337 // The Assassination of Michael Francke w/Lauren Bright Pacheco

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🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from both the Missing and Crawlspace shows! Ad-free episodes and more at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Missing" for your first month FREE! Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna have an incredible conversation with podcasting superstar, Lauren Bright Pacheco. They speak about Lauren's career journey and then dig deep into the assassination of Mr. Michael Francke & wrongful conviction of Frank Gable. This is also the subject of Lauren's show Murder in Oregon. In January of 1989 the dir. of Oregon’s Department of Corrections, Michael Francke, was brutally stabbed to death outside his office in Salem. It was quickly ruled a “car burglary gone wrong” and pinned on a low-level drug dealer named Frank Gable, a man who Francke's own brother, Kevin, along with storied Oregon reporter Phil Stanford, believe has been wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 30 years. They believe Francke had uncovered a trail of corruption in the prison system— one that led to the top of Oregon’s political establishment. Listen to all of Lauren's shows by going to: https://www.podchaser.com/creators/lauren-bright-pacheco-107Zzomk9H Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-in-oregon/id1478138996 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RtBlo8AEmy2eEgYmY1tFc?si=c1a348e7d6c34e4d Follow Lauren: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/BrightPacheco Consider supporting Frank Gable by going to: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rf5z2h-frank-gable-freedom-fund This episode is brought to you in part by our wonderful sponsors, ButcherBox The God Pod & Best Fiends. ButcherBox was started with the idea that everyone should have access to high-quality, humanely raised meat. Each month, they deliver 100% grass-fed beef, humanely raised pork, and free-range organic chicken straight to your door. Sign up today at butcherbox.com/CRAWLSPACE and use code CRAWLSPACE to get 10% off your first box and ground beef for the life of your membership. Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Another podcast we are sure you'll enjoy is our friends over at The GodPod! Find out what God, Jesus, Satan and the whole crew are up by visiting https://thegodpodcast.com/. Listen on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-god-pod/id1457338192 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XyL160zExrq1mKsg5FKjO Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1c54a166-4c67-46d8-b5e8-727ac4bde730/god-pod Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Join the Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Crawlspace Media is part of the Glassbox Media Network. Check them out here: https://glassboxmedia.com/ Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ to connect your existing Amazon account to donate to Private Investigations For the Missing. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?
0:38.5	I really couldn't be better today Tim. I hope every single one of our listeners out there
0:43.6	couldn't be better as well. And I hope you Tim couldn't be better. I hope you're literally
0:48.8	sitting there thinking I don't know any way I could be better. How are you?
0:52.4	I literally couldn't be any better Lance. You nailed it. Thanks a lot for asking.
0:57.6	And I'm really excited to introduce this interview that we had with a wonderful journalist.
1:03.6	Her name is Lauren Bright-Pacheco and she is also a podcaster and has done several podcasts.
1:09.6	But the one that we're talking about today is called Murder in Oregon and it is about the
1:14.9	1989 murder of Michael Frankie and the wrongful conviction of Frank Gable.
1:21.9	It is a really fascinating story that Lauren tells us about this murder,
1:25.7	about this assassination, really, of Michael Frankie. She gets into how the justice system
1:30.7	is completely broken and how if they want somebody convicted for a crime for whatever reason,
1:35.3	it is very quick to judge and takes no responsibility when they have realized that they've made a
1:41.1	mistake or a mistake has been made. So we get into that and we get into what type of a person
1:46.4	Michael Frankie was, sort of a crusader and back in those times, not a lot of people were as
1:51.6	progressive as he was when it came to reforming the criminal justice system. And he was fighting
1:57.2	a corrupt prison system. That is essentially what got him assassinated, his descent of the system
2:02.8	and his challenge to them to make things better and to clean up that corruption. And really,
2:07.5	it's a shame that somebody who was trying to make such positive headway was taken down in the
2:13.6	prime of his career. I mean, you can say it's still unsolved even though Frank Gable was convicted.
2:18.6	And Frank Gable is currently out of prison and he has a go fund me. If you go to gofundme.com,
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