Episode 75 - Part 4: The Disappearance of Michael Frison
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the 13th of July 2024, 25-year-old Michael Frison went missing from a volunteer site in Sardinia, Italy.
With a criminal investigation now underway, Michael's mother gives us an update on the case.
This is a special four-part series of 'Real'.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:05.5 | Please use discretion. |
| 0:08.2 | This episode details references to suicide and self-harm. |
| 0:13.2 | Please take extra care whilst listening. |
| 0:16.6 | Morning Naomi, we have some promising news. |
| 0:19.1 | The Italian authorities have finally changed their stance on this case and have now said they don't think Michael is voluntarily missing. They are now looking at this as a crime case, possibly a murder investigation. Thanks as always and I'll keep you updated. |
| 0:34.6 | So the police were now finally treating Michael's disappearance as a criminal investigation after three months. |
| 0:42.8 | But what made them change their minds? |
| 0:46.3 | I'm Naomi Channel and this is episode four of a special four-part series of Real. |
| 1:57.1 | Thank you. part series of Real. The police informed Christina that they were now changing the status of her son Michael's disappearance from voluntarily missing to a criminal investigation. But it wasn't the Sardinia police who changed the status. It came after a top police chief in Italy, saw an appeal that Christina did on Italian television show Chala Visto, which translates to who saw it. |
| 2:04.1 | It's a show that documents the cases of missing people in Italy, in a similar vein to UK's Crime Watch, where telephone lines are open to the public, for them to leave any information, |
| 2:10.2 | or for the missing person to call in themselves if they want to be found. |
| 2:15.4 | The show did a two-part episode on Michael's case, |
| 2:19.0 | and after seeing the program just last week, the Chief of Police intervened |
| 2:23.5 | and told officials on the ground in Sardinia that they needed to investigate this case further. |
| 2:31.6 | Well, it seems like it's a criminal investigation now because we had a very important |
| 2:39.7 | TV broadcast called the Kila Vista in Italy. |
| 2:46.7 | They literally work and live and breathe just to help families of missing people. |
| 2:54.3 | And they have solved so many crimes where the police was saying and there is nothing to look into. |
| 3:02.7 | The program interviewed Christina and they also interviewed landowners, |
| 3:08.7 | people who owned the land nearby to where Michael went missing from. |
| 3:13.8 | One farmer said that he found damages within his land. |
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