Overview
- Titus, 74, agreed Monday to a $5.25 million settlement after serving nearly 21 years in prison for a double murder he has always denied.
- Prosecutors asked a court to erase his 2002 murder convictions in 2023, and he was released that year.
- His lawsuit said police hid information that could have undercut a key trial witness, not that investigators ignored an alternate suspect.
- A 30-page sheriff’s file later found in the case records pointed to Ohio serial killer Thomas Dillon as a possible suspect.
- Work by the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic and investigative journalists surfaced the file and helped secure Titus’ exoneration.