New York Times Features New Season of Susan Simpson's Podcast Undisclosed

Lyndon French for The New York Times

Today marks the sixth season premiere of our colleague Susan Simpson’s extraordinary podcast Undisclosed, in which she and co-hosts Rabia Chaudry and Colin Miller, “look[] for times when the system got it wrong, where something needs to be fixed, and where through us telling the story we can help advance the cause of justice.”

A recent New York Times article profiles Susan and the Emmy award-winning producer she collaborated with on the latest season of Undisclosed, which explores the story of Jeff Titus, a former Marine and police officer, imprisoned for nearly two decades for the murder of two hunters in Michigan that the original detectives on the case were convinced he didn’t commit. From the article:

The bodies of Doug Estes and Jim Bennett were found on Nov. 17, 1990, in the woods of Kalamazoo County. The men had been hunting, separately, on a piece of land known as the Fulton State Game Area. The murders went unsolved until 2000, when cold case detectives took a closer look at a suspect cleared a decade earlier: Titus, a Marine veteran and police officer at a nearby Veterans Affairs hospital, whose land bordered the preserve on which the killings took place. Titus was convicted in 2002 and is currently incarcerated at Lakeland Correctional Facility, in Coldwater, Mich. He has always maintained his innocence. . . .

“The evidence in this case struck me as underwhelming to begin with,” Simpson said, “but you never know what’s going to turn up once you start investigating. After a month in Kalamazoo, everything I’ve found has confirmed the conclusions reached by the case’s initial investigators: The evidence for Jeff Titus’s guilt just isn’t there.”

Susan is Of Counsel to the firm, and frequently assists the firm’s criminal defense attorneys and appellate lawyers on matters that involve factually complex issues requiring her specialized investigative skills. She also employs her investigative expertise to aid the firm’s civil litigation practice when appropriate.

The first episode Season Six of Undisclosed airs tonight at 6:00 pm Eastern.