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Undisclosed: Toward Justice

S5 Ep3: S5, The State v. Jeff Titus – Episode 2 – Bear Creek

Undisclosed: Toward Justice

mital

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

November 2, 2020 / How did Doug Estes and Jim Bennett end up in the Fulton State Game Area that day?

Episode scoring music by Animal Weapon and Blue Dot Sessions.

#undisclosed #freejefftitus

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, did Doug and Jim know each other?

0:15.0

No, we could establish no connection between the two victims, or why they would be out there at the same time.

0:23.2

It just appears that they went out hunting. We're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

0:27.8

Could have been something planned, but we couldn't uncover it.

0:32.7

On November 17th, 1990, Doug Estes and Jim Bennett were shot and killed within feet of one another,

0:39.5

out in the woods of the Fulton State game area. The two men had arrived at the game area separately,

0:45.5

and hadn't been hunting together, but they were killed within seconds of one another in the

0:51.0

same little patch of woods. What had brought the two of them together that day?

0:56.5

Was their meeting intentional or just a chance encounter? Trying to find the answer to this question

1:02.6

is why, back in 1990, the detectives had wanted to speak to a man named Gary Cremble.

1:09.0

And it's why in 2020, Jacinda and Susan went to speak to him too.

1:13.5

I don't have a seat. I tell you a whole story about that. Doug was my cousin. You were best friends.

1:20.1

And he got shot in the back with a 12-gauge shotgun.

1:24.1

Doug Estes was Gary Kremble's cousin, and the two of them had been close when they were growing up.

1:29.6

He was a very well-like guy. Everybody called him Festus Estes. Called him what?

1:35.3

Festus Estes. Estes. That's a good nickname. It was a good nickname.

1:42.8

Doug Estes had lived in Comstock, not far from downtown Kalamazoo, but Gary Cremble lived to the south

1:49.2

in a more rural part of the county. He was much closer to the Fulton game area, and much closer

1:54.9

to the small town surrounding it, which is how it came to be that Gary Cremble knew both of the

2:00.6

victims in this case.

2:03.0

Well, the Bennett, you know, he had a brother to Terry Bennett, and both them Bennett guys were good

2:09.8

people. I used to drink beer with them at that Thunderhog or whatever he's called. They

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