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“I would’ve felt I’d see my life flashing before my eyes,” said Candy Kreger who lives in the Warren based area where a woman was allegedly kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend on Tuesday.

Police have been investigating the murder of 16-year-old Michelle Jackson since Jan. 25, 1984. Kennith Dupree is accused of rape and murder in a case that was one of the first taken up by the University of Michigans Innocence Project. Some of her family members were hearing details of her death for the first time and others were reliving it. A medical examiner report said Jackson was strangled to death and was sexually assaulted. Investigators said Dupree made a statement that read in part, girl was crying, Let me go. I remember I started strangling her.Jacksons cousin said they remember that day vividly.