Examined: The Backfire Effect

Temujin Kensu spent much of his youth wandering, mainly in his home state of Michigan. In 1986, he and his then-fiancée moved to a cabin outside Port Huron, where he briefly dated someone else. A few weeks later, he and his fiancée moved again, more than 400 miles away, to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He says he was there on November 5, 1986. But that didn’t stop police from accusing him of a murder he said he could never have committed.