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Thank you for joining me for the second part of a two-part episode. If you haven't yet listened to the last episode,

episode number 122, you'll want to start there. In this series, Murder Memories, I detail cases

of recovered memories. In these stories, witnesses come forward with information about a murder

that occurred days, weeks, or even years earlier, they will claim to have

forgotten the incident completely, having repressed the memory due to the trauma of witnessing a

violent crime or some other factor. When we left off last time, it was November of 1989,

and 29-year-old Eileen Franklin Lipsker had made a phone call to the San Mateo

District Attorney's Office to report a murder. The murder had taken place 20 years earlier

when Eileen was in grade school. In September 1969, her friend, 8-year-old Susan Nason,

had gone missing and was found ten weeks later murdered.

Her body had been dumped on the side of a road between Foster City and Half Moon Bay, California.

Now Eileen and her husband Barry informed Inspector Charles Eder that Eileen not only knew who the murderer was, but that she had witnessed the crime.

The murderer, she claimed, was her own father, George Franklin.

This is Chapter 2 of Murder Memories, the recovered memory of Eileen Franklin.

About a week after Barry Lipsker had contacted the San Mateo District Attorney's Office

to report her murder that his wife Eileen had witnessed in 1969, detectives Bob Morse and

Brian Cassandro flew to Southern California to interview her in person. Over the previous few

days, she had given enough details about the cold case to warrant a

more thorough interview and see if the Susan Mason murder case could finally be brought to trial.

The following account is in Eileen Franklin Lipsker's own words and is taken from the book,

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