At the Bottom of the Pool

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Speaker 6 Samira was full of energy.

Speaker 7 Very attractive girl.

Speaker 6 She had that model look. She did not do anything low-key.

Speaker 6 All of the strange twists this story took. Now you know somebody who has been murdered.
It was like nothing I'd ever expect to happen.

Speaker 8 Inside a gated community, a harrowing discovery.

Speaker 1 It's a lady laying in the pool.

Speaker 10 She's completely gone?

Speaker 11 Yes. I studied the crime scene looking just for, does anything stand out?

Speaker 1 The first focus, her sandal.

Speaker 11 Tucked right underneath the hose on the edge.

Speaker 7 It seemed very obvious this was staged.

Speaker 8 Was there someone who'd wanted Samurai out of the way?

Speaker 7 He observed a black female standing outside of the Frosch's residence.

Speaker 11 Mr. Frash had multiple female acquaintances.

Speaker 7 They all had a common common career and they were exotic dancers.

Speaker 5 Two critical clues, one chilling plot.

Speaker 11 We had an unknown DNA on a robe that came off the victim.

Speaker 11 I literally looked at it for a minute. I was like, seriously?

Speaker 1 That was absolutely stunning.

Speaker 10 Behind the curtain was a very dark story.

Speaker 1 It was a cold morning in February. Cold for northern Florida, that is.
Crisp but sunny, when the call came in.

Speaker 13 Can I get an officer out here and go, Denigo, as a lady landing in the pool in her backyard in her pool?

Speaker 1 Made no sense, really. Way too cold for a swim.
But the lady wasn't swimming. Wasn't even floating down at the bottom of the pool.
She's dead.

Speaker 1 She was lying face up, her palms too, as if in supplication, her leopard print robe drifting in the water around her.

Speaker 13 See, she's been in there and I don't know how long

Speaker 13 she's completely gone.

Speaker 1 The house with the backyard pool was located in an exclusive gated community in Tallahassee, Florida, called Golden Eagle.

Speaker 1 First responders went out there, and pretty soon, Sheriff's Detective Tony Giraldi got a call.

Speaker 7 Our patrol deputies had found a body in a pool, a woman in a pool, and we were scrambling our investigative unit.

Speaker 1 Is that about as much as you knew when you got that first call?

Speaker 14 It was.

Speaker 1 You would discover the EMTs had been there by then. Tried CPR just in case, given that the water was so cold.
I didn't think they knew

Speaker 7 how long she had been in the pool.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 7 the thought process was maybe that they could revive her.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because a person's metabolism slows down. Sometimes they look like they're dead.
Maybe they're not dead. Was there a serious thought that maybe she would survive this?

Speaker 7 It wasn't the case.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 at the hospital, the doctors tried to check her body temperature to determine how long she'd been dead, but she was too cold for the thermometer. No way to calculate how long she'd been in the pool.

Speaker 1 Of course, by then, they'd figured out who she was:

Speaker 1 Samara Frosch.

Speaker 1 Unusual name.

Speaker 1 They looked her up online, and

Speaker 12 wow, She was gorgeous and she was really vava-vu.

Speaker 1 Samara Frosch was amazing. Look at her.
Stunning, most certainly. And glamorous.
And very French.

Speaker 12 It's everything or nothing.

Speaker 1 I'm French now.

Speaker 1 Once upon a time, she turned heads in Paris. A runway model, a sultry music video singer, a shooting star.

Speaker 1 Or so the stories went.

Speaker 1 Such a shame what happened to Samara.

Speaker 1 And such a mystery.

Speaker 6 When you think about all the strange twists that this story took, Joel Silver was a friend by the time it all ended. The story is very sad how it all ended up, but it is still a wild story.

Speaker 1 The story, her story, was not at all wild to begin with. She was born far away in French-speaking Madagascar.
She was poor, dirt-poor, like the dirt floors in her family's little house.

Speaker 1 And her story, frankly, would have ended there, anonymously. We'd have nothing to tell.
Were it not for something

Speaker 1 in her, some drive, some desire.

Speaker 6 She was full of energy and determination, and she always wanted to be doing something.

Speaker 1 Over here, we call it the American dream. There,

Speaker 1 it was Paris. It was her own hard work that won her a spot in a Paris college.
It was her talent and her remarkable look that got her a place on Paris fashion runways.

Speaker 1 And still, there'd be no story for us. Were it not for the night in 2006 in a trendy Paris nightclub when she met him, Adam Frosch.

Speaker 1 Jackie Watson, a French national herself, was Samara's friend.

Speaker 12 He shower her with gifts and love and flowers.

Speaker 1 It was that ultimate intoxicant, love at first sight. She was brilliant and tall and incredibly beautiful.

Speaker 1 And he was a prominent and successful Florida doctor, a podiatrist and surgeon, and attractive, said Samara's friend Jackie Watson.

Speaker 12 Very handsome man, tall, bright blue eyes, very good looking, and they were making the perfect couple.

Speaker 1 And he was smitten. She showed him a paris he had seen before, but never like he saw it with Samara.

Speaker 9 Beautiful lady, beautiful spirit, huge smile.

Speaker 1 Adam's friend saw it too, like the Reverend Larry Johnson.

Speaker 9 And they were obviously in love with each other.

Speaker 1 The romance with Adam was right out of a book.

Speaker 12 She said, actually, it was like a fairy tale.

Speaker 1 So that's how it began. And back and forth they went.
He'd fly to Paris, she to Tallahassee, Florida, where he lived, just so they could see each other.

Speaker 1 Adam couldn't stop talking about her, couldn't believe his luck.

Speaker 1 He said, I'm in love with her, and I'm going to marry her. Mind you, Adam Frosch was a catch, too.
Bright? Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 He'd flown through college in three years, was the youngest graduate in his med school class, a workaholic in school and out.

Speaker 5 When he was in college, he had three part-time jobs for a while, and He'd never buy pop because that cost too much. He'd just drink water.

Speaker 1 But his medical practice, said his dad Alvin, was amazing.

Speaker 5 It was very successful. And I'd go in the office and the waiting room be full.
And I got there and five o'clock it'd still be full.

Speaker 1 And by the time Adam met Samara, he was both a respected podiatrist and a wealthy man with two practices in Georgia, just over the Florida border near Tallahassee.

Speaker 9 was impressed with his professionalism. He was not in a hurry to do it fast and get out, you know, go on to the next patient.
You know, he had a big heart.

Speaker 1 Before they got married, they had to wait, Adam and Samra. He was in the midst of a divorce.
And when it was final, they did not hesitate. They married in Vegas.

Speaker 1 And they made their home in Tallahassee. Not many French nationals here.

Speaker 16 Yes, Tallahassee?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, talk about a cultural shift.

Speaker 1 No kidding.

Speaker 16 You don't say.

Speaker 1 Annabel Diaz became Samra's what? Sounding board? Soulmate?

Speaker 1 Culture shock is an easy phrase to say, but for French women like Annabelle and Samara, getting used to Tallahassee was not so easy. All you have to do is open your mouth and

Speaker 1 you're different. Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 Annabelle, who emigrated years earlier, had to give Samara a tutorial on the English language, especially when it came to words that began with the letter H.

Speaker 16 And remember, French people don't say their H's, so imagine the the amount of trouble you can get in speaking English when H's are silent.

Speaker 1 It sounds like you speak from experience. I do.
I do.

Speaker 1 So hate would come out as hate. Hurt as irked, that sort of thing.

Speaker 16 And I used to have this with Savira. I was like, no, don't use H words.
They are not going to understand you.

Speaker 1 But here she had friends like Jackie and Annabelle. And Annabelle's mother, who kind of adopted Samara, a good life.

Speaker 16 So we were just trying to be a bunch of French girls drinking red wine and eating cheese.

Speaker 1 And eventually for Adam and Samara, there were babies. First came little Hyra, a baby who would have the childhood Samara could only dream of.

Speaker 6 I think she was trying to really provide this world for this baby that she thought the baby deserved, that she thought Hyra deserved.

Speaker 1 Hyra and then Skyna.

Speaker 1 Samara picked the names.

Speaker 16 Her entire world were those two kids. You know, I mean, like, she just loved her babies.

Speaker 1 Say hi.

Speaker 1 Hi.

Speaker 16 I mean, I don't think that there's anything that she wanted to do or be, except for their mother.

Speaker 1 Her whole world revolved around them.

Speaker 1 And then, it was that February morning in 2014, about 11 a.m.,

Speaker 1 it was the handyman who called 911.

Speaker 1 And here the story seemed to end. The adventures of Samara Frosch, dead at just 38.

Speaker 1 Though really, in a way, the story had just begun.

Speaker 1 What happened to Samara?

Speaker 11 The tale told by a sandal tucked right underneath the hose on the edge.

Speaker 1 Had she tripped, chasing the family dog? It wouldn't be the first time.

Speaker 5 I bought stumbled on that hose trying to catch him.

Speaker 1 When handyman Gerald Gardner called 911 that chilly morning in February 2014, it's a lady laying in the pool in her backyard in her pool.

Speaker 1 He told the operator he knew Samara Frosch had children, two little girls, but he couldn't find them.

Speaker 13 Where are her kids? He said, I don't know, ma'am. I can't get in the house.
I can't get nothing. I just found it in the back of the backyard in the pool.

Speaker 1 Investigator jason newland searched for clues at the place samara frosch's all-too-short life came to its sudden end i study the crime scene a lot looking just for

Speaker 11 does anything stand out

Speaker 1 and right away what stood out was evidence of one of those bizarre rube goldberg tripping accidents people tend to fall prey to this is police video The pool deck was kind of a mess. And look at this.

Speaker 1 One of Samara's sandals was caught under a garden hose that ran across the deck and into the pool.

Speaker 11 Tucked right underneath the hose on the edge. And then the other one was just down in the bottom of the pool.

Speaker 1 And Detective Tony Giraldi discovered that Samara's little indoor dog, Bella, had escaped to the pool deck.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 7 they have this small dog that is apparently runs around if it gets out.

Speaker 5 Oh, I figured she fell. That stupid dog they had got out, run around the pool.

Speaker 1 When he heard about Sambra's death, her father-in-law, Alvin Frosch, said the same thing very nearly happened to him during a visit.

Speaker 5 I couldn't catch him out there around the pool, and I about stumbled on that hose trying to catch him.

Speaker 1 So, seemed obvious. Samara must have been chasing her little dog, tripped on the hose, maybe hit her head, and wound up in the pool.
And tragically, the one thing Samara couldn't do was swim.

Speaker 1 But one look at the web told the detectives this was otherwise a very versatile woman.

Speaker 11 You could definitely Google, search her, YouTube.

Speaker 1 And there she was, about a half dozen music videos under the name Samara DS, many made in her native Madagascar. They did not go viral.

Speaker 1 But once she became a mother, Samara's ambition shifted.

Speaker 1 Now she wanted her daughter, eventually daughters, to be the center of attention.

Speaker 12 I said, but you're so young, so beautiful. She said, let's be serious here.
Let's focus on the kids.

Speaker 1 The kids had a big idea. And that's when she first met Joel Silver.
He's a producer. In 2012, she called him out of the blue and set up a meeting.

Speaker 6 Other mothers say, my baby is beautiful. It should be on TV, on commercials on this.
But Samira acted on this.

Speaker 1 Because, said Silver, Samara instinctively seemed to understand the power of social media.

Speaker 6 By that time, we were starting to see those kind of things on YouTube and Facebook.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 6 Famous people, you know, famous dogs on Facebook that have thousands and millions of followers.

Speaker 1 Why not a famous baby?

Speaker 6 Why not a famous baby? Was her idea. We just said, let's go so we can see how it works.

Speaker 1 You were in. I was in.

Speaker 1 The idea was to create and market a children's clothing line based on the outfits she designed for Hira. She would sell them from a website called Hira.com.

Speaker 1 The YouTube videos would push potential customers to her site. If the Kardashians could do it,

Speaker 1 why not her?

Speaker 6 She said, I want to make videos of my baby and I want to travel and make sure everybody can see how beautiful my baby is.

Speaker 1 It seemed to be a perfect formula. That is using the online clothing business based on little Hira so she could be close to her baby and Adam and see the country and have fun.
Enviable.

Speaker 12 When I saw her and her husband and that little girl, I looked at them and I said, this is what I want one day.

Speaker 1 They took their road show all over the country. Vegas,

Speaker 1 Disney World,

Speaker 1 Hollywood,

Speaker 1 the Kentucky Derby,

Speaker 1 Washington, D.C.,

Speaker 1 New York's Times Square, and everybody admired the baby. Oh, precious!

Speaker 1 Even another TV celebrity, the late Big Ange from Mob Wives.

Speaker 3 you are so gorgeous.

Speaker 6 I don't know if she just thought this is how you do it in America.

Speaker 1 There's some evidence to suggest it is.

Speaker 1 Or something like that. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 So, right, when you come to the U.S., this is what she thought, I guess, was the best way to showcase Hira.

Speaker 1 In the background, Adam, always a bit off-camera, quietly hovered. Proud, but worried a little.
Protective. Of course, he financed the productions, paid for her music videos, too.

Speaker 1 Out on the road, were you ever approached by people who thought this was...

Speaker 6 We never really got any kind of backlash from anybody about

Speaker 6 saying, This is terrible. What are you doing? What are you doing? And it might be because Hyrah was just always the perfect TV star.
She was always in a great mood, always waving, smiling.

Speaker 6 Anytime you see any of these videos, this baby was always happy.

Speaker 1 And Samara, over the top or not, she was somehow genuine, said Silver.

Speaker 1 And he rolled the camera as she,

Speaker 1 no fuss, no furs, no makeup, doted on her baby girl. This, thought Joel Silver, was true love.

Speaker 1 And then there was the party, Ira's first birthday party, and Samara's biggest promotion on social media. She pulled out all the stops.
Tallahassee had never seen anything like this.

Speaker 6 With how much Samira loved this baby, she was determined to make it the party of all parties. This was like a LA, you know, Hollywood birthday of a celebrity baby.

Speaker 1 Samara played host and narrator.

Speaker 16 Okay, today's high-rise one year's birthday. Watch.

Speaker 1 Men dressed as Egyptian guards.

Speaker 1 A sword-wielding belly dancer. And Samara dripping gold and wearing a gown fit for a queen of the Nile.

Speaker 1 Adam Frosch, her husband, went for something a little more elvous. And there at the center of it all, their daughter Hyra, dressed in white feathers and fur.

Speaker 1 As they sang happy birthday, Samara and Adam were beaming. Not a hint in the world that in a little more than a year, she'd be gone.
Her babies just two and ten months without a mother.

Speaker 1 Detectives had watched the videos in something like amazement. And then they heard from the coroner.
And remember that Rube Goldberg tripping thing?

Speaker 1 Maybe not an accident after all.

Speaker 1 What the medical examiner had to say.

Speaker 7 The Emmy's physical finding was foul play.

Speaker 1 And questions about the handyman who refused to pull her from the water.

Speaker 11 He's like, I wasn't going to touch her.

Speaker 1 There was one little thing here in the pool where Samura Frosch met her end. It was something about the sandal there in the water, one trapped under a garden hose.

Speaker 1 It bothered investigator Jason Newland.

Speaker 11 The sandals that had a strap around the heel, a lot of the females in the office would say that doesn't just fall off your foot like that.

Speaker 1 That sandal looked, well, almost looked like somebody had created a little stage setting, like it was too perfect, too obvious to be true.

Speaker 1 And then Detective Tony Giraldi got a call from the medical examiner. Oh my.

Speaker 1 What did the ME discover? The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, coupled with drowning.

Speaker 1 In such a way that it could have happened accidentally or did it seem to the ME as if it was homicide?

Speaker 7 With the ME's physical findings that there was foul play and

Speaker 7 we were looking for somebody that causes death.

Speaker 1 Here's what the medical examiner said.

Speaker 1 One side of Samara's skull was fractured, which certainly could have meant she hit her head on the way into the pool, but the other side of her head was damaged too.

Speaker 1 A simple slip and fall couldn't account for that.

Speaker 1 But remember, the ME saw evidence of both blunt force trauma and drowning, which meant she was still alive when she hit the water. So, was it murder? It looked like, yes.
The detectives went to work.

Speaker 7 We collect as much physical evidence as we could, and we interviewed everybody that

Speaker 7 saw Samra last or that was close to her.

Speaker 1 Like, the man who found her in the pool, the handyman. Gerald Gardner.

Speaker 7 He was somebody we needed to talk to and rule out the suspect.

Speaker 1 Police thought there was something odd about Mr. Gardner, or at least what he said when he called 911.

Speaker 1 The operator asked him to get into the pool and pull Samara out.

Speaker 13 Any way you can jump in and get her?

Speaker 13 I probably can, but I prefer the officer to be here before the UFO touch, because I don't know how long she's been in there. Nobody wants to jump in and try and get her out?

Speaker 13 Well, ma'am, see, she's been in there. I don't know how long she

Speaker 13 completely gone. And I want y'all to come take pictures of it before I kick her out.

Speaker 1 Gerald Gardner knew Samara, had worked for her for years. So why did he refuse the operator's request?

Speaker 11 When we talked to him later, he's like, I wasn't going to touch her. I didn't want my DNA on her.
I knew I'm going to be the first suspect. I found her.

Speaker 11 And he's like, I do not want to be involved in this.

Speaker 1 He was right. Police would look at him and his story closely.
as well as someone else who was there with him that day, his 14-year-old son, Gerald Jr.

Speaker 1 At police headquarters. The boy was questioned while his mother sat with the detectives.

Speaker 16 We opened the back gate and we went to the pool area and we noticed her tooth scandals

Speaker 1 was in the pool and we seen her laying on the bottom of the pool

Speaker 1 just playing there.

Speaker 16 Who saw her first?

Speaker 1 My daddy.

Speaker 1 During a break in the interview, the boy started to cry.

Speaker 1 His mother telling him to calm down. Police had to do their job.

Speaker 1 What's your cry, Brother Jerry?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 you can't do nothing about that. You were one of the ones that was there.

Speaker 1 As for his father, Gerald Gardner, some people were saying he did more than just work for Samara.

Speaker 11 We interviewed a couple people about a relationship with them, and some people suspected it. Gerald swears up and down.
He goes, absolutely not. Never.

Speaker 1 Were they friends? They were friends.

Speaker 11 He would do anything she needed.

Speaker 1 Were father and son telling them everything?

Speaker 1 Maybe they'd find out from the security tapes. The Frosch's place was in a gated community, so there was arrival and departure video.

Speaker 1 Now that's how the detectives confirmed that the handyman and his son arrived at 10.51 a.m.,

Speaker 1 10 minutes before phoning 911.

Speaker 1 So could the Gardners have done something terrible in so short a time and then sounded the way Gardner Sr. did on that 911 call?

Speaker 7 He made some statements, though, on the 911 call that I believe sound very credible and genuine. And he was very adamant that he was worried about the welfare of the children as well.

Speaker 1 Gerald, Gardner, and son, they decided, did not kill Samara.

Speaker 1 So, who did?

Speaker 1 The one person they wanted to ask, of course, was Adam Frosch.

Speaker 1 Except they couldn't find him. Adam and the two little girls were apparently away somewhere.
There was a friend who might know where.

Speaker 1 A friend who, the detective discovered, did not like the former French model now lying cold and dead in the morgue.

Speaker 1 Not one tiny bit.

Speaker 1 And this friend didn't care who knew it, including the police. I said, if you hit me, I'm not getting through that.
Weren't I just my exact words?

Speaker 1 Around the big Frosh house and across its long driveway, yellow crime scene tape was draped. An Amber Alert went out for their two small children, Hira and Skyna.

Speaker 1 And it was during that chaotic day that one of Adam's closest friends in Tallahassee, a man named Kendall Lindsay, got a phone call.

Speaker 1 A friend of mine called me and told me that his exact words were Samuel was on the other side. Samuel's on on the other side of what? That's what I said.
You know, like, what do you mean?

Speaker 1 I said, she's dead? He said, yeah, man. See, they found her at the bottom of the pool.
And I said, no, you got to be kidding. Kendall confirmed it through a friend on the police force.

Speaker 1 And then he steeled himself for the call he knew he had to make. Kendall always called Adam Doc.

Speaker 1 I immediately called Doc and he picked up.

Speaker 1 And I told him what I heard. And I told him, yeah.

Speaker 1 And she was found dead in the pool.

Speaker 1 and he took it quiet and I imagine he was crying because his daughter said daddy why are you crying in the background you heard that I heard it it must have had his daughter in his arms or something Adam told Kendall he was at their beach house in Panama City nearly three hours away he told him he took the kids for the weekend so Samara could rest and I told him he said just bring the kids here

Speaker 1 Just bring them here. You need to come find out what's going on.
And he said he was on the way. Soon after he shared the news with Adam about his wife, Kendall got another phone call.

Speaker 1 His police contact.

Speaker 1 He needed some help. My police friend asked me, do I know where he was? And I said, yeah.
And he said, well, where was he?

Speaker 1 I said, he was in Panama City, beach house in Panama City, but he's on the way here. With Adam headed back to Tallahassee, the officer asked Kendall for another favor.

Speaker 1 He said, well, I got a detective, but he wants to ask you some questions. Are you at home? I said, yeah, I'm at home.
He can come on out.

Speaker 1 Within 30 minutes, I had a detective at my door asking me questions. Kendall told the detectives his relationship with Adam bordered on brotherhood.

Speaker 1 Kendall is a car dealer, and Adam had a thing for collecting cars. Maserati, Ferraris, some very nice Mustangs,

Speaker 1 top-of-the-line Mercedes, two-door coupes, convertibles, you name it. In fact, Adam owned 80 cars, at least, maybe 100.
So at first it was a business relationship, but soon they were fast friends.

Speaker 1 They went to games together, shot pool, traveled to Miami, Orlando, Vegas. They especially liked Vegas.
Go to casinos and stuff like that. Just traveled a lot.

Speaker 1 At the casinos, Adam played in Texas Hold'em poker tournaments. Kendall kept an eye on him because Adam liked carrying big wads of cash and flaunted his expensive watches and jewelry.

Speaker 1 So did you find yourself kind of becoming his protector, his

Speaker 1 watched out for him? Like we go to a casino, he'll have

Speaker 1 jewelry on and flashing like a superstar. Like, you know, you got all type of guys that are looking at this stuff.
And I talked to him all the time, but it didn't matter to him.

Speaker 1 He was just naive to it.

Speaker 1 Then the detectives asked, how did Kendall feel about Samara? He said, you like her? That's not I didn't like her at all. You didn't like her.
And you didn't make any secret of it.

Speaker 1 Right, I told him that. Samara didn't like her husband spending so much time with Kendall, traveling with him, going to casinos.
Kendall told Adam, don't let your wife dictate your friendships.

Speaker 1 We continue our friendship under the radar from her. She realized that I was the one that's encouraging him, hey, stand up for yourself.
But he wouldn't say to her, look, he's my friend.

Speaker 1 I'm going to see him whether you like it or not.

Speaker 1 No way.

Speaker 1 No way. Kendall said he tried to tell the detective all that.
But then it dawned on him. He, Kendall, was a suspect.
When he started asking me, where was I last night?

Speaker 1 That's when I started thinking, well, do I need a lawyer here? Police asked him for his phone and if he'd go to the sheriff's office to take a DNA test. Questions continued there for hours.

Speaker 17 So obviously, you know, they're here.

Speaker 1 Hardly a surprise. Don't think that I'm not aware that I'm probably a suspect as well.
I understand that, the nature of that, because

Speaker 1 how I feel about Samara, everybody knew it. Kendall told the detective about the time he stepped between Adam and Samara during an argument, mostly to protect Adam.
Samara wasn't happy.

Speaker 1 I said, if you hit me, I'll knock you through that one. And that's just my exact words to her.
I said, I'll knock you through that one.

Speaker 1 And then there was Kendall's last conversation with Samara, the night before she was found murdered.

Speaker 1 Kendall said it started over a misunderstanding and then escalated when Samara decided he'd stolen some clothes that had been left in one of Adam's cars. Heated words.
Expletives exchanged.

Speaker 1 She lit into me.

Speaker 13 You don't need to know why my clothes are.

Speaker 1 You better bring my clothes back. All that kind of shit.
So I said, yeah, I burnt them and I hung up.

Speaker 13 Just like that.

Speaker 1 And then Kendall said something. Said something he maybe shouldn't have said.
I joked about it this morning. I said,

Speaker 1 if it was me, they're going to have to be looking for a killer because my hand will be still wrapped around her neck like that right now. And that's the truth.
Did he just say that?

Speaker 1 About his best friend's wife found dead in a pool? Now that got the the detectives' attention. Time, they decided, to take a hard look at this guy's alibi.
Did he have one?

Speaker 1 Inside the jaw-dropping world of Adam and Samura Frosch.

Speaker 7 A lot of marble, gold, a lot of exotic animals that were stuffed.

Speaker 1 Did all that wealth provide a motive for murder?

Speaker 1 Adam Frosch's good friend Kendall Lindsay had just made an astonishing statement to detectives investigating the death of the doctor's wife Samara. Kendall wasn't fond of Samara.

Speaker 1 In fact, the two had argued vehemently the night before she died. I joked about this morning.
I said,

Speaker 1 if it was me, they're going to have to be looking for the killer because my hand will be still wrapped around her neck like that right there. And that's the truth.
What a thing to say.

Speaker 1 Even if it was a joke. So, next question.
What asked the detectives, was Kendall up to the night before and the morning Samaru was found? I went hunting around about

Speaker 1 5.30. Then I came home,

Speaker 1 stealing my hunting gear, and take a shower. Both of my sons were there.

Speaker 13 All right.

Speaker 17 So next morning, you're at the house?

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 17 You don't go anywhere? Nowhere.

Speaker 1 After breakfast at Kendall, his wife drove him to work. That was 11.20.
Samurai was found at 11.

Speaker 1 So Kendall had an alibi. Detectives regrouped and went back to the Frosch house.
Let it talk to them.

Speaker 1 And talk it did.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 7 It was different.

Speaker 7 Different for most

Speaker 1 people's taste. Detective Tony Giraldi.

Speaker 7 A lot of marble, a lot of gold, a lot of exotic animals that were stuffed. Oh, wow.
Which was kind of new to

Speaker 7 us for executing a search warrant.

Speaker 1 But it wasn't just the over-the-top house. Everything that detectives learned about the Frosts practically screamed money.
Watches, jewelry, clothes, guns. motorcycles, a fleet of cars.

Speaker 7 Approximately four houses, a multitude of cars, anywhere from 80 to 100.

Speaker 7 High-end vehicles. Mercedes, BMWs, Hummers, Corvettes, even a Ferrari.

Speaker 1 Boats?

Speaker 7 He did have a boat that we discovered.

Speaker 1 The investigators asked Kendall Lindsay, and he told them, as he did us, that Adam Frosch would often buy a car when the two men were on the road. Then he'd leave it behind.

Speaker 1 So he could go almost anywhere, and there would be a car there that he owned. That's right.
And they'd sit there. Yeah, sit there.
He's all about collecting.

Speaker 1 I categorize Doc as like a hoarder in a way. A hoarder? Yeah, I know that's a strong word, but in a way, from what I've witnessed, Doc could never get enough of buying things.

Speaker 1 Not just cars, a lot of nice things.

Speaker 1 So maybe buying things met some sort of psychological need.

Speaker 1 We'll get in my office and look for a car for a couple hours on the internet. It could be 11 o'clock, 1 o'clock in the morning, and he sees it.
If it's in

Speaker 1 Miami, Florida, or Nevada, we're on a plane or we're on the car and we're driving out that night to be there, to buy it, to buy. And then as soon as he buys that car, that rush is over.

Speaker 1 It's like, okay, find me another car. The doctor liked to pay for these things, in fact, most things, in cash.
Like the time he took Samara and Jackie out to dinner.

Speaker 12 I noticed he had money because when he paid

Speaker 1 And investigators quickly realized that Samara seemed to share Adam's penchant for buying things, expensive things.

Speaker 11 She ordered $1,500 pacifiers for the children. The chandeliers, the statues.
I don't know there's anything they wouldn't buy.

Speaker 1 So they figured maybe money was the glue in the Frosch marriage. And sometimes, during rough patches, a peace offering.

Speaker 11 In text messages, he would send a picture of $100 bills laid out on a bed and shaped of I Love You.

Speaker 1 And that was the effective way, I gather.

Speaker 19 It worked.

Speaker 1 Dr. Frosch, it seemed, was only too happy to spend lavishly so that poor girl from Madagascar could have her American dream.
Apparently, he could afford it.

Speaker 7 Was doing very well.

Speaker 1 How well was he doing?

Speaker 7 Maybe one of the highest-paid podiatrists in the state, or arguably the country.

Speaker 1 It was true. At the time, Dr.
Frosch was one of the leading practitioners of a cutting-edge skin graft procedure for diabetics called Dermagraft.

Speaker 1 People poured into his clinics in southern Georgia, many of them on Medicare.

Speaker 1 So in 2012, for example, a couple years before Samara died, the doctor received more than a million dollars in Medicare payments. Adam, when he worked, he worked.

Speaker 5 He'd start at 9 o'clock and work till whenever he got done. A lot of times it was 7 o'clock before he got done.

Speaker 1 Mind you, said Adam's father, his son may have come by those stacks of bills another way, too, at the gaming table.

Speaker 5 He got started in Texas holding poker, and when he got involved with something like that, he'd want to go till he was the best.

Speaker 1 Didn't hoard his money, though. Investigators also discovered the doctor was generous, shared his good fortune with friends and family, and patients too.

Speaker 1 The Reverend Larry Johnson was the doctor's patient first and then his friend.

Speaker 9 If you came through the door, he was going to treat you regardless.

Speaker 1 Money or no money. But if you needed $1,000, if you can show why you needed it, you got it with him, the stranger.
Could you just say, give me $1,000 and he'd give me a tail? No, he wasn't an idiot.

Speaker 1 It was just that his heart was like big.

Speaker 1 So, the detectives had questions for the doctor. Many questions.
But first, they had to find him.

Speaker 1 The doctor surfaces, but his behavior only raises more questions.

Speaker 11 There were a lot of factors that made you look at Adam and go,

Speaker 1 what happened here?

Speaker 1 Hours after Samara's body was discovered, investigators tracked down Adam Frosch at his beach house in Panama City Beach. Kendall had already told Adam the devastating news about Samara.

Speaker 1 And then the cops arrived.

Speaker 14 Looked like he was packing up the vehicle. He'd already had the kids in the car.

Speaker 1 Heading for home, he told the officers. Instead, he was taken to the local sheriff's office.
Detectives drove from Tallahassee to meet him there and recorded their conversation on audio tape.

Speaker 1 The doctor was a mess.

Speaker 1 But the cops were all business. What, they asked, had Adam Frosch been doing the day before? Erands, mostly, he told them, with Samara and the babies.
They were all together.

Speaker 1 Then a pleasant lunch and an even better evening.

Speaker 2 Actually, we made love in the living room,

Speaker 2 on the chair in the living room.

Speaker 20 When you say made love, you had sex. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 You know, I don't like to get in that personally

Speaker 2 pisser.

Speaker 2 That's one of the better ties we had in a while.

Speaker 1 And then Adam told them Samara asked him for a favor.

Speaker 2 She just said that she was really tired, exhausted, and she said,

Speaker 2 tomorrow I want a break. I just take the babies.
You guys go somewhere.

Speaker 2 I want to sleep in.

Speaker 1 So, come morning, said Adam. He took the girls to the beach house.

Speaker 2 What time was it that she It was approximately 8 or so. And what was Sam? She was in bed.

Speaker 1 The surveillance camera backed up Adam's story. There's his car leaving Golden Eagle.

Speaker 1 But what struck the cops conducting the interview was how the doctor's emotions seemed, how to put it, disconnected from his tear ducts.

Speaker 1 Investigator Jason Newland wasn't in the room that night, but his colleagues were.

Speaker 11 I remember Blieutenant at the Sheriff's Office telling Adam, you've sat here telling me how sorry you are, how bad you feel about your wife, and you've yet to shed a single tear.

Speaker 1 Is that a true tell about whether somebody's really grief-stricken or not? No.

Speaker 11 There was a lot of other factors that made you look at Adam and go,

Speaker 1 what happened here? Other factors?

Speaker 1 Well, there was, as investigators discovered, a whole different story about the Frosches. Very different, very tumultuous.

Speaker 1 In fact, they were in the middle of a divorce, which would be divorce number three for Adam. So, yes, they were skeptical about Adam's story, and they told him so.

Speaker 20 We know the history.

Speaker 2 Right, I understand.

Speaker 2 We know how things

Speaker 2 have

Speaker 2 taken place between the two of you.

Speaker 1 The history. It was complicated, all right.
For one thing, the doctor had a roving eye. Infidelities.

Speaker 1 Like what?

Speaker 1 He had,

Speaker 1 well, we could say multiple um affairs multiple girlfriends well he was with samra yes and said jackie watson samra could not bear her husband's cheating i think it was uh the one million time he cheated on her you know it's so much a human being can take

Speaker 1 so the marriage churned along in turmoil Sometimes an angry wife would take it out on her husband, as investigators discovered when they found this snippet of video on Samra's phone, she's just locked him out of the car.

Speaker 1 What did you find out about that marriage and about those two people at the heart of it?

Speaker 11 It was a marriage that lacked trust.

Speaker 11 It was verbal abuse. There was physical abuse.

Speaker 1 And then, six months before Samara died, a particularly nasty fight, a call to the police, and Samara was arrested for domestic battery.

Speaker 7 Samara was a volatile person. Wood would attack Adam.
We know there was a domestic history between the two.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she was charged a time or two. She was.

Speaker 7 She was charged and arrested for domestic violence.

Speaker 1 And that is how Samara met Annabel Diaz, her attorney.

Speaker 16 When we got her out of jail, then we got served with an injunction.

Speaker 1 Adam's attorney told the judge he'd had enough, and the judge granted the injunction. Annabel Diaz, on the way to becoming Samara's friend now, thought that was awful.

Speaker 16 She cannot go back home. She cannot see her kids.

Speaker 1 This is what the injunction said.

Speaker 1 Didn't stay that way, mind you. After Samara filed for divorce, she managed to regain custody of the two little girls, and she and Adam started living apart.
Was that breakup particularly painful?

Speaker 1 For him? Yeah. Oh, man, he did everything he can to keep coming back.
Best friend Kendall watched as the doctor tried to put the marriage back together again. He still bought her these cars for her.

Speaker 1 He still tried to buy her $1,000 dresses to buy her back.

Speaker 1 And she would take every bit of it and still hold them at bay.

Speaker 1 So was there a motive in all that? A tumultuous marriage ending in violence? A husband's scorn, still deeply in love with his volatile wife? Maybe he finally snapped, struck back.

Speaker 1 That's what the investigators wondered as they sat in the interview room late that night.

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Speaker 2 No, it's not true.

Speaker 1 The doctor insisted he wasn't there, didn't know what happened, but he thought it was most likely an accident.

Speaker 2 I'm worried that she may have tripped on the

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Speaker 2 and fell in.

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Speaker 1 Detectives had talked to Adam Frost for nearly two hours, had listened when he said he wouldn't harm a hair on her head. Not Samara, the love of his life.

Speaker 1 But they weren't buying his accident story, didn't buy any of it. In fact, one detective said it sounded to him like it was a fatal attraction.

Speaker 2 Love her to death, huh?

Speaker 2 That term is not probably a few say that.

Speaker 1 Police had heard enough.

Speaker 20 Interviews concluded at 1:37 a.m.

Speaker 1 They arrested Adam Frosch, but not for his wife's murder. Didn't have enough evidence for that.
So they found another way.

Speaker 1 Because Adam and Samara were in the midst of a divorce and by court order he had no right to take the kids that morning, they had a reason to hold him in jail.

Speaker 7 He was arrested because he violated an agreement having custody of the children.

Speaker 1 And you can keep him in custody for a while that way. Sure.

Speaker 7 He stayed in custody. We continued to work our death investigation.

Speaker 1 Adam, in his jail clothes, was pale and needed a shave when we caught up with him. But he had a clear message.
He would never harm his wife.

Speaker 1 He loved Samara from the night he met her in Paris, almost 10 years before.

Speaker 1 What did you see in her and she and you? Her beauty, for one. Yeah.
Couldn't miss that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and even though she didn't speak very good English, I spoke no French, and we just had a kind of a great romantic

Speaker 1 time together.

Speaker 1 Once they married and started a family, Adam told us, there wasn't a better mother on this earth.

Speaker 1 That Hira.com clothing line.

Speaker 1 Adam figured Samara was probably driven by the deprivations of her own childhood. Her intentions were that they have opportunities that she didn't have.

Speaker 1 And the day Adam got the call from best friend Kendall with the awful news about Samara is still fresh in his mind. What was that like to hear? Oh, it was just terrible.

Speaker 1 I mean, it just destroyed my world. You know, I was just shot and crying and broke down.
My little girl saying, Daddy, why are you crying and stuff?

Speaker 1 But wait, if Adam really was that loving husband, then what about all the other women, the stories of infidelity? Didn't happen, he told us. Not while he was living with Samara.

Speaker 1 Not until they separated and he thought his marriage was over. Probably on to divorce number three.
You know, get out of this and just start on with my life. I started dating and and I didn't realize.

Speaker 1 There weren't relationships all the way through your marriage with Samra? No, I never ever had. Because this is the allegation that's out there.
It's not true.

Speaker 1 In fact, said Adam, he and Samra were trying to reconcile.

Speaker 1 During that last month, he'd been staying over at the house with her and the children. And they agreed to try again.
She was going to call off the divorce, he said.

Speaker 1 She said she was sorry and that she wanted me back. How'd that feel? It felt wonderful that I got her back.
And then she admitted it was very difficult, you know, raising the two girls by herself.

Speaker 1 And their final night ended, he said, with them making love. Nothing else.
Murder wasn't possible, said Adam. And before long, he made bail on the child custody case.
And months passed.

Speaker 1 If prosecutors were ever to charge Adam with Samara's murder, they'd have to get around a problem, a big one.

Speaker 7 A neighbor of Adams came forward with some information.

Speaker 1 What did he tell you?

Speaker 7 On the day that Adam left,

Speaker 7 the morning of,

Speaker 7 he believed he observed a black female standing outside of the Frosch's residence.

Speaker 1 He said she was tall and thin.

Speaker 1 Who did he think it was?

Speaker 7 Never really led on to say this is Samra Frosch.

Speaker 7 He just said that he saw a black female standing outside of the Frosch's residence.

Speaker 5 But he thought it probably was her.

Speaker 7 I think he did.

Speaker 1 Yeah. What time?

Speaker 7 He said that he and his daughter were taking a walk in the neighborhood, and this was in a time period

Speaker 7 about 20 minutes before Gerald Garner had discovered her.

Speaker 1 So wait a minute, that would be like 10.30 or 10.20 or something like that. Correct.

Speaker 1 And he was very sure about the time. Very sure.
No earlier than 10.25 a.m.

Speaker 1 So, was it Samara? The detectives were baffled. Having checked the security gate cameras, they knew Adam had, as he told them, left the house with the two kids around 8 o'clock that morning.

Speaker 1 And if the woman the neighbors saw was Samara, that meant she was still alive when Adam left and for a couple of hours after.

Speaker 1 And if that person was telling the truth or was accurate,

Speaker 1 your guy couldn't have done the crime.

Speaker 11 That's correct.

Speaker 1 And then there was another possibility, that the woman in the driveway wasn't Samara at all. It was someone else entirely.
And if that was true, the woman the neighbor saw might have been the killer.

Speaker 1 So, what did you do about it?

Speaker 11 For me, it was try to figure out who it is he saw. Was he, one, was he in the right driveway?

Speaker 11 Two, could it have been somebody else?

Speaker 11 It was a tough, tough situation.

Speaker 1 Tough, yes.

Speaker 1 The cops had their work cut out for them now. How to track down the woman woman in the driveway?

Speaker 1 Could she be someone the doctor knew? Well, it turns out he had no shortage of companionship. So, tell me about these girlfriends.
What kind of people were they?

Speaker 11 Three of them were strippers.

Speaker 1 The investigation is about to get a lot more interesting.

Speaker 1 Detectives are paid to be skeptical, and in this case, their suspicions lay like a wet blanket on Adam Frosch's explanations.

Speaker 1 One in particular, Adam saying he only dated other women after Samara filed for divorce. Well, nothing could be further from the truth, said the detectives.

Speaker 11 Mr. Frash had multiple female acquaintances,

Speaker 11 several of which looked very similar. Stature.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So would these women be seen as

Speaker 1 suspects?

Speaker 11 I mean, they're persons of interest.

Speaker 11 I

Speaker 11 wouldn't necessarily put them in the suspect category, but if we were throughout this investigation, everybody's potential.

Speaker 1 And they could not ignore the possibility that one of those other women wanted to take Samara's place in Adam's life. That one of them could be the woman the neighbor saw in the driveway.

Speaker 1 So tell me about these girlfriends. What kind of people were they?

Speaker 11 Three of them were strippers.

Speaker 1 So you actually found yourself kind of traveling around the state going to strip clubs and tracking people down? I did. I did.

Speaker 1 Not

Speaker 11 the best time.

Speaker 1 And for each one, a question.

Speaker 11 Had you been to Tallahassee? When was the last time you were at Tallahassee?

Speaker 1 Shakita was one of the women. She fit the description of the woman the neighbors saw in the driveway that morning.

Speaker 21 I never met Samara, but she did leave a horseman note on my phone. She was like, you call the game, it's going to be the game over, okay? It's going to be the game over.

Speaker 21 You know, that triggered me the book fairly.

Speaker 1 Then there was Erica, also a possible match for the mystery woman.

Speaker 22 Let me ask you this question. Do you know anything about Twan's death? No, sir, I swear on my life.

Speaker 22 I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 1 There was also a third woman, not one of the strippers, a woman whose story was a lot more complicated. Her name?

Speaker 5 Martha Moore.

Speaker 11 Somewhere between the engagement and the marriage,

Speaker 11 Adam had a relationship with an individual named Martha Moore, and they had a child as well.

Speaker 1 Awkward.

Speaker 1 Slightly.

Speaker 1 When Adam found out she was pregnant, he did the decent thing.

Speaker 1 Put up in a place, got her a car,

Speaker 1 always gave her money.

Speaker 1 Samara found out about Martha when she moved to Florida just before she married Adam, but she went ahead with the wedding anyway.

Speaker 1 Except, these things do have a way of worming themselves into a marriage. The issue didn't die.

Speaker 5 She made him take a DNA to find out if it was his child or not. And when he did, and it was, then she really got upset.

Speaker 1 Investigators naturally wanted to talk to Martha, especially after they found out Samara confronted her on the phone a number of times after she found out about the baby. So, what happened then?

Speaker 18 You guys had a few run-ins down the road, didn't you?

Speaker 1 I left him alone.

Speaker 23 I really didn't have any run-ins with her. Only thing I do is meet Adam once a month, pick my money up, and become.

Speaker 1 And so she did. Police let her go after the interview.
Like the other women, she had an alibi, which detectives would have to check out, of course.

Speaker 1 but in the meantime they had another way to get at the truth one a bit more foolproof we had an unknown dna on a robe that came off of the victim in the pool samara's leopard print robe

Speaker 1 if one of those women had thrown samara into the pool she may have left a little of herself behind newland got dna samples from the women we tried to Eliminate all of them.

Speaker 1 No matches. Not to the women, and not to the handyman or his son and not to Adam's friend Kendall.
All of them were cleared. Investigators couldn't figure out who the woman in the driveway was.

Speaker 1 Now they were back to square one.

Speaker 1 And they figured Adam Frosch was standing squarely in it, had put himself there when he claimed Samara let him take the children to the beach house.

Speaker 12 I know she would never give the kids. This is for sure.

Speaker 1 And certainly not the way they were dressed. Wasn't Samara's style.

Speaker 7 The date that Adam took the children to go to Panama City to give Samara a break. They were in pajamas.

Speaker 1 Which simply wouldn't happen if she had anything to do with it. I see.

Speaker 1 Open to interpretation, of course. Like phone messages left by Adam on Samara's phone after his friend Kendall told him she was dead.
What were they to make of this?

Speaker 2 Samara, please turn on your phone and call me as soon as you get this message.

Speaker 2 Start to worry about somebody.

Speaker 2 Please call me back.

Speaker 11 He had called her throughout the day, leaving voicemails. I'm getting worried about you.
Why aren't you answering your phone?

Speaker 1 Wouldn't that suggest more innocence than guilt?

Speaker 11 I believe it's just another attempt at an alibi for Adam Fresh.

Speaker 1 And you know the story Adam told of that last happy day with Samara?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 security camera tapes from late that night told a very different story. First, in an auto repair shop, Adam trying to talk to her.

Speaker 1 Samara driving backs up the car with the door open and him in it, like she doesn't seem to want any part of it. Same kind of thing when they got home.
Adam tries to talk to her through the car door.

Speaker 1 She slams it on him.

Speaker 1 And if a lot of this wasn't hard evidence against Adam, it did make for a pretty strong circumstantial case. Or so Prosecutor Georgia Kappelman believed.

Speaker 1 So she convened a grand jury and put the case to them. And this was unusual.
Adam testified.

Speaker 10 It didn't surprise me. He's a talker.
He's, you know, smooth. He thinks he can talk his way out of things.

Speaker 25 Not this time, apparently.

Speaker 1 Adam was indicted for first-degree murder. And so a jury would decide if, as one detective said, Adam Frosch loved his wife to death.

Speaker 1 Damning testimony from an ear witness.

Speaker 10 During the time that Mr. Frosch was on speakerphone, did he make any threats to harm Mrs.
Frosch?

Speaker 1 He did. He said I would kill you.

Speaker 1 Adam Frosch was in a world of trouble, charged with killing his wife and facing the possibility of a life sentence.

Speaker 1 And if that wasn't enough, federal agents raided his medical office on suspicion of Medicare fraud, which might explain why the podiatrist seemed so filthy rich.

Speaker 1 Prosecutor Georgia Kappelman became aware of the raid after she took on Frosch's murder case.

Speaker 10 He would have had to have been seeing two patients simultaneously 24-7 to account for the amount of billing that he was doing. So

Speaker 10 that was pretty flagrant.

Speaker 1 Busy guy.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 1 The feds investigated but did not press charges.

Speaker 1 And then as Frosch's trial date for murder approached, prosecutors offered him a deal, plead guilty to manslaughter and serve a maximum of 15 years in prison.

Speaker 1 Adams said, no, he was innocent and wanted his day in court. Adam, how are you feeling going today?

Speaker 1 Fine. And so, almost three years after Samara was found at the bottom of the family pool, her husband went on trial for murder.
His father, Alvin, was there.

Speaker 5 It's a bad situation for the whole family and for him, too, because it destroyed his life.

Speaker 1 Samara's family was thousands of miles away in Madagascar in France. But she did have an advocate in court, a tough and experienced prosecutor.

Speaker 10 The cause of death, as ruled by the medical examiner, was Blunt Forrest trauma and drowning. He basically killed her twice.

Speaker 10 He hit her and caused such massive injuries that she probably would have died from that, very likely,

Speaker 10 but then threw her in the pool while she was still alive. Who would do such a thing to this beautiful young mother of two small girls?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 it had to be Adam, said the prosecutor.

Speaker 10 Their history was probably the biggest clue that it was a homicide.

Speaker 1 Yes, that history of excess, infidelity, and conflict, which she said led to a fatal confrontation at the swimming pool. The ugly scene was described by the handyman who discovered her body.

Speaker 1 There she was, laying in the pool.

Speaker 10 And when you say there she was, who was?

Speaker 1 Ms. Frauss laying in the pool.

Speaker 1 And how could the jury be sure she didn't trip and fall by accident? Here was the medical examiner.

Speaker 10 Do you have an opinion as to whether she could have tripped and bumped her head and fallen into the pool?

Speaker 26 I don't think that's what happened. These are significant impacts that I don't think she would generate

Speaker 26 herself by just falling.

Speaker 10 Can you imagine a scenario where she would have hit both sides of her head and then managed to get into the pool?

Speaker 10 I can't know.

Speaker 1 Detective Tony Giraldi testified and told us that when he first met Dr. Froge.

Speaker 7 He had some scratches, some significant marks that not a normal person would have.

Speaker 1 Well, how'd he he get them? Did he tell you?

Speaker 7 So he told investigators some of the marks were from him and his wife Samra having sexual intercourse the night before. So they were love marks.
My goodness.

Speaker 7 The specific one under his eye, he shared with us that his 10-month-old child had scratched him.

Speaker 1 You're about to hear recorded conversation. The prosecutor made sure the jury would hear the detective's skepticism about those scratches by playing recordings of the interrogation.

Speaker 2 The baby was playing around, and she always kind of grabs at my eye and face and stuff. So you try to make me believe a 10-month-old has nails enough to make that type of scratch on your face.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The prosecutor argued that Adam killed Samara before leaving for the beach at 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 on the stand.

Speaker 1 The ME testified that the time of death was unknowable.

Speaker 26 There's no way of saying the exact time of death, or I should say, when she's placed in the pool. There's just no way to say.

Speaker 1 To Prosecutor Kappelmann, not knowing when Samara died simply meant Dr. Frosch could not be ruled out.
He must have killed her before leaving the house at 8.

Speaker 1 And the way he drove off with the girls that morning, very suspicious.

Speaker 10 Really unusual that he would depart with those kids at 8 a.m. after getting in at midnight the night before and to load up and pack up and take the kids for the first time.

Speaker 10 ever off on a trip somewhere. And his wife happens to be discovered dead a few hours later.

Speaker 1 And after, said the the prosecutor, the doctor sped away with the kids toward a woman named Martha Moore, the other woman with whom he'd had a baby.

Speaker 1 Martha was called to testify about a phone call she got from Frost that morning. What did he say on that call?

Speaker 23 He said he was on his way to my house.

Speaker 1 Why did you put Martha Moore on the stand?

Speaker 10 To establish that the defendant called her first, and he was headed in the direction of her home. I believe to drop the kids off there.
It was probably his intention, and then to flee.

Speaker 1 That was really only speculation, of course, and Martha wasn't home that morning anyway.

Speaker 1 But on the stand, she acknowledged it seemed unusual the girls would be alone with Adam.

Speaker 23 You know, they were

Speaker 23 going through the battle of divorce and in the court orders, he shouldn't have had the kids.

Speaker 1 To prosecutor Kappelmann, it was a bad set of facts for Adam Frosch.

Speaker 1 A scorned husband with ample time to commit murder before hastily fleeing the scene with kids who were not supposed to be in his care.

Speaker 20 Mr. Frost, today, reads you your Miranda rights.

Speaker 2 Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 Kappelman played more than an hour of Frost speaking to investigators, homing in on his demeanor in the hours after Samara's death. You just sat up here and broke down

Speaker 1 and you're on the way of crying.

Speaker 1 I don't know how many times, and not one tear has dropped out of your eye yet. I've already teared out for six hours here, sir.
Frosch spoke with several law enforcement officers in those early hours.

Speaker 1 Lieutenant Chad King was one of them.

Speaker 7 He had, you know, kind of put his hands over his face.

Speaker 1 We were able to observe if there were any actual tears.

Speaker 27 None that we saw no.

Speaker 1 And then the prosecutor called a man who could comment directly on Adam Frosch's state of mind. A man named Stephen Wilson, who said he helped Samara set up a website celebrating her daughter.

Speaker 1 He recounted something he said he heard with his own ears less than two weeks before Samara was killed.

Speaker 10 Did you have an opportunity to overhear an argument between Mr. and Mrs.
Frosch?

Speaker 1 Yes, on the phone.

Speaker 10 And during the time that Mr. Frosch was on speakerphone, did he make any threats to harm Mrs.
Frosch?

Speaker 1 He did.

Speaker 10 And what did he say?

Speaker 1 He said, I will kill you.

Speaker 1 I will kill you. The words of a man who looked guilty at every turn, said the prosecutor.

Speaker 1 Of course the evidence was circumstantial, disputed. But there was one more player waiting in the wings.
And what a story he would tell.

Speaker 1 That tale would lead investigators back to the Frosch house and a dramatic discovery. Bingo.
Yeah, bingo.

Speaker 11 I literally looked at it for a minute. I was like, seriously?

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Speaker 1 There's a long tradition in American jurisprudence condemned as often as it's used. The jailhouse snitch.

Speaker 1 The witness prosecutors hate to love.

Speaker 1 But this one had a story just too good to pass up. His name was Fulsom.

Speaker 1 Yes, like the prison. And he told his keepers he had something to say about Adam Frosch.
Did they, in fact, spend some time in a jail cell together?

Speaker 11 They spent several months in a cell together. They did, in top bunk, bottom bunk.

Speaker 1 Prosecution investigator Jason Newland talked to Folsom in the county lockup.

Speaker 14 We got along with each other. We're both the same age,

Speaker 14 and we just hit it off real good.

Speaker 11 I believe the information he provided me was credible.

Speaker 1 And here was the story Folsom said he got from Dr. Frosch.
On the day she died, Zamara discovered her husband had been texting another woman.

Speaker 1 And she, hurt and angry, lost her temper, started a fight, and ended up at the bottom of the pool.

Speaker 1 Now, on day three of Adam Frosh's trial, Dale Folsom raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth,

Speaker 1 and told that story to the jury.

Speaker 27 She started a fight that night and kicked him in the back when he was.

Speaker 1 Folsom's testimony about the fight between Adam and Samara was vivid and rich with detail.

Speaker 27 He defended himself pretty much, he thought, and they were fighting, and he hit her in the head with a with a club.

Speaker 10 What happened? He hit her in the head?

Speaker 1 With a club, golf club.

Speaker 27 He said he didn't mean to kill her. It just happened and he got scared and ran.
So threw her in the pool and then ran.

Speaker 1 In a largely circumstantial case, here was an account of exactly what happened

Speaker 1 allegedly from the killer himself. What defendant with any sense is going to tell somebody what happened when he hasn't gone on trial yet? They do it all the time.

Speaker 10 If they had any sense, they wouldn't be defendants.

Speaker 1 Well, I suppose there's that.

Speaker 10 Got nothing to do all day but stare at those four walls.

Speaker 1 I mean, you got to talk to somebody, right?

Speaker 10 You know, if it's a piece of evidence, I'm going to put it on, and it's going to be up to the jury to decide whether he's credible or not.

Speaker 1 It was up to investigator Newland to vet Dale Folsom's story, find evidence it was actually true. And he came up with something.
Came up with something almost too good to be true.

Speaker 1 Newland testified that when Folsom was about to be released from jail, Dr. Frosch asked him to take care of something, something in his house.

Speaker 11 I'll never forget Dale telling me, he said, Adam told him to get rid of the golf clubs anyway, anyhow, throw them in a lake, throw them in a river, do not give them to anyone, just make them go away.

Speaker 1 Make them go away?

Speaker 1 Folsom said there was no mistaking what Frosch meant, that he wanted him to get rid of those golf clubs, which would include, of course, the one Frosch said he used to hit Samara, the murder weapon.

Speaker 10 Did he tell you a specific golf club that needed to be gotten?

Speaker 1 Yes ma'am.

Speaker 27 A big club like a driver, a big foul one.

Speaker 1 And now in court,

Speaker 1 a real-life Perry Mason moment.

Speaker 10 This is State's Exhibit 121.

Speaker 1 Investigator Newland took a big fat golf club out of an evidence box. Yes, I do.
So the jury could have a good look.

Speaker 1 This is the golf club. The one with the purple club head.
Yes, ma'am. How did Newland get that club?

Speaker 1 Well, Folsom never did make it to the house, so Newland got a search warrant and went for a little look around.

Speaker 11 I went into the master bedroom and

Speaker 11 there's this golf club just sitting in the corner. And

Speaker 11 part of me laughed inside.

Speaker 1 Bingo. Yeah, bingo.
It must have looked like a beautiful big fat piece of evidence that would help make the case into a slam dog.

Speaker 11 I literally looked at it for a minute. I was like, like, seriously? When I actually went up to the golf club and photographed it and collected it, there were cobwebs on it.

Speaker 11 It had been there for a little while. I mean, it wasn't overnight.

Speaker 1 This was one for the books. A jailhouse snitch supported by actual evidence.

Speaker 1 And Kappelman had one more surprise.

Speaker 1 She called crime lab analyst and DNA expert Jo Ellen Brown.

Speaker 29 I received or was able to develop a complete DNA profile from the club portion that hits the the ball, and that DNA profile matches Samira Frosch.

Speaker 29 And the frequency of occurrence was one in 510 quintillion.

Speaker 1 And there it was, the story of Sambra Frosch's murder wrapped up for the jury in a tidy package thanks to Dale Folsom.

Speaker 1 But did the doctor really confess? This was, after all, still a story coming from a jailhouse niche. This is the golf club that was the best.
And the golf club with Samra's DNA on it,

Speaker 1 maybe not quite so obvious after all.

Speaker 1 Defense attorneys were about to take on Dale Folsom and his story, and they couldn't wait.

Speaker 1 The prosecutor's timeline on trial.

Speaker 14 The absence of wrinkling of the fingers or toes speaks to the likelihood that she has been immersed for a relatively short period of time.

Speaker 1 Testimony that Samara may have died later than the prosecutor contends.

Speaker 14 The greatest probability is that she died after 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 In other words, after Dr. Frosch had left the house.

Speaker 1 And now it was the defense's turn.

Speaker 1 From the prosecution theory of how Samara died to the story of her husband's alleged confession to a jailhouse snitch and the golf club found in their bedroom.

Speaker 1 Adam Frost was ready to fight back. By his side, attorneys Clyde Taylor Jr.

Speaker 1 and his son, Clyde III, a high-powered defense team reportedly paid by Frost in part from a life insurance payout he received after Samra died. How did he pay for his defense in this trial?

Speaker 1 It's not relevant. Ah, is it? Because

Speaker 1 insurance paid out, right? Which was very unusual in a case like this. I mean, he had money.

Speaker 11 I mean, you could see the pictures of his lifestyle. He had money.
He had assets.

Speaker 1 The Taylors started the defense with this moment captured on video.

Speaker 1 February 22nd, 2014, 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 Adam Frosch and his daughters leaving their gated community. If Samra was killed after this, Adam didn't do it.

Speaker 1 There's a huge... problem with their timeline.
That's reasonable doubt. Sergeant Bridge.
The timeline presented by the prosecution was in fact quite vague. The M.E.

Speaker 1 who did the autopsy testified it was impossible to say really how long Samara had been in the pool before she was found.

Speaker 1 That was a worry for prosecutor Georgia Kappelmann.

Speaker 10 Usually we get a window of maybe two to five hours for a time of death, so it's not a precise science. But we weren't even able to do that in this case.

Speaker 1 The defense aggressively leaped into the void, arguing that evidence could establish a time of death.

Speaker 14 I've personally performed about 3,000 forensic autopsies.

Speaker 1 They brought in their own forensic pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Arden.

Speaker 1 Dr. Arden focused on three things to show when Samara died.
First,

Speaker 1 rigor mortis had not set in. Next, there was none of the telltale skin discoloration that occurs soon after death when blood settles due to gravity.

Speaker 14 And what was the last factor? It was the wrinkling of the fingers and toes.

Speaker 1 Finally, Samara's Samara's fingertips and toes were not wrinkled when she was found, not even a little.

Speaker 14 The absence of any such wrinkling of the fingers or toes speaks to the likelihood that she has been immersed for a relatively short period of time.

Speaker 1 Even if you take a shower or a bath or jump in a pool, sometimes within 20 or 30 minutes, you got wrinkling of the fingers and the toes. Even if you're dead?

Speaker 1 Period. No rigor mortis, no settling of blood, no wrinkled skin.
It all pointed to the same thing.

Speaker 14 In my opinion, she was dead for a relatively short time before she was discovered and removed from the water.

Speaker 1 Would you say Mrs.

Speaker 7 Frosch died before or after 8 a.m.?

Speaker 14 I would say that

Speaker 14 the greatest probability is that she died after 8 a.m.

Speaker 11 Do we know exactly what happened?

Speaker 1 Who knows?

Speaker 11 The state really wasn't even very specific with their theory.

Speaker 1 For the defense?

Speaker 1 This was a case when, not what. It was after he left, therefore, everything else is irrelevant.

Speaker 1 But there was more.

Speaker 1 After listening to the science, the jury heard from an eyewitness. Decided to go for a walk around our neighborhood.

Speaker 1 Pat Christensen is the neighbor who said he just happened to be walking past the Frost house that very morning. He was a mild-mannered, measured witness, but his testimony was explosive.

Speaker 1 What did you observe?

Speaker 11 I saw a woman, African-American, tall,

Speaker 1 dark hair,

Speaker 1 thin.

Speaker 1 Is there any doubt in your mind you saw a slender, tall, black woman loading something into a vehicle in that driveway?

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 1 Between 1025 and 10.45 on the 22nd of February 2014?

Speaker 11 There is not.

Speaker 1 He was very specific on his time. He and his daughter were walking by the house.
When they showed him a photo, Samara, Christensen couldn't say for sure that was the woman he'd seen.

Speaker 1 But if it was Samara in her driveway around 10.30 that morning, it would give Adam an airtight alibi.

Speaker 1 He couldn't specifically identify that person as Miss Frosch, but everything else about that description fits.

Speaker 1 This was a big deal.

Speaker 1 And the prosecutors knew it.

Speaker 1 This was a credible person, right?

Speaker 10 Yes, I think he was wrong.

Speaker 1 I don't think he was lying. Of course, you think he's wrong, but he thought he was right.
He was pretty certain of it.

Speaker 11 Yes, he was.

Speaker 1 The neighbor had credibility. Not a quality said the defense possessed by Adam Frosch's cellmate, Dale Folsom, the jailhouse snitch.

Speaker 1 If a snitch is the witness the prosecutor hates to love, he's also a witness the defense loves to hate.

Speaker 1 We love snitches, don't we? Tell me what you know about this particular one. Well, he's a career criminal, started with his first convictions back in about 1990.

Speaker 1 In court, Attorney Taylor the father went right after Folsom. He did not spare the rod.

Speaker 1 It's my understanding you've got, was it four

Speaker 1 or 40 prior felony convictions? 40, 4-0.

Speaker 1 40? Yes, sir. Do you have any pending charges? I have one.
What is that pending charge?

Speaker 27 Possession of methamphetamine.

Speaker 1 I've done almost every drug there is, sir.

Speaker 27 I've been a drug addict since I was nine years old.

Speaker 1 So I've done them all, just about. Give me a break.

Speaker 1 This guy was outrageous. What was more, Folsom had an arrangement with prosecutors.
He was released from jail on probation in exchange for his testimony about Frosch.

Speaker 1 And Taylor made sure the jury knew all about that.

Speaker 1 You can do anything to stay out and keep yourself out of jail. Isn't that true? Most people would.

Speaker 1 Mean anything to you to raise your right hand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God? Of course it does.

Speaker 27 I have a degree in theology.

Speaker 1 I went to Bible college. Okay, that's what you do.
You're a truthful guy, right?

Speaker 27 Most of the time, I try to be.

Speaker 1 When you're writing bad chicks, stealing from people, and doing drugs.

Speaker 1 That's all I've got, Judge.

Speaker 1 The defense may have destroyed the messenger, but they still had to deal with his message. Fulsome story about that golf club with Samara's DNA on it.

Speaker 1 Completely meaningless, said Taylor. That golf club belonged to Samara.
Of course her DNA would be on it. And they say, well, she's got DNA on it.

Speaker 1 Anybody that plays golf knows if you don't have head covers, you pull your club out of the bag with your hands and you grab

Speaker 1 blood and hair and things like that on that.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no. Just touch DNA.
Correct. Correct.

Speaker 1 How convenient was that? So convenient, according to the defense, that it was downright suspicious. Lo and behold, here comes Folsom.

Speaker 1 He's got his story, and the law enforcement guys go out there, and what do they find? They find this magic golf club. But you truly

Speaker 1 planted evidence, no question in my mind.

Speaker 1 Investigators emphatically denied any wrongdoing over the golf club. But in the end, all that hoo-ha about the club was quite possibly a total red herring.
Because

Speaker 1 the state's own medical examiner testified that Samara's injuries were not caused by any golf club.

Speaker 10 Do you think that that purple golf club could have been responsible for the injuries that Mrs. Frash received?

Speaker 26 I don't think so. The pattern that she had was more diffuse.

Speaker 10 And in your opinion, are the injuries more consistent with a fist than a golf club being the instrument used to inflict them?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 So that was that. The state's case had taken some very big hits.
So it was no time for grand gestures like defendant testimony.

Speaker 19 You did not desire to testify, is that correct?

Speaker 1 Yes, sir. Dr.
Crosch remained mum,

Speaker 1 and it was with an air of confidence that the defense rested.

Speaker 7 Judge, at this time, the defense would announce rest.

Speaker 1 Unaware that in a case full of surprises, there was one more to come.

Speaker 1 The first surprise?

Speaker 1 The speed of the verdict.

Speaker 11 When they came back quick, I thought it was going to be good news.

Speaker 1 The second surprise. A new revelation that could turn the case upside down.
That was absolutely stunning. And we were, what are they talking about?

Speaker 1 The trial of Adam Frosch was a closely contested affair, the verdict very much in the balance. The lawyers had one more chance to make their case in closing arguments.

Speaker 1 Clyde Taylor III would take a seat and let his father speak to the jury.

Speaker 11 He's one of those guys that thinks closing argument is where you win or lose a case.

Speaker 1 We don't convict people

Speaker 11 because a crime was horrible.

Speaker 7 We don't convict people because they have a lot of money.

Speaker 11 We don't convict people on speculation.

Speaker 1 Taylor returned to the medical evidence and his argument that Samara died after her husband left home. What proof do we have that she was in the pool before 8 a.m.?

Speaker 1 No competent evidence of that. None.

Speaker 1 Scientific evidence says no. The defendant has not been proven guilty in this case.

Speaker 10 It did check out.

Speaker 1 Prosecutor Georgia Kappelman had the last word.

Speaker 10 All of the evidence points not to a mystery killer, but to this defendant. This was a personal crime and who had the motive to kill this woman? Only one person.

Speaker 1 Kappelman spoke to the evidence but passions were not far from the surface.

Speaker 10 And as she lay there on the concrete fighting for her life, the man that she trusted to make her dreams come true, put her body in that pool. Please render a verdict of guilty as charged.

Speaker 1 And then there was nothing left to do but wait.

Speaker 10 It's always troublesome when a jury goes out. It's a sick feeling until you get your answer.

Speaker 1 How worried was she?

Speaker 11 Pretty worried. I mean, the neighbor in the time of death bothered her.

Speaker 1 Both sides settled in for a long wait, but just 90 minutes into deliberations, word of a verdict.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I thought they would be out for a while.

Speaker 11 And when they came back quick, I thought it was going to be good news.

Speaker 1 I thought just the opposite. Well, I thought they'd be out for a while.
But when they came back that quick, I figured it was bad news. As they all waited for the words, faces were taut, anxious.

Speaker 19 State of Florida versus Adam Frost, with the jury, find as follows as the indictment, the defendant is guilty of first-degree murder.

Speaker 1 Guilty.

Speaker 1 Frost stared blankly, then dropped his head under the weight of the verdict. How did Dr.
Frosch take it?

Speaker 1 Hard. He was believing in the jury system.
On the prosecution side, gratitude.

Speaker 10 I was really happy with the verdict. It was the culmination of a lot of hard work.

Speaker 1 But BC.

Speaker 1 But was that the final word? After the verdict, a surprise. Before the judge delivered the mandatory sentence, life in prison, no parole.

Speaker 1 For us, the Samara family, Kappelman read a letter from Samara's mother written in Madagascar.

Speaker 1 This was not a typical victim impact statement. It included something that sounded a lot like evidence.

Speaker 10 According to Samra, she had noticed the presence of someone prowling in their home nights before his death.

Speaker 1 A prowler?

Speaker 1 The jury never heard about any prowler. And said Defense Attorney Taylor, neither did he.
That was absolutely stunning. And we we were,

Speaker 1 did she just read, was there something? What are they talking about? Because the defense never had been advised that there may have been a prowler in the home within a day or two of the death.

Speaker 1 It has to be disclosed under the law, and now

Speaker 1 it's one of the issues. It's up on appeal.

Speaker 10 I think that's the best we could do on the translation.

Speaker 1 Prosecutor Kappelman countered that she didn't withhold anything. The letter was written in French and set out for translation.

Speaker 1 She only learned what was was in it when she read the letter aloud in court. As for Adam Frosch, he now resides at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton, Florida.

Speaker 1 When you understood that you were going away for life, what is that like?

Speaker 1 I prayed to God, you know, you say you won't give me anything more than I can handle, but this is almost more than I can handle.

Speaker 1 So let me just ask you directly. Did you kill your wife? No.

Speaker 1 I never harmed my wife. Never even, you know, I loved her more than anything in this world.
You loved a lot of women in your life? Not really. She was my first true love.
Love of your life?

Speaker 1 Love of my life.

Speaker 1 Frosh is unwavering about that.

Speaker 1 A convicted murderer who's still saying he is innocent and misunderstood.

Speaker 1 I'm not saying I'm perfect, but you know, I'm trying to live a good life and help people and

Speaker 1 enjoy life.

Speaker 1 Those two little girls, who Samara pampered and promoted and loved, are well. They live with Adam Frosch's brother in a state far away.
An existence untroubled by conflict and no longer over the top.

Speaker 16 Her children are her legacy.

Speaker 12 And I hope one day to have the opportunity to tell them that

Speaker 1 they had a great mother.

Speaker 2 See that, mommy?

Speaker 16 Look at that.

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