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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?