It was not an accident. It was not a car burglary gone bad.
I was thirteen.
She sold me for drugs.
It was an assassination.
Dirty Cox, dirty town Salem's the most correct place, a new place you can find the United States.
It was a public official who discovered corruption in his own department. He was stabbed in the heart in front of the building where he worked.
Kevin and Phil were about to dive into an unimaginable world of corruption and depravity that would nearly ruin Phil's career.
It seemed unfair to have the paper attack me.
Put Kevin's life at risk.
Tell me to turn around. I wasn't going to turn around. And he told me to get on my knees, and no, you gotta do it. Put it right between my fucking eyes.
And expose the seediest underbelly of Oregon, ripping my hair out, shoving pills down mouth as having deep ties to the very people who were supposed to police it.
There was something very big being a hidden.
Michael Frankie's killers were never brought to justice, and you'll find out why. This season of Murder and Oregon premieres October twenty fourth. Listen to Murder and Oregon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.