Frank Freshwaters
True Crime All The Time
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4.7 • 13.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After pleading guilty to manslaughter for killing a pedestrian while speeding, Frank Freshwaters escaped from an honor farm in Ohio and spent over fifty years on the run. In 2015, the U.S. Marshals located Freshwaters in Florida, where he had started a new life under a fake identity.
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Frank Freshwaters. By all accounts, Frank had led a pretty decent life on the run and had stayed out of trouble. So the question became what should be done with a man who escaped justice but was now 80-years-old. The decision may shock you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 475 of the True Crime All the Time podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson. Give me, how are you? Hey, I'm doing good, man. About you. I'm doing great. Well, you should be. Why is that? Because you're sitting in this really nice studio. Yeah, but I've always had a studio. |
| 0:21.2 | It's you that now have your own space, as everybody's talking about. I finally got my own stuff. I know you keep rubbing it. I don't know. It seems weird. Yeah, it probably does. All right, man, let's get right into it. You know, on these Thursday episodes, we kind of jump right in. We do. So we're talking about |
| 0:37.7 | Frank Freshwaters, which I have a theory or a thing that is telling me in my mind, |
| 0:45.5 | this is going to be hard to say at certain points throughout this episode. There's a lot of |
| 0:51.6 | repeated Fs. Yeah, two Fs in a row. |
| 0:58.1 | So Frank Freshwaters was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. |
| 1:00.0 | What is Akron known for? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, I mean, good things or bad things? |
| 1:04.7 | Let's go with good things. |
| 1:05.1 | Good things. |
| 1:07.4 | Is that where the Hall fame is? |
| 1:08.2 | No. |
| 1:08.9 | No? |
| 1:09.6 | That's Canton. Well, a lot of tire places up there. They're known for |
| 1:13.4 | tires. Yeah. And LeBron James. Well, I forgot about LeBron. I'm sure they're known for other stuff, |
| 1:19.3 | but those are the two that that kind of clicked off in my mind. By 1957, Frank was a 21-year-old |
| 1:27.3 | newlywed. He and his 17-year-old newlywed. |
| 1:28.3 | He and his 17-year-old wife, Patricia, were about to become parents. |
| 1:32.9 | Their son, Jeff, was born months after this accident that would get Frank into trouble. |
| 1:40.8 | So basically, what happened was Frank killed a pedestrian while he was speeding in his car, |
| 1:50.2 | which, you know, it's a different type of story for us. Sure it is. He's later going to go on the run, |
| 1:56.8 | right? So there's a lot to this story, but he gets into this accident. I'm sure he didn't mean to run this |
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