Free Doctor Adam Frasch - AN INNOCENT MAN

Frasch family pool / Tallahassee Democrat Hummer that a neighbour saw Samira put something in shortly before her death. This case is relatively simple.  Samira Frasch was found dead in the bottom of her pool by first responders. Her handyman had “found” her and called 911. Everything about it looked like a recent death, no pruning of fingers or toes. First responders even tried to revive her death looked so recent.  Plus, it came out in the investigation that a neighbour had seen her alive about half an hour earlier putting something into her vehicle. Her husband had left the house hours earlier and had verifiably driven too far away to have done it. The only person who fit the time frame for her murder was her handyman. And, yet, in court, everything about this simple case was turned upside down and inside out to make it look like Samira’s husband did it.  Travesty of Justice: The Dr. Adam Frasch Case goes into all the details of the case to show that if you follow the ...

I admire the podcasters who can bring true crime cases alive for people. And certainly there have been many, many podcasts made about the Frasch case.  Not my gift, though. I do better putting my thoughts on paper, so to speak. Which is why during the pandemic I ended up looking into the Dr. Adam Frasch case.  At the time I was writing to an inmate in Florida—something I had gotten into through an online ministry—and he had just gotten a new cellmate, the well-known Dr. Adam Frasch. Well-known to most of Florida, that is. Not to me up in Canada. My friend in prison had a lot to say about him. It was the lockdown and the two men were stuck in a cell all day together with nothing to do but talk. My friend asked me to look online and tell him more about the Frasch case. He wanted to determine whether his cellmate was guilty or innocent. He knew that Doc, as he was called in prison, maintained his innocence, but was it really true? Initially I found it an onerous request. I certai...

  Baby Hyrah and Samira Family issues remain a constant theme both in court and in the media’s presentation of the case. What was left out of the narrative was even more significant than what was included.  Joshua Hallock, the family’s personal assistant, said to the police at the time of Samira’s death that normally Samira kept the children away from Adam and used them as a pawn in order to get what she wanted from him.  One of the women who babysat the girls when Dr. Frasch had full custody of them (which is covered in Travesty of Justice: The Dr. Adam Frasch Case ) told police that she and Samira had crossed paths at a nightclub and Samira had threatened to punch her in the face. At the time, Samira had told the woman to be careful because she was very violent. Based on the narrative told to the jury by the prosecutor at the trial, the media created a picture of how long absences from home and other women had led to Samira filing for divorce. In fact, they were the out...

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 ...

(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...

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 ...

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...