Body found in burned car Monday

Thursday, August 29, 2002

Richard Matthew Franks, 25, of Tyronza, was found with a gunshot wound to the head at approximately 2 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26, when the Earle Fire Department responded to a call reporting a car on fire behind a residence on South Ford Road, north of Earle. Upon extinguishing the fire, officials found Franks sitting in the front seat of the car, a white '92 Ford taxicab. Investigators reported that the incident was apparently a suicide. The body was sent to Little Rock for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

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