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The Case of Temujin Kensu
📻 Episode #269
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 16, 2022
About This Episode
On November 5, 1986, Scott Macklem was shot and killed in a parking lot at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan. No one saw the shooter, but one witness caught a fleeting glimpse into a car leaving the lot. The victim’s alleged fiance, Crystal Merrill, identified Temujin Kensu as a suspect due…
The Case
On November 5, 1986, Scott Macklem was shot and killed in a parking lot at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan. No one saw the shooter, but one witness caught a fleeting glimpse into a car leaving the lot. The victim’s alleged fiance, Crystal Merrill, identified Temujin Kensu as a suspect due to their previous relationship. However, Kensu was over 400 miles away at the time of the murder and had multiple independent alibi witnesses to confirm his location. Additionally, no physical evidence tied him to the crime, not even the fingerprints that were taken from the scene. The police staged a very suggestive photo lineup for the witness who chose Temujin. The prosecution crafted a narrative surrounding the fact that Kensu was an avid practitioner of martial arts and must have chartered a private plane to and from Port Huron to commit the crime. Kensu was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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00:06:23“Speaker 1: named Michelle Woodworth. You two connected had a son, but Speaker 1: you also had an open relationship. Now you live together Speaker 1: in a cabin in ann Arbor along with your childhood Speaker 1: friend Tom Ford. You were working studying martial arts and Buddhism, Speaker 1: very much into health and nutrition at the time, you”
00:26:16“Speaker 1: my theory. I don't know, you know, while looking into Speaker 1: your case, my research became more about investigating the state's Speaker 1: wrongdoing than it ever was about what happened to Scott Speaker 1: and macklum. So let's get back to their wrongdoing. First, Speaker 1: they offered you plea deals, but you were already and”
00:44:43“Speaker 1: has filed for clemency a few more times with subsequent Speaker 1: Michigan governors. Now one would think that after a federal Speaker 1: judge agreed with his actual innocence claim and an appellate Speaker 1: court denied him only on procedural grounds, maybe that should Speaker 1: have held some weight in the governor's mansion. But he's”
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