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American murderer (born 1965)
Craig Michael Titus (born January 14, 1965, in Wyandotte, Michigan) is an American convicted murderer. He has a younger brother, Kevin, and a younger sister, Nicole. Titus went to public schools. He played high school football but quit because he felt he was too small, at 5'6". He also wrestled in high school.

When Titus graduated from high school, he was 5'6" and 140 lbs. By the age of 21, he was 5'8" and 185 lbs. He began to see good results from weight training and decided to become a bodybuilder. His first bodybuilding competition was the 1988 Houston Bodybuilding Championships. He won the Men's Open middleweight class and the overall title. Over the next several years of placing among top finishers in competitions, he established himself by 1996 and was accepted into the professional ranks of the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation. He continued to compete into the 2000s, often placing among the top ten in his class. (See list below.)

Titus had difficulties with controlled substances. In April 1995 in Louisiana, Titus pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute ecstasy. He was sentenced to 16 months' house arrest via monitoring with an electronic anklet. In July 1997, Titus was sentenced to 21 months in prison for violating his probation by using anabolic steroids.

Titus married an unknown woman and they had fraternal twins together. The boy died of SIDS within the first year. The daughter survived to adulthood. Titus and his first wife divorced. In 2000, he remarried, to Kelly Ryan, a fitness competitor, in Clark County, Nevada. In February 2006, Titus and Ryan were denied bail. On March 29, each pled not guilty to a felony charge of killing Melissa James. The charge carried the possibility of the death penalty. Days before their murder trial was set to begin in Las Vegas in June 2008, Titus and Ryan each pled guilty on May 30, 2008 to various charges related to James's death. They had made plea deals with the prosecutor to avoid capital charges that risked the death penalty. Titus pled guilty to second degree murder, first degree kidnapping, and arson. On August 22, 2008, Titus was recorded as convicted of second degree murder, kidnapping, and arson. He was sentenced to 21 to 55 years in prison. He is incarcerated at Lovelock Correctional Center, a state prison in Nevada. Ryan had pled guilty to arson and battery with a deadly weapon with significant bodily harm. She was sentenced to two consecutive terms of 3–13 years in prison. Anthony Gross, also charged as an accomplice in the crime, pled guilty in February 2009. He received a sentence of probation.