{"id":6156,"date":"2010-10-20T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/frankel-murder-case-at-a-standstill-five-months-after-his-death\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T03:40:39","slug":"frankel-murder-case-at-a-standstill-five-months-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/frankel-murder-case-at-a-standstill-five-months-after-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankel murder case at a standstill five months after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five months after Seth Frankel\u2019s death<\/a>, the Auburn Police investigation to solve his murder remains at a standstill.<\/p>\n

Frankel, 41, who worked for the city of Kent, was found dead May 22 lying on the floor of his Auburn home. He died May 21 from stab wounds to the arms and neck, according to the King County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no update; there is no movement at all,\u201d said Auburn Police Sgt. David Colglazier during an Oct. 19 phone interview.<\/p>\n

Despite the lack of new leads over the last five months, Colglazier said detectives remain active on the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still a priority,\u201d Colglazier said. \u201cIt\u2019s an active investigation. Because of the seriousness of the situation, we will not back off on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detectives tracked down a Portland, Ore., man in late June<\/a> as a person of interest in connection with the killing. That man remains a person of interest, but progress has stalled to connect him to incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same status,\u201d Colglazier said. \u201cThere still is not enough evidence for (King County) prosecutors to feel comfortable with moving forward on that person (to make an arrest).\u201d<\/p>\n

Cell-phone records show the Portland man in the area of Frankel\u2019s home on the day he was killed, Colglazier said. Detectives removed several items during a June search of the Oregon man\u2019s home to send to the Washington State Patrol crime lab.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome has trickled in,\u201d Colglazier said about forensic results from the crime lab. \u201cBut there are no developments from anything that\u2019s come back. There is just no real change right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further evidence about the case remains tied up at the state crime lab, which processes numerous cases from many agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is evidence at the lab and still items we are waiting on,\u201d Colglazier said. \u201cWe\u2019re just waiting for results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colglazier said it\u2019s difficult to put any exact timeline on how long it takes for crime lab results to come back to detectives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just a pace you go through to wait for results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Detectives continue to look for a break in the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe detectives have angles they are working,\u201d Colglazier said. \u201cThey follow new leads as they arrive. But we are waiting for lab results to confirm any other leads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auburn Police have not released any information about whether Frankel knew his killer or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t speculate on anything,\u201d Colglazier said when asked if detectives are looking for someone who knew Frankel.<\/p>\n

Frankel was a video program coordinator for the city. He joined the city of Kent in 2007 after 11 years as a director of production at a PBS station in Eureka, Calif. He was the employee behind many of the city meetings and events shown on Kent TV21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five months after Seth Frankel\u2019s death, the Auburn Police investigation to solve his murder remains at a standstill.
\nFrankel, 41, who worked for the city of Kent, was found dead May 22 lying on the floor of his Auburn home. He died May 21 from stab wounds to the arms and neck, according to the King County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.
\n\u201cThere is no update; there is no movement at all,\u201d said Auburn Police Sgt. David Colglazier during an Oct. 19 phone interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}