About this episode

The episode explores the unsolved murder of Scott Macklem and the questionable investigation that targeted Fred Freeman despite his alibi.

In November 1986, college student Scott Macklem was gunned down in a campus parking lot. With zero physical evidence, investigators quickly zeroed in on Fred Freeman (now known as Temujin Kensu), an ex-boyfriend of the victim's fiancée. There was just one massive problem: Freeman was 400 miles away in Escanaba at the time of the shooting, an alibi verified by nine independent witnesses. Or was he?

Topics covered

• murder investigation
• alibi
• true crime
• college crime
• legal system

Keywords

• Scott Macklem
• Fred Freeman
• Temujin Kensu
• murder
• alibi
• investigation
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Escanaba

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