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Did DOC Employees Murder Michael Franke?
Loaded on May 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1990, page 3
On the evening of January 17, 1989, Oregon Department of Corrections Director Michael Francke left his office at the Dome Building in Salem. He never made it out of the parking lot. Someone had stabbed him in the heart. He died on his office building's side porch.The initial investigation …
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