The Disappearance of Ricky Lee Franks Part 2: And Tomorrow After That
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, June 7th, 1985, Nashville's The Fan Fair, also known as "The Country Explosion" was days from its grand opening, and the city was flooded with strangers; the same afternoon, a man named Ricky Lee Franks would return to Nashville, his hometown, and see his family—briefly—before disappearing. Ricky Lee Franks had been living in a group home in Dickson, TN, and no one—not the cold-case detective now assigned to his case, or Ricky's eldest sister, Sylvia—is quite sure how Ricky made his way back to Nashville that Friday. They also don't know what happened afterward. . . though there have been leads that have taken investigators across state lines. That's because years later, his family would hear startling reports of a stranger, calling himself Ricky Franks, traveling across the Southeast.
This two-part series looks at Ricky's disappearance and Sylvia's near-40-year-quest to find her brother.
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| 1:42.8 | Last time, we introduced you to Ricky Lee Franks, a 24-year-old man who disappeared from |
| 1:48.0 | his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee on June 7, 1985. Ricky had just returned from a group |
| 1:54.6 | home living situation in nearby Dixon, and it's unclear to this day precisely how Ricky |
| 2:00.8 | made it back to Nashville. He told his mother and youngest half-sister that he rode there |
| 2:05.6 | on the Greyhound. They did see him walking through their neighborhood of Inglewood that |
| 2:09.9 | Friday afternoon, and they stopped their car to ask him what he was doing in town. He |
| 2:14.8 | said there'd been a disciplinary problem at the group home. |
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