Who Killed Samira DS Frasch?

A lawyer shares how the Dr. Adam Frasch case was a travesty of justice .

Her husband's DNA was found under the fingernails of Samira's left hand. Did it get there from Samira fighting him off, as the prosector put forward at the trial? She showed a photo of a small scratch under Dr. Frasch's eye to the jury. The scratch under Dr. Frasch's eye wasn't caused by Samira's fingernail, but by his youngest daughter, Skynnah. Footage on the family phones showed the scratch there the day before Samira supposedly made it, and investigators were well aware of the videos on the phone since they had confiscated them all on the day of Samira's death. The DNA under Samira's fingernail was consistent with the couple making love the night before. But the prosecutor used it to fabricate the story that Samira was attempting to fight her husband off before he supposedly put her unconscious body into the pool.

Samira was smart and talented and independently wealthy from her days of modelling. But it fit the prosecutor’s case to treat her as if she was financially and emotionally dependent on her husband.  But when Samira had met him, she had a passport with stamps on every page. She didn’t stay with her husband because she was a frightened immigrant who had no understanding of the American legal system. She was a world traveller fluent in five languages.  She stayed because of love. 

Dr. Frasch told investigators that his wife had been drinking throughout their last day together and that she had opened a fresh bottle of champagne when they had gotten home that night.  However, the toxicology report showed no alcohol in her system. In the trial, both medical examiners were asked if Samira had finished off two bottles of champagne from about midnight to 4 am would there still be any alcohol in her system in the morning? Both the State medical examiner and the expert for the defense said there would still be alcohol in her system.  However, Dr. Frasch had not told investigators that she had consumed two full bottles of champagne between midnight and 4 am. He had told them he had seen two empty champagne bottles on the kitchen counter when he had left that morning. And that her drinking had started earlier in the day. It was a second bottle that had been opened at midnight. Earlier in the trial, Detective Justin Vann was asked why police had not collected the champagne

A year after investigators searched the Frasch home on the day Samira was found dead in the family pool, a golf club appeared in the master bedroom. At this point, the house had been cleared out and been put up for sale. Only this golf club supposedly remained, leaning against a wall. The golf club was essential to the prosecution’s narrative. One of their witnesses was a prison snitch who we were told had voluntarily come to them with a story that Dr. Frasch had confessed to murdering his wife to him when they were cellmates in the county jail.  The State Medical Examiner said that in her opinion, it wasn’t a golf club that had struck Samira.  Although the facts said otherwise, prosecutor Georgia Cappleman continued to do interviews with the media after the trial to promote the idea that Samira had been struck by a golf club.  It was true that the driver that was shown to the jury had Samira’s DNA on it. It was because it was her golf club and the one she used when golfing with her hu

Was it true that he stood to lose everything if his wife divorced him? No, Dr. Frasch owned three other homes and two boats. It was Samira who had lost access to everything but the Golden Eagle property that the court had allowed her to remain in.  In addition to that, the Frasches were reconciling. They had only been separated for two months back in 2013. Samira had a bipolar condition that had led to a violent altercation with her husband in August of 2013, six months before her death. After being arrested and having the charges dropped, she had been permitted full visitation rights to her children, while Dr. Frasch had full custody, which was the state of things at the time of her death. She was in the process of getting back on medication for her condition and had an appointment with a therapist at the time of her death.