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Frank Frye

Case from Appleton, WI dated Dec 21, 1969

Victim Details

Frank Frye

Male

White / Caucasian

Appleton

WI

1969-12-21

63

Frank

Frye

09/24/2026

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Frank Jerald Frye, a 63-year-old White/Caucasian man, was a longtime Appleton resident and retired law-enforcement officer whose murder in the early morning hours of December 21, 1969, became one of the Fox Cities' oldest unresolved homicide cases. Frye had joined the Appleton Police Department in June 1937 and was promoted to detective sergeant in 1947. He spent more than two decades in law enforcement before retiring from the department in 1959. Retirement did not keep him from working, howeve ...
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  • Frank Jerald Frye (1906-1969) - Find a Grave Memorial
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