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What's going on now? The fight for Hyrah and Skynnah

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A horrific drama continues to unfold in Tallahassee. Tallahassee lawyer James P. Waczewski has filed a civil lawsuit against Dr. Frasch on behalf of his client, Samira Frasch’s mother in Madagascar.  Samira Frasch’s mother wants not only the children but also Samira's $1 million dollar insurance settlement that would have gone directly to secondary beneficiary, Hyrah (Adam and Samira's firstborn), under the Slayer Statute which says a murderer can't financially benefit from his crime. But the  settlement  was paid to the primary beneficiary, Dr. Adam Frasch, before his trial. The insurance company did their own investigation and discovered many exonerating facts, including that one of Samira’s phones had pinged off of a tower in Marianna, FL at the time that Dr. Frasch was passing through on his way to Panama City Beach. Since his own phone showed him steadily heading south, they knew he was nowhere near his home in Tallahassee at the time of his wife’s death. And this is...

Ordinary activities become suspicious

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On the day of Samira's death, police interviewed neighbours. One neighbour told police that Dr. Frasch hadn't looked happy the day before Samira had died and had put on weight. Suspicious? At their beach home, a neighbour told police that Dr. Frasch had been behaving erratically, driving forwards and then backwards on the street. Suspicious? Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman drew attention to how on the day of the murder Dr. Frasch had gone and purchased a gas cap for his wife's Hummer. Suspicious? Yes, one has to be careful to leave the house looking cheerful and trim, otherwise it might look suspicious.  As for the erratic driving, Dr. Frasch was driving away from his beach home and realized he had forgotten to check the mailbox. He backed up to get the mail.  And in one of the many documentaries made about this case, Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman put forward the idea that Dr. Frasch had gone out to purchase a gas cap for his wife's Hummer in an effort to establish an alibi...

Bipolar vs. Domestic Abuse

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In an interview with Tallahassee lawyer James P. Waczewski  almost three years after the trial, Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman said that when it came to selecting the jury, she wanted people who understood the cycles of domestic abuse.  But what was never brought out at the trial or by the media was that Samira Frasch was bipolar.  The anomalies of their marriage weren’t caused by domestic abuse, they were caused by her manic and mixed episodes.   In an inexcusable twist of irony, it had been suggested by authorities that it was Dr. Frasch who was bipolar and needed to be on medication before he could appear in court.   It was part of the prosecution’s efforts to hold Dr. Frasch in jail while they built a case against him. Over five years after Samira’s death, in the interview with Waczewski, Cappleman says she “wasn’t familiar with any particular diagnosis that he had for a mental health problem.”  She admits, “I think we felt like the case was going to be d...