Jeff Titus, who has spent 21 years in prison for the murder of two deer hunters in 1990, is a free man thanks to evidence discovered by a true-crime series and podcast
It marks the latest innocent man to be freed as a result of the boom in interest in true-crime projects.
Red Marble Media exec producers Jacinda Davis and Kevin Fitzpatrick began working on the series in 2019 and became intrigued with the case, which turned in to the first two episodes ofThe murders of Doug Estes and Jim Bennett occurred in the woods adjacent to Titus’ farm on the first day of deer season on November 17, 1990. The men did not know each other and were hunting separately when they were each killed with a single shot to the back.
Davis and Simpson discovered that two years later, the witnesses identified Thomas Dillon as the man driving the car. Dillon, a serial killer, was arrested in 1992 and charged with killing hunters, fishermen and other outdoorsmen. He died in prison in 2011, while serving a life sentence. But the fact that Dillon had been identified as the man driving the car that went into the ditch on the day of the murders was never disclosed to detectives working the case back in Kalamazoo.
It marks the latest exoneration by the team following the exoneration of Cain Joshua Storey and Darrell Lee Clark at the end of last year via theSimpson also helped Joey Watkins, another subject of the Undisclosed podcast, be released on bond after his conviction was overturned.
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