Lady In The Box

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After the disappearance of Fran Gladden-Smith, her family looks into her husband John’s past only to find he had a previous wife who also disappeared never to be heard from again. Ultimately, it is the guilty conscience of John’s family that leads them to speak with police about the box they saw him constructing in 1974 around the time John’s first wife went missing. Progressive - Progressive.com SimpliSafe - Right now, get 20% off any new SimpliSafe system with Fast Protect Monitoring at SimpliSafe.com/COLDCASE There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe.

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0:00.0	From A&E, this is Cold New Jersey, the life of a housewife is not going well.
0:20.0	Fran Gladden Smith is one year into a marriage that is already showing signs of wear.
0:25.0	To make matters worse, Fran has a broken hip and is confined to her two bedroom townhouse.
0:31.0	Her family is concerned. I was calling about every other day just
0:34.9	to check up. So were her friends, so as my aunt. Really she was getting stir
0:40.3	crazy. She was just at that point in her recovery, that she was just
0:43.2	aggravated that she couldn't move around.
0:45.0	Dina Weiss is Fran Gladden Smith's daughter, Sherry Davis, is Fran's sister.
0:50.3	Both live out of state and call Fran daily.
0:53.0	On Monday, September 30th, their calls go unanswered.
0:57.0	The family's calling and nobody's getting any answers at the condo.
1:01.0	She's, you know, they're three flights up. She's on a walker still, you know, hasn't
1:08.6	taken her physical therapy to be able to maneuver steps. So where is she?
1:13.8	Two days later, the two women finally
1:16.2	get a voice at the other end of the line.
1:18.5	It is Fran's husband, John Smith.
1:21.6	I called John, and I I said this is Sherry and to be blunt where the
1:26.9	hell is my sister and he said oh I thought she was with you and cried frankly
1:31.4	how the hell can she be with me?
1:32.5	She got a broken hip.
1:34.4	How could you be with me?
1:36.1	Smith's, I thought she was with you excuse,
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