Jeff Titus, who served over 20 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, is suing the detectives who arrested him. Authorities revealed a police file with details about another suspect was never given to Titus' lawyer.
A 2023 photo shows Jeff Titus, exclaiming, 'I'm free!' after serving more than 20 years for a murder he didn't commit. He is now suing the detectives who accused him of the crime. Detectives who arrested a Battle Creek man for two murders he didn't commit could soon be forced to pay up. A settlement conference is set for Feb. 5, nearly two years after Jeff Titus was released from prison.
Titus was arrested in 2001, about 11 years after he was accused of murdering hunters Doug Estes and Jim Bennett near his Kalamazoo County property in 1990.Months later in June, Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Getting announced Titus' charges would be dropped. 'I don’t know ultimately in this instance who murdered Mr. Estes or Mr. Bennett,' Getting said. 'I don’t. I can’t. I can’t say with confidence who did it. I can say with 100% certainty that moving forward with a trial today with Mr. Titus would absolutely be lacking with the constitution requires, the principles that prosecutor live by require.'This happened after authorities revealed Titus' lawyer was never given a police file with details about another suspect, Thomas Dillon, in 2002. Dillion was an Ohio serial killer whose five victims were killed between 1989 and 1992 while they were either hunting, fishing, or jogging.Titus filed a $100 million lawsuit against the two Kalamazoo County detectives on the case, accusing Michael Werkema and Michael Brown of hiding evidence, court documents detailed.Titus later passed a polygraph test and told investigators he was hunting 27 miles away from the crime scene when the murders happened, according to court documents.News Channel 3 reached out to Jeff Titus, who referred us to his attorney
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