Katharina Buczek
However, Sgt. Bean claimed that authorities did interview one person of interest in Frankie’s disappearance. He was unable to discuss any further details since the case is considered an active homicide investigation.
Frankie’s son, Roger, who is now an adult, also thinks foul play was involved as he doesn’t believe his mother would have just abandoned him.
“I was told my whole life she wouldn’t just leave me. I was her baby; I was her world. It’s just something I know in my gut. I know she didn’t just leave,” Roger said.
Following Frankie’s disappearance, Roger was adopted by Frankie’s aunt and uncle – who had previously adopted her after her mother died in a car accident.
According to Roger’s adoptive brother, Ronald Sealey, it was out of character for his cousin, Frankie, to just up and vanish.
“She was here one day, gone the next. I kept thinking she would come home, and she never did,” he recalled.
“I think something happened to her. She would have contacted [mom] if she had run away – at least on holidays. We had a very Christian family.”
Nonetheless, Frankie’s family still hasn’t heard or seen from her in decades, and Roger has continued to search for answers and wonder how he might’ve turned out different had his mother been in his life.
“I wonder every day what I would have been like if she was around. Would I be a better person?” Roger asked.
At the time of her disappearance, Frankie was five foot two, weighed 125 pounds, and had blue eyes and brown hair. She would be 59-years-old today.
If you have any information regarding her disappearance or whereabouts, you are urged to contact the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office at (910) 323-1500.
