Episode 348: Molly Franquemont, Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In March 2013, a 37-year-old California woman suddenly stops calling her mother and daughter, who live on the East Coast. Her family has no idea that just weeks earlier, she had moved in with a man she’d quickly grown afraid of. When her phone stops working and a check from her mother goes uncashed, concern sets in. As detectives begin looking into her disappearance, they uncover a disturbing pattern involving other women who died after crossing paths with the same man Molly had been living with. In episode 348, Jac and Alexis break down the disappearance and suspected murder of Molly Franquemont, the investigation that followed, and the unsettling details that reveal she had been unknowingly living with a serial killer.

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:03.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	You see it on the paper.
0:11.0	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	And I sent over my whole case file just to say, hey, this is what I'm working with, what strategies do you think I can use?
0:28.1	The interview is going to be more confrontational.
0:30.3	It's going to be, we're going to get into what really happened.
0:33.5	And so she reviewed everything and got back to me.
0:37.5	It was almost like a good luck with that.
0:39.8	This guy is a total sociopath.
0:43.5	Welcome to the first degree of the true crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:47.2	My name is Jack Vannick.
0:48.1	I'm sitting here with the Alexis Linkletter.
0:49.8	And we have got another two-parter for you.
0:52.4	This is part one of our two-part series about Molly Frankomont.
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