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A complicated situation

A Tallahassee lawyer was representing Samira's mother in an effort to get the two daughters brought to Madagascar, Samira's place of birth. He often uploaded videos about the case. I asked him in the comments why he was so certain that Adam Frasch was guilty. He replied that the interrogation was a big part of what convinced him of Dr. Frasch's guilt. He provided the audio recording of it at his YouTube channel and I listened to it three times. I had the opposite experience. I even made a transcript to review. For me, it came across as an innocent man trying to explain a complicated situation. There was no doubt that Adam and Samira had issues and in the interview he alludes to the consequences of the relationship with the nanny to his daughter from a previous marriage, Martha Moore, which occurred before he and Samira were married. He also mentions how Samira’s constant (unfounded) accusations of infidelity had broken him to the point where he had decided he might as well ...

Is it about the truth or is it about securing a conviction?

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(Wiki commons) Dr. Frasch mentioned there being two empty champagne bottles on the kitchen counter when he had left that final morning.  In a lengthy interview with police on the day of his wife's death, he recalled that she had been drinking the day before and had opened a second bottle of champagne when they had gotten home that night and had continued to drink right up until about 4 AM. Seemingly misunderstanding him, investigators asked him if she had consumed two bottles of champagne between midnight and 4 AM.  "Right," Dr. Frasch said, affirming that it had been two bottles. The time frame had been slipped under the radar (it had been a long and exhausting day for Dr. Frasch) and now it seemed as if he had said his wife had consumed two bottles of champagne in that short time. The toxicology report came back saying she had no alcohol in her system and at the trial, the prosecutor put the question to the medical examiner, if Samira had consumed two bottles of champag...

An unreliable witness

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Dale Folsom, prison snitch, who Dr. Frasch had supposedly confessed to when they shared a cell, had a story with so many contradictions it should have been treated as dark comedy instead of being taken seriously. For more on this, check out Travesty of Justice: The Dr. Adam Frasch Case . Dr. Frasch had supposedly struck his wife with a golf club in their bedroom, causing her to fall to the ground unconscious. He had left her there and had returned later, thinking that he had killed her. So he had put her in the family swimming pool to frame someone else, make it look like an accident, hide the time of death. Folsom put forward this assemblage of ideas while his leg tapped non-stop.  Had there been a golf club? Yes, there had been. And it had even had Samira’s DNA on it. But the golf club that had supposedly been used as a weapon was found in the house a year after Samira’s death and after the house had been emptied out and put on the real estate market to be sold. The DNA had been ...

An important witness lies for the Grand Jury

Dr. Frasch went through the Grand Jury transcript and identified all of Gerald Gardner's lies. Later at the trial Gardner would become even more mendacious... which you can read about in Travesty of Justice: The Dr. Adam Frasch Case .  What didn't come out in the trial was that Gardner, the Frasch family's handyman, actually had a motive for the murder. He was treated as an innocent bystander in the whole case despite that he contradicted himself numerous times when talking to the police and later when he was on the witness stand.  Here he is being questioned by Georgia Cappleman who later prosecuted the case. What is significant is that he estimates his arrival at the Frasch house as being 10:00 or 10:20. This would have given him plenty of time to have had an altercation with Samira, murdered her and to have called 911 all before 11am. It is here that Cappleman pushes his time of arrival to 10:53,  completely ruling him out as a suspect. Ironically, this earlier arrival...