However, it’s a murder that at least nine people said he couldn’t have possibly committed. UPDATE: Whitmer rejects clemency for man in 1986 Port Huron murderAuthorities pointed the finger at Kensu because of an ex-lover’s ties with Macklem. But Kensu was more than 400 miles away in the Upper Peninsula in the town of Escanaba with his ex-fiance Michelle Woodworth. Welser worked for the Port Huron Police Department at the time of the murder. In 2010, Judge Denise Hood overturned the conviction in a 52-page reversal and stating that the prosecuting attorney “engaged in misconduct by using a perjured testimony”.