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The assassination of Oregon Corrections director Michael Francke is surely the most important criminal case in recent state history. Yet some thirty-seven years later, after the patsy Frank Gable has been exonerated by two federal appeals c...
37 years, and they’re still getting away with it
What makes this more than just a story of justice gone wrong is that Michael Francke’s younger brother Kevin, who never bought into the official line, left everything behind to conduct his own investigation – and ended up fighting to get th...
Bogdanski calls it "important" and "chilling"
Still reveling in the great review of WHO KILLED MICHAEL FRANCKE: And How They Got Away With It by Lewis & Clark law professor and tireless blogger at bojack2.com, Jack Bogdanski.
Jack Bog’s Blog
Saturday, August 15, 2026
La maledi...
Yes, of course he's innocent
It remains to be seen whether the Certificate of Innocence, issued a couple of weeks ago by Marion County Circuit Judge Manuel Perez to Frank Gable, the state’s patsy in the Michael Francke murder case, will register with the few holdouts w...
Great review in Willamette Week
Phil Stanford Has Literally Written the Book on Michael Francke’s Murder
By Aaron Mesh
July 19, 2026 10:29PM PDT
Phil Stanford. (Courtesy of Stanford)
For more than 35 years, columnist and author Phil Stanford has picked away at the u...
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