MISSING: Jamie Fraley
Everything was going great for Jamie Fraley when she vanished in April of 2008, after telling a friend she was getting a ride to the hospital. Police quickly zero in on a suspect, but a bizarre development throws the investigation off course…and years later, her family still has more questions than answers.
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Jamie Fraley
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Jamie Fraley
Photo Courtesy of Jamie’s Family
Jamie Fraley
Photo Courtesy of Jamie’s Family
Kim and Jamie Fraley
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Jamie & Ricky Dale Simonds Jr.
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Ricky Dale Simonds Sr. on April 14th, 2008
Photo Courtesy of Gaston County Sheriff’s Office (North Carolina)
Please contact the authorities If you have any information about the following cases:
Anyone with information about Jamie’s disappearance should call the Gaston County Police Department at 704-866-3320 or Crime Stoppers at 704-861-8000.
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Episode Source Material
- Google Street View of Jamie’s apartment building in August 2007
- North Carolina Department of Public Safety records, Ricky Dale Simonds Sr.
- North Carolina Department of Public Safety records, Ricky Dale Simonds Jr.
- North Carolina Department of Public Safety records, Jerry Douglas Case
- Federal Bureau of Prisons records, Jerry Douglas Case
- State of North Carolina v. Jerry Douglas Case: Supreme Court ruling 11-7-1991
- Gastonia Police Department records
- The Charlotte Observer – Armed man in motel room surrenders
- The Charlotte Observer – Woman’s Slaying Was An Accident, Defense Says, by Ken Soo (Page 1)
- The Charlotte Observer – Woman’s Slaying Was An Accident, Defense Says, by Ken Soo (Page 2)
- The Charlotte Observer – Man gets 20 years in strangling, by Ken Soo
- Gaston Gazette – Bizarre death may have link to Gaston County woman’s disappearance, by Michael Barrett
- Gaston Gazette – The corpse had a familiar face, by Michael Barrett
- Gaston Gazette – Woman who discovered ex-boyfriend’s body in trunk tells of her fears, gruesome discovery, by Michael Barrett
- Gaston Gazette – Heat caused man’s death in trunk; police consider him a person of interest in woman’s disappearance, by Daniel Jackson
- The Charlotte Observer – Dead man found in hot trunk, by Deborah Hirsch
- Gaston Gazette – Search of pond fails to turn up woman missing since April, by Daniel Jackson
- America’s Most Wanted case file: Jamie Michelle Fraley
- Gaston Gazette – Kim Sprenger speaks
- Gaston Gazette – Private search team continues combing Gaston County for remains of Jamie Fraley, by Corey Friedman
- Associated Press – Patriarch: Ordeal lasted 12 hours
- The Charlotte Observer – Kidnapping suggests flaws in state prison system
- The Charlotte Observer – Missing woman’s angels won’t give up on search, by Joe DePriest (Page 1)
- The Charlotte Observer – Missing woman’s angels won’t give up on search, by Joe DePriest (Page 2)
- Disappeared: “Innocence Lost” Season 4, Episode 14
- The Charlotte Observer – Search for women missing in Gaston creates close ties, by Joe DePriest (Page 1)
- The Charlotte Observer – Search for women missing in Gaston creates close ties, by Joe DePriest (Page 2)
- WSOC-TV – Tuesday marks 6 years since 22-year-old’s disappearance
- Gaston Gazette – Killer confesses to more crimes, by Diane Turbfill
- Gaston Gazette – Killer says he’s dying, by Diane Turbfill
- Gaston Gazette – 10 years later: No answers in Gaston cold case, by Adam Lawson
- Websleuths thread
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