Eric Franks Part 1: The Plot Twist
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In March of 2011, 38-year-old Eric Franks disappeared from Saginaw, Michigan. The circumstances of Eric's disappearance were strange, and suspicious figures surrounded the case from the beginning. A unique series of events seemed to protect the suspicious figures. Despite a thorough investigation and execution of many search warrants, law enforcement struggled to come up with anything tangible. It was a frustrating case that went cold over the years. Then, in September of 2020, Eric's car was found after being hidden away in a garage for many years. With this significant development, Eric's cold case suddenly came screaming back to life.
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| 0:17.0 | Yeah, I mean, I hope you dig up something that |
| 0:20.0 | Stir up something that I've been stirred up before or something because to me |
| 0:24.0 | I guess part of the reason I |
| 0:26.0 | At this point I get discouraged. I was really thankful though the chat connected with you because you never know |
| 0:33.0 | Disappeared in that roundabout way led depending the par but I just feel like we know who did it we know so much |
| 0:41.8 | And the police do too and I know if they can find his airy body |
| 0:47.7 | Maybe they're I figured they'd be in the wrist |
| 0:49.9 | Michigan is a nobody state they will prosecute without finding a body and there's just been so much that should have been done that still hasn't been done |
| 0:59.9 | I would never give up trying to find him very hard but I know |
| 1:04.9 | I may not ever know the whole thing in this life |
| 1:07.9 | I know that it'll all be worked out in the next life |
| 1:10.9 | But I sure would like to know I've spent ten years grieving for him |
| 1:15.9 | In March of 2011 a man in Michigan vanished and so did his car the circumstances of his disappearance were strange and suspicious figures surrounded the case from the very beginning |
| 1:28.9 | But a unique series of events seemed to protect those suspicious figures and despite a thorough investigation and execution of many search |
| 1:37.9 | Warrants law enforcement wasn't able to come up with anything tangible it was a frustrating case that went cold over the years and |
| 1:45.9 | No one was sure that the man would ever be found or his probable killers held accountable and then in September of |
| 1:53.9 | 2020 the man's car was found after having been hidden away in a garage for many years and a case that had been |
| 2:00.9 | Essentially stored on the shelf suddenly came screaming back to life |
| 2:04.9 | I'm Marisa and from Wondery this is episode 310 of the vanished part one of Eric Frank's story |
| 2:12.9 | I'm Candace DeLong host of the podcast Killer Psychie and in our newest season we dissect the thoughts and behaviors of the most violent figures in history |
| 2:39.9 | Follow Killer Psychie on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts or you can listen early and add free by joining Wondery Plus on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app |
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