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Ex - Con Charged in Francke Murder
Loaded on May 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1990, page 4
Frank E. Gable has been charged with murder in connection with the killing of Oregon DOC Director Michael Francke. The ex-con Gable said: "I don't know how I first got implicated, but I'm real scared it's going to end in me getting (convicted) for something I ain't did."Gable came …
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