Phil Stanford - Murder in Oregon

In January of 1989 the director of Oregon’s Department of Corrections, Michael Francke, was brutally stabbed to

death outside his office in Salem. The murder was quickly ruled a “car burglary gone wrong” and pinned on a

low-level drug dealer named Frank Gable, a man who Francke's own brother, Kevin, along with storied Oregon

reporter Phil Stanford, believe has been wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 30 years. They believe Francke had

uncovered a trail of corruption in the prison system— one that led to the top of Oregon’s political establishment.

Murder In Oregon follows the two men on a decades-long journey, bordering on obsession, into Oregon’s drug

and crime-infested underworld to answer one question: Who really killed Michael Francke?