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The unassailable alibi that the prosecution chose to ignore

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At 10:46 am on February 22, 2014 Bank of America security footage recorded Dr. Frasch with his two children doing his banking in Panama City Beach. After that, he went on to his Panama City Beach home where his neighbour talked with him and helped him get his children out of their car seats.  At the same time back in Tallahassee a woman matching Samira's description was seen alive on the driveway - putting something into the Hummer and returning to the house - by neighbours, Mr. Matthew Christiansen and his daughter, Lauren. Dr. Frasch was three hours away and in less than half an hour, Samira would be murdered. He could not have done it.  Mr. Christiansen is positive about the time. He even walked the route again to time it, using his phone records which gave him the time that he had called his wife when he got home that day. He had passed the house sometime between 10:25 am and 10:45 am on February 22, 2014. He came forward and talked to law enforcement officials when he heard ab

Media Distortions

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The media loved the story of Adam and Samira Frasch. They were a fascinating couple with a luxurious lifestyle and two beautiful babies, one of them already a social media star. The truth of how Dr. Frasch had met his French model wife and the life that they shared would have been enough of a story but the media chose to fall back on clichés that turned Dr. Frasch into a womanizing gambler and his wife into a terrified, hunted woman.  At the centre of the lies were Assistant State Attorney, Georgia Cappleman, and State Attorney Investigator, Jason Newlin. The misconceptions put forward by the media could almost all be directly or indirectly linked back to this tag team that decided at some point that it was going to be Dr. Adam Frasch who would be prosecuted for Samira’s death regardless of whether or not he had an unbreakable alibi. Dr. Frasch’s alibi alone should have exonerated him. Neighbour Matthew Christiansen came forward and said that he had seen a tall, thin, African American

Closing Arguments - extreme twisting of the truth

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Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman admitted three years after the trial that she gave the jury what they needed to hear to get the verdict she wanted. In her closing arguments, Cappleman turned the whole case into one of ‘domestic abuse.’ She tossed those two emotive words out after four days of twisting the truth to make a grieving husband seem like a cold-hearted killer. And she continued to mislead by misrepresenting the last day of Samira’s life which she told the jury had been spent driving from Tallahassee to Thomasville to Panama City Beach looking for a missing purse. “What do you know about Mrs. Frasch?” she asked the jury. “She had expensive clothes. She liked nice things. She probably had more purses than Melania Trump.” But why would a woman with more purses than Melania Trump be looking for a missing purse and driving for hours to see if it were in any of their other homes? She put forward the idea that Samira had been jealously going from house to house looking for signs that h