Oregon Confidential

July 2025

Here's to the Prince of Darkness

Letter #4

Jul 18 • 

Phil Stanford

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June 2025

Hang in there, Dale Penn

Letter #3

Jun 23 • 

Phil Stanford

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7

Gut check time for Cory Streisinger

Just another letter from a pissed off writer

Jun 13 • 

Phil Stanford

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5

May 2025

What a dirty little town

And it wasn’t just the Corrections Department, either.

May 22 • 

Phil Stanford

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April 2025

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…

Apr 7 • 

Phil Stanford

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March 2025

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…

Mar 12 • 

Phil Stanford

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July 2024

It's correction time with Margie Boulé

The story of Goldschmidt and the little girl is actually creepier than you thought

Jul 22, 2024 • 

Phil Stanford

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13

Yoo-hoo, Therese. You still there?

Lord knows, I’ve tried.

Jul 15, 2024 • 

Phil Stanford

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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…

Jul 1, 2024 • 

Phil Stanford

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June 2024

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…

Jun 24, 2024 • 

Phil Stanford

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December 2023

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…

Dec 6, 2023 • 

Phil Stanford

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