Case Update: Eric Franks - Plausible Deniability

The Vanished Podcast

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We first shared the story of Eric Franks’ disappearance in October 2021. While his case is still unsolved, we have significant new information to share with you nearly three years after our original episodes aired, which could potentially shed light on this mystery.

In March 2011, 38-year-old Eric Franks disappeared from Saginaw, Michigan. In 2010, Eric learned he had a teenage daughter, so he traveled to the Saginaw area to connect with her. Eric went radio silent in early March, but then his family began receiving emails from Eric periodically. They went along with this for a time, as they had no reason to question that Eric was sending the emails. Still, something was off about the whole thing, and later, they decided to report Eric missing. Over the last 13 years, a bizarre string of events has unfolded, unraveling disturbing clues about what may have happened and who may be responsible for Eric’s disappearance.

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0:00.0	Well there was a few things I brought up about that night about how we got this call
0:15.1	it was like three in the morning or something like that she got this phone call
0:18.2	and she said I'll be right back. She got in the car and she left. When she finally
0:22.0	came back I said something to her.
0:24.4	Did everything okay or something? And that's when she said it's done. He won't be a
0:30.4	problem anymore. I remember exactly what she said.
0:32.4	The can't have a gun? Yes. be a problem anymore I remember exactly what she said.
0:32.8	The kimber have a gun?
0:34.3	Yes.
0:35.3	After kimber died I gave both to Emily and I said these are hers but don't sell them.
0:40.7	Just in case a body turns up and there's a bullet hole that might be the
0:45.0	murder weapon never sell why did you say that that might be the motor
0:49.2	why did I say that that's a possibility if you find if we're assuming Eric is that what I'm saying is and if he was
0:56.4	shot then that could be and I'm not going to go selling off a murder weapon. We first shared the story of Eric Frank's
1:06.9	disappearance in October 2021. And while Eric's case is still unsolved,
1:12.8	we have more information to share with you nearly three years
1:15.6	after our original episodes aired.
1:18.1	In March 2011, 38-year-old Eric Franks disappeared from Saginaw, Michigan.
1:23.7	In 2010, Eric discovered that he had a teenage daughter,
1:27.8	so he traveled to the Saginaw area to connect with her.
1:30.8	Eric's family stopped hearing from him in early March, but then they began receiving emails
1:35.7	from him periodically.
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