Oregon legislative leaders urge FBI to reopen 1989 murder case of prisons chief Michael Francke

Oregon lawmakers ask FBI director for help solving 1989 murder

Oregon lawmakers on Monday asked FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate the 1989 murder of the state’s top prison official. Michael Francke, the former Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, was found dead outside the agency’s headquarters in Salem on Jan. 17, 1989. Some three decades later, a federal judge released the person convicted of killing Francke, citing new “evidence of witness recantations.”Leaders of the Oregon House of Re…

Oregon lawmakers want FBI to reopen Francke murder case

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Republican leaders in the Oregon legislature asked FBI Director Kash Patel to reopen the Michael Francke murder case now that the man previously convicted for the 1989 crime was exonerated. The letter by House Majority Leader Ben Bowman and House Republican Leader Christine Drazan, obtained by KOIN 6 News, told Patel the "lack of resolution in this case is a grave injustice to the Francke family and the State of Oregon."…

Oregon legislative leaders urge FBI to reopen 1989 murder case of prisons chief Michael Francke

House Majority Leader Ben Bowman, D-Tigard, joined with House Republican leader Rep. Christine Drazan, R-Canby, in a letter to the FBI director.

Oregon House leaders ask FBI to investigate Corrections Director murder

Oregon House Democratic and Republican leaders ask FBI to investigate unsolved murder of Oregon Corrections Director Michsel Francke.

Legislative leaders in both parties ask FBI to investigate 1989 murder of Michael Francke - The New Era

Michael Francke The killing of the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections remains an enduring mystery.    BY NIGEL JAQUISS Oregon Journalism Project The 1989 murder of Michael Francke, then the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, is back in the news. On April 14, House Majority Leader Ben Bowman (D-Tigard) and House Minority Leader Christine Drazan (R-Canby) wrote to FBI director Kash Patel, asking him to open an investig…

Legislative leaders in both parties ask FBI to investigate 1989 Francke murder

The 1989 murder of Michael Francke, then the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, is back in the news.Today, House Majority Leader Ben Bowman (D-Tigard) and House Minority Leader Christine Drazan (R-Canby) wrote to FBI director Kash Patel, asking him to open an investigation into Francke’s murder.“Thirty-six years later, we still do not know who killed Michael Francke or why they killed him,” the caucus leaders wrote to Patel. “This…