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Cold Case Files

Deadly Lies

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Four months after an Oklahoma man goes missing, divers searching for an antique Model T Ford in Claremore Lake come across a body.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In July of 1986, Frank Ross visited his relatives in Claremont, Oklahoma.

0:11.2

At the end of the weekend, he headed home to Stillwell, which was nearby.

0:17.1

Two days after he left, Frank's brother and roommate, Teddy, called up his sister, Pam Charles, to ask when Frank was coming home.

0:25.6

My brother in Stillwell, Teddy, he had called and asked, you know, where's Frank?

0:32.6

And I said, well, isn't he there? And he said, no, that he never showed up.

0:39.3

Frank Ross never showed up and was never seen alive again.

0:45.3

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

0:51.3

The morning after Teddy called Pam, Frank was still missing.

0:56.2

The family was worried.

0:58.1

It wasn't like Frank to not show up and not call.

1:01.7

Pam searched around town, checking out the places he visited a lot.

1:05.8

There's no sign of Frank.

1:07.6

But she found his car in a local parking lot, abandoned.

1:12.1

This is Pam Charles.

1:14.3

And then that's when we really started getting, we knew that something was wrong.

1:19.8

Frank's family contacted the police and the case was assigned to Detective John Cummings from the Claremore PD.

1:26.1

The detective attempted to retrace Frank's steps on the evening that he went missing.

1:30.7

Detective Cummings search led him to the tack room lounge, a local bar.

1:34.9

This is Detective Cummings.

1:37.0

Some of the witnesses were able to place him back in the area of the bar where they were playing pool

1:43.1

with a gentleman named Kent Hill, James Kent Hill.

1:46.0

Apparently Mr. Ross had some cash on him and was buying a lot of drinks and apparently had bragged that he had a large sum of money on him.

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