KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A man who spent 21 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the murders of two hunters has been awarded a $5.25-million settlement.
Jeff Titus filed a $100-million wrongful conviction lawsuit in federal court against a pair of Kalamazoo County cold case detectives.
He was exonerated in 2023 after detectives Mike Werkema and Mike Brown withheld evidence from prosecutors and defense attorneys about another suspect in the 1990 deaths of Jim Bennett and Doug Estes.
Titus was hunting 27-miles away from where the two were killed by convicted serial killer Thomas Dillon, who died in prison.
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