The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw Pt 2 (Final)

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In part one of this story last week, we learned about Utah millionaire Franklin Bradshaw, who over the years had gained both a stupendous fortune and a strained relationship with some of his family—in particular with his youngest and wildest daughter, Frances. Frances had for years been pressuring and manipulating her mom, Berenice, to steer some of the family fortune her way, and whenever Frank got in the way of that, Frances would be furious. At the end of last week’s episode, we met Frances’s own young family, two boys, Marc and Larry, that she was strangely insistent on keeping apart. Marc was the favored son, allowed to stay at home. Frances told him his brother Larry had been sent to a mental institution, but he was in fact just staying with relatives. This was a family of strange pressures and manipulations that would ultimately lead to Franklin Bradshaw being shot dead. This is part two of “The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw.”Sources:Shana Alexander, “Nutcracker. Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”Investigation Discovery's A Crime to Remember, S5E8, “Mother’s Little Helper”Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfirehttps://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/Facebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=enTwitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.8	We're your camp counselors.
0:06.2	I'm Katie.
0:06.8	And I'm Whitney.
0:08.1	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:20.3	In part one of this story last week, we learned about Utah millionaire Franklin Bradshaw,
0:25.9	who over the years had gained both a stupendous fortune and a strained relationship with some of his family.
0:32.5	In particular, with his youngest and wildest daughter, Francis.
0:36.9	Francis had, for years, been pressuring and manipulating her mom, Bernice, to steer some of the
0:42.9	family fortune her way. And whenever Frank got in the way of that, Francis would be furious.
0:49.5	At the end of last week's episode, we met Francis's own young family, two boys, Mark and Larry, that she was
0:56.6	strangely insistent on keeping apart. Mark was the favored son, allowed to stay at home.
1:03.2	Francis told him his brother Larry had been sent to a mental institution, but he was, in fact,
1:08.7	just staying with relatives. This was a family of strange pressures and
1:13.0	manipulations that would ultimately lead to Franklin Bradshaw being shot dead. This is part two
1:19.3	of The Price of Love, the murder of Franklin Bradshaw.
1:22.7	Music As a family, the Bradshaw's love to try and psychoanalyze each other.
1:37.6	Mark thought the reason Francis turned against Larry was because Bernice and Franklin, his
1:41.9	grandparents, doaded on Larry so much rather than Mark.
1:46.0	Francis, though, would claim she limited Larry's time at home because she was genuinely scared
1:50.3	that he would kill Mark.
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