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What ever happined to frances schroder at mothers request

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medge...@webtv.net

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Aug 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/25/98
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What ever happined to the wealthy women who got her son to kill her
father . has she been realeased or is she still in prison .


Charles Morgan

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Aug 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/25/98
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She was let out of prison about two years ago into a half way house, and has
since been released. She seems much humbled by her time in prison, and I
heard she is working with women inmates. At the time she was released, she
actually bought a computer from our store.

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Kris Baker

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Aug 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/25/98
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>What ever happined to the wealthy women who got her son to kill
>her father . has she been realeased or is she still in prison .

Francis Bradshaw Schroeder was released from the Utah State
Prison approximately two years ago. She then was assigned to
a halfway house in Ogden, Utah. She'd served her term, and
was described as a model prisoner during her entire incarceration.

She was allowed to leave the halfway house without publicity - so
her current whereabouts are unknown. It's rumored that she's
living in the large home that her mother purchased, after Franklin
Bradshaw's murder. The mother (per rumor) left much of her
money to Francis.

Kris

MariPS

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Aug 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/27/98
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What about her children? I've always wondered whatever happened to them? "At
Mother's Request" was one of my favorite true crime books ever. Never did read
"Nutcracker" about the same case, though.

Marion

Kris wrote: "Francis Bradshaw Schroeder was released from the Utah State

sgher...@gmail.com

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Apr 23, 2020, 6:04:57 PM4/23/20
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Where is she now

Greg Carr

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Apr 24, 2020, 1:27:59 AM4/24/20
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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 3:04:57 PM UTC-7, sgher...@gmail.com wrote:
> Where is she now

She died in 2004.

Frances Schreuder, 65, Manhattan Socialite Who Was Convicted in Murder Case, Is Dead
By Douglas Martin
April 1, 2004

Frances B. Schreuder, a Manhattan socialite convicted in 1983 of persuading her teenage son to kill her wealthy father in Utah because of what she considered his stinginess, died on Tuesday at a hospice in San Diego. She was 65.

The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Marilyn Reagan, her sister, said. Ms. Schreuder (pronounced SHROY-der) lived in San Diego.

The murder of Franklin Bradshaw in Salt Lake City on July 23, 1978, provoked intense news coverage and led to two books, two television miniseries and, as recently as this year, a documentary on Court TV.

''True crime is the hottest game in town,'' J. Anthony Lukas wrote in The New York Times Book Review about the two books, both published in 1985. One was ''My Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal'' (Atheneum) by Jonathan Coleman; the other was ''Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album'' (Doubleday) by Shana Alexander.

''This is 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty' come to life,'' Bill Wells, the director one of the miniseries, for CBS, said in an interview with The Times in 1986.

The crime indeed involved fascinating characters and plot twists. There was Ms. Schreuder, who bought $40,000 earrings at Tiffany's and sat on the board of the New York City Ballet. Mr. Bradshaw was one of the country's richest men and was known as Utah's Howard Hughes, but he bought his clothes at thrift shops and used a Coors beer carton as a briefcase.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/us/frances-schreuder-65-manhattan-socialite-who-was-convicted-murder-case-dead.html
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