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What a dirty little town
And it wasn’t just the Corrections Department, either.
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They signed into jail as "friends"
Now that the patsy in the Michael Francke murder case has been exonerated by two federal courts, and even the Oregon AG’s office acknowledges that he’s…
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Just think of it as a downpayment
As you may have heard by now, the state of Oregon has finally come to its senses and agreed to pay Frank Gable, the patsy in the Michael Francke murder…
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It's correction time with Margie Boulé
The story of Goldschmidt and the little girl is actually creepier than you thought
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Yoo-hoo, Therese. You still there?
Lord knows, I’ve tried.
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Was Goldschmidt being blackmailed?
If it weren’t for the lives damaged and lost, or the murder of Michael Francke looming in the background, this would be what they used to call a French…
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Neil Goldschmidt in the Land of the Dead
Just two weeks ago, as Neil Goldschmidt’s ghost began drifting toward its next station in the Land of the Dead, there was a revealing, and actually…
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19. A laptop on the front seat
Back in August when I started this series on what is now quite officially the unsolved murder of Michael Francke, I suppose I had some vague hope that…
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18. The gun under the pillow
Michael Francke’s home in Oregon was on an acreage outside Scotts Mills, a tiny country town about twenty miles east of Salem.
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