff Titus, Rich Adams said the man who threatened him was not Titus.

1:41.9

It had been someone else. But then, 11 years later, the Cold Case Team tracked down Rich Adams and interviewed him again.

1:48.9

And by the time the Cold Case Team was done, Rich Adams was saying the man who threatened him had, in fact, been Jeff Titus.

1:56.9

Or take Jeff Titus' co-worker, Michelle. In 1994, she told a VA investigator that Titus had mentioned that someone had been killed behind the farm.

2:05.9

But he hadn't said much about it, beyond the fact that he had been investigated and cleared as a suspect.

2:10.9

Six years later though, the Cold Case Team tracked down Michelle and interviewed her again.

2:15.9

And by the time the Cold Case Team was done, Michelle was saying that Jeff Titus confessed to finding two bodies in this property and having taken one of the victim's guns with him.

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