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Fatal Choice

September 3, 2011 7:45 PM

A doctor's wife claims self-defense after killing her millionaire husband. Was he worth more dead than alive? "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Fatal Choice
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by vallie22 April 5, 2013 2:13 PM EDT
The jury made the best possible decision. I am a woman and I am disgusted by women who think they can rob and killed men. Women should work for what they want and stopped expecting men to support them. Nothing is wrong with women working. She is just so creepy. Taking over the man's business, his assets then killing him and expecting to live rich at his expense. Hope she is never released
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by vallie22 April 5, 2013 2:11 PM EDT
The jury made the best possible decision. I am a woman and I am disgusted by women who think they can rob and killed men. Women should work for what they want and stopped expecting men to support them. Nothing is wrong with women working. She is just so creepy. Taking over the man's business, his assets then killing him and expecting to live rich at his expense. Hope she is never released
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by lennylampert March 7, 2013 3:17 AM EST
I've watch many episodes of 48 Hours Mystery and never have I been so convinced of anyone's guilt. I don't believe a word that woman said. The jury made the correct decision.
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by realityboi February 18, 2013 1:48 AM EST
It's so funny how she try to say she closed her eyes whince then slighty tapp[ed him with the knife she must be superman and to those who say she,s innocent cause they found her dna on the penknife it was her who handed it to her lawyers so howelse do you think it got on there riverhorsey
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by mpm1950 February 17, 2013 5:10 AM EST
Dr Franklin's whole life was dedicated to helping people. Almost as soon as she married him she started controlling his life, took over his office, fired his office manager of 17 or 18 years. Got him I am sure to change his practice to "Pain Management" to supply her with drugs, no doubt. But the most damning of it all, even tho there were plenty of other things pointing to her quilt, was the fact that the million dollar life insurance was to expire in only two weeks before his murder. He was going to divorce her and in all probability get what was his before their marriage back. She flat out said she wanted to keep living her life of leisure sounding to me as if he had no part in making it all possible. She got what she deserved.
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by Hansel64 September 27, 2012 12:49 AM EDT
The funniest part of this was when this old bag said that the Doctor attacked her, then took a break and did some laundry. She also claimed to not have a motive. LOL. What did the Doc have? Land worth 3 million, a life insurance policy worth a million? Not to mention her dependency on quaaludes.
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by WakeUpPeople001 August 6, 2012 1:13 AM EDT
Reminds me of an over-the-top Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.

I believe that Sandra Franklin's manipulations drove Dr. Franklin to a point of frustration that he had never previously experienced.

I believe that Dr. Franklin **did** verbally threaten and physically strike Sandra Franklin on multiple occasions as a result of these frustrations.

However, I also believe that Sandra Franklin murdered Dr. Franklin with premeditation because, as she says in the video, she didn't want to lose the horse farm and "all this".
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by Marco_So August 4, 2012 8:07 AM EDT
This is the first 48 hrs case I really want someone in jail from the very beginning. She is too greedy about money, when her husband asked her to give back the land he transferred under her name, why she said no? What a drama queen.
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by jobrian82 July 25, 2012 5:18 PM EDT
I was a severly abused woman for 11 1/2 years, this woman is an insult to all those who really do suffer at the hands of an abuser. I was lucky and managed to get out with my life and there were many times I did not think I would. An abuser has a history, my ex did, this is a repeated action. This doc had two other ex wife's and neither of them said he ever scared them in any way. He was just detached when it came to showing affection. He did not deserve to die at the hands of this liar.
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by kristadawn56 June 26, 2012 10:58 PM EDT
i was loacked up with this woman and to this day her story still changes about how everything went down that night i think she did it for the money!
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