Disappearance of Jamie Fraley

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In the early hours of April 8, 2008, Jamie Fraley, a 22‑year‑old woman from Gastonia, North Carolina, told a friend by phone that she was going to the hospital for the third time in 24 hours due to a stomach flu. When asked who was taking her, she said it was another friend but declined to identify the person. She has not been seen since. Her cellphone was found a few days later, but it provided no useful information about her whereabouts. Investigators initially suspected foul play and focused on Ricky Simonds Sr., her fiancé's father, as a person of interest. He lived in the same apartment complex, had driven Fraley to the hospital earlier that day, and had a criminal record that included a manslaughter conviction for strangling a girlfriend in the 1980s. The inquiry into him ended two months later when Simonds was found dead, apparently from heat stroke, in the trunk of a former girlfriend's car. In 2015, a prison inmate confessed to killing Fraley, but he was incarcerated at the time...

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