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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 02.10.25 | Father Shoots Adult Daughter in Argument Over Smoking

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Father guns down his daughter in cold blood when she confronts him about smoking inside. Attempted bank robber foiled by his own bad handwriting!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Franklin Thompson lives with his two adult daughters who are getting extremely tired of his smoking habit.

0:10.1

When Heather Thompson catches her dad lighting a cigarette inside again, she berates him for stinking up the house.

0:17.3

Her sister is trying to ignore the argument from her bedroom when she hears a gunshot and finds Heather lying in a pool of blood.

0:25.7

Calls 911 and start CPR, but Heather is dead when EMTs arrive.

0:30.9

Police find Franklin Thomas walking near his home with blood stains on his shirt and a gun in his pocket.

0:38.1

Nancy, during an interview with investigators, Thompson admits to the shooting and does not

0:42.6

appear to feel any kind of remorse. At his arraignment, Thompson's other daughters panicked

0:47.8

and emotional 911 call as played in court. She could be heard sobbing and screaming for help

0:53.4

through the phone. Thompson's

0:55.1

attorney attempted to argue for lower bail, citing that Thompson is an army veteran and worked

1:00.1

as a truck driver for 30 years with no criminal record. The judge left Thompson's bond at a million

1:06.0

dollars, and he remains in Hamilton County Justice Center, waiting a grand jury's dismissal or indictment.

1:12.2

Franklin Thompson, 64, now charged with murder. A Loveland Colorado bank tellers confused when a man

1:19.4

hands her a note without a word. She asks how she can help, but he just nods toward the note.

1:25.1

She unfolds the paper to find illegible writing at one point turning the note completely upside down trying to read it.

1:32.6

The increasingly frustrated customer frequently looks around nervously tapping his feet, eventually huffs and runs from the bank.

1:41.8

After he leaves, the teller finally makes out a threat, a demand for money.

1:46.2

Cops are called.

1:47.2

Police have released security images of the steel, unidentified bank robber,

1:51.7

who foiled his own bank robbery with bad handwriting.

1:55.9

More crime and justice news after this.

2:02.0

Now, with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Limley.

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