Who really killed Samira Frasch?
Gerald Gardner said he was at the Frasch home the day before Samira’s death in order to pressure-wash the home, a job he never did. And that he had returned the next day to finish off the job. Dr. Frasch can show he had another man who did that although just the trial revealed Gardner’s ignorance of the process of pressure-washing a house since he thought it was 2-day job. Gerald Gardner said Samira Frasch was at home with her children the day before she died. In fact, Adam, Samira and the two children spent the day travelling from their Tallahassee home to their Thomasville home and then back down to their Panama City Beach home because Samira was concerned about expensive items of clothing that were going missing. Cappleman twisted this into a complex story of marital infidelity, saying that Samira thought other women were going through her things. The truth was simple.
Gardner had been stealing from the couple and his thefts had moved from items in the garage to items in the home, particularly Samira’s high-end fashion items, culminating in a $35,000 purse. This was what she was so eager to find the day before she died.
Another lie in the trial was that Gardner’s son regular accompanied his father to do work at the Frasch home. The Frasch family did not employ child labour. Gerald Gardner Jr. was only with his father because Gerald Gardner did not expect the Frasch family to be there that day. A simple burglary turned into a murder when Samira Frasch turned out to be home.
Gardner told the 911 operator, "I can't get into the house. I can't get nothing..." He told the officer who arrived at the house that, “I can’t get into the home.” He expressed concern about the children. But Deputy Richard Womble of the Leon County Sheriff’s office was the first to arrive on the scene and in the trial, he said that the door was open and he went inside to look for the children. And that the indoor dog was running around on the patio.
Gardner was the one who called 911 but when he was asked if he could help her in anyway, he refused, saying that he wanted them to come take pictures of her before he got her out. “She’s dead, she drowned. Somebody, somebody had to kill her.”
In Once a Princess, State Investigator Jason Newlin confirms that “If you listen to the 911 call, Gerald can immediately tell you she was murdered.” But if Gardner was the innocent man he claimed to be, how? Samira Frasch was at the bottom of the pool. Her injuries were all internal, according to the medical examiner. There would have been no bleeding out. Even first responders didn’t notice the injuries to her head. It was the medical examiner who discovered them.
So why was Gardner so quick to say she was murdered and to point the finger at her husband? He had just found a body in the pool that to any other eye would have looked like an accidental drowning. But only Gardner knew that when the body came out there would be signs of a blow to the head and of the subsequent fall to the hard surface.
And then later, he went so far as to allow his son to perjure himself and say he was a regular visitor to the Frasch home. Why? To cover for the fact that their presence that day was not to work but to steal. No one contradicted the story. Samira was dead and Dr. Frasch was on trial.
Consider this, the insurance company paid out Samira Frasch's policy to Dr. Frasch, the beneficiary. They investigated her death and determined that it wasn't Dr. Frasch who was responsible for her death. It wasn't their job to determine who it was who killed her. That was the job of state and they failed. And when all the facts said Dr. Frasch was innocent and the jury said he was guilty, it was obvious where it went wrong.
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