Family secret: Missouri woman thought to have died in the 1940s actually lived until 2002

Photo: Fern Franco. Reporter: Kris Ketz  KMBC 9 News Anchor. KMBC 9 News – June 30, 2022.

Wrongful death lawsuits revealed she was one of nine patients at a Chillicothe, Missouri, hospital given a deadly dose of a drug that caused suffocation.

SAINT JOSEPH, Mo. — It’s been a family secret for decades, but now the secret is out. Seventy-five-year-old Fern Franco was one of nine people who died 20 years ago at a Chillicothe, Missouri, hospital. Former respiratory therapist Jennifer Hall was charged last month with Franco’s murder. She’s pleaded […]

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