Closing Arguments - extreme twisting of the truth

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 her husband had another woman in one of them.


What she didn’t tell the jury was that the missing purse wasn’t just another purse. This purse was a $35,000 purse created for her by her favourite designer, friend and father figure, Roberto Cavalli. 


Dr. Frasch had known for awhile that Gardner had stolen from them on more than one occasion, specifically some of his things from the garage. But in the last 24 hours of her life, Samira was discovering that Gardner had also started stealing her things, too. In particular, this designer purse that also had sentimental value. And other things were missing from her closet.


Gardner often worked inside their home and since he had already proven to be a thief, he was the most likely person to have taken her purse and other items that had gone missing. In the past, Samira hadn’t wanted him to confront Gardner or file a police report. She still didn’t want to call the police. She just wanted to get her purse back. And to make sure nothing else was stolen. On that day before she died, her husband agreed to take her to their various properties to make sure that nothing else was missing. 


In court, Gardner lied about being at the Frasch home the day before Samira was killed. He said he was pressure washing the house, a job he never did, while Samira and the kids were in the house. Cappleman contradicted one of her own star witnesses when she truthfully said that Dr. Frasch and Samira had been driving to Thomasville and back and then to their Panama City Beach home to make sure nothing had been disturbed there, too. Her defamatory theory that Samira was jealous that there might be a mistress stashed in one of the houses was put forward with no proof.


When Dr. Frasch left the house with the children on the last day of his wife’s life, he had no way of knowing what would happen next. Gardner was not scheduled to come to their home that day. 


But Gardner’s arrival at the Frasch home that day gave Samira the opportunity to confront him about the missing purse and the other items. And it would have enraged her that he had come back for more. It had escalated quickly. No one but Gardner knows what happened in those final moments, only that she ended up with a blow to her head that caused her to fall to the hard deck of the pool, causing her to pass out. 


A panicked Gardner decided to finish it off rather than admit to the police he had been confronted for stealing a $35,000 purse and had knocked a woman unconscious. And as soon as the police arrived, knowing the wounds would be discovered even if they weren’t discernible to the eye, he had told them, “He killed her, he did it” about Dr. Frasch, who was three hours away in Panama City. 


Astoundingly, this version of events from the panicked killer prevailed over the distraught widower who had an alibi for the time of his wife’s death. By the time his trial came around, the prosecutor and the state investigator were using fuzzy language like, “It seemed to…” “I think…” and “I believe…”


“The defendant and Samira Frasch had been in a battle and it appeared that at the time of Mrs. Frasch’s death she was winning,” was the case put forward by the state prosecutor. Therefore her husband killed her. This blog has disproven this. 


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