493 // Erica Franolich - Part 3

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Erica's sister Nada and private investigator Greg Overacker about the disappearance of Erica Franolich from Middleburgh, New York in October of 1986. This is part three of five. This episode originally aired in 2020. Erica Jayne Franolich was last seen around 9 pm on October 13, 1986, near Main Street and Railroad Avenue in Middleburgh, New York. At the time, she lived with her husband, Richard, and their young son. Their marriage was troubled, and she reportedly told her brother she was afraid for her life and wanted to leave. Richard told police Erica had gotten on a bus and he did not hear from her again. She was reported missing by her family in Michigan in February 1987. Richard later moved to northern Vermont. At the time of her disappearance, Erica was 26 years old. She was 5 feet, 4 inches and weighed 100 pounds. She had brown hair and brown eyes. Erica has a mole on her left knee and protruding upper front teeth. She was last seen wearing a baggy shirt and blue denim overalls. If you have helpful information please contact the New York State Police at 1-866-723-3697 or [email protected], or Private Investigations For the Missing at 1-866-331-6660 to leave a message for our investigators or email [email protected]. Sources: https://www.investigationsforthemissing.org/more-about-erica.html. 2024 article: https://www.news10.com/news/schoharie-county/troopers-continue-to-investigate-38-year-old-disappearance-out-of-middleburgh/. Greg's book on the disappearance of Brianna Maitland: https://books.bloatedtoe.com/the-hunt-for-brianna-maitland/. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing and please donate if possible: https://investigationsforthemissing.org/. http://piftm.org/donate. link.gallery/piftm. https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing. https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/. https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/. Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Missing. This is Tim here today with Lance.
0:41.2	This is part three of our coverage of the disappearance of Erica Franulich.
0:45.4	This five-part series originally aired in 2020, but we want to bring it to the forefront here in 2025.
0:51.3	That's right. Erica Jane Franulich has been missing since October 13th,
0:55.4	1986 from Middleburg, New York. She was 26 years old at the time of her disappearance.
1:02.1	And today we have her sister, Neda, on the interview with us. Yeah, that's right. We got a
1:07.6	wonderful opportunity to speak with Erica's sister Neda, and she is a wonderful woman.
1:12.6	And Greg Overacker, the private investigator, he joins as well. So it's a really great call.
1:18.9	And this is going to be more than a one-part episode. This is going to be a two or probably a three-part episode with pieces of this interview with Nedaeda because there's a lot of information here.
1:29.9	And this episode is, well, it's, again, quite jaw-dropping.
1:33.8	Yeah, it sure is.
1:35.5	And Neda makes no bones about the fact that she wants to make Richard, Erica's husband at the time,
1:42.9	very uncomfortable.
1:44.2	And you can hear this in her voice and you can almost feel her determination here.
1:50.1	That's right. And of course, this case is the first one that's being worked by Greg
1:54.5	Overacker and Lou Barry, private investigators who are working pro bono for the nonprofit,
2:00.1	private investigations for the missing.
2:02.6	So make sure to check out Investigations for the missing.org.
2:06.8	And there are links to their social pages in the show notes.
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