160. [Florida] The Murder of Christine Franke

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

Bless This Mess

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The murder of University of Central Florida (UCF) student Christine Franke was a cold case for 17 years until authorities used genetic genealogy to identify and arrest her killer.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to Cells'clock.
0:10.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to my Smith, my Southern True Grum podcast.
0:23.0	I'm Karen here with Stu.
0:23.7	Hey, Stu.
0:24.2	Hey.
0:24.8	All right.
0:25.1	This week, we are back and we are going to Florida.
0:28.5	Glorida.
0:29.8	Yes, Stuart.
0:30.5	You're so cool.
0:31.5	I am.
0:32.5	I have put the kids.
0:33.3	Always somebody getting murdered up in Florida, you know, just probably right now.
0:37.0	It's probably happening.
0:38.2	I mean, it's just, I have to actually work hard to not make all of our episodes out of Florida
0:44.5	because it's just going to turn to a Florida podcast.
0:48.0	Murder in Florida.
0:49.4	But it's because Florida is, well well Texas is big too
0:54.8	I mean there's a lot of murders in Texas too
0:56.5	but there really seems to be a lot in Florida
0:58.8	I'm sure California is probably the same
1:02.0	if we were to do
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