Not all cases and trials are covered to the extent that Doc’s was. To this day, anyone can do a Google search and see interior shots of the couple’s house. Combine that with Samira’s personal Facebook page and her promotion of the Hyrah brand of baby fashion and one can’t miss that they had a life that resembled royalty. The interior of their house rivalled a Sultan’s showpiece. Photos from Hyrah’s first birthday party further show how Samira lived her life like a royal, and not always a royal from this age, but from an age that knew the value of putting on a good show for the masses!
That Doc and Samira had found each other and could live this dream life together was testimony to the vague belief most of us have that there is someone out there who is our soulmate. Two people with the same tastes and same capacity for achievement had found one another, and despite obstacles, such as being from different countries, had come together to live the American Dream in Tallahassee, Florida. Doc was incredulous that anyone could think that he would kill the woman who was his breath, his whole life, his world.
I didn’t need to take him at his word. Whether they were speaking out of envy or just simple misunderstanding, so many of the witnesses interviewed by the police didn’t seem to realize that they were giving conflicting impressions of the marriage. One witness, a makeup artist, said Samira was both teary-eyed at discovering photos on Doc’s phone of other women and at the same time, was trying to get away from him. The impression most people carried away from it was that Samira was scared of her husband. The truth was, there were past hurts and at the time of her death, the Frasches were working through them and toward a reconciliation.
The other women had come into Doc’s life after Samira had filed for divorce in September. After a violent attack on Doc, a friend had called the police and Samira had lost custody of her children. The divorce petition gave her back the control she needed as a mother and got her children back for her. But tellingly, only weeks after getting custody, she and Doc were celebrating Christmas together as a family.
Being bipolar, Samira often had outbursts of rage and Doc had more than once suffered a statue coming down on his head or been scratched with her long nails. When it happened in private, he retreated to Books-A-Million or one his other residences to give her time to calm down. When it happened in public, the police were called by onlookers.
Meanwhile, in prison, Doc continued to work on the summons to the civil case filed by Tallahassee lawyer James Waczewski on behalf of Samira’s mother in Madagascar. And Waczewski continued to air material about both the trial and the current case on his YouTube channel, under the name of Mentour Lawyer.
New documentaries were being made about the case even in the midst of the entertainment industry being limited by covid protocol. The continued interest in the Frasch case meant a continued spread of misinformation. Emblematic of that was the misrepresentation of the amount of champagne Doc told police that Samira had consumed. He said she had been drinking throughout their last full day together and had opened a second bottle when they had gotten home late that night. By the time this made it to the trial, it was being relayed to the jury that Doc had told investigators that Samira had consumed two bottles of champagne between midnight and 4 AM. It was intended to undermine his credibility since the toxicology report showed no alcohol in Samira’s system. As I looked more into this for myself, I wrote Doc the following:
I’m going back over my notes and it seems significant to me that in the trial Detective Justin Vann was asked why police had not collected the champagne bottles as evidence. Detective Vann said they didn’t because “there’s no law against that” regarding drinking. True, but there’s no law against anything else they collected as evidence that day to try to determine what had happened. Even the diaper bag was temporarily confiscated. Considering how many crimes are fuelled by alcohol, it was odd that they didn’t collect them.
And they would have found Samira’s fingerprints on everything. You clearly told investigators that she was drinking, not you. Justin Vann admits there were open bottles and a half-emptied glass.
Combine that with the toxicology report that there was no alcohol in her system and that would conclusively prove that, yes, she had been drinking, but that there had been enough time for it all to exit her system. Which means you couldn’t have done it. Because they’re not saying you murdered her at 8 AM. You couldn’t have. You were seen pulling out of the gate by then. Before that, Carol Bass saw you from her dining room window. She was alerted to the whole thing by a car alarm going off and saw a dark-haired man wearing a red shirt, very tall, loading up a black SUV. She said that happened sometime between 7 and 8 am. Which means you would have had to have killed Samira before then. Which leaves even less time for the alcohol to have left her body.
And yet, they never collected the champagne bottles and wine glass as evidence! Golf clubs, yes, but not the champagne bottles in the house?!
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