An unreliable witness

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 the kind you would expect on a club that had once been handled by Samira when she had pulled it out of her golf bag. 

It was brought out earlier at a bail hearing that the golf club could not be seen in the original photos on the day of the crime. At the trial, the jury was shown photos of a golf club leaning up against a wall in the now empty bedroom a year later.

And the medical examiner’s testimony should have demolished any possible remaining credibility Folsom might have had. Samira had still been alive when she had been put in the pool because death had been by drowning, which contradicted Folsom’s story. Before that, Samira had suffered a blow that had knocked her to the ground. According to the medical examiner, that initial blow would not have been caused by a golf club and the fall had been onto a hard surface, like a poolside, not a carpeted bedroom where Folsom said a fight between the doctor and his wife had occurred.